books, star trek, food

[schmerica]

Quick book recommendation: So, hey, those of you who have a kink for historical fiction with love stories featuring girl-dressed-up-as-a-boy-for-reasons-of-plot falling in love with dude-who-doesn't-know-she's-really-a-girl? (And don't lie, I know there are a ton of you.) Blindspot is a little slow for the first hundred pages or so, but once it gets going, it delivers on that plotline but good. You'll dig it.

I think it's time for me to start watching more Star Trek again, after taking a couple weeks off. I did "Operation: Annihilate!" yesterday and was well-pleased. I love me some Kirk angst, yessirree. I think I'm finally ready to watch Voyage Home, too, so woohoo!

(Thinking about Search for Spock some more, it turns out the "Jim. Your name is Jim" is an OTP moment for me right up there with large sections of Call of the Wild in Due South. MY HEART, YOU GUYS. MY HEART.)

Yesterday I had excellent cooking adventures! Spaghetti with oil and garlic and chickpeas for lunch, lamburgers stuffed with feta for dinner, and in the evening blackberry-raspberry ice cream. Nothing exciting today, but I might make more pickled garlicky red peppers tomorrow before work.

Comments

[nestra.livejournal.com]

it turns out the "Jim. Your name is Jim" is an OTP moment

Well, YEAH. It's like one of the classic OTP moments EVER because I say so.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha. EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW FOR ME, OKAY? I am one of those annoying kids, I know. But yeah, I just meant for me personally it's the first thing that's made me heart ping and hands flail that hard probably since RayK talking to Thatcher about not knowing who you are without a certain person around.

What are your other classic OTP moments of all time? I would love to hear them!

[nestra.livejournal.com]

I wasn't implying you were a newbie, just staking my claim against anyone who might dare to disagree about the awesome OTPness of that moment.

I was just thinking I might need to make a post about OTP moments. But one is definitely Ray mortgaging his house for Fraser in Victoria's Secret. Man.

Buffy and Angel and the magic snow.

Jack kissing Ianto in full view of everyone at the end of Torchwood's first season.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, I feel like a newbie in Trek still, so I guess I assumed. I can't imagine anyone disagreeing, though.

Those are all excellent ones! Ray Vecchio's love for Fraser really is epic, though. I think my number one pet peeve in dS fandom was people who didn't appreciate Vecchio.

[nova-bright.livejournal.com]

Also, I love Ray Vecchio. In an unclean fashion.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

That is the correct reaction!

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

One of the greatest LJ icons I’ve ever seen was a still from that scene with the caption, “Til Death Do We Part” Is for Sissies.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Their love is the everlastingest, it's true!

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

It transcends timelines!

[nova-bright.livejournal.com]

This icon represents one of my many OTP moments, in which Monty Python get group married to each other.

KIRK AND SPOCK ♥___________;

BOOKS YOU MAY ENJOY: The Invisible Road by Elizabeth Knox. It is also sold as two books, Dreamhunter, and Dreamquake.

It's an alternate earth in 1920s! There is historical realism and magical realism! It's awesome! :D

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

That book sounds EXCELLENT.

ERINNA I AM WATCHING THE ONE WHERE THEY'RE AT THE SHOOT OUT AT THE O.K. CORRAL

[nova-bright.livejournal.com]

HAVE YOU WATCHED THE ONE WHERE KIRK TEACHES VERY TANNED HIPPIES ABOUT SEX? I KEEP WATCHING IT BECAUSE OF THE EPIC SPOCK/BONES BITCH OFF AND THE SPOCK SAVING JIMS LIFE WITH HIS BODY

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

NOT YET :DDD

[nova-bright.livejournal.com]

HOW IS STAR TREK SO AMAZING, PEARL? HOW DID WE LIVE WITHOUT IT?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

do you call what we did before "living"? Really?

[nova-bright.livejournal.com]

You're right. It was a mere pale existance. Siiigh.

At least now we have Shanter to fill the holes in our life.

...I said life, right?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

>:)

[nova-bright.livejournal.com]

I keep reading through the trek RPF kink meme and rolling around in glee about it.

LEMME LINK YOU ONE AMAZING THINK OK

http://community.livejournal.com/trek_rpf_kink/713.html?thread=325577#t325577

>:)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

YESSSSSSSSSSSS.

YOU ARE TOO GOOD TO ME.

[nova-bright.livejournal.com]

IS IT WRONG THAT I LOVE OLD MEN MAYBE MORE THEN THEIR YOUNGER SEXY COUNTERPARTS AND OCCASIONALLY THEIR YOUNGER SELVES?

IF SO, I DON'T WANT TO BE RIGHT.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I can't really disagree. What is hotter than Spock Prime? *______________* HELLO DADDY.

