the most painful social interactions are when you miscalculate someone’s meme literacy and reference something and the person/group doesn’t get it and u have to half-heartedly explain it knowing FULL well it’s 0% funny if people don’t have the full convoluted context of the joke and u feel the flames of hell start to lick at ur feet as they all give u a pity laugh
It’s Christmas Day, and so this fic rec calendar has come to an end. This was so much fun to do, and I hope you have enjoyed it as well! And what better time to curl up with a hot drink and some nice feel good reading, be it a book or a fic, than a quiet moment during the Christmas time.. and I’ve got just the fic for you! I wanted to save this to the end because I love it so much, so this is like the special, bigger chocolate some chocolate advent calendars have for the last day.
Fandom: Star Trek RPF Relationship: Chris Pine/Zachary Quinto Rating: Explicit Words:
63,177 Tags: Kid Fic, Friends to Lovers, First Kiss, First Time, Coming Out, Bisexuality, Family Summary:
Funny how such a little thing can change your life forever
Why I like this fic:It begins with Zach suddenly finding out he’s the father of a small baby, and Chris dropping everything else and going to help him. This is one of my all time favourite Pinto fics – and one of my all time favourite fics of any fandom. I have read it so many times by now that I’ve lost count. The development of Chris and Zach’s relationship feels so wonderful and organic, and we see it through the little details of the life they end up sharing as Chris helps Zach take care of the baby. There is so much comfortable domesticity and casual intimacy in this, lots of pining and honest discussions about life and feelings. I love the life they build together in this, and I love the wonderful, slow-build way @ato-the-bean has crafted this story.
+ there’s also a whole series, with some lovely ficlets taking place during and after this story, and a longer on-going sequel called Cleaving full of angst and love and holiday stuff. I also adore that story so much and that one of course is such a perfect read for this time of year, so if you have already read A Bleary, Hopeful Shade of Blue please go read Cleaving and give it some love too!
Thanks for the love, @elisa-pie! Hope you’re having a lovely holiday! I’m brushing off Cleaving now that Xmas is over, so here’s hoping I can get some momentum back.
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M: (x) Job and safety endangered by drunken underlings who almost ruin an important mission? M knows how this Santa is feeling, tbh, and gets a secret kick out of imagining elf!00s who have to deal with reindeer instead of irreplaceable tricked-out sport cars.
Tanner: (x) One year he and his family all made matching Hanukkah sweaters. The kids have long since grown out of theirs, but Tanner wears his every year.
Felix: (x) Intellectually, Felix knows that sharks are endangered and deserve protective legislation instead of face punches, but for some reason he really finds himself drawn to this one.
Eve: (x) She knows everything that happens around Six; what you did last Christmas is no exception. *knowing smile while you begin to sweat*
Bond: (x) Bond decides that Santa needs a new vehicle that runs on horsepower instead of reindeer-power.
Q: (x) During the holiday season, Q sometimes wishes he could be a bit more like Father Christmas, spreading joy with every exploding watch and personalized gun in a 00′s stocking… Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen unless Santa gives Q a bigger budget this year, so put that down, 007, you know what the answer is.
what’s christmas even like in non-christian families? in completely non-religious families? like what do you tell your children? “well, kids, we’re eating a whole lot of food and spending a fuckton of money spoiling you because some other people somewhere believe their holy lord and saviour and the greatest person to walk the earth was born 2000 years ago. here’s a playstation.”
yeah pretty much
i legit didnt know non-christians celebrated christmas… literally never crossed my mind
We do, and basically it’s like “Hey kids, let’s decorate a tree, exchange presents, eat a fuckload of food, and get a picture with the creepy mall Santa that probably will be arrested next week”. I didn’t even know it was a religious holiday until I was 9
Christmas was celebrated here (in Norway) for several thousand years before Christianity got here. There was literally nothing Christian about it in the beginning, the Christians just figured it’d be easier to say that Jesus was born on a day that was already celebrated than to make up a new holiday and force it on people
Pretty much every culture in the northern hemisphere has had a celebration in the fuck-all heart of winter purely because it’s depressing as fuck when it’s cold all the time and dark for 90% of the time
So long before jesus was born someone was like
“k it’s cold and dark and the view outside is literally identical to our concept of hell but I made you this candle stop being sad”
All this but also the decorations mostly symbolize things important to our family. So there’s science and nature stuff (birds, sea creatures, space shuttles), ballerinas, musical instruments, some Harry Potter, the odd TARDIS, etc. so it becomes a celebration of the family lasting another year. And this year we need it.
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