#bonespreg update

[divineturtle]

Updated Bonespreg yesterday! Unsure if I'll get around to updating next week- I have a total of 47 chapters to edit (including the ones I've posted) and more to write ✍️ I want to catch up on pushing their journey forward so I don't get to the point where *everything* I've written is posted and yall have to wait a kajillion years for my ass to write a single chapter lmfao

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83004881/chapters/218570676

[divineturtle]

hello! just saw your last update, any chance we could get more bonespreg sneak peeks in the meantime? 🫣

Omg absolutely!! Thank you so much for asking!! I'll put a cut because this is going to be a huge wall of text and clips. He's in his second trimester!

Ok so!!!

I had them go on a date-not-date; giving them the real experience of not being 100% certain if you're on a gay date or friends getting a meal together, so Jim takes the first opportunity he has to ask each of them individually what's up. He knows that Spock meant for it to be a date, and that McCoy thought it was going to be a date, but since it ended up just being them talking like regular during it, neither knows really how it went.

Then we have McCoy talking to Jim about needing to not miss his daughter's next birthday and sharing what present Spock got her, but he's got some typical pregnancy sensitivities and poor Jim really does not know what to do with that.

Also here: Spock and McCoy start platonically sharing a bed because McCoy has pregnancy insomnia. It started with Spock teaching him some meditation techniques to sleep better but he eventually just stops leaving McCoy's room at night, so of course I gotta have some pillow talk about how they're going to raise their daughter <3 And I hope you can tell but I'm about to start making Spock's crisis about his parents/the way he was raised wayyyyy worse.

THEN Spock and McCoy have their first kiss one night (Not shown in these shots because I'm still working that a little- I want it to be just right) and McCoy's kinda freaking out. He's worried Spock will want to have a long conversation about where they stand with each other, and lucky for him, Spock doesn't verbally acknowledge it at all. Instead, he just kisses him again in the morning and they go business as usual (Which like, McCoy is happy that they've got some kind of thing going on, but he's about to start panicking because he's really afraid of rushing into a relationship just because he's pregnant, which is kinda what happened with him and Jocelyn, and why it didn't work out. So he's about to have some baggage, it'll be fun) (And they're about to have an appointment with a Healer about the pregnancy)

And as a bonus: Getting into their domesticity routine, McCoy always makes breakfast and Spock always makes dinner. McCoy's been making a lot of peanut butter toast because that's what he can hold down, but he's like, I need to make Spock a Good Breakfast because I Kissed Him and I Don't Know Where We Stand but he forgets how bad his aversion to eggs is and makes him a quiche.

Remember a lot of this will get reworded, I know there's a few sentences in there that aren't quite "their" voices, but sometimes I just need to write down what I want them to say, and then figure out how they'd say it, lol

Also you might wonder what the deal with the virus is: it's because I feel like they gloss over the virus-poisoned grain in Trouble with Tribbles so I've added another plot where they're investigating what the virus is and what it does, sending their discoveries up the line.

This will be important later, towards the end of his second trimester/early third, but I haven't gotten that far yet. What I can say is it's going to lead to the circumstances that get Joanna on the ship! (I need her to make an appearance!!! And not just in the vid calls!!!)

[divineturtle]

My dear good friends. I am trying like hell to have this Bonespreg finished or mostly so by Wednesday. Alas. I have added. More plot.

[divineturtle]

Bonespreg

Chapters 25 & 26 up!

It was going to be through 28 but I keep looking at it like...I need a chapter 27 and a half. So....next time! 😂

Xoxo

[divineturtle]

I'm 110,858 words into my bonespreg fic and I think...I think I'm finally going to have them kiss. Maybe. I'm at a really good spot for them to kiss. I don't know! Part of me wants to drag this out even longer. I don't know! Maybe they kiss but they don't talk about it? Ugh. I'm having too much fun squishing my dolls....very very very far apart, actually. They're not squishing together yet at all

[divineturtle]

I think I'm going to make it my goal to have my bonespreg finished and uploaded on April 8th for a birthday present to me <3

[divineturtle]

(Pertaining to my bonespreg)

Making Joanna McCoy a funny strange girl is so important to me. She's an amalgamation of everything I love about my sisters and cousins. She's bad at math and science and SO into theater, music, language, and she's slowly becoming a history buff by accident. She has her dad's temper and compassion, and her mom's ability to persuade and influence a room. She's very funny, in a deadpan-sarcastic sort of way. Loves to fuck with people by saying completely made up "facts" with a straight face. She collects junk and vintage technology, and she experiments with her self expression a lot.

