So I wrote my last exam, like, 12 hours ago. In celebration, there was fic.

Warning-free Jim-POV.


( within the silence of my room, sulu/kirk, g )

I blame several things for this fic. No, really, it is not my fault. I was just sitting here, trying not to overthink my first uni exam prep, and lo, there was an anti-Choverlord secret on fandom secrets, with ensuing comment threads of John Cho love. Also, enk linked me to Viva La Union, which I had not heard, and I stumbled into "Evil Twin". Son of also, enk is an enabler. Very distantly, there's this square on my kink bingo card but let's be honest here, I'm not even trying to make a line anymore, I'm just using it to shamelessly excuse my porn.

*koff*

title: all this faithfulness
pairing: hikaru/jim/sulu
rating: smutty like whoa
warnings/elements: ( there is a warning on this smut )
summary: In theory, if having one Hikaru is awesome, two will be awesome squared. Reality blows that to hell.
a/n: title lifted from "Evil Twin" by Viva La Union. blame listed above.


( all this faithfulness )

At long freaking last, the Big Bang goes up. I cannot say enough fabulous things about the people who saved this from suckage. It took a team. Crazy. Please to be heading over to the fabulous art chasingthewinds made for me and the fantastic mix speccygeekgrrl made to accompany this fic. Love them, people, for they are amazing.

title: lie back and think of Starfleet
author: curiouslyfic
artist: chasingthewinds
fanmixer: speccygeekgrrl
series: STXI
pairing: Sulu/Kirk
rating: R
w/c: idk. ~29k
warnings: none
betas:  enkanowen , luluedwards , and malo_malo
a/n:  This fic made possible by my fabulous betas, who are all rockstars in their own way, and by the thinky thoughts of sumofparts , even if she doesn't know why. Also, fills the st_xi_kink meme prompts here/here and here.
summary: You are cordially invited to the wedding of Hikaru W. Sulu and James T. Kirk. Yes, another one.
link to art: here
link to mix: here


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ETA: Okay, wow, how lucky am I? So lucky that I get awesome official art for this fic and awesome unofficial art for it, too.
the fell beast by chasingthewinds
the first time by enkanowen NSFW
shore leave by enkanowen NSFW
the wedding pic by chasingthewinds

Okay, so Dreamwidth needs me to post something to sort out some wacky thing I did with my last draft and enk/enkanowen made me new (awesome!) art.


art love this way. do as you please with the fic.

( Hand to God, I totally mean to type what's in the header line. Instead, I typed this. )

I...did a bad thing. I was procrastinating and lamenting revisions I can't make (because that's when I want to make them most, damn it) and poor enkanowen was online and had to put up with me. Which she did, because she is just that kind of rock star. So I sent her my version of a picspam, which is three flails and a link, and she made appropriately soothing noises and was inspired. To make art for me, yay!



And lo! I rejoiced. And lo! there was ficlet. Of course there was, did you see that GQMF? 

( the one in which they're graduates )

I sat down to try my hand at Jim's POV. Not entirely sure this is how I see him but it makes me laugh and I don't want to kill the draft, so here it is. Please to be pointing out the fail so I can improve for the Big Bang.

Everybody's got to do it sometime
PG-13, Sulu/Kirk
For the st_xi_kink_meme prompt here.
One of these days, the break-up's going to stick. Until then, Jim's got plans, panic, and plants.

Nnngh. So there's a million things going on right now, what with school and fandom and a new sort-of job, and for all I kept saying I'd blog it eventually, no dice. Just been too busy. Well, and spazzing on my couch.

So. Brief rundown. I turned old. I started school. I punked out of my first course ever after one class because hello, I do not understand that kind of math, thankyouverymuch, and am now locked in an epic struggle with the enrolment system to get myself in the rumoured mathless astronomy. I blame fandom for this choice. Also, I couldn't actually look at the astronomy prof without thinking of Rodney McKay and my lamentable math skills would have pissed him off. Oh, SGA, you made mathy/sciencey things seem like something I could do.

I quasi-finished my STXI big bang. That noise you read up at the top there, that's the sound of my first draft winging wildly to the mods, in perhaps the most pitiable shape I've ever subbed anything to anyone, ever. I can feel the revisions already, which is a good sign, and I like more than I hate, which possibly bodes well.

So here's the thing: there's Jim POV. Also, there's a bazillion plot holes I'll be filling in the next few days so as not to scare my artist(s)/mixer(s) if/when they ask for my draft, but the plot holes don't scare me. The Jim POV does. With that in mind, my DW/LJ craigslist posting: 

ISO beta for rom-com slash. Kirk fans and bluntness preferred. Estimated fic length: 20k all in, basic prompt here. Grammar/spelling not an issue, rock star current beta does the handholding, but nitpicks are welcome and asskicking may indeed be required. Should have something read-worthy by the end of the week; final fic due Oct. 10. Please to be commenting if interested.

So I blew best part of a week working on a Transmet/ST:XI fusion I can't post because it's still mostly a mess, all so I'd have something to post for the fusion challenge over on star_trek_flashfic . It sort of worked, in that Spider's head is an awesome, scary place to be and I got to play with some journalism/fandom meta in the process, but it's not cohesive enough to post and eventually, I had to throw up my hands. Then, five minutes before the deadline extension was up, I got hit with this. *sigh* At least it's not another kink meme fill, even if it is too late to post to the comm.

HP/ST:XI fusion. Sulu/Kirk, Draco/Harry.
About 5k, and let's call it PG-13.
In which the bridge crew are Ravenclaws circa 1999, Spock's NEWT obsessed, Hikaru's lost his green thumb, Jim proves he's not stupid, and there's a fight in the Great Hall.


