anghraine: spock, exploring a verdant planet as part of an away team, watches as kirk unnecessarily smells a flower again (kirk and spock [flower])
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I enjoy headcanoning both Kirk and Spock as nonbinary in the same "technically but badly closeted" way that I interpret them as very much bi4gay—but also, as pretty different types of nonbinary. Spock describes himself as both a man and not a man (within the same episode, the iconic "Amok Time"). In many respects, he possesses the most purely unassailable masculinity of anyone in the show (this is a significant plot point in one of the Maximally Gender episodes, "Charlie X"). He wears make-up in the style of female Vulcans like T'Pring and T'Pau more than like how most men wear make-up, while surrounded by people who don't even know the difference, and at the same time, he's not at all uncomfortable with being identified as a man. To describe Spock as a man is incomplete information, not false. His "nonbinariness" consists very specifically of Man and Not-Man, and he tends to be marked by a highly consistent presentation of himself that blends gendered conventions, as suits his unique experience, but also makes him the most supremely masculine figure around when that's an issue at hand—a specific sort of bigender quality with some pretty obvious resonance with his experience as a biracial Vulcan.

Kirk, I think, doesn't consciously consider that he could be anything but a man, and is broadly okay with that, if the range of his gender performance isn't compromised by external pressures. But when he is pressured to occupy some specific gendered role, his resistance seems to go from 0 to 100 very fast. I imagine nb!Kirk as the kind of closeted-even-to-himself nonbinary person who assumes everyone's experience of gender is as tied to performance as his own, and surely, it's just obvious that it's all kind of fake outside of social dynamics, it's just that social dynamics affect people's lives and psychologies, and thus matter (the reality is more complicated, obviously, but it is a not-uncommon perspective among some kinds of nb people still figuring our shit out, cf. Judith Butler—my headcanon is that he's less bigender or multigender than "agender diva who likes to fuck around with conventions around masculinity and femininity and whatever else, but feels little allegiance to any of them as a stable state of being"). I do think that being reduced to a specific, exclusively masculine role by forces outside himself (despite being sometimes useful) pretty evidently grates on him more than the somewhat effeminate roles he sometimes gets steamrollered into (also sometimes useful), but since he's strongly implied to be AMAB, that wouldn't necessarily be unusual (assigned gender often has more baggage for obvious reasons, even if it's not more or less "wrong").

I do tend to think of him as transfem-leaning nonbinary at heart (one of my many quibbles with Tumblr TOS fanon is that I genuinely think Kirk makes 100x more sense as transfem than transmasc, and that his presentation in the peak Kirk Enrichment Enclosure episodes is far closer to femme than butch too when accounting for the limitations of the era), but the cisheteronormativity of the 23rd century is alive and well. The specifics of how he would fully express his actual sense of gender in a less restrictive world don't preoccupy him much as long as he gets to be the diva he was born to be and doesn't feel (gender-wise) like someone is actively clipping his wings. So he's just sometimes going to slip into announcing that gender is an insignificant distraction from the common personhood of all people, if a fun one, before breezing onto picking flowers or throwing himself into the occasional community theatre production or fluttering his eyelashes to escape the third trap of that week.

Check In: Day 14

Jun. 14th, 2025 12:01 pm
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Happy Saturday! How has writing been today?

-Awesome!
-Pretty good!
-Haven't written today (yet)!
-Haven't written today (life)!
-Taking a rest!

Today's question: where do you like to write? At a specific place in your home? A cafe? A local library?

Check In: Day 13!

Jun. 13th, 2025 04:07 pm
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Happy Friday!! Time for another check in! How was everyone's writing today?

-Awesome!
-Moving along!
-Life has taken priority!
-I rested!

Today's discussion:

Do you have any favorite planning methods? (Bullet points, writing it all vaguely out, the three act/six act structure, etc.)

Check In: Day 12!

Jun. 12th, 2025 12:11 pm
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Happy Thursday! Time for a quick check-in!

How has writing been going today?

-Awesome! :D
-Coming along! :)
-Life has taken a priority (rest, busy etc)

When you're feeling a bit burned out, how do you fill your "creative well"?

Minneapolis

Jun. 12th, 2025 11:24 am
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It's very poignant to be here again. I'm in Minneapolis so rarely that I can still distinguish each visit, but the overall sense is one of extended memory, that is not just of my own, but of anecdotes from my mother and grandmother about their lives here, my grandmother as a (very) young adult, and my mother as a kid.

Not all the memories of mine are good--the week we spent in Bloomington ranged from weird to horrific, the axis we kid spun around was the sound of my mother crying in the bathroom when my bio grandfather started his daily drinking and turned into a monster. We kids at least escaped with his bio kids (our age, his second marriage) but mom couldn't escape--we had the car.

The city that was best to them all (though mom only got to visit, never got to live there) was Red Wing. I adore that place! There's something so peaceful about Red Wing. And extended memory is very complete, as we heard ALL the stories about life on the farm, etc. But it wasn't idyllic--my grandmother and her older sister had to go--that was the conditions my great-grandmother accepted when she remarried in order to save the farm, around 1930, with the Depression really digging in. The man said he could abide the two younger girls but the sixteen year old (my grandmother) and her older sister had to get out and find their way on their own. Which they did, in Minneapolis, waiting tables.

