#stoatwrote

[chikabika]

In just a few moments the final chapter of Tight Grip, Feather Touch will be up on ao3! I’m terrible at promoting my fics on here, but I made a fic cover in celebration, so go read it if you’re interested! Basically it’s “I can’t believe I like you why does my heart beat faster when we hold hands” the fic. 

Sanji releases Zoro with a gasp, pushing him away. He’s breathing hard, feeling like he’s going to vibrate out of his skin. Zoro doesn’t look much better, his face lit up like a tomato.

“Okay fuck that we’re not doing that again. Obviously you don’t know how to kiss right because I feel like I’m dying.” Zoro gently touches his fingers to his lips, spaces out, then shakes himself "Shithead." He says, like an afterthought as he leaves the galley, flipping Sanji off on his way out.

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Sometimes you confess to your shitty rival and you realize you don't know how the fuck to act around each other now that you both know the other feels the same.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29143566

[ksadvent]

K/S Advent 2022: Masterlist and Wrap-Up

It's the 1st of January, 2023 (at least in this mod's timezone)! Happy New Year! May it be filled with peace and love, joy and laughter, inspiration and creativity! 

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Kirk/Spock Advent Calendar 2022! Authors, artists, beta-readers, readers, and reviewers – thank you for making this K/S Advent such a beautiful experience and, dare we say, a great success! 

We made it to 59 submissions, posted by 31 creators; the works consist of 42 fics, 1 podfic, 2 poems, 1 playlist, 14 artworks (digital art, traditional art, manips, 3D objects), and even 1 submission of baked goods.

Out of the 73 prompts that were submitted, 41 were filled, several of them multiple times. At the time of closing the collection for posting, 13 claims were left unposted (the numbers shown on AO3 differ a bit as not everyone made use of the official claiming/filling process).

Here's the promised masterlist (in chronological order). Or directly check out our AO3 collection.