( give a git a wand )

Another day, another kink meme fill.

you know he looks so good tonight
R-ish, maybe? 
Sulu/Kirk. Sulu/Everyone, really, it's sex pollen, etc., but mostly, Sulu/Kirk.
For this prompt in the kink meme. I consider it a half fill. Please to be filling the rest, someone, because I would love to read that Sulu/Winona.
For summary purposes: the obligatory sex pollen fic.
Warning: possible consent issues, as befit sex pollen fluff.


Still working/poking/pondering both fusion attempts, but I'm stuck on wanting to write both and not quite having time to do them both justice. The age old problem remains: meta or porn? Man, I miss my Hunter S Harry hat. :( 

What happens when I throw the first lines meme into the WIP meme? This. In order of holy-shit deadline, excluding the various kink meme prompts I'm toying with (54 tabs of prospects. 54. The hell I'm writing even a fraction of them).

1. It's a truth universally acknowledged in big box shit retail that where there is an employee handbook, there will also be employees who do not feel it applies to them.

2. Two years into the mission, the Wraith make Hikaru Sulu a Runner.

3. Every halfwit with a press badge wants in on Starfleet's media junket and from the looks of things, that's who's come.

4. Jim's life is pretty sweet until Sulu finds the kid.

5. Demora Sulu has three dads and a Jim.

6. The chancellor takes that my-captain-tried-to-fuck-your-wife thing pretty well, all things considered.

7. He's always liked it rough.

I am attempting to de-asshole asshole!Jim from Trust what you can't explain, which I feel should not be this hard. Also, five things fic has decided it doesn't want to be a five things fic, after all, which is ticking me off. Since the problem in both cases is Jim, I'm on the hunt for awesome!Jim fics. For, um, research. Yeah.

Jims who made me flail and want to smack my Jims in the head and also fill me with kink meme love: 

Fun!Jim as written byiambickilometer  in Baby, You Can Drive My Starship
Academy!Jim, when he's all cocky for nothing as far as they know, and Jebus yeah, this is exactly Jim Kirk. Dead sure he'll have a spaceship someday and determined to pick out his own crew so he knows he'll have the best. There's patient Bones and karaoke and Sulu being a BAMF pilot, too, and one of the joys of this fic is that we know it'll turn out so we know there's no risk but they don't and they play along anyway. Also, Sulu's totally humouring the crazy pretty guy to keep getting sex, which nngh, Jesus, yes is the Hikaru I know.

Adorable!Jim as written by prehistoric_sea in Four Love Letters Sulu Received and Ignored, and the One He Was Waiting to Answer
There's *this* much Jim in this fic, and absolutely no Sulu, but my God, the subtext. A few of the commenters said they thought Jim was the first letter, which I don't get because he's a genius and thus unlikely to misspell "meet", so I'm pretty firmly in the Keenser-wrote-it camp, which suggests the combination of hot and mad physics smarts has interspecies appeal and yes, fuck yes, I believe in that Sulu. Most of the fic is funny with little pokes at fandom's ships, but the actual Jim letter is aww and very much adorable!Jim.

Bugfuck!Jim as written by robanybody in Burn The Maps
Bugfuck!Jim is pretty much my canon. Yeah, he's a dozen awesome things on any given day but he's always crazy, too, and he drags everyone along for the ride. Hilarious, goal-oriented and disaster-prone, this is a Jim who'd overstay his welcome with his own mom and drag his shut-up-I'm-on-shoreleave pilot over a few state lines so they can invade Bones's place for a while. It's pure, snarktastic glee that heats up nicely and there's a brilliant cameo by the clone of NPH that makes me very happy indeed. Much, much love for this fic.

Anyone got any fics wherein our favourite Starfleet captain is awesome and/or adorable? For such a small corner of such a large fandom, we've got some fabulous writers going on and since I just discovered Burn The Maps today, I'm wondering what other stellar fics I've missed. Trek-reading flist, please, pretty please hook me up? 

~~~ 

In unrelated news, the DVD Commentary Challenge is up again and man, it looks interesting. There've been some fascinating commentaries done for this previously and when I'm not nodding along in utter agreement with what the commentators have said, I'm being blown away by their insight. So, so cool. On the off chance anyone's so inclined, blanket permission to use anything from my LJ. Also either of the fics posted at Skyehawke, though I don't imagine anyone will. Just saying.

This damned challenge made me contemplate a master fic list. I've got, like, 36 or so in four-ish fandoms, so maybe it's about that time? idk.

In semi-related news, I'm also pondering the WIP meme. To, uh, prioritize or something.

More kink meme fic. Flashfic, actually. I don't even know.

crave
stxi, sulu/kirk
800 words of Sulu smoking. Vaguely smutty.
Every so often, he craves.

York said yes. Come September, I'll be one of the Poli Sci fuckwits for real. After the unanticipated Drama of my application process, the actual offer seems rather anti-climactic.

( A brief retrospective of my app process, for those keeping track at home:  )

It's not quite Dream Program yet but hey, at least I'll have a year to get that math credit.

Five. Seriously, five. And this one's not even from the stack of WIPs, which makes me want to weep. Still no love on the Five Things I'm working on for star_trek_flashfic  but at least I finally choked out something in the right format.


lying in this bed, pg
Sulu/Kirk
Kink meme prompt here.
Five times Jim Kirk almost got Hikaru killed and the obligatory plus one contradiction.


ETA: Six. A WIP, thank God, but still not the Five Things I'm fighting with. :( 

Five orders Hikaru hates (and one he doesn't mind following, actually), pg
Sulu/Kirk
Kink meme prompt here. Title is summary.