Big Bang: Papers in the Roadside (Masterpost)
Title: Papers in the Roadside
Author: kianspo
Beta: secret_chord25
Artist: arminaa
Mixer: ely_wa
Series: ST XI
Character/Pairing(s): Kirk/Spock, ensemble cast
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~50k
Warnings: Um, references to clinical depression (not for main cast), references to past minor character death, language, explicit sexual content
Summary: Non-Starfleet AU. Jim owns a small bar in Chicago, keeps on picking up strays and taking care of everyone no matter how hard it makes his own life. Spock is a journalist writing feature articles for the Chicago Tribune; he depicts the world with uncanny skill, but hides more than one personal drama and is possibly under surveillance from the Vulcan royal family. They meet by accident just before their lives start to spin out of control.
GORGEOUS ART by arminaa.
BEAUTIFUL FANMIX by ely_wa.
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Part 1 // Part 2 // Part 3 // Part 4 // Part 5A // Part 5B and Epilogue
Also available in one post @
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Acknowledgments and notes:
A huge THANK YOU goes to my beta secret_chord25. Molly, I think a couple of days back you told me something about my silences and my words? Well, right back at you. :)
I would also like to thank lowcutjeans for steadfast encouragement and honest opinions, and most of all for listening to my whining and venting, and jaylee_g for giving the story the green light when no one else wanted to. (Actually, that probably means she's responsible for this showdown so that might not necessarily be a good thing.)
Special thanks to lalazee who was my Chicago tour guide. On that note, Chicago residents, please don't hurt me for messing up your city. It's 300 years in the future and things have happened, okay?
And I absolutely have to say this:
When I was a 13-year-old girl, I didn't know Kirk and Spock. If I did, this is the kind of story I probably would have written for them. Draw your own conclusions, folks. I'm just going to warn you that if for some reason you have come to expect quality writing from me, you would probably want to skip this. Please believe me when I say I'm not being coy. But I know exactly what this story is, and while I needed to let it go for my own mental health if nothing else, please don't expect it to be something magnificent or worthy of rereading.
The story was initially thought of as 'the one where Kirk and Spock are ordinary people -- or as ordinary as the two of them could be.' Essentially, it could be summarized as 'they met, they fell in love, they lived happily ever after.' And that's really all there is.
Author: kianspo
Beta: secret_chord25
Artist: arminaa
Mixer: ely_wa
Series: ST XI
Character/Pairing(s): Kirk/Spock, ensemble cast
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~50k
Warnings: Um, references to clinical depression (not for main cast), references to past minor character death, language, explicit sexual content
Summary: Non-Starfleet AU. Jim owns a small bar in Chicago, keeps on picking up strays and taking care of everyone no matter how hard it makes his own life. Spock is a journalist writing feature articles for the Chicago Tribune; he depicts the world with uncanny skill, but hides more than one personal drama and is possibly under surveillance from the Vulcan royal family. They meet by accident just before their lives start to spin out of control.
GORGEOUS ART by arminaa.
BEAUTIFUL FANMIX by ely_wa.
.
Part 1 // Part 2 // Part 3 // Part 4 // Part 5A // Part 5B and Epilogue
Also available in one post @
.
Acknowledgments and notes:
A huge THANK YOU goes to my beta secret_chord25. Molly, I think a couple of days back you told me something about my silences and my words? Well, right back at you. :)
I would also like to thank lowcutjeans for steadfast encouragement and honest opinions, and most of all for listening to my whining and venting, and jaylee_g for giving the story the green light when no one else wanted to. (Actually, that probably means she's responsible for this showdown so that might not necessarily be a good thing.)
Special thanks to lalazee who was my Chicago tour guide. On that note, Chicago residents, please don't hurt me for messing up your city. It's 300 years in the future and things have happened, okay?
And I absolutely have to say this:
When I was a 13-year-old girl, I didn't know Kirk and Spock. If I did, this is the kind of story I probably would have written for them. Draw your own conclusions, folks. I'm just going to warn you that if for some reason you have come to expect quality writing from me, you would probably want to skip this. Please believe me when I say I'm not being coy. But I know exactly what this story is, and while I needed to let it go for my own mental health if nothing else, please don't expect it to be something magnificent or worthy of rereading.
The story was initially thought of as 'the one where Kirk and Spock are ordinary people -- or as ordinary as the two of them could be.' Essentially, it could be summarized as 'they met, they fell in love, they lived happily ever after.' And that's really all there is.