[nova-bright.livejournal.com]

I WANT HIM TO TALK TO ME WITH AGE AND UNDERSTANDING WITH AN UNDERCURRENT OF COMPLEX EMOTION THAT I CANNOT UNDERSTAND

AND THEN SEX

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

HOTTTTTTTTT

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

NOW I AM WATCHING THE ONE WHERE THEY'RE IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE. Apparently on this planet they get to wear sweats and t-shirts!



Also I fucking love every single episode where they are forced to employ the super high tech "Spock is totes not an alien!" strategem of ... a knit cap.

[nova-bright.livejournal.com]

OMG OMG HAVE YOU SEEN 'The City on the Edge of Forever' YET?

Kirk: My friend is obviously Chinese. I see you've noticed the ears. They're actually easy to explain.

Spock: Perhaps the unfortunate accident I had as a child.

Kirk: ...The unfortunate accident he had as a child. He caught his head in a mechanical... rice picker.

STAR TREK WHAT. WHAT.

One of my many ST OTPs is Spock/knitted cap

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

OF COURSE I HAVE. LOLOLOL SUCH HORRIBLE LIARS <33333

They did it in Patterns of Force, too. WHY DO I FIND THAT HOT.

Also one of the nice things about the costumes in this ep is that we get to see lots of both Shatner and Nimoy's biceps. Om nom nom.

[nova-bright.livejournal.com]

IN THE FUTURE NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO LIE WITH ANY CONVICTION.

ALSO WE ARE ALL GAY.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

But what about the space hookers then? WHAT ABOUT THE SPACE HOOKERS?

[nova-bright.livejournal.com]

SOMETIMES BONES NEEDS SPACE VAGINA. HE NEEDS A BREAK FROM ALL THE RAMPANT ASS FUCKING. THAT IS ALL.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

ps



OH MY

[nova-bright.livejournal.com]

OH MYYYYYY

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

OH MY

[nova-bright.livejournal.com]

>:)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

APPARENTLY "KNIT CAP" WAS THE NEW, IMPROVED SPOCK HUMAN DISGUISE, BECAUSE THIS WAS EARLIER SEASON 1.

[nova-bright.livejournal.com]

SOMETIMES THEY USE WREATHES. AND DRESSES.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHA OH GOD HIS SKINNY LITTLE LEGS

[nova-bright.livejournal.com]

WHAT I CAN'T UNDERSTAND IS WHY NURSE CHAPEL IS LOOKING FRUMPY IN HER MUMU WITH UHARA LOOKING SO FAB NEXT TO HER.

STAR TREK, NURSE CHAPEL IS A STONE COLD FOX. DO NOT HIDE HER WOMANLY CHARMS FROM ME IN LAYERS OF CHIFFON. YOU'RE NOT HIDING THE SHAT'S WOMANLY CHARMS!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

ONLY ONE PERSON GETS MAJEL'S WOMANLY CHARMS, AND I THINK WE ALL KNOW WHO THAT IS.

[nova-bright.livejournal.com]

GODDAMMIT NIMOY STOP STEALING ALL THE LADIES FROM ME

...OR AT LEAST LET ME WATCH

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I was actually referring to Gene Roddenberry, bb, but I think I like your way better.

[nova-bright.livejournal.com]

Lolll, didn't even think of Gene. Too capivated with the image of Nimoy. It's a sickness, I tells ye.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

But you don't want no cure, AMIRITE?

[shihadchick.livejournal.com]

I second the Elizabeth Knox rec, they are very good books! (And TYK, E, I didn't know what the collected edition was called. *files in brain*)

That book you recced sounds most intriguing, too, Pearl, I must see if I can hunt it down.

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

Oh man, Blindspot's good? I got it for Christmas but haven't gotten around to reading it yet, though the crossdressing romance shenanigans are a PRETTY BIG DRAW. Haha. Uh. I hope that's not why my dad got it for me, oh well.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Well, it also is a pretty fun if you 18th century pastiche, because it's all Dear Reader and epistolary letters, which I also find awesome. But yes! A+++ crossdressing shenanigans.

I like your icon, btw! PPP was also excellently gay.

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

It was, wasn't it! They don't need no boys! I was very into it.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Seriously, in any other teenage girl tv movie ever I would have expected Selena Gomez to get together with dude-who-is-filming-everything at the end. But no! It was just Rosie and Carter's TRU LUV 4EVAH.

[sundara.livejournal.com]

have you seen killa's older vid "Dante's Prayer" ( Loreena McKennit) ? NObody watches it without balling their eyes out. (as in crying, not screwing.)

if u want, let me know. she took them down years ago, and i have the original from her. and i like to pimp and see people squee over k/s stuff *g*