God the NAME, argh! So many betas, and no one noticed!
Anyway I'm really excited that it all worked for you! I find Spock not so hard to write externally, but I don't think I could write from his POV yet. The falling into bed part--I'm just lucky gay boys do that sometimes, because I wanted to do something different with the romantic arc than the traditional hook up-misunderstanding/freakout-angst-reunion and being able to play around with sex left me some breathing room there.
As I said in the notes, I didn't realize until I was posting the story the way that Bibi Besch functions as a long reference to Alias, I think because I was picturing Katee Sackoff as Carol even though Bibi isn't that Starbuck-like. But yes, I was very lucky that the actress has such a great name! It was fun to be able to revisit the second movie as research. And also fun to take that personality from a science star to a movie star where it worked quite well!
I hate making up titles, tbh, so using the show was like a goldmine. Seriously, the wiki page for TOS was one of the first pieces of research I downloaded into Scrivener. It was that, and maps of LA. Khan was the trickiest character, because every time I mentioned him to anyone (very few, he was the one I kept back) they'd do the yell, and I thought, Kirk can't yell at him. But then, Kirk always perserveres!
Bones's nickname in AUs is always the trickiest part when he's not a doctor. I don't even know how I worked that out; it just happened in the flow of writing. Divine intervention!
It was nothing but a good time to make Nero into James Cameron, especially watching award season go by and Cameron was becoming more and more of an asshole every day. I was like, I couldn't have made this shit up!
Thank you so, so, so much for this lovely comment! I'm super glad you liked the story!
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Anyway I'm really excited that it all worked for you! I find Spock not so hard to write externally, but I don't think I could write from his POV yet. The falling into bed part--I'm just lucky gay boys do that sometimes, because I wanted to do something different with the romantic arc than the traditional hook up-misunderstanding/freakout-angst-reunion and being able to play around with sex left me some breathing room there.
As I said in the notes, I didn't realize until I was posting the story the way that Bibi Besch functions as a long reference to Alias, I think because I was picturing Katee Sackoff as Carol even though Bibi isn't that Starbuck-like. But yes, I was very lucky that the actress has such a great name! It was fun to be able to revisit the second movie as research. And also fun to take that personality from a science star to a movie star where it worked quite well!
I hate making up titles, tbh, so using the show was like a goldmine. Seriously, the wiki page for TOS was one of the first pieces of research I downloaded into Scrivener. It was that, and maps of LA. Khan was the trickiest character, because every time I mentioned him to anyone (very few, he was the one I kept back) they'd do the yell, and I thought, Kirk can't yell at him. But then, Kirk always perserveres!
Bones's nickname in AUs is always the trickiest part when he's not a doctor. I don't even know how I worked that out; it just happened in the flow of writing. Divine intervention!
It was nothing but a good time to make Nero into James Cameron, especially watching award season go by and Cameron was becoming more and more of an asshole every day. I was like, I couldn't have made this shit up!
Thank you so, so, so much for this lovely comment! I'm super glad you liked the story!