Five fannish things
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kathleen_dailey1. ST: TOS rec no. 1: Changes in Sea Level by ![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
singlecrow. A McCoy character study (with Kirk as McCoy's interlocutor) written with skill, affection, and insight.
2. ST TOS rec no. 2: "We Are Stardust" bydogpoet. This work certainly doesn't need promotion--it's deservedly a classic--but I'm reccing it here anyway, just because I've recently reread it, and it touched and uplifted me just as it did on my first and second and subsequent readings.
3. "The absolute magnetism, tension, yearning." Vulcan-Enthusiast accurately describes the appeal of my OTP, which has captivated (not to say obsessed) me since the first time I saw the episode.
4. At the end of a weekend that was somehow both meh and tense, I unwound by rewatching SNW's "Those Old Scientists." I liked its timey-wimey nonsense and its live-action LD characterizations even more the second time around. It brought chuckles and a few outright laughs, which almost nothing does these days.
5. Curator-on-AO3 has some very trenchant and perceptive things to say about characterization. "The character, even if the writer writes about the character often, truly only exists in this story. One chance to be understood. One chance to be appreciated. One chance to be alive in this particular way. Which leads to the writer’s critically important responsibility to honor that character, a process that helps the writer craft the best possible story anyway."
2. ST TOS rec no. 2: "We Are Stardust" by
3. "The absolute magnetism, tension, yearning." Vulcan-Enthusiast accurately describes the appeal of my OTP, which has captivated (not to say obsessed) me since the first time I saw the episode.
4. At the end of a weekend that was somehow both meh and tense, I unwound by rewatching SNW's "Those Old Scientists." I liked its timey-wimey nonsense and its live-action LD characterizations even more the second time around. It brought chuckles and a few outright laughs, which almost nothing does these days.
5. Curator-on-AO3 has some very trenchant and perceptive things to say about characterization. "The character, even if the writer writes about the character often, truly only exists in this story. One chance to be understood. One chance to be appreciated. One chance to be alive in this particular way. Which leads to the writer’s critically important responsibility to honor that character, a process that helps the writer craft the best possible story anyway."
