AQ's Crazy Corner

A friend sent me a mail regarding the K/S Archive closing, read here:
https://ksarchive.com/

Therefore I just imported all my K/S stories to AO3
https://archiveofourown.org/users/…

(The Tarot Suite isn't at AO3 yet, but it's on my list :)

Draws series Masterpost (Pike/Kirk/McCoy plus an original female character later) - my ongoing book-size Reboot series

All my Reboot stories (lj) / Bridge2Sickbay drabbles (lj) / All my TOS stories (website)

My policy on feedbacking other writers (which also says a lot about the feedback I'd like to receive)

My writing philosophy regarding style might be this by Mark Twain - I'm not always meeting his guidelines, but I'm trying.

My writing philosophy regarding content might be this: I don't want my fic to be irresponsible or hurtful. But I'm not exactly writing pieces for a public awareness campaign here, either.
(originally by leftarrow, used with permission). This said, my stories are frequently kinky and queer, so heed the warnings.

Do I write consistent with whatever canon I play with? More or less. More when it comes to timelines and events in TOS. Less when it comes to the question of Roddenberrys-no-money society on Earth. If violations of canon hurt you physically, you probably shouldn't read my stories.

On fanfic: Derivative Great Literature / In Defense of Fanfiction / The Ecstasy of Influence: A plagiarism

Also, let me plug my favorite Pike vids, all by theoreticalpixy:
All Our Bows are Broken / Hero of the Story / The 59's Song / Tales of Brave Ulysses

And finally...
Here's what I've learned about happiness: It's important to appreciate what you have, let yourself be inspired by people who have worked their way out of a particular hole, talk about your problems (talk, not whine repeatedly) and let yourself be helped and do the work. Things can and will change but not if you insist on your bad luck. (originally by illariy)

I received my KiScon 2019 goodie bag today! (mailed from Vienna, good idea)

It is lovely, and I've got to admit, a part of my would have loved to attend. Not for the K/S (though I love Kirk and Spock, just not so much together ;) but for the wonderful people, the fannish discussions, the vids, the art, the dinner rounds, speaking English, having fun.

...there's a KiSmet 2020 in the planning and maybe maybe I should consider going there...

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And it's pretty active too!

Link: https://discord.gg/v9UPsVw

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Ages ago (2997, 2009) I wrote two stand-alone stories with the premise:

"All stories start with the premise that Kirk and McCoy couldn't be saved from Rura Penthe in ST VI, the Federation President is killed and a war between the Federation and the Klingon Empire takes place. What happens to our heroes?"

Amusingly/weirldy, I posted the stories with "one of three, two of three" notices - but I absolutely cannot remember a third story, and couldn't find any notes about it either. That's what you get for being too immersed in your head space without piping it out :)

So enjoy the two stories (one is K&S&Mc, S/Mc, one is K/Mc)

https://archiveofourown.org/series…

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Going through my material, I decided to post two metas on writing/developing/fixing long stories:

Axe it! - or not? Meta on writing and fixing long stories
https://archiveofourown.org/works/…

and concrete analysis for "Shadowplay"
https://archiveofourown.org/works/…

I cannot emphasize enough how much the feedback of my beta readers helped Draws. Especially shagungu single-handedly rescued the whole last third of the series with her feedback (and made me re-write most of it, the only problem being the resulting enormous length of it which lead to my writing burn-out).

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Beautiful, angsty Kirk/McCoy moving towards Kirk/McCoy/Spock story (with happy ending, thankfully!)
"Rearrange"
https://archiveofourown.org/works/…

And a "Trektober2019" collection with Kirk/McCoy, many great shorts with some scorchingly hot MU stuff insides
https://archiveofourown.org/series…

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In a mission to save my little ficlets hinding in lj comments, I transferred a lot of them to AO3 tonight (and more will be coming, namely the bridge2sickbay drabbles).

My works at AO3:
https://archiveofourown.org/users/…

Some are Draws-related, most aren't - and a wild mix of pairings there is :)

The most amusing thing was re-finding the Never ever fic challenge... where ppl wanted fic nobody should ever write. I had all forgotten about this, and there are some gems (if I may say so).
https://archiveofourown.org/series…

Then I was very sure there had been a tiny Pike/Kirk Draws ficlet ("the tribe shoves them to have a vacation, just the two of them") somewhere, but that's the one thing I couldn't find. OTOH I found older stories where I had been so sure that they'd be on AO3 already, and they aren't (yet). Need to catch up.

... there's hoping AO3 will last for a lot longer than all other websites and archives, or fandom will take a real hit if this ever went down.

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So... I'm basically working double-shift because I have taken on too many projects at this very moment.

And in my spare time I read fanfiction \o/

It's sooo much better than getting lost in Twitter, the place of endless, agonizing waves of political shithattery and problemzones. 'Nuff said.

My rec of today:
"The Trouble with Spores" Michael Burnham/Christopher Pike
https://archiveofourown.org/works/…

Because I'm still obsessed with Pike. Though it's also a bit weird because Reboot!Pike is so very different to Discovery!Pike (it seems... I couldn't warm up to the series and only saw some episodes of season 2, solely because of Pike). But I like this guy too and wonder if there's a story that manages to combine these two Pikes, like, what happened to turn charming Captain Dimple into badass gravitas Pike?

A new reader found Draws and writes me wonderful feedback with every step (I hope she'll survive "Reset", the mindfuck zone). And it makes me think of all the little bits and pieces I never wrote down, the loose ends. It's NaNoWriMo, and maybe I could churn out some drabbles, hm?

But starting to writing is somewhat hard when you spend all day writing ... and after pausing since 2013. Damn, it's been long.

OHHHH and a goodie - this Pike/Kirk vid is still online!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O…

Dang, do I miss them <3

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Finally watching Discovery (though I started with season 2) - damn, Pike is cool! Burnham is cool! Amanda is cool!

And can I please have a loooot of Pike/NumberOne fiction?! She's drop-dead gorgeous.


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Addendum November 2019 - shortly after posting the above, I stopped watching "Discovery" again. Besides not having a lot of time for watching, I think the very convoluted plots threw me out :/ Will give it another try because PIKE!!1!, but well. So far, I'm behind most of season 2 (and I never watched any of season 1 or 3).