Day 1: dreamsaremadeofthis, The Bestest Gift of All (fic; AOS) Day 2: syredronning, Happy Holidays! (art; AOS) Day 2: USS_Genderprise, The Morning After (fic; TOS or AOS) Day 3: yassifiedjimkirk, When Words Fail (fic; TOS or AOS) Day 4: IvanW, How Far Away You Roam (fic; AOS) Day 4: USS_Genderprise, Mirrorverse Mistletoe (art; TOS) Day 5: Orabla, Shopping for Gifts, Finding Diamonds (fic; AOS) Day 5: syredronning, Celebrations (art; TOS) Day 6: stoatwrote, The Long Memory (fic and playlist; TOS) Day 7: dreamsaremadeofthis, Spock's Gamble (fic; TOS) Day 8: gunstreet, My Wing (fic; TOS, DISCO) Day 8: yassifiedjimkirk, Unwrapping Your Present (art; TOS) Day 9: USS_Genderprise, Beyond Mind and Matter (fic; TOS) Day 9: VTsuion, Fly Me to the Moon (art; TOS) Day 10: 1lostone, Best-Laid Plans (fic; AOS) Day 10: Orabla, Diamonds for You (poem; AOS) Day 11: eviepopcorn, Let Me Help (fic; TOS) Day 12: IvanW, A Christmas Thing (fic; AOS) Day 12: TonightNoPoetryWillServe, The Ship in the Snowglobe (fic; AOS) Day 13: kayson, Uprising (fic; TOS) Day 13: USS_Genderprise, Catch a Hint (fic; AOS) Day 14: sourirenoire, How Can I Say I Love You When Words Are Not Enough? (fic; TOS) Day 14: vfrankenstein, Holiday Sugar Cockies (cookies; TOS) Day 15: ikoliholic, Se Vi Nur Scius (If Only You Knew) (fic; TOS or AOS) Day 15: yassifiedjimkirk, The Gift of Loyalty (fic and art; TOS) Day 16: AshayaTReldai, Reconciliation of Penitents (fic; TOS) Day 16: Orabla, Under the Mistletoe (poem; TOS or AOS) Day 17: IvanW, Merrily on High (fic; AOS) Day 17: USS_Genderprise, Under Your Skin (fic; AOS) Day 18: Herself_nyc, Bashert (fic; TOS, AOS) Day 18: Noideasfornames, Light One Candle (fic; TOS) Day 19: ikoliholic, Wandering Lands, Helping Hands (fic; TOS or AOS) Day 19: USS_Genderprise, Stars in the Snow (fic; TOS or AOS) Day 20: eviepopcorn, Three's a Crowd (fic; TOS) Day 20: pkrosche, An Old Earth Custom (fic; TOS) Day 21: Orabla, Five Times Kirk or Spock Had a Nervous Breakdown, and One Time They Both Had It Simultaneously (fic; TOS) Day 22: ikoliholic, Fatal Vision (fic; TOS) Day 22: USS_Genderprise, Spin, Spin, Spin (fic; TOS or AOS) Day 23: gunstreet, Between Dream and Duty (fic; TOS) Day 23: Lupo (LupoLight), Against Twinkling Lights (fic; AOS) Day 24: cicia3, It's the most wonderful time of the year (fic; AOS) Day 24: pkrosche, Cozy Sweaters (art; TOS, AOS) Day 25: 1lostone, Mistletoe Kisses (podfic, AOS) Day 25: USS_Genderprise, Deck My Halls (fic; TOS) Day 26: Purple_Enma, A Christmas Picture (art; TOS or AOS) Day 26: TonightNoPoetryWillServe, A Very Illogical Christmas (fic; AOS) Day 27: 1lostone, drenchedinlight, EEW101, lb_betty, PageofWands, T'Lara, vfrankenstein, yassifiedjimkirk, Jim and Spock's 12 Days of Kink (a collaborative fic by the KiScord crowd) (fic; TOS) Day 27: Orabla, Two Solitudes, One Blizzard and One Illogical Celebration (fic; AOS) Day 28: pkrosche, A Win for Christmas (fic; SNW) Day 28: Purple_Enma, Encounter at Sundown (art; TOS or AOS) Day 29: enterprize (stanzas), Searching For A Tender Touch (fic; TOS) Day 29: T'Lara, Here's to a Happy New Year – and to the Wonderful K/S Fandom! (art; TOS) Day 30: cvrue, Pon Farr comes but once every seven years (art; TOS) Day 30: PageofWands, A Little Sweet, A Little Spicy: KS Gingerbread! (art; TOS) Day 30: USS_Genderprise, Warmth (fic; AOS) Day 31: 1lostone, Spanking Al Fresco - A Love Story (fic; AOS) Day 31: AureliaR, By the Fire(work) Light (fic; TOS) Day 31: cvrue, The Trouble with Snowballs (art; TOS) Day 31: PageofWands, Wishing You A Very Mirrorverse Holiday! (art; TOS)

The 2022 collection is now closed for posting. The K/S Advent Calendar will return next year for a new round. If your prompt(s) did not get filled, you can submit them as new requests for Advent 2023, if you wish to. If you do not want to wait that long, you can also submit them to our sister event Kirk/Spock Spring Fever which will go live in March 2023, a fest without any specific theme as long as the work is focused on Kirk and Spock, be it slash or gen/friendship. Sign-up opens today!

If you are sure you submitted something to the collection, but don't see it in the collection or on the masterlist above, please do get in touch with the mod asap so that we can investigate what went wrong with the submission: kirkspockmod+ksadvent@gmail.com We are also happy to hear your feedback: How did you experience this K/S Advent? Any wishes, suggestions, complaints? Anything you wish would've been different? Anything that was unclear or confusing and needs better explanation in our rules/FAQs?

On the mod side of things, we had an almost exclusively positive experience. One thing we might want to handle differently next year is how strict we are about the submission deadline; we wanted to be as generous as possible with deadline extensions, but this made scheduling the daily reveals a bit more difficult. As the creation phase is quite long for K/S Advent, we hope that creators can be encouraged to submit their works sooner. You can submit feedback via email, message to kirkspockmod on DW, comment on our masterlist DW post, or message on Tumblr.

[ao3feed-spirk]

Let Us Give Them Something About Which to Talk

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/43393125

by stoatwrote

Jupiter’s Rings “If you like it, you better put a ring on it. The premiere service for celebrity relationship news.”

