Spaceship View & Character Detail Meme
Mar. 15th, 2011 07:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
browngirlToday's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a video arranging photographs by the Cassini spacecraft into views of what flying towards/by Saturn would look like. It's stunning and inspiring.
Meanwhile, I do so love memes, not least at moments right now when I'm afflicted with Writer's Slowdown or something. I got this from the incomparable![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
igrockspock: Ask me about a pairing (or character) I have written (or haven't and you think I should write) and I will give you five facts about them or a ficlet or a song that is CLEARLY THEIR SONG or what they order from the Chinese place down the street, etc, etc.
ETAsharpestscalpel wrote an absolutely gorgeous ficlet about Gaila taking McCoy flying, and Gaila and her life.
Meanwhile, I do so love memes, not least at moments right now when I'm afflicted with Writer's Slowdown or something. I got this from the incomparable
igrockspock: Ask me about a pairing (or character) I have written (or haven't and you think I should write) and I will give you five facts about them or a ficlet or a song that is CLEARLY THEIR SONG or what they order from the Chinese place down the street, etc, etc.ETA
sharpestscalpel wrote an absolutely gorgeous ficlet about Gaila taking McCoy flying, and Gaila and her life.
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In other news, I had 10 minutes while waiting on some stuff and this popped into my head:
Date: 2011-03-15 07:12 pm (UTC)Gaila isn't sure if that's a good thing but it's something new to play with. While there's something to be said for always being a surprise, there's also a lot of goodness associated with people knowing she's more than competent.
Pike knows. Jimmy knows. And Leonard, he knows. They weren't the only people to treat her like a person instead of a sex object but they were three of the very first.
She has dinner with Pike, once a month. She's caught him looking, a little wistful, a few times, but he's never acted with any impropriety, even when she pushed him, back when they first met. He'd brought her to the Academy, arranged for pheremone injections, and been a fierce defender when angry students - generally with lower GPAs - has accused her of cheating.
Gaila had played with Jimmy - he was good at sex and didn't seem inclined to try to make her settle down. She had been so glad to see him, after her rescue from the ruins of the Farragut. She had thought, once, that she loved him in her own Orion way. But it was impossible to forget that he had used her, too. There was love, still, and she suspected there always would be - he was too much like a brother, in too many ways. But, also like a brother, Gaila no longer trusted him completely.
Leonard was something of a puzzle. And Gaila did like puzzles. He blushed - so pink and exotic - and smiled shyly at her; Leonard wanted her the way other men wanted her but he also saw her for herself. It's a fine distinction and, to Gaila's mind, a fascinating one. He insists on dinner and on calling her Miss Gaila when they are out in public. He listens with unfeigned interest when she talks a stubborn engineering problem out with him - for all he has no idea what she's talking about most of the time.
And he asks her. He kisses her and asks if he can do so again. He nibbles at her collarbones and asks if he can go lower. He licks at her clit and asks if he can make her scream.
Gaila always says yes.
It makes her feel like giving him something. But Leonard says he is happy with what he has, and there are few chances to actually buy him an object. Instead of a thing, Gaila decided, she would give him something else. She would give him an experience. Sulu had laughed while he made the shuttle arrangements for her.
"May I give you this, Leonard?" She waits, poised.
And Leonard, pale but trusting, says yes.
Re: In other news, I had 10 minutes while waiting on some stuff and this popped into my head:
Date: 2011-03-15 08:54 pm (UTC)(And of course she'd see Jim as a brother! *smacks forehead* I should have seen that before.)
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Date: 2011-03-15 09:02 pm (UTC)Re: In other news, I had 10 minutes while waiting on some stuff and this popped into my head:
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Date: 2011-03-16 01:12 am (UTC)Eee, thank you, thank you!
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Date: 2011-03-16 01:33 am (UTC)Re: In other news, I had 10 minutes while waiting on some stuff and this popped into my head:
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Date: 2011-03-16 01:24 am (UTC)Re: In other news, I had 10 minutes while waiting on some stuff and this popped into my head:
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