Community Blues: 2/?
Title: Community Blues: antiCanon & OOC
Author: TeaOli
Characters/Pairings: Uhura/Spock, (three)S_U comm. members (all of whom have contributed their own dialogue) and a painfully obvious self-insertion.
Rating: PG
Warnings: Very meta in the traditional sense of the prefix.
A/N: See the warning.
Part I
Spock rolled over to find Nyota no longer beside him. A quick scan of the room showed her at the desk, hard at work.
“Come back to bed, beloved,” Spock he murmured sleepily. “Relaxing” with his beloved always tired him out.
“Just a minute,” she called out. “I'm almost done.”
In actuality, she came over to sit on the edge of the bed after only another forty-eight seconds of work.
“I think I have it figured out,” she told him. Her fingers still worked a stylus across the screen of her personal access display device.
Spock ran his fingers through his disheveled hair, but only succeeded in mussing it further. He gave up all attempts at restoring order and reached for her instead.
“Good,” he said. “Then you can 'relax' with me again.”
She smiled at him indulgently, her eyes promising More, later, and Spock resigned himself to waiting.
“Tell what you have decided to do,” he said, sitting up.
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“Tara and Patrick are on vacation, but she’s been keeping up with the community devoted to her favorite ‘ship and she-”
“Which ‘ship is that, Nyota?” Spock interrupted.
She blushed at him and wrinkled her nose.
“Oh, uh, Spock/Uhura,” she said, offering the first relationship that came to mind.
She stuck her tongue out at him before continuing.
“Anyway, she’s been keeping up with the comm even though they’re on vacation and there was this post she’d been tracking because it really caught her interest, and because it was written by an online friend of hers,” Uhura explained, her stylus flying over the screen. “She goes back to read it, but the monitors have taken it down, claiming it was ‘too off topic.’
“So, she writes a fic-slash-discussion-post about Uhura writing a fic about, um, Tara and Patrick being on shore leave and reading about their favorite ‘ship-”
“Their ‘favorite ‘ship’ being Uhura/Spock?” Spock interrupted again, drawing another blush from his beloved. “And ‘they’ being Tara and Patrick? Reading about a fictional Spock and Uhura - as depicted by Tara - who have written about a fictional Tara and Patrick - depicted by Uhura?”
Grinning excitedly, Uhura blurted out a hurried “yes” and launched back into her summarization, making changes as she spoke. “And so Tara writes a fic about-” She cut herself off when she observed one corner of his mouth tilting up and his eyes beginning to sparkle. “You know what, Spock? I think you should just read it yourself. It’ll be less confusing that way!”
She handed over the PADD and Spock duly began reading the short piece of fanfiction she had written.
Uhura watched as he took far longer than expected to peruse the contents.
“Well?” she asked, when he finally lifted his eyes from the handheld device.
“There are several elements in this fic that are inconsistent with canon, beloved,” he replied, honest as usual.
“For instance?” she prompted, proud that she didn’t feel even a flicker of temper. Relaxing with Spock usually left her utterly incapable of anger for hours on end.
“Instance one: Several story arcs of Star-Gazette have revolved around Tara’s reluctance to stand up for herself in life and in the newsroom,” he pointed out. Why would she stand up for an online friend in the Spock_Uhura community?
“Instance two: Tara is an award-winning journalist who has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Why would she spend her free time writing fanfiction?
“Instance three: Nothing in Star-Gazette canon indicates that what would be for the people of their time period science fiction is a popular genre. Would this story not require you to go back and write a backstory for Tara, establishing her preference for viewing moving pictures about the future?”
Grinning, Uhura plucked the PADD from his hands.
“It’s crack!fic, sweetie. The characters are allowed to be a little OOC.”
Author: TeaOli
Characters/Pairings: Uhura/Spock, (three)S_U comm. members (all of whom have contributed their own dialogue) and a painfully obvious self-insertion.
Rating: PG
Warnings: Very meta in the traditional sense of the prefix.
A/N: See the warning.
Part I
Spock rolled over to find Nyota no longer beside him. A quick scan of the room showed her at the desk, hard at work.
“Come back to bed, beloved,” Spock he murmured sleepily. “Relaxing” with his beloved always tired him out.
“Just a minute,” she called out. “I'm almost done.”
In actuality, she came over to sit on the edge of the bed after only another forty-eight seconds of work.
“I think I have it figured out,” she told him. Her fingers still worked a stylus across the screen of her personal access display device.
Spock ran his fingers through his disheveled hair, but only succeeded in mussing it further. He gave up all attempts at restoring order and reached for her instead.
“Good,” he said. “Then you can 'relax' with me again.”
She smiled at him indulgently, her eyes promising More, later, and Spock resigned himself to waiting.
“Tell what you have decided to do,” he said, sitting up.
__________________
“Tara and Patrick are on vacation, but she’s been keeping up with the community devoted to her favorite ‘ship and she-”
“Which ‘ship is that, Nyota?” Spock interrupted.
She blushed at him and wrinkled her nose.
“Oh, uh, Spock/Uhura,” she said, offering the first relationship that came to mind.
She stuck her tongue out at him before continuing.
“Anyway, she’s been keeping up with the comm even though they’re on vacation and there was this post she’d been tracking because it really caught her interest, and because it was written by an online friend of hers,” Uhura explained, her stylus flying over the screen. “She goes back to read it, but the monitors have taken it down, claiming it was ‘too off topic.’
“So, she writes a fic-slash-discussion-post about Uhura writing a fic about, um, Tara and Patrick being on shore leave and reading about their favorite ‘ship-”
“Their ‘favorite ‘ship’ being Uhura/Spock?” Spock interrupted again, drawing another blush from his beloved. “And ‘they’ being Tara and Patrick? Reading about a fictional Spock and Uhura - as depicted by Tara - who have written about a fictional Tara and Patrick - depicted by Uhura?”
Grinning excitedly, Uhura blurted out a hurried “yes” and launched back into her summarization, making changes as she spoke. “And so Tara writes a fic about-” She cut herself off when she observed one corner of his mouth tilting up and his eyes beginning to sparkle. “You know what, Spock? I think you should just read it yourself. It’ll be less confusing that way!”
She handed over the PADD and Spock duly began reading the short piece of fanfiction she had written.
Uhura watched as he took far longer than expected to peruse the contents.
“Well?” she asked, when he finally lifted his eyes from the handheld device.
“There are several elements in this fic that are inconsistent with canon, beloved,” he replied, honest as usual.
“For instance?” she prompted, proud that she didn’t feel even a flicker of temper. Relaxing with Spock usually left her utterly incapable of anger for hours on end.
“Instance one: Several story arcs of Star-Gazette have revolved around Tara’s reluctance to stand up for herself in life and in the newsroom,” he pointed out. Why would she stand up for an online friend in the Spock_Uhura community?
“Instance two: Tara is an award-winning journalist who has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Why would she spend her free time writing fanfiction?
“Instance three: Nothing in Star-Gazette canon indicates that what would be for the people of their time period science fiction is a popular genre. Would this story not require you to go back and write a backstory for Tara, establishing her preference for viewing moving pictures about the future?”
Grinning, Uhura plucked the PADD from his hands.
“It’s crack!fic, sweetie. The characters are allowed to be a little OOC.”