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    After the events in City on the Edge of Forever, Spock suggests that he and Jim spend some time on Vulcan. Turns out it's not a great place for a vacation, but is plenty good for pining.

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    11 Jun 2025

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    Spock has been assisting a new Vulcan colony in its agricultural efforts, but nothing will grow in the colony's desert. He seeks the advice of Dr. James Kirk, renowned botanist, at one of Kirk's lectures. But Spock's interest in Kirk quickly becomes personal, rather than professional.

    Though the concept of "love at first sight" is deeply illogical, of course, Spock and Jim Kirk share an immediate connection, and it could change the trajectory of their lives.

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    18 May 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 76

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    As the Enterprise's celebrated voyage winds down, the tension between her captain and first officer escalates, and three days aboard Jupiter's premier lunar station will change everything. Jim doesn't handle change very well. Slow-build, character-study prelude to the Lost Years and TMP. Unhappy ending, but canon functions as a fix-it!

    Written for K/S Big Bang 2012.

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    16 May 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 79

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    “Right,” said Jim. If he sounded distracted, it was only because his eyes were fixed on the way Spock’s blush highlighted his cheekbones, how it trailed over his ears and down his neck, how it must travel beneath his uniform and…

    Jim felt himself flushing, too. He spat out an excuse - he had no idea what it was, completely incapable of processing it - and fled, because it was becoming dangerously, horrifically clear.

    James Kirk had a crush on his professor.

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    He's been dumped by his girlfriend, his roommate keeps bugging him, and he needs credits to finish out the summer semester.

    The lecture series on Vulcan poetry he signed up for on a whim might turn out to be Jim's saving grace.

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    13 May 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 42

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    ‘“What are you thinking about?” Kim asks, probes, hooking a finger under Chay’s chin.

    It’s a hot afternoon and they’re sitting dangerously close. Kim’s leaning back against the beaten down couch, a bead of sweat forming near his hairline.
    Porchay closes his eyes and looks away -swallowing down the urge to say-

     

    You, you, you, you…’

     

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    For today’s class we study Porchay and his emotions like a bug under a microscope.

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    10 May 2025