aristofranes

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Author chose not to use warnings | Mature | Rayner/Charles Vance there was only one sleeping bag | war crimes | references to past torture | violence | trauma | shame | pre-canon | dubious survival tactics | lost in translation | problematic bi representation | nobody’s hands are clean (in either the moral or the hygienic sense) In the dying months of the Kellerun uprising, the Federation finally dispatches aid. Cut off from their convoy, stranded and alone, a junior Starfleet officer and a Kellerun militia soldier face a war of their own.

Chapter six! Rayner and Charles investigate an abandoned Breen facility. What could possibly go wrong?

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Chapters: 1/10

Fandom: Star Trek: Discovery

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Charles Vance/Rayner

Characters: Charles Vance, Rayner (Star Trek)

Additional Tags: There was only one sleeping bag, War Crimes, references to past torture, Violence, Trauma, Shame, Pre-Canon, dubious survival tactics, Lost in Translation, problematic bi representation, nobody’s hands are clean (in either the moral or the hygienic sense)

Summary:

In the dying months of the Kellerun uprising, the Federation finally dispatches aid. Cut off from their convoy, stranded and alone, a junior Starfleet officer and a Kellerun militia soldier face a war of their own.

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It’s here! The fic that started with the thought “so Vance and Rayner definitely explored each other’s bodies, right?”, before proceeding at warp speed all the way from pwp one-shot to pwp (porn with politics) multichapter tale.  

The first few chapters are written, and I know where I want the rest of the story to go; I’ll space posting of the completed chapters out a little to give myself some buffer.

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I spent four years making two characters who've never even met in canon kiss and I'm absurdly proud of it.

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Chapters: 23/24

Fandom: Star Trek: Discovery

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Number One/Gabriel Lorca

Characters: Original Universe Gabriel Lorca, Number One (Star Trek), Amanda Grayson, Sarek (Star Trek), Harry Mudd, Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po, Spock (Star Trek)

Additional Tags: Slow Burn, not so much ‘mutual pining’ as ‘mutual terror of accidentally having an emotion’, the grumpy one falls for the … other grumpy one?, there was only one shuttle, vehement denial of feelings, questionable interplanetary diplomacy, questionable science, unhealthy levels of coffee consumption, gratuitous descriptions of telepathy, fixing the injustice of erasing Discovery from history one poorly thought out escapade at a time, eventual smut edition

Series: Part 2 of Last Resort

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(Hey, it was only an 8-month gap between chapters this time!)

Chapter 23! The penultimate instalment, in which Una and Gabriel somehow get away with it. 

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Oh, it's definitely Moopsy! I spent ages watching and re-watching and came to much the same conclusion as you did (i.e. that the animation is really inconsistent), so this is a sort of ... composite Moopsy? I'm still trying to figure out what's going on with those back legs, though...

Made a crochet bone for crochet Moopsy

(Plan for version 3 of the Moopsy pattern: make the head bigger; less length in the body; do ... something about the back legs; try another different yarn; (try to) sew everything on straight this time (yeah right))

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Made a crochet bone for crochet Moopsy

(Plan for version 3 of the Moopsy pattern: make the head bigger; less length in the body; do ... something about the back legs; try another different yarn; (try to) sew everything on straight this time (yeah right))

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You better not shout

You better not cry

You better not pout

I'm telling you why

🎶🎶 Moopsy's loose and hunting you down 🎶🎶

I've had a bit of a creative drought for the last, er, few months, but I finished the second prototype of crochet Moopsy in time for Christmas (Christmoops?)! A few more changes to make before I'm completely happy with it, but a big improvement on version one.

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oh my god they were in catboots

Remember this guy?

My crochet Murf pattern is (finally) finished and available to download for free from Ravelry.

Go forth and have fun - all I ask is that you tag me in your finished projects!

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Oh, look at hiiiiiiiiiim!

Remember this guy?

My crochet Murf pattern is (finally) finished and available to download for free from Ravelry.

Go forth and have fun - all I ask is that you tag me in your finished projects!

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The Moopsy test is complete!

A few changes to make for version 2, which will have at least 30% more butt and won't have parts sewn the wrong way round, but I'm pleased with how this came out!

The [BLEEP]ing cutest bone-drinker this side of Alpha Centauri.

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I forgot to say that this came out of a 2-minute post-it note doodle I did in early 2020:

I'd always meant to turn it into something else but, well, 2020. Three and a bit years later, it's lovely to have an excuse!

>>File retrieved from the personal archives of Captain Christopher Pike

>>File type - image: Gabriel Lorca's promotion to captain of the Buran, 2251.

>>File classified: 2257

For Celebrate Disco 2023 (@startrekdiscoverycelebration) - have a little Pike and Lorca before everything went horribly wrong

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>>File retrieved from the personal archives of Captain Christopher Pike

>>File type - image: Gabriel Lorca's promotion to captain of the Buran, 2251.

>>File classified: 2257

For Celebrate Disco 2023 (@startrekdiscoverycelebration) - have a little Pike and Lorca before everything went horribly wrong

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The [BLEEP]ing cutest bone-drinker this side of Alpha Centauri.

[aristofranes]

Remember this guy?

My crochet Murf pattern is (finally) finished and available to download for free from Ravelry.

Go forth and have fun - all I ask is that you tag me in your finished projects!

[aristofranes]

Rebloogalooging again for 30 Days of Prodigy, day 17 - Rok Tahk!

It's taken 3 months of trial and error (mostly error), but...

... here's Rok Tahk!

Her FACE

I learned a lot designing and making her; she's definitely the most complicated piece I've crocheted to date. There are still a few things I want to fix - but given that she's only my second attempt at designing a crochet pattern, I think she's turned out pretty well! And Murf agrees.

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Sharing again (a day late, whoops) for 30 Days of Prodigy, day four - Murf!

Paramount don't seem to be too interested in making Star Trek: Prodigy merch, so I decided to take matters into my own hands/crochet hook. Six prototypes, a lot of yarn, and even more swearing later, I've designed my very first crochet pattern.

Behold - Murf!

Next up ... Rok Tahk???

[aristofranes]

It's taken 3 months of trial and error (mostly error), but...

... here's Rok Tahk!

Her FACE

I learned a lot designing and making her; she's definitely the most complicated piece I've crocheted to date. There are still a few things I want to fix - but given that she's only my second attempt at designing a crochet pattern, I think she's turned out pretty well! And Murf agrees.