i wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast

"It's not goodbye, Mom," Amanda mumbles in the middle of her mother's embrace, her face pressed into her mother's shoulder. "I promise, they have screens on Vulcan."

"It's not the same as having you here." Her mother's voice has a waver in it, one that promises plenty of tears within the next five minutes. "Promise you'll visit."

"As often as I can."

-

Amanda settles in close to Sarek, who is gracing the ceiling of her bedroom with the barest curve of a smile, and hooks a leg around one of his. "I think congratulations are in order."

He glances up at her, his sharp brows drawing just slightly together. She's seen the expression before--it's amazing, really, how he regained all the tension of his jaw in miliseconds flat when she spoke just then. For those brief moments, he'd looked more relaxed than she'd ever seen him, enough so that she nearly regrets saying anything. At least until he replies, his voice warm, she does. "Do you think so?"

"I knew you were smart, but I didn't realize you learned that quickly," she tells him, unable to keep from grinning as she speaks. It's mostly endorphins, she knows, but the company she's keeping has to be part of it, too. "There's an entire genre of manuals devoted to having sex with humans. Plenty of our men haven't yet mastered it."

Sarek gives her a surprised look, which she supposes she should have expected. Sometimes her jokes fall completely flat. But that can't quite be it, because she's tempted to call his expression sly when he raises one of his eyebrows. "I will accept that praise only if I can return it."

"Oh?" Her smile grows wider.

Sarek tips his head in close, until his lips are brushing her temple. "Vulcans have those books, too."

Everything I wrote is terrible, why did I think any of it was a good idea, I am a terrible writer with no good ideas.

Et cetera.

( because I am allowed to be facetious sometimes )

GDI HOW IS IT THIS LATE.

( babies kicking wryyyy )

Finish this later. Done. Though it's pretty shit.

( nghjlksghirhegrf )

sensation(al)

( oakverse )

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( farverse )

Because sometimes you don't want to spend all of your lunch hour trying to convince people on the internets not to refer to people as transgenders, gee willikers.

( things half-remembered from the back of an envelope )

Proof that I read way too much AVClub content, oh, my God. This was actually fairly hard to write, mostly because I don't write list content like this pretty much at all. (The list's title is terrible, but I couldn't think of anything good. DX)

12. Growing Nobody, Philippa K. Eaton

Philippa K. Eaton barely makes this list. While her parents, legendary sci-fi writing team Julius Eaton and K. C. Hunter, were prolific writers, their primary output consisted of short stories and novellas; they wrote only one full-length novel, A Wrinkle in Space. Eaton herself has focused primarily on television writing, though she shows considerable skill in her woefully out-of-print debut book, 1978's Growing Nobody. Half memoir, half fantasy horror, Nobody is the story of ten year old Ursula, the imaginative daughter of eccentric but doting Manhattan writers. With no friends to speak of besides a cat (whose job it is to protect his owner from Cthulu), she spends most of her time having serious conversations about spacemen with adults and making up wild fantasies. When plants with hand-shaped leaves begin to grow out of the corners of Ursula's bedroom walls, however, her life is no longer an endless game of pretend: the stories her parents tell her have begun to invade reality. What sounds like a typical children's book is in fact much more suited for adults--it's eerie throughout and downright scary in places--but the protagonist's age kept the book from clicking with a mature audience.

-excerpted from A Density of Souls: 17 Novels by the Children of Novelists

DERP DERP DERP songs I like for Kay or Julius or Kay & Julius every character ever, because I should have one central place to put this. I always feel incredibly dumb posting these, ngh. DX

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( it is easiest just to let this take over my life, okay )

Things which happen after the second time they finally manage to end up in bed together. THIS IS PRETTY DUMB, NGL.

( bears! )