Not only Spock doesn’t have a brain cell to sit down and/or trusts Jim and Bones to catch hime but also, my ultimate respect to Nimoy for deadass started falling stiff and trusting his colleagues to catch him. I coukd never do that
I think one of the reasons why DeForest has such a dramatic expression in the screencaps is that Nimoy was kind of ad-libbing here and caught him off guard. It was a pure OHNOES moment.
I’ve always wanted to do something for Pride Month. But, since my identity in this regard is an uncertain mess, I was never sure what haha.
Last year I had the idea to use “Kirk’s intense eye lighting” and LGTBQ+ flags to make some avatars. But, welp, 2020 left me with no energy.
These icons are for you, FREE TO USE. I’ll be more than happy to see them floating around. In fact, in case tumblr has compressed them, here is a link to download them in full resolution, if you want to print them for personal use: https://we.tl/t-8fjNpMuOST
I tried to cover the biggest amount of flags, I even ran a poll in my ig. But, if you want me to add more, or if I’ve commited any mistakes, DM me. I’m always open to learn.
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Fic idea where Bones accidentally invokes the wrath of some malicious entity or artefact which results in a curse where over night everyone abruptly forgets that he existed, and even the computer systems fail to recognise his credentials, but that as an aspect of the curse everyone becomes increasingly suspicious and aggressive towards him, like no concept of reasoning or anything, just pretty much immediately “set phasers to kill”, especially if there’s also an entity that has essentially taken his place and is helping to stir up the hatred further, but Spock, having slightly better awareness of when his emotions are being manipulated by outside forces and better able to maintain his reasoning is able to recognise that there’s something else going on. And going from “I think you’re all being overly hostile to this guy” to “oh , this whole situation is clearly constructed and no one is acting rationally and this guy is at the centre of it.”
But then also realising that it’s not just reasoning alone that’s making him trust Bones, even though his version of events is utterly absurd. But that there is something familiar about him, and it isn’t until they accidentally make skin contact that Spock realises what it is. That it’s the lingering telepathic effects of the presence of someone who he has mind melded with in the past, and that helping to stir enough of a memory that he knows Bones is important, even if he cannot remember the true timeline.
Cos I also love the idea of Spock being like “there is something aggravating about you, but the irritation I find myself feeling forwards you feels familiar. And illogically there is something about this irritation that endears me towards you” and Bones having to deal with the frustration of Spock being the most open about his care and concern for Bones only when he cannot remember anything about their friendship.
Not to mention the fun of Spock going against authority yet again and following his own moral whims, and I can’t decide whether it’s more angsty if the magic that makes everyone turn on Bones also makes them turn on Spock just as quickly, or if Jim just knows with absolute certainly that Bones is a dangerous intruder who needs to be neutralised but that somehow Spock, his most trusted friend, has turned on him for the sake of this terrible man.
Also Bones having to hide out in Spock’s quarters to avoid detection and assuming it takes a few days to get everything sorted, having this high stakes domestic shenanigan filled scenario throughout the whole thing.
And of course after it all does get resolved everyone remembers everything fully, and Spock is somewhat embarrassed about how earnest and open he was towards having positive and protective feelings towards Bones, and Bones being embarrassed about having had to be saved by Spock and being emotionally intimate together, whilst Jim is mortified by his actions against his friends but is also driven by the need to embarrass them further by being like “so you’re saying, the power of friendship, your friendship, the friendship between the two of you, is what saved the day?” And Bones genuinely contemplating whether it would have been better to have just let them execute him days ago
So this is a rundown of a complex spones longfic that I would love some feedback on, as I am debating whether or not I should post it (As there is a sad lack of good long spones fics out there!)
Summary under the cut...
So, this fic would basically be an AU set around 2015. Bones, Jim, and Scotty go to the same university in Atlanta and rent an apartment together to cut cost. Scotty, a genius in his field of engineering, decides to build the engine of a machine he believes can send people to space more effectively than a rocket. To keep the machine safe and work on it in an environment than won't raise too many questions, Scotty leaves it in an abandoned storage unit where he and Jim can work on it together.
