Star Trek XI fic: Vulcans Don't Play Basketball (Part Three)

[ninety6tears]

Title: Vulcans Don't Play Basketball
(3/3)
Characters/Pairings: Prominently Kirk/Uhura but very Spock/Kirk/Uhura. Appearances by McCoy and Chekov.
Rating: R
Summary: Maybe some day they'll have something in common, besides a first officer who seems sometimes like an impossible code to crack.
A/N: I should probably mention at this point that I'm

Comments

[flowrs4ophelia]

I'm kind of surprised that you were worried about this fic being too depressing overall, because everything actually feels reasonably resolved, even if it's still a little ambiguous what will happen now. Yes, you've officially invented or at least perfected the "pre-threesome" genre, LOL.

It still seems like there's a million different ideas/interpretations you can take from the dynamic between Kirk/Uhura/Spock in this, but what I guess I was especially struck by in this last part is how you convey Kirk/Uhura's relationship as having basically everything more passionate and carefree and intensely physical that they both know they can never really have with Spock. It almost seems like it should be based on something kind of unhealthy, yet with the way you handle it it seems not unhealthy at all.

Want the companion piece. Now. Hehe.

[ninety6tears]

Oh, jeez, I already know I'm about to write too long a comment.
I was never actually worried about this being depressing overall, there was just this point while I was writing it that the Kirk/Uhura thing specifically took me by surprise. The whole phase of their relationship that makes up the middle of this part struck me so differently in the writing than in the planning of it, like it just got ahead of me and what was originally a sort of very casual but caring thing that had the potential to be something more actually turned into my realization that they really were starting to fall in love and even when I was leaving everything so open-ended, writing the whole add-on to the beach scene that wasn't even a definite ending to things kind of made me go "WHYYY?"

how you convey Kirk/Uhura's relationship as having basically everything more passionate and carefree and intensely physical that they both know they can never really have with Spock. It almost seems like it should be based on something kind of unhealthy, yet with the

[aceharlequin87]

Lovely. As is par with the series: the action is action-y and the lovemakin' is molten lava hot. But, there was one thing that struck me most of all (and gave me a big happy). During your quiet moments, between the action and the lovemakin' there was...subtext. And, not the more obvious romantic angst subtext, it was this lonely, grieving, painfully cathartic in its precise containment, real life subtext. It grounded the characters nicely, it did what subtext is supposed to do and added a delicious amount of depth, it was more than a "will they or won't they" it was about the different permutations of love: are they in love or do they just love each other, are they acting as conduits because they both love the same other person, if they are in love together, will they even allow themselves to be in love? And it was wrapped up well, with the loose ends tied, but still slightly frayed around the edges.

So, I liked it...if you can't tell.

[ninety6tears]

Thank you so much. It's lovely and also useful to get such a thoughtfully written comment, especially on such a complex and potentially confusing fic, and I feel like you embraced a lot of the nuance and emotion I was trying to capture, so <3 <3

[jolinar_rosha]

I really liked this story overall, the emotions that everyone struggled with (yep, even Spock), and the development of the whatever-it-was between Uhura and Kirk (deeper friendship with casual sex in? an actual relationship? both and more?) was handled so beautifully and gradually, and even through their uncertainty there was this whole serene feel to the story...

and then, in this last bit, action hits where I was least expecting it, and I get these urgent, anxious few minutes of reading before the lovely ending (that-is-not-really-and-ending, because there's tons of potential there), which brings everything together quite nicely.

I think I'm falling more in love with your style of writing the more I read of it. :)

[ninety6tears]

*GRINS* Thank yoouu. It really means a lot to hear from somebody who's read some of my other stuff because I'm feeling like in this fandom I'm doing something pretty new whenever I start a new fic and I'm kind of testing the waters every single time I post something.

[jolinar_rosha]

well, I'd say your water testing is going very very well. :0)

[blcwriter]

God. Write this forever? Please?

[ninety6tears]

Darling, if only I could :) Thanks.

[innocentsmith]

I'm really kind of blown away by this fic - the complexity of the relationships, and how subtly and intelligently they're all drawn. All of the characters are just achingly real, brilliant and flawed and loving.

I read a lot of threesome fic in this and other fandoms where it seems the threesome's just happening for porny fun, or to resolve ship wars, and while there's nothing wrong with that, when there are real reasons for the OT3 to work in ways that individual pairings wouldn't, separately, it's so much more compelling. This fic knocks that out of the park, and it's really wonderful.

Bookmarking, and going to look up more of your fic.

[ninety6tears]

Thanks so much! I pretty much feel exactly the same way about the potential of threesomes in fic and it means a lot to hear that someone got a lot out of this fic that I was feeling when I wrote it.