Jimothy

●Would die for Jim Kirk● ○They are T'hy'la○ ▪Mostly Spirk but some McKirk▪ |Side blog. She/her.|《You can find my posts in #Jimothy ponders》

[tomshiddles]

TRIUMVIRATE

[fractally]

The funniest bit about Spock running off to join Starfleet as a "fuck you dad" moment is that there's no way Starfleet was happy about it either. Spock's family is extremely important, T'Pau wields massive influence, Sarek is the Ambassador, ect.

So Starfleet is in this horrible position where they can't say no to this extremely competent and well-connected Vulcan joining up, but it also causes a massive diplomatic headache because his whole family resents it. And then if anything were to happen to him? Major diplomatic incident.

Good thing he's level headed and never throws himself headlong into needless danger---what's that? He's completely unhinged? Oh, well, nevertheless

[thali-lemmonpie]

Spock: (Gently)

Jim Kirk:(Hopelessly)

[oddthesungod]

So that’s how he does it 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

(listen i know jim is a genius dont @ me just let me draw a funny meme 😩)

[deheerkonijn]

offering up an OMS headcanon: Spock’s guilty pleasure is reality tv

Jim and Spock are in their mid 60s, comfortably established in their home in San Fransisco. They’re distinguished, high-ranking Starfleet officials at HQ.

And also Spock gets addicted to reality tv.

It’s a left-field thing that Jim never in a million years would have expected. He has the flu one November and throws on season 47 of Dancing With the Andorian Stars (Horsehead Nebula Edition) as some background noise while he lay around groaning on the couch. He takes a fever nap and when he wakes up, Spock has arrived home, refreshed his cold compress, tucked his blanket in around him, and….is sitting at the end of the couch, watching Thorao Zh'sherrot and Tehr Ch'qiahris argue about choreography with rapt attention. Jim assumes its his mid-grade fever making him hallucinate.

The way it starts is mostly a morbid curiosity kind of thing. Spock doesn’t understand the need for clearly manufactured conflict when the subject matter should hold enough interest on its own. He’s mostly confused by it, and Jim sometimes comes home late from work to find Spock, brow furrowed in fascination, catching up on what he’s missed since the last time he had the flat to himself. 

Jim starts to refer to it as “your program”, at which Spock never scoffs, but it is a near thing. It’s like he suddenly realizes how much time he’s invested in watching c-list celebrities and television personas dance badly and pretend to argue, and is embarrassed by the uselessness of it. Jim explains to Spock the concept of a guilty pleasure, and how sometimes things need not be tasteful or enriching in order to be enjoyable –– and that’s okay. (Jim does still tease him gently though ‘cause, come on - DWTAS is a show Jim’s mom watches.)

Spock continues to catch up on his program only occasionally –– when Jim’s running late, or it’s a rainy Sunday best suited to spend indoors. He does still make a half-hearted attempt to claim he’s not really interested or invested in it. But it’s very telling when they go on their weekend strolls around the bay, because if Jim asks, Spock will absolutely talk Jim’s ear off about this and that and the season finale with Vulcan-equivalent earnestness of a bunch of gossiping old hens.

[mothdogsart]

Never and always touching and touched💘

[seraph5]

So I was like ‘I wanna do this colour in process properly’ and then I was like ‘what would it look like if Star Trek The Animated Series was made now’ and this is what it would look like. Fully canon and ready to explore the galaxy. I’ll do it properly eventually 🤣

(Still based on First, Best Destiny by @ophelia-j)

[nepobabyjimkirk]

I love fics where Jim is really into 20/21st century stuff (which isn’t necessarily without a basis in canon for AOS, given his whole thing with the car and the beastie boys) because the current equivalent of that would be a dude who was really into like revolutionary war era America and I think most people would just think that was super weird

[star-trek-dumb-comics]

Star Trek - Strange New Dumb Comics #58

Spock and Bones ! It's been a while

(from a texpost by @trek-tracks )

[seraph5]

Another WIP inspired by the incredible slow burn First, Best Destiny by Ophelia_j 💖 I was going to post the excerpt that this moment is illustrating but then I didn’t want to spoil anyone. If you like spirk please go read it. It will blow your socks clear across the alpha quadrant. Hopefully get the chance to polish this up later.

[beauty-grace-outer-space]

Here’s a question for you: when did AOS Jim Kirk fully emerge? 

At what point did he stop trying, and cover everything with arrogance and nonchalance and disdain? When did the sweet little boy completely disappear into the angry youth? When did he bury himself to keep himself safe? 

[anxiously-going]

I thought it was canon that it happened right before he drove an antique over a cliff.

[trekkele]

So tarsus

[anxiously-going]

I counter only to say he buried himself on Tarsus to keep others safe over himself.

[beauty-grace-outer-space]

YOU GUYS

[anxiously-going]

You asked, babes, I dunno what else you were expecting.

[cannedinternets]

I’d say driving the car off the cliff was probably before, and actually the driver (heh, punintantional) for him getting sent to, Tarsus IV given what we know of the TOS timeline.

Imagine the ONE act of youthful rebellion (which was also very very likely a drastic call for help, safe and sane teenagers don’t flirt with suicide by driving cars off cliffs) you perform gets you (albeit unintentionally) sent to a death camp. No one cared about you before, no one cases about you afterwards.

No wonder he’s so insecure.

[beauty-grace-outer-space]

…. holy shit, my chest hurts. I felt physical pain reading that because you are right. 

[beauty-grace-outer-space]

Ok I’m gonna get dark for a minute, but hi, it’s me, ya’ll should expect it by now. 

I am a firm believer that AOS Jim Kirk is deeply impacted by trauma and that his mental health suffers for it– but I am also a firm believer that he is in denial/unaware of how deeply it affects him, or does not fully understand where it’s coming from. 

