Two Memes

[browngirl]

I'm trying not to write a different post, so have a meme that's going around:

Ask me any fandom-related questions in the comments. They can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general.

Questions can be as wacky as you want and have as many subparts as you like. Ask me about tv shows, characters, fanfic in general, fandom issues/meta, anything about any of my stories specifically. Whatever you want. [However, you may not ask what post it is I'm trying not to write.]

Fandoms of mine include: Babylon 5, DC Comics, Doctor Who & Torchwood (Nu Who), the Ancient Egyptians, Firefly, Heinlein novels, LOTR, Mary Renault, Mercedes Lackey Novels (back in the ‘90s), the Minoans of Bronze Age Crete, NUMB3RS, Pern, Star Trek: TNG, DS9, Voyager, and Reboot, Star Wars, and Bujold’s Vorkosiverse.

The first comment is the answer to another meme, of Five Questions which 6street gave me a really long time ago.

Comments

[eppic.livejournal.com]

What in specific draws you to Bones/Kirk as a pairing, and what do you try to focus on about them when you're writing them?

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I fell in love with their friendship. I often ship pairings with canonical friendships, so I went into the movie unspoiled and expecting to see the great and wondrous K/S of fame and legend. (Amusingly, I did, in Spock Prime -- one day I'm totally going to write K/S!P about S!P going 'it's an adorable naughty young version of my bestest naked friend! Hooray!' but I digress.) Instead, among other niftinesses I watched one of the cutest meet cutes ever ("I may throw up on you" has never been sexier, somehow) and an epic and lovable friendship with enough touching and insane loyalty to inspire thousands of slashfics.

When I'm writing them I try to remember:

1) Jim is perceptive and brilliant. The frat-boy affect is just that, a mask.
2) Bones has a giant heart under his rough tongue.
3) Bones is also a young doctor and a trauma surgeon. The whole sensible-old-man-and-not-an-adrenaline-junkie-like-you-kid way he presents himself is somewhere between a relative effect and a pure facade.
4) They bitch and argue and snark and probably have had a fistfight or two and utterly love each other.

[eppic.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you.

I sort of really want that K/S!P fic. It'd be the good kind of sad.