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Tonight, apparently, is the 'super moon', the perigee moon. Closer to Earth than it will be for a long while, so see if if you can!
The Bebe's cousin/my niece is visiting, she'll probably be here for a week. It's nice. She's a nice kid, a couple years older than the Bebe and about eight inches shorter. Poor thing - driving is a challenge! And she'll be carded until she's fifty.
Now that it's summer and my sleeping schedule is different, i am actually remembering my dreams. Usually my sleep is kind of broken up - to bed by oneish/twoish, up again at fiveish to get the Bebe up for school, then back to bed around eightish and sleep until about elevenish.....
But now i sleep a full six to eight hours without a break, and wow, dreams! :) The most interesting one to date was me dreaming of my very first, best friend, who i met in first grade. In the dream, we were meeting up for some sort of...thing (dinner? reunion? movie? no clue) and i just walked right over and kissed her. Like- full on kiss. Not shocking, really, since she was *also* my first big-time crush. But the first time i've ever dreamed about that. Never did it in real life - she moved away the summer after fifth grade and while we were still friends, and wrote and visited, i wouldn't have ever dared kiss her like that in real life.
It was nice. :)
I also was thinking about the short story that, I think, cemented my liking for hurt/comfort *and* my liking for characters who, whether 'naturally' or via some kind of technology or magic, are a bit unstable. It was a Star Trek story, in the first collection of short stories published.
In 'Star Trek: The New Voyages', there is a story called 'Mind Sifter'. Kirk has an encounter with something called 'The Guardian of Forever', and not only is his mind damaged and twisted, but he's flung back in time to a sixties/seventies Earth, and is being held in a mental hospital. If he tries to say his rank or full name, or anything about the Enterprise, he's 'punished' with pain and terror by some kind of conditioning by the Guardian. So he's called 'Jim', and one of the nurses is a little in love with this sad, handsome stranger.
One night he's standing at the window of his room, and looking up to see the sky and .... "A late plane, at a great height...." And he whispers "Spock? Help me?"
WOW. Yeah. Bam, i will never not love a character like that, in those sort of straits. I'm also pretty sure i know where one of my kinks come from, but i'm not going to talk about that. :)
As always - flowers! My lilies are all in bloom.
I wish i could remember how to make a grid, instead of everything in a long line like that.....
The Bebe's cousin/my niece is visiting, she'll probably be here for a week. It's nice. She's a nice kid, a couple years older than the Bebe and about eight inches shorter. Poor thing - driving is a challenge! And she'll be carded until she's fifty.
Now that it's summer and my sleeping schedule is different, i am actually remembering my dreams. Usually my sleep is kind of broken up - to bed by oneish/twoish, up again at fiveish to get the Bebe up for school, then back to bed around eightish and sleep until about elevenish.....
But now i sleep a full six to eight hours without a break, and wow, dreams! :) The most interesting one to date was me dreaming of my very first, best friend, who i met in first grade. In the dream, we were meeting up for some sort of...thing (dinner? reunion? movie? no clue) and i just walked right over and kissed her. Like- full on kiss. Not shocking, really, since she was *also* my first big-time crush. But the first time i've ever dreamed about that. Never did it in real life - she moved away the summer after fifth grade and while we were still friends, and wrote and visited, i wouldn't have ever dared kiss her like that in real life.
It was nice. :)
I also was thinking about the short story that, I think, cemented my liking for hurt/comfort *and* my liking for characters who, whether 'naturally' or via some kind of technology or magic, are a bit unstable. It was a Star Trek story, in the first collection of short stories published.
In 'Star Trek: The New Voyages', there is a story called 'Mind Sifter'. Kirk has an encounter with something called 'The Guardian of Forever', and not only is his mind damaged and twisted, but he's flung back in time to a sixties/seventies Earth, and is being held in a mental hospital. If he tries to say his rank or full name, or anything about the Enterprise, he's 'punished' with pain and terror by some kind of conditioning by the Guardian. So he's called 'Jim', and one of the nurses is a little in love with this sad, handsome stranger.
One night he's standing at the window of his room, and looking up to see the sky and .... "A late plane, at a great height...." And he whispers "Spock? Help me?"
WOW. Yeah. Bam, i will never not love a character like that, in those sort of straits. I'm also pretty sure i know where one of my kinks come from, but i'm not going to talk about that. :)
As always - flowers! My lilies are all in bloom.
I wish i could remember how to make a grid, instead of everything in a long line like that.....
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I wish my memory was better.
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Marshak and Culbreath went on to write "The Price of the Phoenix" and "The Fate of the Phoenix" where there were two Kirks - one who becomes the bedmate of the Romulan Commander IIRC. These novels came out while there was no TV/movie Star Trek and stories like that were all we had. There are about a half dozen early ST novels that I have and adore; after awhile, once ST became a real moneymaker, the novels seemed to lose so much originality - the early ones were like professionally published fanfic as the powers that be didn't really care what went on in those books. My absolute favorite is Barbara Hambly's "Ishmael" where she crosses ST with "Here Come the Brides"! You have to read it to believe it.
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The other ST novels I liked are:
The Entropy Effect by Vonda N. McIntyre (I also liked her novelizations of the Spock trio movies)
The Wounded Sky and My Enemy, My Ally by Diane Duane (if they really didn't know what to do with the 5th movie I think MEMA would've made a much better picture than "The Final Frontier")
Pawns and Symbols by Majliss Larson
The Final Reflection by John M. Ford
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Plus they donate book and fund literacy programs and in general are just awesome.
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