Chekov should sparkle in the sunlight and wear glittery golden body-paint at all times.

[kayliemalinza]

http://community.livejournal.com/st_xi_kink/1886.html?thread=2617694#t2617694

CHAOS IS THIS YOU. I FIND THE WORDING OF THAT PROMPT SUSPICIOUSLY FAMILIAR.

ETA: AND NOW CHAOS HAS GONE AND DONE MORE DAMAGE.

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[order_of_chaos]

Is not me.

Someone must have cloned me when I wasn't looking.

Eep.

Awesome :D

But! I would never request a lack of sparkliness. Never ever. Nope. *glints fiendishly* Adorable!Vampire!Chekov should sparkle in the sunlight and wear glittery golden body-paint at all times. With sequins.

[kayliemalinza]

YOU ALREADY GOT YOUR CHEKOV FIC, CHAOS. STOP TRYING TO TEMPT ME INTO WRITING ANOTH-- oh, bugger it. Check the entry again, you vile seductress. D

[order_of_chaos]

This entry, it is not what it used to be. *peers suspiciously*

OMG Pike is back as captain! Spock is the boss of Kirk - mwahahaha! Ha! Kirk still gets to sit in the chair! This is the best version of the universe ever!
And Starfleet making Kirk captain of the Enterprise until Pike got his legs back actually makes more sense than any other idea I've come across so far. It should totally have happened like that. For that matter, who's to say it didn't?

Kirk with captain instincts is awesome and adorable. Gaila with daddy instincts makes me want to viley seduct you into writing backstory - and yet not, because as it is it boggles the imagination and imaginations like being boggled.

Kirk is brilliant and lithe and always wears no-skid boots.
OMGOMGOMG! No-skid boots. OMG! Yes.

Sparkly Chekov is sparkly! And contagious! And extremely bad at giving concise, non-misleading explanations :P

That's Uhura's voice, and when Kirk looks up it's Uhura's body, too, tilted at an odd angle like maybe she does not have no-skid boots

[kayliemalinza]

Just remember-- this is your fault. I'll maybe allow that the eventual Pike/Pike is not your fault but gold sparkly Chekov? Totally your fault.

This is the best version of the universe ever!
:DDDDD I came up with it shortly after seeing the movie. It's canon in my head now. i shall spread this across the fandom like a veneral disease.

And Starfleet making Kirk captain of the Enterprise until Pike got his legs back actually makes more sense than any other idea I've come across so far. It should totally have happened like that. For that matter, who's to say it didn't?It's compatible with the ending of the movie! Clearly, that happy little scene takes place after the Enterprise has been repaired but when Pike is still going through physical therapy, etc. so Starfleet sends Kirk and the rest of the crew (who've all gotten commendations) on a grocery run to the Delta system or whatever. Then Pike gets better! And calls Kirk home! And is all like, "Gimme my ship back, punk!" and Kirk is all like, "Aw, man! Can I at least still take it out

[stunt_muppet]

...you know, I somehow knew STXI had a kinkmeme without ever seeing it. You linking to it is mere confirmation.

(And boo for them vetoing sparkly Chekov. Sparkly Chekov makes the universe a happier place. Especially if at any point he asserts that zis is ze skin off a killer. And I think I just somehow made him German right there, but shush, this is why I don't write him.)

They put this-this- goo on me and made me wear this ridiculous loincloth, and told me to memorize an awful poem." He scowls at Kirk, which is supremely weird because his teeth are all white and the inside of his mouth is pink and red but the rest of him is, you know, gold. "It did not even rhyme, and the meter was forced."

Oh, Chekov. I would hug you but you're covered in goo. Though I appreciate Kirk being covered in goo, and his thoughts on no-skid boots and manly bosoms. And Piiiiiike. Pike being Enterprise!Daddy. I love it.

