#sartrek

because its too fucking nauseating and also the little vulcan mind meld moment when the doctor’s like ‘im inside your mind our minds are linked bleh’

Yeah, I know but I expected at least some ACKNOWLEDGMENT BY THE FANDOM OF IT.

Rules: In a text post, list ten books (or fics) that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag [ten] friends, including me, so I’ll see your list. Make sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them.

So I got doubled tagged (yikes) by phene-thyla-mine and plaidshirtjimkirk in this.

This is going to be a mix of books and fics in no specific order.

1) Song of the Lioness by Tamora Pierce.

I don't know if I should do this as one or four, because it's really a series, but it had a really profound impact on me when I read it at 14. The main character Alana has to disguise herself as a boy to fulfil her dream something I could wholly relate to at that age. I wanted to do all the boy stuff but being a girl often got me barred from doing it, so I took on boyish persona and mannerism. I didn't want to be a boy per se, just do the stuff they were allowed to (football, mechanics, stuff like that) and if I had to pretend to be a boy to do it then so be it.

2) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas.

A fabulous story about revenge, what can drive a person to sacrifice all else to achieve it, the unforeseen consequences and the innocents that gets caught in the crossfire.

It really should be read by everyone.

3) The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle.

I read this when I was seven and down with the flu. Started my lifelong enamourment with Holmes and Watson and strongly coloured my perception of both characters, so I'll never be able to see Watson as an idiot or Holmes as some flawless superhuman deduction machine.

4) The Heart in the Whole by verityburns.

[BBC Sherlock]

The first fanfic I read in the Sherlock fandom and what got me into fandom again. I had originally been a part of the Vampire Chronicles fandom about ten years before, but Rice's vehement persecution of fans scared me off. Here was the second beginning.

5) Fulfilling the Needs of the One (or the Both) by plaidshirtjimkirk.

[TOS]

If I had to pinpoint the time where I fell in love with OMS it was reading this story. But since plaidshirtjimkirk is the captain of this ship that is hardly surprising is it?

6) This Deadly Innocence aka The End of the Hurt/Comfort Syndrome by Leslie Fish.

[TOS] This one is from 1979 and I find that and several others from that period that I have read interesting because of the portrayal of the characters, in particular Kirk has far more in common with the popculture image of him than how he is portrayed in Spirk fanfics today.

Could be an interesting subject to delve into someday, how the characterisation of Kirk has changed over the years and how.

But even without the historical context this is a brilliant story.

7) Meat Dreams by J S Cavalcante.

[TOS]

In the aftermath of events on Sarapeidon Spock has dreams about eating meat and having sex.

I'm a sucker for all fics that involve Vulcan culture pre- and post-Surak and how things have changed, and some times not changed, and for "Spock character development". This one has both.

8) And In the Darkness Bind You by Greywolf the Wanderer.

[TOS]

Takes place between Spock going blind in Operation: Annihilate! and when he regains his vision. It's a very realistic portrayal of how a person faced with suddenly loosing sight might cope with it. One of the better fics I've read on this and far, far better than most original works I've read on the same subject.

9) A Logical Form of Relationship by WeirdLittleStories.

[TOS]

Ficlet in which Kirk and Spock have a pillow talk about why Vulcans find same sex pairings logical. Very much formed my opinion on the matter.

10) After Altair by SnapeInDrag.

[TOS]

Began my fascination with pon farr stories and helped form my headcanon that a mental link is needed for Vulcans to have sex.

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Well I could keep going, but it said ten. And if I don't stop here I never will.

imagine bones not being afraid to correct his two friends, or anyone else really, when theyre in the wrong

and spock and jim can recognize that bones has the final say in those matters, are neither of them are afraid to apologize and fix it

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