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    ...the god may speak in the forms of geometry as well as in the shapes of dreams; in the harmony of pure thought as well as in the harmony of sounds; in numbers as well as in words.
    -- Ursula K. LeGuin

    The View from T'Khut

      Part I: The Absent World. The planet vanishes, but her people go on.
      Part II: An Archaeology of Loss. The world-death left a scar in spacetime, and a void in the heart of the Federation.
      Part III: Time and Darkness. In which Ambassador Spock fires unexpected shots.

    Summon the Future

    One man can change the present. -- James T. Kirk

    Appendix: Vulcan vocabulary


    I am interested in the lacunae of the destruction of Vulcan, and the shape of its future, post-Nero. This story does not explore all of my ideas about that, but it explores some of them. At one point I said to Beatrice, "am I secretly writing a post-apocalyptic story about utopia as praxis?"

    This series uses Kelvin/AOS style stardates.

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  1. Public Bookmark 10

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    After returning from Platonius, Christine has an unexpected visitor.

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    27 Dec 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    awkward conversations starring spock

  2. Public Bookmark 6

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    Bigwig seeks Hazel in the afterlife.

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    25 Dec 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    jeez louise. JEEZ LOUISE

  3. Public Bookmark 20

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    ep•is•tem•ic: of or relating to deeper knowledge

    Sometimes, he thinks, two people are like those two binary stars. Spinning around one another forever, affecting each other with their mutual gravity, maybe even appearing as one sometimes, but never coming close enough to actually collide.

    He knows the feeling.

    But tonight is the night of The Joining. Tonight, the two stars of Gamma Virginis, the two lovers, will meet. Tonight, Porrima will once again be whole.

    "Of course, their joining is something of an optical illusion," the ambassador had told him earlier that evening. "We understand the science. But still, in our culture, this binary eclipse is a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence, a magical time when anything can happen. This will be a night of miracles and surprises."

    Kirk can almost feel it; the air is crackling with promise. On this sacred night on an alien world, anything is possible.

    Or it would be, if Spock had not already left the party.

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    21 Dec 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    lovely, and also contains one of my fav author's notes, at the end of chapter 3.

  4. Public Bookmark 14

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    19 Dec 2025

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    adorable married-forever k/s

  5. Public Bookmark 78

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    I have been wrecked by a ten-second handshake and I've decided to make that everyone's problem.

    I am writing this after SNW season 2. It will go from late SNW s2 straight into TOS. Obviously it will soon be de-canonized by season 3, but I can't wait that long.

    I will be picking the things I like from SNW canon and retconning a few things I don't like from TOS canon. But I think the overall arc of Kirk and Spock's story fits well within what both shows give us.

    It will include material from the prime timeline movies. It *will not* include much if anything from Discovery because I haven't watched it.

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    18 Dec 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    lovely, kind of wrecked me