Can I tell you how delighted it makes me that you write lots of Chekov? :D

[kayliemalinza]

It's the original slash fandom, but with young, hot actors. Lots of them! It's like Harry Potter, but over 18 (mostly) and in space. Verily, your instincts are right on the button. (The kink meme, by this point, is practically a fandom of its own

[stunt_muppet]

Fun Fact: the Vulcan Nerve Pinch was invented because Leonard Nemoy didn't feel like doing a fight scene that day.Wasn't it because he didn't think it'd be Vulcanlike to engage in fisticuffs? That said, I would absolutely believe Nimoy just going "eh" and grabbing Shatner around the neck because he couldn't be arsed to punch him

[kayliemalinza]

Wasn't it because he didn't think it'd be Vulcanlike to engage in fisticuffs?
That's what he and Shatner told the director, I believe, but wasn't the real reason. Then again, I'm getting this from their own mouths (they spoke at a convention 20-some years later) so the odds of any of this being objectively true are slim. :P

I...kind of thought he was taking things too seriously here, what with ordering a rape kit and all. It's just that...well, he's Kirk.... So the characterization doesn't read off to me.
I messed with that section a bit, and kept the rest of Kirk's reactions consistent. I added a fair amount to the part with Pike in it, so could you look over that? There's other small changes throughout; mostly re-wording and comma fixes.

that's still one of the points of the movie I don't really buy - him going from academic probation to captain in that short amount of time.Yeah, there are very, very good reasons why there is a chain of command, and you have to go up the rungs gradually. There's a lovely TOS episode that refers

[captain_bookcat]

*MAD GRINS*

esp at
(it's a manly bosom, ok, and Kirk only has one because captains need bosoms for moments like this. They totally do. Shut up.)

was this what you were worried about in terms of internal monologues? 'cuz it's fine, really. :D

[kayliemalinza]

I WAS WAITING FOR YOU TO NOTICE THIS. :DDDDD

Actually, it was the fic with Kirk/Chekov trapped under rubble that started to worry me. For this fic, I was resigned to the crack. (But I am grateful for the continued reassurance. :P)

[captain_bookcat]

LOOK I DON'T READ MY FLIST EVERYDAY, OKAY. :P :(((

uh...is this rubble fic going to attempt to be serious? I mean, there's only really two ways you could go with that, which are cracky and angsty/dramatic. However: feel free to break cliche and genre traditions and all that jazz.... :D

[kayliemalinza]

Oh don't worry, it's safe rubble. It's not gonna be crack, per se, but definitely humour. It's the same tone as like the wampire!Chekov fic, but no cracky supernatural elements.

[rubynye]

You have an AU where Kirk is third in command, exercising his natural leadership while getting the experience and training he needs, and Pike is CAPTAIN YES HOORAY, and you populate it with scenes like Sparkly Chekov and Tart Hair Flipping Uhura and Gold Dot Nosed Bones.

...

I think I like it here, very, very much. Is there a tag or a Memories category where I cna find all of these?

[kayliemalinza]

Hee! My mission is to turn this AU-- which is perfectly compliant with the final scenes of the movie, it is-- into widespread fanon. There's only a .02% chance that will work but I have to try

[rubynye]

Hee! My mission is to turn this AU-- which is perfectly compliant with the final scenes of the movie, it is-- into widespread fanon.

I approve mightily of this, but then, I love AUs which fix large canon holes. (I read great stories about Rosie and Sam keeping Frodo, about Archie Kennedy not dying, about Stephanie Brown aka Robin IV not dying. I adore this kind of AU.) I noticed details about this in the memefic I read of yours, the fill we coincided on; do you have any others?

And yes, please tag them, make them easy to find!

[elaineofshalott]

"Good God, man!" Bones exclaims, gaping.

And that is when I almost spit out my tea from laughing.

Aheh, do not mind me; I am not really in the fandom but I linked here from re_white, and just had to say, omg gold sparkly Chekov, why had no one thought of this before. I love 17-year-old reboot!Chekov so much.

[kayliemalinza]

Oh hee, thanks for commenting! In the interest of full disclosure, the credit for the sparkles and gold body paint should go to order_of_chaos. I was merely helpless to resist. :P