i bet there are a lot of typos

[romancandles]

Hahahahahhaha. I haven't updated in five weeks and I'm under quarantine from fun while I do my grad school apps, so obviously I've spent the last day writing schmoopy Star Trek reboot fic and realized it had been so long since I'd written a fic about sober people that I'm not even sure how to anymore. How do u sober. This is a story about a great

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[moetushie]

I AM ABOUT TO COLLAPSE FOR THE NIGHT/MORNING, BUT HI MORGAN GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR GRAD APPLICATIONS.

Jim waits what feels like forever before Bones says, “Yeah. Me too,” in a voice that usually means you’re so stupid, Jim.

CLAWING AT MY FACE. UGH I HATE YOU, SISI, AND CAMILLE FOREVER FOR MAKING ME LEGITIMATELY SHIP THIS, INSTEAD OF IDLY SHIP IT, AS I WAS CONTENT TO DO BEFORE. The worst, that's what all of you are.

lol of this comment are in caps and I would apologize except I can't help the way I feel.

[romancandles]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA. YOU ARE WELCOME, FARZEEN.

YOU

ARE

WELCOME.

Also, TY I need it.

[moetushie]

:(

[romancandles]

do you think i like feeling this, zeen? DO YOU.

[romancandles]

UT, SAIS, some other DC schools, King's, and a few others for International Development/Disaster Relief.

[romancandles]

I think I knew that! London's great, obviously, and the program seems cool topically but it's only a year so I'm not sure I'm as excited about it as the two-year programs in the states.

[redinteriors]

HOW DO U SOBER

S O B B I N G.

UGH MORGAN!!!!!!! OH MY GOD LOL YOU KNOW I LOVE THIS, OBVIOUSLY. HOW COULD I NOT. AUGH THESE IDIOT SPACE MARRIEDS, WHY DO WE LOVE THEM SO MUCH?!? Ugh gross so many feelings from this fic that I don't need in my life, thanks a lot.

All the same, when they’re back earthside as part of little more than a flashy escort for a Risan dignitary, which Jim is not letting himself think of as a punishment after the rough couple months he’s had, they fall into it like they’re starving, Jim still jittery and sharp at the edges from a rough mission. Bones smoothes away the snags and cracks until they’re so tiny they’re invisible to the naked eye, but Jim knows Bones sees them and, instead of being annoyed, he’s grateful. SHUT. UPPPPPPPPPPP. Such a perfect little insight into the relationship that they have, augh, my heart. Bones, the consummate healer, and Jim allowing himself to accept it from this one man, his best friend

[romancandles]

HOW DO U.

LOL DON'T THINK I MISSED YOU NOT POSTING THIS UNTIL I WOKE UP SISI. L A Z Y.

THE FIIIIIIIIIIGHT. I think my big problem with this fic is that their relationship never changes, which irritates me, but at the same time I just wanted to play with these characters and figure out how my versions are different from the ones in fics I've read. OMG REQUEST DENIED. This fic was supposed to be about SO MANY THINGS but actually ended up being about how much I hate furniture shopping. I AM A CHARACTER IN ALL MY FICS AND IN THIS FIC I AM BONES. LOL wow this is what I get for being lazy because there's supposed to be this scene in here where Jim's bitching about how the Fleet keeps pulling him out like a personal punishment because he's really young and Bones is like, "JIM THEY ARE DOING YOU A FAVOR OK," hence all the references to being tired and looking like shit. W H O O P S. Maybe I will edit that in. Since you started reading it, I've already changed a couple lines. My lyfe.

Omg this fic tho. Kill the spare etc.

[shecrows]

ugh. UGH. i actually had to read this twice before i could think about formulating words. chalk it up to equal parts sheer joy that you have fallen down this glorious rabbit hole with me, and the fact that i am SPOILED FOR FUCKING CHOICE when it comes to actually picking specific parts of this fic on which to comment, because augh god, the tactility, the years of familiarity, the quiet, unspoken understandings, the humor, the moments of oh-god-hand-over-my-heart, like. get the fuck out of here, i don't know where to start.

honestly one of my favorite sections is the four-paragraph interlude with the patio furniture. sisi quoted the second paragraph at you already and ugh yes!!! also just the language is so lush and evocative and wonderful and just, again, the effortless tactility, i mean gawd, that entire last paragraph. i want to roll around in it, particularly this bit: He falls asleep, fucked out and exhausted, listening to the faintest roar, like waves crashing against the ocean, of the city humming beneath them, Bones rubbing

[romancandles]

CAMILLE. I AM GLAD YOU LIKED IT lol tbh I know it's not exactly my finest work but it was like this ball of feelings lodged in my chest that I had to hack up, unsightly bits and all, before I could continue on my merry way talking about policy longevity in post-disaster-stricken economies. I was going to cut REQUEST DENIED because a) emotional meltdowns aren't my strong suit (not hilarious enough) and b) it felt too much like showing my whole hand but then I liked the idea of having a screaming fight that doesn't really reveal anything, like when you're yelling at someone because that person is just an asshole and deserves to be yelled at but you know you're going to forgive them anyway even if they don't apologize and you hate them for that! #feelings!!!! ETA: also i just realized in my haste that i miswrote the colloquialism hahahaha ha ha ha. ha

[gingifere]

This is wonderful. I have such a thing for fic where Jim and Bones have this slow burning relationship that develops into something that will last forever. Also your Jim voice was totally spot-on.

Vaguely he’s aware of Bones clearing their containers to the floor. He keeps up a mumbling, displeased commentary like a crotchety old man in a cartoon. Bones claims Jim talks a lot but the truth is Bones runs his mouth constantly, rumbling to himself, to Jim, to objects, who knows, about the general incompetence of the world; it’s only when he’s sleeping that this low-decibel motor cuts out. Jim times his life in those silences, in the comforting rise and fall of Bones’s verbal tide.

The above? My favourite description of Bones ever. I really hope you write more ST fic because this was just brilliant.

[romancandles]

Thank you! I'm so glad you liked it! There are so many quality fic writers in this fandom and I was pretty anxious about posting this fluff. I'll probably end up writing more because honestly it's gotten so bad that I dream about these assholes.