Bones swears that he doesn't want to be a part of it, that he's to swamped with med classes and he's studying to be a doctor anyways, not a rocket scientist. However, curiosity gets the better of him, so when Scotty and Jim tell him that the machine is finished, and they've even fashioned a little craft, he decides to go with them to see the finished product. What Bones doesn't know is that Scotty and Jim have wired the entire craft to the mechanism as kind of a joke, fully believing the machine won't actually be capable of flight, let alone going out into space. After all, they're just a couple of grad students dicking around with a machine. However, there are other forces at work, forces that they could never dream of. Bones jokingly goes inside the craft and buckles himself in.
When he takes out his phone to snap a picture for his girlfriend, his elbow hits the accelerator button of the craft. It shouldn't do anything, of course. The machine hasn't powered on, and Scotty and Jim have safety measures in place. Despite this, however, the moment Bones's arm hits that button, the entire craft disappeared with him in it.
For hours Bones feels nothing but weightlessness and disassociation, as though he is floating in a static state between sleep and wakefulness. When Bones finally regains consciousness, the first thing he notices is the arid heat. There is sand beneath his hands, so fine it's almost soft to the touch. When Bones is able to stand and look around to see where he lands, he finds the 'ship' not far from him, crumpled into a smoldering heap of garbage. He could have believed he was on earth, perhaps blown to some country with a desert, If it wasn't for the copper colored sky above or the unnatural heat that pressed against him like a weight. Bones walks and walks across this endless desert, until he hears the familiar muted tap of feet against the sand. when he turns around there are three men, well, not men exactly, but close enough for him to call them that. Their ears are pointed, and when their lips curl into identical feral smiles he can see their teeth have been sharpened to points as well. The two on the side have long braided hair, while the one in the center merely has his pulled back. They are covered in tattoos, piercings adorning those pointed ears. The metal isn't gold, though, but a dark color closest in tone to silver. Bones knows there is nowhere to run, but the urge overtakes him.
the feeling of danger in his gut is so strong that running is all Bones can do to stop a panic attack. He only manages to run for all of five seconds, however, before strong hands grab him. Bones is taking to a small city, once beautiful but quite obviously marred by violence. Though they speak in a strange language, their gestures and body language are enough for Bones to realize one thing- he must find a way to make himself useful. The opportunity comes more quickly than Bones would have thought. There are many wounded in the city,
and despite their vastly different biology Bones pieces together the tools he needs to heal them. After all, they are similar enough to humans in Bones's mind. When they realize that Bones can heal, they take him to a secluded part of what he can only describe as the city's fortress. Therein lies a young man, a prisoner named Spock who is apparently too dangerous to be kept with the others.
As Bones tries to help Spock, learning bits and pieces of the difficult vulcan language along the way, he begins to realize that the 'medicine' Bones has been given to administer is a slow-acting poison. With each dose, spock's madness grows. Slowly, so as not to arouse suspicion, Bones begins to lower the dose of the poison, until Spock's madness wears away. To both of their frustration, neither can understand one another well enough to tell their respective stories.
Unable to do anything else, Spock initiates a mind-meld. Bones knows what it is, he has seen it happen many times by now, and he realized rather quickly that these creatures are telepaths. Still, knowing is quite different from feeling. What occurs is an intense but brief cultural exchange. When Spock releases the meld, Bones finds he has retained a decent grasp of vulcan, and when spock speaks once more, he can understand.
Spock was a prince, a firstborn, imprisoned and poisoned for desiring some reform in the city that would offer some measure of protection against the equally violent clans spread across the desert. They make a pact: Bones helps Spock escape into the western part of the desert to join like-minded defectors from all around the planet, and Spock will try and help Bones figure out a way to get home. As they escape to that motley group of warriors, Spock and Bones realize that they are part of something far larger than either of them intended to be, and that bones's arrival to the planet of Vulcan was no accident.
“Star Trek is the one shining light which says, no, we’re not going to destroy ourselves. We’re gonna continue and we’re gonna move out into the galaxy and be really handsome.”
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