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someone calls spock kirks dog like an asshole, spock scrunches his face a little, kirk lightly like "well, not a dog.... more of a cat really" the guy scoffs and says something about how thats worse or whatever, less loyal

and then spock, ever the poet, says out loud with his fucking mouth "the dog is loyal to its master, for it conceives of no other way to be. the cat, in contrast, devoted to one, chooses that place through continuous deliberation" and kirk swoons even though it manages to go right over his fucking head

kirk so truly like wow spock being poetic <3 and devotion themes, my favourite <3 nod nod spock does choose to be by my side always and forever because he is my friend and first officer

this could probably be better i just woke up and grabbed my phone in a blur

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the weather cant deside whether its drizzling or sunny, but it makes for a very cosy vibe to do some work in my copy paste book

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fuck it lets post this i dont care if im not completely happy with most of it because actually?? i think this rules for my first times drawing from Real People in legitimately at least 6 years!! and 6 years ago i had the power of pencils and erasers to fix floating eyes and ears, now i just live with it. also i've literally never drawn a real life adult man before.

anyway im so incredibly new to star trek and yet within a couple of days it has become my first new Characters special interest in 10 years (adventure zone balance... has it really been that long?) i made a post about how little i knew here

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i wasnt going to post any but actually... this one is allowed (wip)

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anyone ever think about how deeply reluctant spock is to do a mind meld at all, talking about how it is deeply personal, and private, and that he has not ever done it on a human before. even after the amount of time he's been around.

and then. after he does... he does it all the time. for anything. he offers it up.

... and a lot of them result in talking about the deep aching empty loneliness that's definitely about the person he's melding with and not him, you know, in this two part melding

love him just really unhealthily seeking out connection, because no he really is that alone. even if it's not good, he does crave to be seen and be a part of someone

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kirk in a situation where he is forced to call the enterprise his "boat" and he says it with the full demeanor of a man who is being forced to call his wife a slur

because he is, to him at least

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kirk absolutely cheats at chess

with bones and spock both.

when he plays with bones, spock watches him do it, bones has no idea. and spock announces when kirk wins every game.

when kirk and spock play chess, spock is aware of the cheats, even when he isn't watching them happen. kirk thinks he doesn't know. he knows. kirk wins every game.

spock, however, is playing his own game of seeing if he can win while continuing to play within the rules to counter kirk's cheating. it's an incredibly enriching puzzle.

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the concern and care and resolve that he looks at spock with throughout this entire episode absolutely kills me

anyway i feel i overworked it and this page with the pink ink bleeding through and then the splatters probably wasnt the best choice -it definitely made seeing what i was doing a little harder- but oh well this is for fun

also btw its glittery, so far everything ive done has been very glittery in the background, just not the lines themselves in this one