Take a look at these pictures of Commander Spock and Admiral Kirk at the debrief, the aforementioned funeral service, and outside Starfleet HQ. Once is an incident, twice is coincidence, and three times is a pattern. Commander Spock is standing awfully close to his Admiral, and in picture three, it almost looks like they’re about to hold hands just like at the funeral! Their index and middle fingers are just touching on the table. Could these two have had their own hot and steamy reunion on the Enterprise in the midst of danger? Adrenaline does get the heart pumping! Stay tuned for more news on celebrity love, loss, and longing, and especially these two. We’ll let you know of any future developments.

Words: 12103, Chapters: 6/11, Language: English

Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Original Series (Movies)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: James T. Kirk, Spock (Star Trek), Sarek (Star Trek), Amanda Grayson, Nyota Uhura, Hikaru Sulu, Pavel Chekov, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott

Relationships: James T. Kirk/Spock

Additional Tags: Minor Montgomery "Scotty" Scott/Nyota Uhura, Post-Star Trek I: The Motion Picture, Star Trek I: The Motion Picture, re-established relationship, Making Up, Vulcan Bond, The Roddenberry Footnote, T'hy'la, But Not As Soulmates, Spock and Jim Fucking With The Media, Humor, Social Media, News Media, Epistolary, Fluff, Heartbreak, Minor Pavel Chekov/Hikaru Sulu

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/43393125

[chikabika]

Fic ideas I have rattling around in my head that I need to write down somewhere but don’t want to commit a whole doc to all of them (this got longer than I thought):

1. Trans Childe Usopp meeting Kaya through her parents. As a child one of them is his primary care physician (which would make sense with such a small town) and he goes regularly for hormone blockers (trans boy hours).

2. The Hair One (self insert town) THIS incredible image which Usopp looks very attractive in gave me this idea:

Pre-TS: Something something he has to let his hair down because his bandana got damaged or lost. Next island they go to everyone’s like “wow he’s so attractive”. Maybe a comedically large group of girls following him around or something. Sanji’s dying because it’s extremely unfair (in his mind) for Usopp to get all the attention. Has a scene where Usopp is trying to buy a new bandana and the doorway of the shop is blocked by bodies.

I could turn this into an usolu fic where Luffy realizes his feelings once Sanji starts bringing up the idea of dating any of the people smitten over Usopp, but honestly I just want to make a whole town that’s a self insert of how I felt the first time I saw this image. Sorry to folks who don’t think this is a great look but I’m different.

3. The Long One (Luffy’s Response to Realizing Usopp has Feelings) Back before @ruskaina​​ wrote the very cute impossible and self-imposed, they posted some excerpts and were asking for help. The following is my response and some bits from the resulting conversation with @bartolomeo-the-cannibal​​ (natsu)

I think you could definitely go the route of Luffy not being flustered because he doesn’t realize why it affects Usopp so much/that Usopp’s actions have certain meaning. When it’s all fun and games you can go pretty far with friends for the lols. I definitely remember being a teen and like playing the “are you uncomfortable yet” game and stuff. But when there are feelings involved everything gets a little more vulnerable. 

And then once he realizes he could be inexperienced with what to do with someone’s crush on him. Or not wanting to hurt Usopp’s feelings. Or he wasn’t aware that was even on the table and now has to think about it some (which is significant for him since he acts more on instinct. But crew and crushes can be delicate matters and he knows this now.)

I think what I’m getting at is that my answer to “what is something Luffy wouldn’t expect Usopp to do” is Usopp be serious (maybe in a moment of goofing off) about his own feelings.

Luffy cares about his crew and I think someone having feelings for him and being serious about it would be something he’d take seriously.

Usopp’s already so insecure pre-ts, imagine the internal conflict having a crush on your captain/the future pirate king

natsu:  it would be super conflicting cause yea he's the captain but he's also his silly buddy usopp hunts beetles with. it's easy to forget luffy is so important, and the captain.

which is why water 7 happened lol

me:  He would! But I wonder if Usopp would downplay the feelings and kind of play it off to satisfy luffy’s curiosity (because he thinks that’s the only thing Luffy could feel about romance ) And Luffy letting him go but Usopp being like “well fuck guess the cat’s out of the bag and he doesn’t return my feelings”

natsu: usopp: i gotta go immediately

me: I think Luffy’d know Usopp was lying to some extent but let him go because he’s clearly very uncomfortable. And yeah I could see Luffy pushing but maybe he still worries about water 7. Just a lil bit. Or something.

