Sanity's vacation

The format for this week's bridge2sickbay was a bingo card. Two, actually. By the end of the fest we'd completed one full-card bingo and much of the second. Here are my contributions:

Prompt: Kirk - I got ya
( Best Man, Kirk, Spock/Uhura, PG )

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Prompt: McCoy - Please state the nature of the medical emergency.
( Things to Come, Gen, PG-13 )

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Prompt: Mulan
( Big Damn Heroines, Gen, PG-13 )

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Prompt: Cupcake – Cupcakes
( Cupcakes for Cupcake, Gen, PG )

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Prompt: Does anyone remember when we were explorers?
( A Better Way To Debrief, Ensemble, PG )

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Prompt: The Quick and the Dead
( High Noon, Gen, PG )

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Prompt: Scotty - Mechaphilia
( Protecting His Girl, Scotty/Enterprise, PG-13 )

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Prompt: Gangsters
( An Offer You Cannot Refuse, Mirror, Gen, PG )

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I finally saw Red yesterday. It was entertaining and completely over the top (somehow more so than even the previews had led me to believe). I will likely buy it on DVD when it is released.

Karl Urban was hot and had the tough job of taking himself and his character seriously while the movie around him was madcap. Helen Mirren is absolutely phenomenal and I love her (love love love!), and Bruce Willis and Mary Louise Parker won me over. Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, and Brian Cox were hilarious and quirky. I liked the "caper" aspect to the movie, although it did take me a while to settle in and just accept the movie for what it was: funny, quirky, ridiculous fun.

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In other news: bridge2sickbay!

This week's theme: photo prompts
I love the photo weeks :)

Prompt: Prompt: Scotty, McCoy – A photo of coffee beans
( The Deal, Scotty, McCoy, PG )

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Prompt: Spock, McCoy – A photo McCoy in "The Chair"
( Invitation, pre-Spock/McCoy/Kirk, Kirk/McCoy, PG-13 )

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Prompt:Kirk, McCoy – A series of three drawings featuring clasping hands
( Hands, Kirk/McCoy, R )

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Prompt: Robau, George Kirk – A photo of a stormy night sky with lightning
( Proposition, Robau, George/Winona, PG )

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Prompt: Pike, McCoy – Scenic photo of a stone keep by the ocean
( Therapy, Pike/McCoy, PG-13 )

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I have a short shift at work this afternoon (What was I thinking?!?! Oh, right, I was thinking that I want to not be broke) and am waiting to make sure I won't be canceled. I've sorted my piled up mail, organized my bills-to-be-paid, washed and folded some of my pile of laundry, and broke down cardboard boxes and took them out for recycling. In short, I feel like I've actually accomplished something. I also have begun a recipe for pomegranate truffles that sounds divine. The filling is now hardening in the fridge. We shall see how it turns out tonight when I get back and finish it.

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My goal is to have a draft of my space_wrapped fic finished by Friday. Is anyone available and interested in taking a look at it or even doing a full beta? Star Trek, Kirk/McCoy, humor, unknown length (not long though).

This week's theme was squicks. Prompts were both squicks that the prompter has as well as things the prompter likes that other people often find squicky.

Being unable to leave well enough alone I simply had to turn two of the prompts on their ears. I love Uhura and tend not to find the "Uhura is a total bitch for no apparent reason" fics as well as the "McCoy is a wuss who must always be saved and never do the saving" trope to not be my cup of tea, so I toyed with those "squicks" a bit. I know, I know, perhaps not what the prompter intended (or maybe it was?) but since this comm is a free-for-all comm rather than a gift or wish fulfillment comm, I figure it's okay to risk not interpreting the prompts as intended. My cup of tea is not your cup of tea and vice versa.

My contributions were as follows:

Prompt: Uhura, Author's Choice - Bitch!Uhura
( Authority; Uhura, OC, Kirk, PG )

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Prompt: Kirk, Spock, McCoy - Weak!McCoy
( A Man of Many Talents; McCoy/Kirk/Spock, R )

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Prompt: Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura – Affairs
( Imagination; Uhura/McCoy/Kirk/Spock, PG-13 )

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Prompt: Sarek, Amanda - Pon farr
( Fully Informed; Sarek/Amanda, PG-13 )

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I don't know why I write cutesy Sarek/Amanda. They weren't cutesy in the movie, so I have no idea where it's coming from. I like it though ;)

Late posting these to my own journal. Ah well. The week's theme was submissions to the My Life Is Average website. Once again I wound up having my own little mini-theme within the prompts I snagged and it was apparently academy fic.

