For anyone who missed a posting, below is a list of all the stories that made it into the challenge this year. Congratulations to everyone!
These are in the order they were posted, and I’ll put them behind a cut in case I update the list later. Please look to the stories for warnings and other information.
Having all these amazing Pinto Big Bang stories to read feels like an early Christmas present. You are all insanely talented and wonderful and I want to thank you for writing these stories and just for being generally awesome people.
Chris moved to the city six months ago to pursue his dreams of becoming a writer and to explore his sexuality. However, he’s far too shy to approach anyone, so he decides that the solution to his problem is to sleep with a male hooker so that he can become more experienced and confident. When he stumbles across an attractive hooker named Zach in a bar, he can’t believe his luck. Meanwhile, Zach has a story of his own…
Title: Dearly Departed Author: Semperama Artist(s): @silent-bridge and @nostalgia-in-starlight Beta: @rabidchild67 Characters/Side Pairings: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Minor Original Characters Rating: Explicit Tags/Warnings: Post-Apocalypse. Survival, Established Relationship, Breaking Up & Making Up, Divorce, Flashbacks, Major Illness, Major Character Injury, Hurt/Comfort, Minor Original Character(s), Minor Character Death Word Count: 68,390 Summary: Chris and Zach are in the middle of divorce proceedings when a deadly pandemic sweeps across the globe, decimating the world’s population. When Zach falls ill, Chris has no choice but to take him out of Los Angeles in search of somewhere safer, where they have a hope of survival. What he finds is a tiny group of people who have laid claim to a campground in the San Bernardino mountains, where they have turned to isolation and simple living as a means of survival. With circumstances forcing them to work and live together, Chris and Zach must work through their bitterness and old wounds, until they realize that even if loving each other was hard, losing each other would be harder.
A/N: Well, it’s been basically a year in the making, off and on, but PAHC is finally here. I am so thankful for all the support you guys have given me while I wrestled with this thing. Extra specials thanks to RC, whom I could not have done this without, and to Jouissant and Jupiter, who also cheered me on and gave great feedback. ❤ And thank you to my WONDERFUL artists, whose work you can find linked below. Credit to that lovely cover up there goes to @silent-bridge!
Title: If I Could Have Chosen Author: soproudofya Artist(s): silent-bridge Beta: JunoMagic Characters/Side Pairings: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto Rating: M Tags/Warnings: Angst, Gender Related, Transgender Issues, Hurt/Comfort Word Count: 12.5k Summary: Chris has been keeping a secret his entire life. At thirty-five, he snaps and comes clean: he’s transgender.
Title: Dearly Departed Author: Semperama Artist(s): @silent-bridge and @nostalgia-in-starlight Beta: @rabidchild67 Characters/Side Pairings: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Minor Original Characters Rating: Explicit Tags/Warnings: Post-Apocalypse. Survival, Established Relationship, Breaking Up & Making Up, Divorce, Flashbacks, Major Illness, Major Character Injury, Hurt/Comfort, Minor Original Character(s), Minor Character Death Word Count: 68,390 Summary: Chris and Zach are in the middle of divorce proceedings when a deadly pandemic sweeps across the globe, decimating the world’s population. When Zach falls ill, Chris has no choice but to take him out of Los Angeles in search of somewhere safer, where they have a hope of survival. What he finds is a tiny group of people who have laid claim to a campground in the San Bernardino mountains, where they have turned to isolation and simple living as a means of survival. With circumstances forcing them to work and live together, Chris and Zach must work through their bitterness and old wounds, until they realize that even if loving each other was hard, losing each other would be harder.
A/N: Well, it’s been basically a year in the making, off and on, but PAHC is finally here. I am so thankful for all the support you guys have given me while I wrestled with this thing. Extra specials thanks to RC, whom I could not have done this without, and to Jouissant and Jupiter, who also cheered me on and gave great feedback. ❤ And thank you to my WONDERFUL artists, whose work you can find linked below. Credit to that lovely cover up there goes to @silent-bridge!
Everyone needs to go read Whitecaps by x_carnivale_x. It’s so good. And also, I’m on chapter 5 and legit scared so I need someone to catch up and hold my hand so I can keep reading.
It’s done! My submission for this year’s Pinto Big Bang is finally done and posted. Artwork was done by the incredibly wonderful @nostalgia-in-starlight, who perfectly captured the feel of this story. Thank you so much for your amazing work!
Title: Whitecaps Rating: Mature Summary:
Zachary Quinto is a homicide detective living in the entirely not-picturesque, but otherwise quiet coastal town of Lithica. When he gets wind of a string of seemingly unrelated deaths occurring along an abandoned, rocky stretch of coastline, he figures this will be like every other investigation. But after five deaths in the span of a single month, and no leads, suspects, or links except for the things that have been taken from the victims, Zach and his partner, Karl, have hit a dead end. But an odd encounter with reclusive local author, Chris Pine, leaves Zach wondering if there might be more to these deaths, and more to Chris pine, than he originally expected. He certainly hadn’t meant to get attached along the way either.
LOL! You are cracking me up. Well, I’m pleased for any positive influence my fic might have in your life, whether it’s a bit of escapism or some more, uh… *physiological* benefit. You’re very welcome.
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