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the geek fest
Jan. 30th, 2006 09:44 pmI admit it, I ended up reading more SGA fanfics. But that came to a screeching halt when I read the crossover Where Did All the Physics Go? by Amireal, because it was crossed over with one of my ultimate loves, Star Trek! OMG it was so hilarious, and the Enterprise crew was pretty IC and I loved the disbelieving reactions of the SGA side who have fallen into an alternate universe where the characters they know so well from the TV show are real...
And it made me remember one of the few Star Trek fanfics I ever read, which luckily I was able to find online again: The Trust of a Bonding by K.V. Wylie. It's a McCoy/Vulcan slash fic that is a NOVEL (95,000+ words) and reads more like one of the official novels (of which I've read many). I love the Kirk/Spock/McCoy (non-slash) interactions (the banter, the teasing, just...the dialogue in general), McCoy's portrayal (he's my fav character), the technobabble (research! lots of words I technical words I don't know and probably aren't real! breakthroughs!), and especially the meeting of Vulcan and human and the strange things that can come from that. That last bit kind of reminded me of Spock's World by Diane Duane, a novel I happen to love (mostly for the current timeline portion rather than the Vulcan past parts). The slash part is so organically part of the story, and not like IN YOUR FACE but a powerful undercurrent and so ungraphic and yet so damn intense. *_* I imagine K/S slash might feature similar themes, but as I'll never ever read K/S (sorry, my passionate hate for Kirk has calmed down considerably from my youth, but I won't bother reading anything with him as part of a slash pairing...oh, except I did like that one Kirk/Chekov sort-of-AU one...but never mind, other than that one story, no Kirk for me >_<) this fic really delved into the Vulcan vs. human, the bond and its emphasis on mental closeness vs. physical, etc. There was even action (of the non-sex kind ^^) and a diplomatic crisis! Seriously, this fic is LOVE.
So I need to go reread it again....At least this is more fulfilling than rereading a WIP that promises to not be finished for years and years and years (if ever).
And it made me remember one of the few Star Trek fanfics I ever read, which luckily I was able to find online again: The Trust of a Bonding by K.V. Wylie. It's a McCoy/Vulcan slash fic that is a NOVEL (95,000+ words) and reads more like one of the official novels (of which I've read many). I love the Kirk/Spock/McCoy (non-slash) interactions (the banter, the teasing, just...the dialogue in general), McCoy's portrayal (he's my fav character), the technobabble (research! lots of words I technical words I don't know and probably aren't real! breakthroughs!), and especially the meeting of Vulcan and human and the strange things that can come from that. That last bit kind of reminded me of Spock's World by Diane Duane, a novel I happen to love (mostly for the current timeline portion rather than the Vulcan past parts). The slash part is so organically part of the story, and not like IN YOUR FACE but a powerful undercurrent and so ungraphic and yet so damn intense. *_* I imagine K/S slash might feature similar themes, but as I'll never ever read K/S (sorry, my passionate hate for Kirk has calmed down considerably from my youth, but I won't bother reading anything with him as part of a slash pairing...oh, except I did like that one Kirk/Chekov sort-of-AU one...but never mind, other than that one story, no Kirk for me >_<) this fic really delved into the Vulcan vs. human, the bond and its emphasis on mental closeness vs. physical, etc. There was even action (of the non-sex kind ^^) and a diplomatic crisis! Seriously, this fic is LOVE.
So I need to go reread it again....At least this is more fulfilling than rereading a WIP that promises to not be finished for years and years and years (if ever).