StarTrek BigBang Rec: So Wise We Grow
By accident I deleted the original entry. This is essentially what it said:
Last week, I was privileged and lucky enough to spend most of one night reading captanddeastar's Star Trek BigBang story, So Wise We Grow.
It is 81,000 words of brilliant characterization, brilliant pacing, brilliant plotting. It is funny, charming, heartwrenching, painful, emotionally satisfying. Practically every chapter had me laughing, chuckling, smiling, tensing, tearing up a little (and more than once, tearing up *a lot*).
The story moved me in more ways than I expected, and not just because I have little ones of my own. It was about more than Spock and Jim's coming together, although it was gloriously about that and no mistake. It was about how people find ways to each other, despite everything they think they are and everything they try to be and everything they try not to be and where they were raised and what happened to them, and just everything.
captanddeastar's story is miraculous and true and so thoughtfully written and generously characterized, that I'm still, even four days after reading the story in one long sitting, mostly speechless.
Here is the story's epigraph, because it's lovely. And true.
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow.
Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
Go. Read.
Last week, I was privileged and lucky enough to spend most of one night reading captanddeastar's Star Trek BigBang story, So Wise We Grow.
It is 81,000 words of brilliant characterization, brilliant pacing, brilliant plotting. It is funny, charming, heartwrenching, painful, emotionally satisfying. Practically every chapter had me laughing, chuckling, smiling, tensing, tearing up a little (and more than once, tearing up *a lot*).
The story moved me in more ways than I expected, and not just because I have little ones of my own. It was about more than Spock and Jim's coming together, although it was gloriously about that and no mistake. It was about how people find ways to each other, despite everything they think they are and everything they try to be and everything they try not to be and where they were raised and what happened to them, and just everything.
captanddeastar's story is miraculous and true and so thoughtfully written and generously characterized, that I'm still, even four days after reading the story in one long sitting, mostly speechless.
Here is the story's epigraph, because it's lovely. And true.
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow.
Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
Go. Read.