Fic: Observations DOWNLOAD

[anon_j_anon]

Title: Observations
Author: jAnon
Pairings: Kirk/Spock
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I have not profited monetarily from this venture, nor do I claim original ownership of the characters and setting.
Summary: First Officer Spock comments on life aboard the Enterprise and his service under Captain James T. Kirk.

A pdf of Observations, all 262 chapters in 1,102

Comments

[eclecticlioness]

Just a thought but have you considered having someone do this as a podfic?

[anon_j_anon]

... 0_0

Umm, if you'd like to read it, be my guest. I'll be very impressed. And flattered. I can't imagine how long it would take to read.

I know for a fact that Ch 255 takes 15 minutes to read, with the appropriate breaks, pacing. If we take that as a rule of thumb (I have no idea if it's a good estimate since the length of the chapters varies so much, but just for argument's sake), that's 3930 minutes for the fic, or 65.5 hours, or 2.73 days. To listen. Three days of nonstop listeningThe mind boggles

[eclecticlioness]

It's a thought though I confess i would probably be totally lost on reading most of the math and scientific notation stuff...I was a journalism major. I can probably almost fake the russian and spanish, though admittedly with a midwestern american accent that would make a native speakers ears bleed but (shrug) you work with what you've got. As for the swahili I'd have to look up a reference for pronunciation. It's a thought...that would be ridiculously long though if it was all in one file...maybe it could be broken up by plot arcs? I might give it a try, I just bought some sound editing software that's just waiting to be used. If I think it doesn't suck too bad I'll let you know and send it to you...that ok with you?
Also and this is totally random but for some reason this story makes me want a rebootTrek Skippy List.

[anon_j_anon]

Go for it. Splitting it up into arcs sounds great, or even individual chapters, if you'd like. However you want to do it.

Feel free to message me anytime with the files, with questions, whatever you'd like.

Could you tell me what a skippy list is?

[mazaher]

Thank you for the link! I had actually got lost in here for the n-th time =)
If you're up for another of my pet typotribbles, this one is in Italian: Diozionario = theological dictionary (dizionario = dictionary, Dio = God). Which is hilarious, as I actually own a theological dictionary.

[anon_j_anon]

Haha, the organization of my journal is designed without regard to time. My poetry I post and keep the real timestamps because I think this is somehow important, but my fanfiction, as you already know, I order for the sake of not having to link everything together. My master lists are set in the future so they're always first, Observations and Observations download I also set in the future because it's my most popular fic, and I anticipate it'll be more convenient for people to access if it's right there.

So, to sum up:
Future-- the list of my works
Present-- poetry, original stuff. And the occasional update
Past-- fanfiction

Does this say anything about me?

el diozionario! hilarious! For some reason, I'm envisioning God as a large book with glasses now.

[mazaher]

I just now sent you an answer to your email. It's a beautiful feeling, knowing we're online at the same time at such a distance in miles.

Author's attitudes

[mazaher]

Thinking it over, I realize that one more reason for me to love “Observations” is that it’s not a Bildungsroman, nor a didascalical novel in the late XVIII- early XIX-century fashion

Re: Author's attitudes

[anon_j_anon]

I think I take a more Russian approach to writing (or maybe I'm just thinking of Dostoevsky--he seems to be on my mind these days. Or Gogol), where even the most pitiable characters are not despised by the author. Russians moralize a lot, they lecture a lot about which is the best way to live and organize the country, but the only people deserving scorn are the indifferent-- the tsar for the indifference to the welfare of the nation, the aristocracy for their indifference to their peasant serfs, the state bureaucracy for their general indifference to everyone except those of higher rank

Re: Author's attitudes

[anon_j_anon]

You wrote that I had no lectures. But I did. I felt like I was lecturing to myself, a younger version, an older version, who knows. Someone who had forgotten to be kind because they were consumed by the vision of their own wounds, someone who was deliberately cruel because it was easy and it was fun and it was addicting. When I think about Observations, it wasn't really a Bildungsroman of the characters. It was a Bildungsroman of me. Through characters, through new worlds, learning more of myself and what I'm capable of, meeting people (readers) whom add to my worldview, going places and seeing old things anew because the writing was changing me. The more I think of it, the more I realize that I can never write something like this again. Nor should I be able to write it again. The point was that by the end, I would be such a different person--stronger, kinder, hopefully a little wiser--that I could move on to other things

Re: Author's attitudes

[mazaher]

"And if I will not see them, what kind of person am I?"
Just. A person. Not. a God. (which is something I would thank God for, if I believed in one).
You don't lecture, even to yourself: you talk to yourself, discuss things with yourself (and your characters), but don't lecture, precisely because you don't feel you own a total knowledge of how things are and/or should be.
I still think that people change all the time, but they change *into* themselves, expanding, not *from* themselves, separating.
Sure, you're not going to write anything like "Observations" again. But I'm sure you're not discarding "Observations", just because writing it (and the aftermath of writing it) has changed you so much.
I could not imagine when I began reading that I would gain a friend like you.

[songfire3]

Thank you so much for the download link!! I love this story - it is so very well written!

Unfortunately I don't have a flatrate and only very restricted time online, so having the chance to dl it and reread whenever I choose is a much appreciated gift!