As you said: a young teenager driving a car off of a cliff (immediately after yet more abuse from a guardian and being abandoned by the one person he could still count on) and barely jumping out in time? That’s a cry for help if ever I’ve seen one. 

It’s not normal, and somewhere in him, he knows that. But he’s never been “normal” either, has he? If he was “normal”, he would have a mom and a dad and a brother who stayed. If he was “normal”, he wouldn’t get in trouble all the time and Frank would leave him alone. If he was “normal”, why did everyone keep leaving? 

So he accepts and ingrains as part of his personality early on that he’s not normal, but he still has trouble recognizing abnormality in his behavior because he’s still a child. Children, even incredibly intelligent and gifted children, don’t always understand the deep complexities of their emotions or feelings. They just know what feels good, what feels bad, and when things are their fault. And Jim has spent his entire life being told he’s not good enough, which means he’s bad, which means… it’s his fault, right? 

So he drives the stupid car off the cliff. No, he wasn’t trying to kill himself, why would he do that, that’s stupid– though he’ll never admit that for a moment, just a moment the idea of following the car off of the edge was tempting– he was just…

And it gets him shipped off to Tarsus. And at first Tarsus was great– but then… 

And… he survived? Why did he survive? Why did he survive? 

So the universe doesn’t want him dead yet. He’ll cope with that– and shove down everything else– for as long as he has to. 

And it finally clicks for him that he’s not normal: he keeps surviving. 

Everyone around him leaves, or fails, or dies, and he keeps going. 

So maybe that’s who he is. He’s the survivor. He’s the “get it done” guy. He also knows exactly how expendable he is. Sure, he can typically claw his way out of whatever situation he’s thrown into on sheer luck, gumption, and force of will… that’s who he is. 

He doesn’t believe in no win scenarios, he’s never been allowed to. 

So he… keeps going. 

He throws himself head first into anything and everything because that’s what he does. He gets hurt sometimes, occupational hazard of being Jim Kirk. He nearly dies several times, but so what? That’s who he is. 

(Bones is the first person to balk at that, the first person to stare at him with wide eyes and a horrified yet sad, so very, very sad, twist to his lips. Jim doesn’t understand why. He’s just doing what he’s supposed to do. Why are you looking at me like that, Bones, stop, I’m fine, I’m always fine.)

It’s not until Khan, when everything goes so royally to hell and he loses control so fast his head doesn’t stop spinning from one blow before he’s slammed with another one, that Jim realizes he doesn’t want to die. 

He’s never cared before. It was always going to happen eventually, and he’d always known it would likely happen before his 30th birthday. The universe is a cruel son of a bitch, and Jim can take a hint. 

But as he’s laying in the chamber, separated from the few people he’s allowed himself to care about since his kids, and everything hurts and he can feel his body shutting down piece by piece he realizes he doesn’t want to die. 

But… he’s Jim Kirk. 

He’s just doing his job. 

He doesn’t believe in no win scenarios, but he always knew he’d find one eventually. 

So why does it hurt so much? 

[cannedinternets]

Actually, I’m gonna lay another layer on this:

Jim has been told, his entire life, that he’s not living up to the greatness of his father. His father, who he never knew. His father, who dies to save his family and crew.

Why would he view dying for his crew as a failure? He’s always known his own life was meaningless, a placeholder. He always steps up to sacrifice himself, not because he’s actively suicidal (tho by the stars, he’s probably got a shitton of suicidal ideation), but because he’s been groomed his entire life to put no value on his own existence.

If he can spare someone else? Well, that’s what he’s FOR, isn’t it? It doesn’t matter what happens to him, after all. He learned that lesson long ago.

[anxiously-going]

And you accused me of going for the throat.

[cherishfan0320]

For people like us, the journey it self… is home.

[thyla]

KIRK: I’m scared, Spock… help me not to be… how do you choose not to feel? SPOCK: I do not know. Right now, I am failing. KIRK: I wanted you to know why I couldn’t let you die… why I went back for you… SPOCK: Because you are my friend.

STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS (2013)

[punkbxt]

based off this post

[punkbxt]

yall ever think about michaels eyebrows and her hair? because i do

its so important to her growth as a human and its so evident if you know what youre looking at. she goes from having her gorgeous curly hair to getting a standard vulcan bob within probably a couple months of living on vulcan. she probably had a really hard time because of it and had either asked to get her hair changed to look like every other vulcan kid or they had it done for her so that she could fit in. either way, part of her humanity was stripped when this was done to her. she wasnt vulcan and she never would be but at least she could look just a tiny but more like them

as time goes on and as she starts to get older, she shaves her eyebrows to give them less of a curve, once more a show of her trying to fit in on a planet that doesnt want her. she tries so hard that when she arrives to the shenzou we see her with her straight vulcan haircut stylized and her eyebrows shaved looking as close as she can to a vulcan with what she has

her hair changes as she embraces herself and her humanity. she combs her bob to the side, no longer trying to conform to vulcan standards, and testing the waters to see what she likes

and then her mutiny happens. and it is SO important. she loses everything. she loses her captain, she loses her ship, shes stripped of rank and she no longer has respect. people either fear her or they hate her, and when we see her as a prisoner, she looks like shes gone through hell. because she has. she no longer maintains her hair and she lets her eyebrows grow out. shes not vulcan so why keep trying to be something shes not?

and so she begins embracing her emotions and working on figuring out who she is as a person, as a human. and her hair is so important to her journey. and we can see that so clearly as we see her turn into the amazing woman and finally become the captain we all knew she was destined to become

[thefuzzyaya]

So I’ve read this post about cat purring when they are asking for help or just want someone to stay with them and this was the first thing that came into my mind 😺.

[thefuzzyaya]

Oh Spock…