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seeking fic recs
Jul. 8th, 2018 10:00 pmAnd after this, I'll try to knock it off with the ST spam! *Try*, mind you; I've got a story about to go live.
I've already tried these requests in a Trek comm dedicated to the same, but so far, I haven't had any takers. To the flist it goes! I'll say before anything else that I tend to read reboot stories in TOS voices, so AOS is fair game, though I'll definitely be reading them as featuring the original crew.
So, to the first request. Some of this may well be a side effect of reboot!verse characterization, but I've read quite a few fics lately where McCoy is... well... more prickly than I expected he'd be. I know he's most definitely got a grumpy, snarky side to him, and it's a delightful thing most of the time, but I would love to read a few stories where the kinder side of his interactions with patients, crew or both! comes out. Someone's genuinely scared as
heck/in pain/has fallen afoul of another doctor's monumentally stupid maneuver, say, and McCoy steps in to sort things out. That sort of thing. Basically, I'm all about the hurt/comfort with a very caring, warmly southern gentleman McCoy taking the lead. It *is* canon (TOS canon, anyway!) that he's got an excellent bedside manner, after all... I just can't find many fics showing the same! Bonus points if, in the course of whatever's going on, he has to (or decides to) talk his patient through what he's going to do. I *am* going to make this request a lot harder and ask that the injured party not be Spock... sorry folks.
My second request is a little more general, though not by much. I've seen a few recs for protective!Kirk and protective!McCoy stories, but I wonder, are there many fics involving a protective!Sulu out there? He is absolutely and canonically a rescuer, and I'd love to see more of that aspect of his character. I'm not too picky as to who he's keeping from harm so long as, again, the vulnerable party is preferably not Spock... not such a fan, I'm afraid. Bonus points if the person he's defending is genuinely grateful for the assist, rather than resenting it.
I've already tried these requests in a Trek comm dedicated to the same, but so far, I haven't had any takers. To the flist it goes! I'll say before anything else that I tend to read reboot stories in TOS voices, so AOS is fair game, though I'll definitely be reading them as featuring the original crew.
So, to the first request. Some of this may well be a side effect of reboot!verse characterization, but I've read quite a few fics lately where McCoy is... well... more prickly than I expected he'd be. I know he's most definitely got a grumpy, snarky side to him, and it's a delightful thing most of the time, but I would love to read a few stories where the kinder side of his interactions with patients, crew or both! comes out. Someone's genuinely scared as
heck/in pain/has fallen afoul of another doctor's monumentally stupid maneuver, say, and McCoy steps in to sort things out. That sort of thing. Basically, I'm all about the hurt/comfort with a very caring, warmly southern gentleman McCoy taking the lead. It *is* canon (TOS canon, anyway!) that he's got an excellent bedside manner, after all... I just can't find many fics showing the same! Bonus points if, in the course of whatever's going on, he has to (or decides to) talk his patient through what he's going to do. I *am* going to make this request a lot harder and ask that the injured party not be Spock... sorry folks.
My second request is a little more general, though not by much. I've seen a few recs for protective!Kirk and protective!McCoy stories, but I wonder, are there many fics involving a protective!Sulu out there? He is absolutely and canonically a rescuer, and I'd love to see more of that aspect of his character. I'm not too picky as to who he's keeping from harm so long as, again, the vulnerable party is preferably not Spock... not such a fan, I'm afraid. Bonus points if the person he's defending is genuinely grateful for the assist, rather than resenting it.
