Fanvid - Your Love Will Kill Me
Title: Your Love Will Kill Me
Fandom: Star Trek TOS
Pairings: Kirk/Spock
Rating: R?
Summary:
Warnings: slash, character 'death', violence with sexual overtones (or sex with violent overtones, depending on your interpretation), adult themes
Accompanying meta, which you don't really need to read if you don't want to, but it's here anyway:
This is from Spock's point of view, even though Kirk is the one who 'dies' according to the script. I really think that Theodore Sturgeon as aiming to combine sex and violent death on a subtextual level, as evidenced by what Spock says about how he has to 'take a wife or die', and the kal-if-fee having the meaning of *both* marriage and challenge, and the fact that there are two parts of the combat, one violent and one erotic.
Anyway, in literature death is sometimes used as a metaphor for orgasm, and since Spock comes out of pon-farr as a result of Kirk's 'death', it's not so much of a stretch that we're supposed to combine the two in this episode. In this instance, Kirk's literal 'death' caused Spock's figurative 'death' (AKA orgasm), and since Kirk only entered into the combat out of love in the first place, Kirk's love essentially killed Spock.
On another level of course, Spock was probably contemplating suicide after killing Kirk, because he loved him. So in that way, Spock's love of Kirk would have killed him...
Either way, Spock feels a lot of guilt over his crazy, illogical desires for Kirk. So much so that even after it turns out Kirk was alive, he can't really bring himself to fully *love* Kirk, because it will surely kill him eventually (Hence Gol and everything in TMP, but I'm probably getting ahead of myself now...)
Fandom: Star Trek TOS
Pairings: Kirk/Spock
Rating: R?
Summary:
Warnings: slash, character 'death', violence with sexual overtones (or sex with violent overtones, depending on your interpretation), adult themes
Click to viewAccompanying meta, which you don't really need to read if you don't want to, but it's here anyway:
This is from Spock's point of view, even though Kirk is the one who 'dies' according to the script. I really think that Theodore Sturgeon as aiming to combine sex and violent death on a subtextual level, as evidenced by what Spock says about how he has to 'take a wife or die', and the kal-if-fee having the meaning of *both* marriage and challenge, and the fact that there are two parts of the combat, one violent and one erotic.
Anyway, in literature death is sometimes used as a metaphor for orgasm, and since Spock comes out of pon-farr as a result of Kirk's 'death', it's not so much of a stretch that we're supposed to combine the two in this episode. In this instance, Kirk's literal 'death' caused Spock's figurative 'death' (AKA orgasm), and since Kirk only entered into the combat out of love in the first place, Kirk's love essentially killed Spock.
On another level of course, Spock was probably contemplating suicide after killing Kirk, because he loved him. So in that way, Spock's love of Kirk would have killed him...
Either way, Spock feels a lot of guilt over his crazy, illogical desires for Kirk. So much so that even after it turns out Kirk was alive, he can't really bring himself to fully *love* Kirk, because it will surely kill him eventually (Hence Gol and everything in TMP, but I'm probably getting ahead of myself now...)