Shipping Meme
Feb. 12th, 2022 07:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Name a ship that feels like home.
James T. Kirk/Spock from Star Trek: the Original Series
K/S is my first introduction to Western slash fandom. This is where I get the definition of OTP. (To this day I still do a double take when someone uses it as a shorthand for just their favourite pairing.). I read the archived BBS, joined yahoo groups, read on the Geocities web sites now no longer in service. Here I learnt the importance of saving anything because so many authors' web sites disappeared from the internet. It's fortunate that the ksarchive is preserved in the AO3 open door project.
I watched the entire three seasons (including Spock's Brain), the movies and some of the novels. It is the biggest fandom in my AO3 work page. My latest fic is for this pairing.
I love both characters dearly. I love how similar and different they are, how they complement each other, how they are good friends who like each other, how they are willing to sacrifice everything to save the other repeatedly, and how they can handle conflict and move on. Even after decades they still think of going on adventures together as their great destiny.
Even though my level of involvement may vary, they still have a special place in my heart.