Prompt: Uhura, Gaila - Today I realized that Build-A-Bear's slogan is "Where best friends are made." I found that quite sad.
( The Start of a Beautiful Friendship; Uhura, Gaila (background Spock/Uhura), PG, warnings: character death )

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Prompt: McCoy, Joanna - Today my 2yr old daughter said her first knock knock joke. She said "knock knock" I said "who's there?" she said "me"
( Knock, Knock; Kirk, McCoy, Joanna, PG )

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Prompt: Kirk, Uhura - Today, I was driving through the canyon when I passed a sign that said, "Falling rocks". In between the two words, someone had written "in love", so it now read "Falling in love rocks."
( Expressing Oneself; Kirk/Uhura, PG )

Fun night! Tonight's theme was Crimes & Misdemeanors.

Prompt: Sarek, Amanda - Arson
( Arson; Amanda/Sarek, Spock, G )

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Prompt: Kirk, McCoy - Corruption of a minor
( Corruption; Kirk/McCoy, Joanna, PG-13 )

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Prompt: Jim Kirk, Sam Kirk - Vandalism
( Hooligans; Winona, Sam, Jim, PG )

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Prompt: Enterprise Crew - In Pennsylvania it is illegal to have over 16 women live in a house together because that constitutes a brothel...however up to 120 men can live together, without breaking the law.
( Pimp Ship Flying High; Ensemble, PG-13, crack )

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Prompt: Spock, McCoy - Extortion
( Valuable )

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This week's theme was: book titles

Prompt: Kirk, Winona - Even Firefighters Hug Their Moms
( Even Starship Captains Hug Their Moms; Kirk, Winona, PG )

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Prompt: Spock, McCoy - Pride and Prejudice
( Strike a Deal; McCoy, Spock, PG )

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Prompt: Spock, McCoy - Definitely Dead
( Redefined; Spock/McCoy(ish), PG-13 )

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Title: A Prize for Good Behavior
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~4300
Pairing: McCoy/Spock, past McCoy/Jocelyn
Warnings: See pairings, also: kidfic, mild hurt/comfort, elements of schmoop (yeah, it's me, what do you expect?)
Summary: 5 times McCoy was a (mostly) good patient, much to everyone's surprise, and the one time he understandably wasn't.
A/N: Written for this prompt at the st_xi_kink_meme. Kindly and perceptively betaed by wesleysgirl who is my hero.

( A Prize for Good Behavior )

I survived the long week last week and then I had a nice weekend filled with good friends and laughing and video games. I am in a good mood :)

On to the ficlets! This weeks theme was body parts. Don't worry, I mostly behaved myself.


Prompt: Spock, McCoy - Fingertips

( Exploration, Spock/McCoy, R(ish) )

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Prompt: Kirk, McCoy - Knuckles

( Dependable, Kirk/McCoy, PG-13 )

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Prompt: Sulu, Uhura - Palm

( Slide, Sulu, Uhura, PG )

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Prompt: Kirk, McCoy - Nape of the Neck

( Unfair Advantage, Kirk/McCoy, PG-13) )

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I am working next weekend, so limited B2S, if any at all. Sadness. But at least I'll have something nice to read when I get home :) Someone write porn, ok? Cuz that would be very pleasant to come home to.

So tonight's activities resulted in two bridge2sickbay ficlets and a batch of seriously delicious chocolate cookies.

The B2S theme for this week was poetry quotes.

I wasn't familiar with either of the quotes when I read them at the comm, so the fics were inspired by the line(s) alone. I googled the poems after the fact to find out where the lines came from.

( To Share a Journey, Gaila/Pike, PG )

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( Warmth, Spock/Uhura, G )

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So, yes. I feel absurdly proud to have produced anything at all tonight. I've been struggling all week, wanting write and yet not typing a single keystroke. So yes, glad to have anything at all to show for my weekend :)

My cookies are excellent as well :) Far more polished an attempt than the ficlets, by far :) I used a recipe recommended by wesleysgirl which can be found here only without using the buttercream to make them into sandwiches. I've found that while I adore the cookie part itself, I stink at making buttercream frosting (when I tried the recipe originally it wouldn't stiffen up and was gooey and messy and grainy and just overall terrible). So I left it out and nommed nicely tonight on lovely chocolate coffee cookies. Half the batch is tucked away into the cookie jar and the other half is packed up to take to work for my coworkers to descend upon like a ravening horde.

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Back to bridge2sickbay for a moment. A couple of my prompts were posted but not filled. I am reposting them here to a) hopefully encourage someone to write them for me *pleading eyes* or, if need be, b) remember them for some undisclosed time in the future to try out myself.

~Pike, Kirk or McCoy, Kirk - Follow me ever - desert me not while I live. (Ashes of Soldiers by Walt Whitman)

~Author's Choice - The sun and moon get crossed, but they never touch (On Looking Up By Chance at the Constellations by Robert Frost)

~Spock, Uhura - Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite. (Reason & Passion by Khalil Gibran)

~Winona, Pike - I could've died for love - But for livin' I was born (Life is Fine by Langston Hughes)