Comments | kitausu: (My Voice) Rings Down through Thousands of Years

kitausu

(My Voice) Rings Down through Thousands of Years

Sep 25, 2010 15:55

Fandom: Star Trek XI
Characters/Pairings: Uhura/Gaila, Kirk/Spock
Rating: PG-13
Summary: "Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that “don’t ask, don’t tell” and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being."
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oneshot, kirk, uhura/gaila, uhura, kirk/spock, spock, star trek, gaila

Comments 22

gingerberrycat September 25 2010, 22:05:15 UTC

Aw! love!

hopefuladdict September 25 2010, 22:08:52 UTC

**sniffles...wipes tear**

Thank you, I have no other words.

skywaterblue September 25 2010, 22:16:33 UTC

I was like, 'um, but Star Trek takes place in the 23rd Century' and I was already fixing it in my head with 'well, nuclear war' when you did it for me! Oh, and Gaila's alive and with Uhura! And Kirk, Kirk you adorable history nerd.

kitausu September 26 2010, 13:04:59 UTC

Yeah, I had some battles with history (we bonded a little, Memory Alpha and me) when I was starting to write this fic. I tried to keep it as close to canon history (or at least in the realm of believability) as I could, while still talking about the issues I wanted to address.

Also, re: Gaila. I know, canonically, she's probably dead. I know this, and yet, in this case, I flagrantly defy canon because I just can't bear to kill her.

Also also, /yes/ on your last bit. Yes yes yes. I /adore/ Kirk as a history nerd. (Maybe because I am too [see above: Memory Alpha].)

Basically, long reply is way too long, but /thank you/.

berusama September 25 2010, 22:17:02 UTC

well this made me cry, but i think maybe they were tears of hope. thank you for sharing ♥

builtofsorrow September 25 2010, 22:20:13 UTC

There’s a burden in remembering, a duty.
It’s why remembering is important. It’s how everything begins.

I just. Those two lines sum up so much of who I am that it's really heartbreaking and wonderful and shocking to see them written out baldly by someone else.

Thank you for writing this. It's beautiful.

kitausu September 25 2010, 22:34:02 UTC

Oh, oh, I am so glad. It's an amazing thing as a writer to have touched someone so much, found something so important to them. I am happier than you can know that you connected with this.

(Also, I love your icon to /pieces/.)