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alphabet // they/theirs // 33 // trekkie forged by quarantine // spirk and spones shipper // currently being consumed by: Star Trek original films //  follows from illicit-ellipsis

[zdr-77]

I DID IT FINALLY. This shouldn't have taken as long as it did, but I've been real unmotivated this week...

These are screenshot studies btw. They're just like that. I love them

[ratwheel]

Between Kirk hugging Spock in the SNW trailer and Shatner admitting he wanted to marry Nimoy what is happening for Spirk in 2026? Are we ready yet? Finally?

[ratwheel]

Like, that really was an insane thing to say... "If he'd have been a girl"? Really, Bill? That was the only caveat? He was perfect marriage material in literally every other way?

Anyway, here's a link for the people asking.

[elljayvee]

This is doing absolutely nothing but feeding my tinhat theory that the reason Kirk looks at Spock Like That is because Shatner was in love with Nimoy. (This theory was formed by watching Shatner interviews with various cast members, and he just...looks at Nimoy Like That all the time. It's extremely noticeable.)

[evil-masdane]

intricate rituals

[aphrostiel]

my comfort space family <3

[hjdjdjdjdjc-deactivated20260221]

a lot of my autism masking is just making myself more palatable for other people and my therapist said "does spock make himself 'more palatable' for others?" and had me promise to keep unmasking like:

[brighhton]

spirk will CURE artblock type YES to AFFIRM!!!

[adestroy]

Apparently the first time I watched ‘The Paradise Syndrome’ I missed Bones threatening to call the night night police on Spock

[gunstreet]

“they’re only standing that close because of the aspect ratio” well in their case it’s also because they are showing us that the characters are in love and want to kiss. thanks

[lenetaylor]

wake up, everyone, new Spock reaction image just dropped

(scanned by me from the Star Trek Annual 1976)

[iskander-tm]

a simple feeling

[spockandstars]

I found this original outline of Amok Time and there are some interesting differences with how it ends!

So when Spock confronts T’Pring after “killing” Kirk, she reveals that like people all over the universe, she has found herself in revolt against “the old ways” because she has fallen in love with someone else. (The emphasis on social tradition limiting her from being with her “true love” is important to note. 👀)

T’Pring feels guilty about forcing Kirk and Spock to fight, so she tries to make amends (lol sorry I made you kill your best friend, I guess I’ll let you marry me now) by offering marriage to him. Spock “makes his choice.” He turns her down and returns to the Enterprise to be with Kirk. The episode concludes with them staring at one another and holding hands.

Let’s think about this for a moment. T’Pring tells Spock that falling in love with her partner was socially unacceptable and against “the old ways.” She explains that she didn’t want to go through with the wedding because she wanted to “go back to her true love.” Spock understands what she has gone through, and also “understands now more than ever before what an extraordinary love” made his father so devoted to Amanda the Earthwoman. He rejects her as his wife, (because remember, this whole thing is supposed to be about finding mates) then immediately goes to find Kirk. When they’re reunited, they meaningfully hold hands. Is anyone else seeing some pretty intriguing parallels here?

[h4uures]

happy amok and spirk day to everyone 🫂

[ovenloaf]

i really like the. stuck in a ____ trope

[possumtion]

Someone’s probably done this before, but First Contact! AU where Jim is an astronaut who got stranded and Spock is the vulcan scientist who saved him.

Sketches and rambles under cut:

I was thinking something like The Martian where he got stranded on a planet during a mission, lost contact with the rest of his team and presumed dead, Spock is a vulcan scientist who was there on a research trip when he found jim's injured body and brought jim back to his ship despite vulcan's strict non-interference policy. Can be Mcspirk too with bones being jim's friend and a NASA scientist who refuses to believe jim is dead and tries to get a rescue mission to search for Jim despite everyone else thinking he's just griefing/in denial.

I've been turning this thing in my head for a few weeks like a microwave, but i'm not a good writer lol, so if anyone wants to make something of it feel free, please tag me so i can see it!!

[snoji]

the apple of luck and miracles

[thetimetostrikeislater]

Look… okay just listen… all I’m saying is—

[glina197]

This pon farr rq still remains my fav piece of them