#kvothes

Hi! I do, too—at least, I do enjoy them, though I'm often personally tripped up by being one of the few people who thinks the Academy backstory of The Wrath of Khan is completely at odds with everything TOS ever tells us about young Kirk, and in particular his supposedly perpetual belief that his ingenuity and determination would let him evade facing loss and death forever as symbolized by the Kobayashi Maru cheat is ... um, bullshit. Kirk faced down what seemed Spock's inevitable death at effectively his own hands at least three different times in TOS because of who he is as a person, and by all accounts in the show already was that person at the Academy, but even in fanfic, the Paramount franchise hammer throws a long shadow over the genre.

So just for my own tastes, it's difficult to find K/S Academy AUs quite for me, since most are a) ultimately very much more TWOK than straitlaced, grim, always-fights-fair young TOS!Kirk and/or b) very much more about Kirk as an expressive and nurturing love interest in Spock's drama despite this being the era of TOS Kirk's life when he was most overtly somber, harsh, bullied, and a bit clueless (most of which lasted into at least his mid-20s). And I thought, well, in the time-honored tradition of fic writing, write the damn fic you want yourself: no movie retcons, no "he had a ~reputation at the Academy ;)" fanon (me: for getting stuffed into lockers?), just third-year Academy cadet Spock tripping over a different bullied nerd than himself: humorless plebe Jim Kirk being "hilariously" tormented by Finnegan.

And as a result, Kirk and Spock get to know each other and become friends far earlier, but Spock is a few years ahead of Kirk and gets snatched up onto the Enterprise early, so even with Kirk's internal TOS timeline requiring him to have super-speedrun the curriculum, Spock is absent for most of his time there and their courtship friendship for years is mostly ... EPISTOLARY!!!!!

OOOOOHHHH excellent choices!

from two different gay hockey wips, because that's where I live now;

"Do you want to, like, use a safe word or something?" Shane asks, serious again. "Like, if it's too much down there and you need to leave?"

I guess that one had both. But I'm an oversharer.

"Stupid website. Of course they could overnight yours when I needed it, and then mine gets back-ordered for weeks."

18: go gina by sza

81: mørklagt by sylvaine

40. Have you been part of a bridal party?

Yeah! I was in the bridal party of both of my childhood bestie’s weddings

43. Are you superstitious?

I’m like agnostic in every area of life but am addicted to pattern recognition so like… kinda.

47. Top 5 comfort movies?

This is haaaaard. The first movies that come to mind are:

Howl’s Moving Castle

Glass Onion (specifically)

Dinner In America

Juno

Tangled

Hi Kvothes!! <3 <3 <3 thanks for the ask!!

11. Link your three favorite fics right now.

OOOOOOH FUN QUESTION, THANKS!!

Not to toot your own horn for you, but to be far from the stars was my most-read fic of the past year. according to my AO3 history, I have visited it 19 times.

Second is Not Easily Conquered, which I read after a ten-year hiatus from my Bucky Barnes fixation and might have restarted my interest in it.

Third is Share My Stars, which is a Good Omens fic that my partner @mothdogs wrote and I only read for moral and narrative support without having seen the show but now those two dudes have their claws in me.

19. What is the most-used tag on your ao3?

Most used is Protective Spock, and the second is First Time. I love getting-together fics <3

31. Do you start with the characters or the plot when writing?

It's funny, actually! In my original fiction, I ALWAYS start with plot. Always always always. But since I started writing fic I've gotten more interested in character-first work and then building the plot around a person or dynamic.