Holy crap, I wrote a thing.
Dec. 30th, 2023 08:57 pmWell, I've been writing this for what feels like forever. But two full drafts and some extra work later, I have for you:
Title: the wheel of the headlong year
Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Summary: Marie Batel lives. Survival is complicated.
Character / Pairing: Marie Batel, Marie Batel / Christopher Pike
Rating: T
Words: 16,374
Other things: this is a story about trauma, and grief, and survival, and unexpected intimacy. Content warnings for medical trauma especially.
With gratitude to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
pellucid for the kind of thorough and thoughtful beta I cannot live without, and extra gratitude to the universe that she is well enough--for the first time in fifteen months--to provide such wonderful beta services. With additional thanks to tellitslant for an extra set of eyes and some really insightful thoughts, as well as for listening to me talk about this as it came together since...well, the day the finale aired.
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I thought I wouldn't publish anything in 2023 for the first time since 2016. But here we are, under the wire. I am immensely proud of this story, and I hope you enjoy it. I have many hopes for 2024, but perhaps the most straightforward is this: Marie Batel better fucking live.
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Happy New Year, friends.
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Title: the wheel of the headlong year
Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Summary: Marie Batel lives. Survival is complicated.
Character / Pairing: Marie Batel, Marie Batel / Christopher Pike
Rating: T
Words: 16,374
Other things: this is a story about trauma, and grief, and survival, and unexpected intimacy. Content warnings for medical trauma especially.
With gratitude to
pellucid for the kind of thorough and thoughtful beta I cannot live without, and extra gratitude to the universe that she is well enough--for the first time in fifteen months--to provide such wonderful beta services. With additional thanks to tellitslant for an extra set of eyes and some really insightful thoughts, as well as for listening to me talk about this as it came together since...well, the day the finale aired. **
I thought I wouldn't publish anything in 2023 for the first time since 2016. But here we are, under the wire. I am immensely proud of this story, and I hope you enjoy it. I have many hopes for 2024, but perhaps the most straightforward is this: Marie Batel better fucking live.
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Happy New Year, friends.
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