Anyway I'm here for a con. I came a day early, knowing that getting in at one in the morning would leave me a zombie for a day. The weather is perfect--cool and cloudy. I think I'll go out for another walk.

Check In: Day 11~

Jun. 11th, 2025 05:57 pm
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Happy writing day! We are halfway through the week and nearly halfway through the month!

How was your writing today?

-Awesome
-Coming along
-Life is kicking my butt :(

Any writer you particularly look up to?

Check In: Day 10!

Jun. 10th, 2025 05:00 pm
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We have arrived at day 10! How has writing been going today?

-Good!
-It's going okay!
-Haven't been able to write!
-Been thinking about it!

Gotta ask, been reading anything recently that has helped with your writing?

Check In: Day 9!

Jun. 9th, 2025 01:06 pm
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Hello, hello! It's Monday. How has writing been today?

-Very good! I got a bit of writing done!
-Pretty all right!
-Too busy to write!
-Other

For today's discussion question, what kind of writer are you? A plotter, pantser, or a secret third option?

Check In: Day 8!

Jun. 8th, 2025 11:52 am
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Happy Sunday! To start of this new week, how has everyone been doing?

Have you written today yet?

-Yes!
-No yet, but planning to!
-Have to take a break!

If you have written today, what has your focus been on? Anything in particular you're excited to write about?

It's happening!!!

Jun. 7th, 2025 05:19 pm
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Idol is back and it's WHEEL OF CHAOS time! I'm in and I really encourage all of you to give it a whirl, too! It's fun, truly! And even when it's not, you're writing and isn't that what we're here to do? 

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Check in Day 7!

Jun. 7th, 2025 11:21 am
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I've been sitting around bored all morning and it didn't occur to me until just now that I could be writing.

Poll #33226 Writing!
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 4


Did you write today?

View Answers

Yes!
2 (50.0%)

No!
1 (25.0%)

I thought about it..
0 (0.0%)

I plan to!
1 (25.0%)

>_>

Jun. 6th, 2025 09:03 am
anghraine: A female version of Spock from Star Trek made in Star Trek Online; she is slender, with a short bob; she is wearing loose black trousers instead of a miniskirt (s'paak [figure])
[personal profile] anghraine
So I'm sorting through my many, many notes for the K/S femslash AU jotted down in email drafts and elaborate notes on chronological outlines and grumpy additions to passages where I'm like "actually it needs to happen differently, more like blahblah, especially if I want my version to correspond with this conceptual detail from TOS I really like..."

Between moving across the city, asthma problems, a death in the family, looking for work, etc etc, some notes are hyper-organized and others are all jumbled together with no rhyme or reason. So it can be silly and fun in its own way to impose some kind of order when it's like:

Read more... )

Check in Day 6!

Jun. 6th, 2025 11:14 am
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[personal profile] omens posting in [community profile] writethisfanfic
Happy friday!

Poll #33209 Writing!
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6


Did you write today?

View Answers

Yes!
3 (50.0%)

No!
0 (0.0%)

I thought about it..
0 (0.0%)

I plan to!
3 (50.0%)



Do you usually have more time for writing on the weekend, or less? I'm usually a "less" person but this weekend looks promising..!

Check in Day 5!

Jun. 5th, 2025 05:19 pm
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[personal profile] omens posting in [community profile] writethisfanfic
Poll #33206 Writing!
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6


Did you write today?

View Answers

Yes!
5 (83.3%)

No!
1 (16.7%)

I thought about it..
0 (0.0%)

I plan to!
1 (16.7%)



Anything to report?

Check in Day 4!

Jun. 4th, 2025 03:49 pm
omens: woman typing (writing)
[personal profile] omens posting in [community profile] writethisfanfic
We've made it to mid-week \o/!

Poll #33199 Writing!
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7


Did you write today?

View Answers

Yes!
4 (57.1%)

No!
1 (14.3%)

I thought about it..
0 (0.0%)

I plan to!
2 (28.6%)



How's it going today?

Northwards

Jun. 4th, 2025 01:02 pm
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[personal profile] sartorias
I was taking to a felow customer when I stopped for sandwiches while strolling around downtown Albany last night, and when I commented on the deepeness of the verdure around me--I can't get enough of it--he said that it's been a very wet season here.

I took a walk along the Hudson, stopping at a little side canal, or whatever they are called, when I saw a bridge and inviting shadows (the sun was overly warm and the hair humid and kind of dirty). I snapped this shot:



If it works right, and you embiggen, look just above the top branch of the fallen tree. I'd spotted a pair of geeze swimming toward it, and thought they'd make a splendid shot framed by the two branches. But they never emerged from behind the top one, some twenty feet below me and upstream. I could see the ripples from them paddling, but no sign of the geese.

When I looked closer, I just spotted a black and white goose head peeking at me from beyond that branch. They were clearly waiting for the monster to lurk somewhere else.

And now I'm on my way northwards toward Montreal, which I should reach this evening.

Check in Day 3!

Jun. 3rd, 2025 01:20 pm
omens: woman typing (writing)
[personal profile] omens posting in [community profile] writethisfanfic
How's it going?

Poll #33194 Writing!
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5


Did you write today?

View Answers

Yes!
1 (20.0%)

No!
2 (40.0%)

I thought about it..
1 (20.0%)

I plan to!
1 (20.0%)



Hope everyone finds a minute to write something today, or has an excellent break if not :D

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