Comments | sail_aweigh: Fic: Wanderers Far At Sea [Master Post], STXI/Buffy/Angel, Kirk/McCoy, R

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Fic: Wanderers Far At Sea [Master Post], STXI/Buffy/Angel, Kirk/McCoy, R

Nov 22, 2011 04:17

Title: Wanderers Far At Sea
Author: sail_aweigh
Artist: votaku
Mixer: vengefuldemon69
Betas: thistlerose, lindmere
Series: AOS
Characters/Pairings: Kirk/McCoy, Uhura/Spock, Spike/Surprise Guest, Khan, Marla McGivers, Joanna McCoy
Warnings: beheadings and gore, swearing, minor character death
Rating: R for violence and language
Word Count: ~39,000
Summary: STXI/Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the ( Read more... )

fic, wanderers far at sea, au, kirk/mccoy, stxi/buffy/angel fusion, star trek big bang

Comments 11

arliss November 22 2011, 17:52:02 UTC

You posted it! Yay, and congratulations! 40,000 is a pretty significant accomplishment. You done good!

sail_aweigh November 23 2011, 14:08:18 UTC

Thank you, hon! I don't know if I'll ever try to write anything this long again. It was so much more work than I anticipated and I don't think I did nearly as good a job as I could have due to poor time management on my part. Still, it was an adventure and I'm always up for adventure! If I ever try to do a big bang again, I'm going to start the outline as soon as the previous year's story gets posted. Ugh.

ken_ichijouji November 22 2011, 22:15:16 UTC

I'm so fucking proud of you! <3

sail_aweigh November 23 2011, 14:10:22 UTC

Thank you! I'm really sad you didn't get to play this year, but I know we're still going to get that amazing story anyway. The bits and pieces you posted were very exciting.

lindmere November 23 2011, 03:51:59 UTC

I KNEW YOU'D DO IT. You are truly amazing--always coming through in the clutch, just like a certain captain ;)

I really enjoyed beta-ing this even though I'm a complete Buffy virgin, but I'm in awe of the way you worked out the mythology, merging two not-very-compatible worlds but making Jim (and Jo's) backstory seem plausible and working it all out with the narrative device of a very worried and confused Bones who doesn't know what's going on but trusts Jim (eventually). Jim letting himself have feelings for Bones made a very sweet counterpoint to all the action, which was kick ass.

Jo's voice came through so strongly, and she seemed like a real teenager--curious and confused about all the strange things happening to her, which is kind of a nice metaphor for adolescence. I'm glad we got to see her in the flesh at the end! And I don't know who Illyria is, but Uhura + Illyria was ultra formidable. Splendid job, bb!

sail_aweigh November 23 2011, 14:15:13 UTC

Thank you so much for the wonderful beta job! My writing is so peripatetic, it's remarkable that you were able to keep up with me.

I think I've learned a very valuable lesson from big bang. Start early. I don't know if I'm going to try to do this again next year, but I think any stories I write from now on I'm going to do much more detailed outlines before I ever start the writing process itself.

I felt I had to bring Jo in for a cameo. She was the spark for so much of the story, it wouldn't have been fair to leave the audience hanging. I left a lot of other stuff hanging, but not that! I had to short shrift so much of the end to finish this up. As long as the action was exciting, that's all I really hoped to achieve by the end. Next year (will I or won't I, who knows?) I'll have a complete outline ready to rock.

sangueuk November 23 2011, 21:19:25 UTC

HURRAH! You did it! Well done, you! :D

sail_aweigh November 23 2011, 23:40:41 UTC

Thank you! I'm so glad to be done. I slept 15 hours last night, I was so whacked. :P

sophiap November 25 2011, 03:10:41 UTC

This was a whole lot of fun! I love the way you merged the two 'verses--not just in the cosmology, but in the feel--and it was delightful seeing all of the familiar names from the BtVS-verse cropping up all throughout the place. Clever, clever use of the Khan mythology in conjunction with the Old Ones.

Uhura as Illyria was absolutely inspired.

sail_aweigh November 25 2011, 17:56:26 UTC

Aw, yay! I'm glad it all worked for you. I originally planned this story for last years ST Big Bang and it went bust on me because I was having a hard time merging all the disparate parts. It took almost a year of letting it stew before I felt I finally had all the kinks out and could make it work.

sophiap November 25 2011, 18:40:03 UTC

It's funny, but sometimes you just need to let big things like this sit for a while so you can get an idea of what the whole look like. The same thing happened to me with my SPN Big Bang - I started it last year, then realized I didn't have a handle on how the whole thing worked. This year, success!