Looking for... smarm, I guess
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startrekficfinderHello, and if you get through the next few paragraphs, I thank you in advance.
While I'm a big ol' slash fan, slash just isn't my thing, strangely, when it comes to Kir and Spock TOS (or Kirk and Spock New Movie, actually). Maybe because TOS was my first fandom way back when I was a kid and wouldn't know about sexual slash for another couple of decades; maybe it's because the platonic but unprecedented, consuming, terrifyingly intense, loving friendship that Kirk managed to evoke in his previously unemotional First Officer felt so delicious transgressive that adding sex to the mix felt superfluous, even (excuse the pun) sorta anti-climactic.
Let me just say I wore out my copies of New Voyages 1 and ,2, The Price of the Phoenix (and Fate!), and Killing Time and you'll see where my K/S tastes reside. :) I think in these days such stories would be categorized as "smarm" (that is, fiction having all the emotional intensity between two characters as slash, but without the sexual component).
I know there must've been a lot of K/S smarm fanfic back in the day, but while I've done some searching, I haven't really been able to find any on the Internet. I don't know whether to chalk this up to my being a poor searcher (entirely possible) or if it's due to the fact that by the time the Internet came along, sexual K/S fanfic had by far taken the lead over Kirk/Spock fanfic of dizzying emotional pain and devotion BUT containing no sex.
I had about given up, but the request on this community just before mine asked about a story where Kirk is enslaved on a primitive vulcanoid planet and Spock has to go down and save him. The requester describe the story as being in "the not-really-slash classification because the real relationship between Kirk & Spock is just intense friendship."
Yes! YES! Slave hurt comfort devotion intensity love BUT not sex! Spock risking everything for the one being in the galaxy that he loves, for the friendship that defines his life, even though he KNOWS to feel such emotion is wrong!
THIS has been the exact kind of of story I have craved. And you guys found her request right off the bat too, which gives me even more hope.
So... [deep breath] Do any of you wonderful people knew where I could find other such stories? I would send virtual chocolate and ice cream and buy you endless alcoholic beverages should we ever meet up at a con. :)
Thank you!!
While I'm a big ol' slash fan, slash just isn't my thing, strangely, when it comes to Kir and Spock TOS (or Kirk and Spock New Movie, actually). Maybe because TOS was my first fandom way back when I was a kid and wouldn't know about sexual slash for another couple of decades; maybe it's because the platonic but unprecedented, consuming, terrifyingly intense, loving friendship that Kirk managed to evoke in his previously unemotional First Officer felt so delicious transgressive that adding sex to the mix felt superfluous, even (excuse the pun) sorta anti-climactic.
Let me just say I wore out my copies of New Voyages 1 and ,2, The Price of the Phoenix (and Fate!), and Killing Time and you'll see where my K/S tastes reside. :) I think in these days such stories would be categorized as "smarm" (that is, fiction having all the emotional intensity between two characters as slash, but without the sexual component).
I know there must've been a lot of K/S smarm fanfic back in the day, but while I've done some searching, I haven't really been able to find any on the Internet. I don't know whether to chalk this up to my being a poor searcher (entirely possible) or if it's due to the fact that by the time the Internet came along, sexual K/S fanfic had by far taken the lead over Kirk/Spock fanfic of dizzying emotional pain and devotion BUT containing no sex.
I had about given up, but the request on this community just before mine asked about a story where Kirk is enslaved on a primitive vulcanoid planet and Spock has to go down and save him. The requester describe the story as being in "the not-really-slash classification because the real relationship between Kirk & Spock is just intense friendship."
Yes! YES! Slave hurt comfort devotion intensity love BUT not sex! Spock risking everything for the one being in the galaxy that he loves, for the friendship that defines his life, even though he KNOWS to feel such emotion is wrong!
THIS has been the exact kind of of story I have craved. And you guys found her request right off the bat too, which gives me even more hope.
So... [deep breath] Do any of you wonderful people knew where I could find other such stories? I would send virtual chocolate and ice cream and buy you endless alcoholic beverages should we ever meet up at a con. :)
Thank you!!
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Date: 2009-10-16 01:53 pm (UTC)"Summary: Sequel to "City on the Edge of Forever", based on the original Ellison ending, wherein Kirk reluctantly accepts Spock's offer to take him back to Vulcan on leave; in addition to helping Kirk overcome his grief over Edith Keeler, Spock must deal with his own feelings of guilt--and the mental bond that's beginning to form between them."- this is the summary the author gave. It is mostly from Spock's view and deals with his past. I basically would recommend it if you want deep internal struggle with a satisfying ending that is hard won.
http://www.thyla.com/land-of-silver-birds.html
Also you would most likely enjoy the All-Ages K/S site archive
http://www.thyla.com/stories.html