The second important part here is that her parents support her SO much. And not just McCoy and Jocelyn, but also Jocelyn's husband, Beau. He takes his role as bonus-dad seriously, and he's been her stepdad since she was like 6. He's her "Let's go get iced coffee" parent when she's pissed at the world and her mom's not fair and her dad's in space and school sucks and life sucks and everything sucks.

She's got a lot of pressure from her teachers to apply herself more in STEM because, obviously, McCoy is a trailblazing surgeon and Jocelyn is a renowned astrophysicist, but at every parent-teacher conference, again, they're like, we're not going to tell our daughter she has to go into a STEM field if she feels like preforming arts is the right move for her, and they're 100% behind her ambitions.

And she's a pretty honest and good kid, too. She gets in a little trouble, but she's really that one kid that straight up tells her parents when she's planning on sneaking out or doing something stupid. They communicate pretty well and while she has her own secrets, like all teenagers, she knows she can talk to at least one of her parents about whatever issue she's having.

This is all important because Spock's being introduced to this established family dynamic, this really functional family, and he doesn't know what to do. Him and McCoy are having a kid together, which inherently disrupts their unit, but also, at the time he gets pregnant, they aren't involved whatsoever. He's never met any of McCoy's family. He knows of them, but doesn't know anything about them.

As he gets more involved, though, he's realizing he doesn't really want his role with Joanna to just be "my sibling's dad," or even just "my dad's friend/boyfriend." He had worries from the start about creating an imbalance between the children and wondering how he was going to make sure not to exclude Joanna in whatever the future held, but it takes him a while to realize fully that he actually wants to be integrated into the *existing* family unit, and he does not know how to express that at all, even after him and McCoy get together.

Meanwhile, McCoy is like, Spock never asked to take on my whole family, I've never introduced a partner to my daughter. Could you even consider themselves "partners" when they're just coparents in a situation? And already making Spock a dad when he hadn't planned on it seems bad enough without placing expectations on him to step into the role of stepparent. Plus, his daughter is almost grown. So McCoy has no expectations of Spock, and Spock isn't pushing the issue even though he'd really like to.

But there's going to be circumstances that bring Joanna onto the ship, and that's where they start to find a groove. It starts with her asking a bunch of nonsense questions just to mess with him, but ultimately it'll turn genuine, finding that she likes the way he explains stuff and is willing to have long winded discussions, and this leads to her seeking him out for unbiased insight on some of her issues.

He figures out quickly how to tell when she's having him on or not, and they develop their own sort of deadpan routine from it where he'll respond to her "facts" as if he doesn't know they're made up. On top of that, when he catches her doing it to someone else, he just agrees with her. McCoy says it's illogical to spread false information and Spock says it's a good lesson to always be certain to check that your source is correct. (Aka; yes i know it is) Don't worry, though; he will not be spared from the wrath of a teenage girl.

Like I said this fic is self indulgent as hell, I'm having all too much fun plotting this course for these guys. What an exciting time for them all

[divineturtle]

(Bonespreg sneakpeaks) (I'm sorry guys i'm tempted to put this out chapter by chapter because it's hella long but I looooove editing and going back and forth and adding and subtracting and moving stuff around so i'm going to wait until i'm finished to post the entire thing. which, no doubt, will be a massive pain in the ass)

Grossing Jim out with gross baby stuff because obviously

and the shopping trip where spock got a little freaked out and bought the nasal aspirator in his "i don't know how to be a dad" panic (subject to edits)

<3