gehayi: ravenamore:unpretty:unpretty:unpretty:punsbulletsandpointythings:unpretty: today a
gehayi: ravenamore: unpretty: unpretty: unpretty: punsbulletsandpointythings: unpretty: today at goodwill i found a kirk/spock au where kirk is a lowly redshirt Okay no but this book. Do you know how fucking long I hunted for a copy of the first edition of this book? I can’t remember the specifics, it’s been ages since I read it, but in the first edition it had some line that was basically confirming Kirk/Spock that was removed after the first printing. oh my god are you telling me i found a piece of fandom history and i had no idea I AM BACK AT GOODWILL AND IT’S STILL HERE AND IT’S A FIRST EDITION WITH GAY STUFF???? IT’S A DOLLAR?????? I’M it starts out with wholesome hand-holding and boyfriends worrying about each other they’re in an au now and kirk is an angry ensign with a drug problem “being the top felt weird and wrong” SOMETHING STIRRED INSIDE HIM no matter the universe kirk can’t keep his shirt intact THIS IS WHERE SHIT GETS REAL Y’ALL I CAN’T THE MIND MELD IS BARELY EVEN A METAPHOR KIRK WAS ASKING FOR IT aaaaaaaaaaah this is the best dollar i have ever spent and yes that includes bearllionaire I’d heard about this as some sort of fandom urban legend - everyone heard about it, no one seemed to have hard copy. Nobody was sure if it was some unpublished fanfic, a first draft, vanity press, whatever. And it’s real. No one had a copy because Gene Roddenberry found out about the romantic undertones and forced Pocket Books to recall the first edition so that it could be drastically revised. -- source link