Luffy doesn’t know how romantic shit works! He only knows about the romance of adventure!

Luffy would usually bring something up immediately but this time is different from when like vivi was trying to be a martyr or whatever. And Usopp’s not about to bring it up again!! Luffy clearly didn’t return the feelings! And jeez was he just a fool for getting a crush on Luffy anyway? Like what kind of dream is brave warrior of the sea in the face of pirate king? Luffy was the sun and Usopp was just a normal guy! And yes they were also friends and he knew Luffy loved him just like Luffy loved the rest of the crew. But romance felt different. Or at least, the lead weight in his gut right now felt different. Damn, why had he said anything in the first place?

natsu:  ahhhhhh! ok. get them outta that! how does usopp realize luffy DOES like him

me:  They get over the initial awkwardness some Luffy asks Usopp or other people about romance and what it feels like (Sanji is incredibly unhelpful but is the first person Luffy goes to)

Luffy has a hard time figuring out how a crush/SO is different from a good friend (maybe this is when he asks Usopp because usopp’s the only one he knows who has a crush. It goes....kind of okay)

Usopp starts trying to let go of his feelings. Not read into Luffy’s behavior, not hope. Starts actively countering the thoughts in his head.  Meanwhile Luffy is mulling things over, kind of developing a sense of romance, maybe an appreciation of it. Thinks it could be nice to kiss Usopp (he’s seen robin and Franky do it and they’re married so that’s probably a couples thing).

Usopp practically convinces himself he doesn’t have feelings anymore! It’s fine! It’s not hard at all! It doesn’t hurt at all!!!!!

Something happens. Could be life threatening, could be mundane. But suddenly Luffy’s like “I’ve got a pit in my stomach and I’ve literally never felt this it’s fucking awful” He goes to chopper. Nothing’s wrong. He goes to Sanji. Nothing new with the food for allergies to be a concern. Besides: it’s Luffy. He sees Usopp (laughing, being gorgeous, goofing off, tinkering, whatever. Something that’s like “oh yeah that’s Usopp and something to appreciate about him”) Luffy finally goes to Usopp and is like “hey I think you’re giving me a stomach ache?” And Usopp’s like “oh NO I’ve given Luffy anxiety!!!” But they talk and fumble and realize Luffy has a crush on Usopp and Usopp has one back (still, ofc) and it’s happily ever after.

4. Wedding: They’re getting maaaarried! Born from the same conversation with natsu (in fact it transitioned in almost immediately after the above).

Luffy wants to officiate but Nami won’t let him. Nami is Luffy’s best “man”, Sanji is Usopp’s, Zoro officiates. Franky and Brook bawl their eyes out. Chopper is the ring bearer, maybe with Robin. Nami has a deathhawk and wears a suit. 

Vows:  

Luffy: I’ve got two kinds of stomach ache. One is for food one is for Usopp Usopp, crying as they exchange rings: that’s the most romantic thing you’ve ever said 

Their wedding audience: the fuck?

I’ve just realized I could put this all in one document. Here it is for your enjoyment as well though.

[chikabika]

Sanji releases Zoro with a gasp, pushing him away. He’s breathing hard, feeling like he’s going to vibrate out of his skin. Zoro doesn’t look much better, his face lit up like a tomato.

“Okay fuck that we’re not doing that again. Obviously you don’t know how to kiss right because I feel like I’m dying.” Zoro gently touches his fingers to his lips, spaces out, then shakes himself "Shithead." He says, like an afterthought as he leaves the galley, flipping Sanji off on his way out.

Sometimes you confess to your shitty rival and you realize you don't know how the fuck to act around each other now that you both know the other feels the same.

Oh look I’m writing more short stuff instead of working on the big sexy chonker WIPs I have. 

“Someone please get over here and read this zosan by stoatwrote where both idiots are too awkward to kiss properly” tweet by 8ball who also called it a “SNACK” 🙈😻

[chikabika]

It’s not just tonight that the cook has sought him out to harass him. Even the slightest sip of alcohol passes his lips and suddenly he acts like Zoro is a human couch he can lay all over. And while each evening feels a little bit like the next in a long series of escalations, tonight the cook is outdoing himself.

Hi hi I haven’t been around for a bit but I’ve been writing and then got sidetracked by this little oneshot! Enjoy!

[chikabika]

Writing zosan confessions like “oh yes soft and sweet and unspoken understandings” at the beginning of writing and then when I’m nearing the end of writing it’s like “actually they’d be at eachother’s throats about who confessed when and who was in love first”

[chikabika]

Full fic is up! Thanks to everyone who stuck through to the end!

[chikabika]

On Receiving News That Someone You Care About Has Lost Another Being (On Grief)

Let me not measure my scars to yours.

Let me offer them

To say

I too was hurt and I healed (am healing).

To heal is human and you will too. 

To say

Here, this is where I was tender.

I offer my tenderness to you.

Let me not measure my past to your present.

Let me not grieve with you.

Let me simply say

I witness your pain and mirror it in my own scars.

[chikabika]

Last Line of a WIP

Rules: Post the last line you wrote from any WIP and tag the same number of people as there are words.

@ruskaina​​ tagged me with this. uhhh cw mutilation? for the first one.

I refuse to acknowledge eachother as two words.

Two different pieces because the first one isn’t actually lines it’s still just thoughts, but the second one is like, long paragraphs beforehand.

I don’t know many writers past who trixree already tagged. @junemel​ ? @sydneyxface except the tagging for her isn’t working whope. @trixree​! 

(edit i’m a goober and miswrote who tagged me for this)

[chikabika]

“What do you mean, it’s not your actual name? That���s the only name we know you by!”

“What the fuck does that mean?”

“Here, let me show you,” Trigger Happy held their hand up, slowly moving the other one behind them. Zoro gave a warning tilt of his head and reminded them all that he had a sword against one of their friends’ throats.

“Not going for my gun, going for my wallet, easy.”

Trigger Happy pulled out a wallet and held it open for Zoro to see. Instead of an ID in the clear plastic sleeve, there was Zoro’s highschool senior photo staring back at him. Below was written:

MARIMO: DO NOT ENGAGE, DO NOT HARM, DO NOT KILL

Only one person called him that name and hadn't for years. So who the hell were these people and why did they have his picture on what looked like a no-hit list of one?

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It’s my Leverage inspired One Piece Modern AU!

[chikabika]

Sitting alone in the pantry with his hand as his only companion was a poor substitute for the kinds of things Sanji used to get up to. And that shitty green haired swordsman kept interrupting his alone time.

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Sanji thinks Zoro is a monk who doesn't know what sex is but somehow manages to keep finding him at inopportune moments. Zoro thinks Sanji is too worked up by his sexual frustration and offers to be the solution.

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Let’s do some shameless self promotion, eh? I’m writing fanfic for the first time and it’s zosan pwp because that’s where I started way back when and I guess it’s where I’m starting again! I’ve got another one in the works and just last night the second chapter of this finally materialized in my mind. Though it kind of stands alone. Can’t really decide whether to make it a series or multiple chapters yet. Kind of plan for them all to stand alone because who doesn’t want a 10k piece of porn for a ‘quick’ read?

[chikabika]

the problem with having three fics i’m working on at the same time is that i have the urge to write but can’t. pick. one. and then adhd drags me away.

[chikabika]

More chapters for your enjoyment!

Some important words are exchanged and some plans are made.

[chikabika]

I think I’ve missed posting a couple of these but Chapter 7 is now up!

When a bowl breaks, how do you put it back together?

[chikabika]

Me: hey let’s write this two chapter fic about a lumberjack au

Me: haha what if it were super long and actually all about pagan winter rituals

Me: lmao what if we wrote a different fic first based on a tiny bit of research you did for the pagan one

Me: ROFL WHAT IF WE DREW IT AS A COMIC THOUGH