It’s from the above Instagram post Zach made yesterday that’s got the entire fandom doing this:
and this
and this
and also this
All I can think is that he and Chris smoked pot before running lines, and the only reason we can’t see Pie is because he’s laughing so hard he’s actually curled up on the floor gasping for breath. Because every line sounds like innuendo.
I want to warn you to not read any further. I fear that once you do you will never be the same.
Pinto is the ship name for Chris (P)ine and Zachary Qu(into). And thus we get Pinto.
This is only ONE OF THE BEST SHIPS EVER.
Sorry, I got a little over excited.
BUT I MEAN HAVE YOU SEEN HOW THEY LOOK AT EACH OTHER? HAVE YOU???
They’re bros who totally-hang-out-to-only-watch-the-basketball-game-and-have-no-idea-how-they-accidentally-slept-together-again.
Honestly Chris was just helping Zachary practice lines, and I mean the scene called for a kiss and Chris is a professional so what if they just kept kissing each other and forgot about the script? That’s totally normal.
@semper-ama is an EXCELLENT source of Pinto posts.
archiveofourown.org/works/397310 is an AMAZING fic to get you started on your life destroying Pinto voyage.
Please feel free to come into my ask box and scream about Pinto. Day or night.
Welcome to hell!
Don’t forget “those fuckers” and “those fuckers anon”
That is such a hard question to answer, because there is such a range of stories in Pinto fandom, from the bleakest angst to the porniest porn to the fluffiest fluff.
The first story I clearly remember reading in Pinto fandom, and one that still is easily in my top three all-time favorite fics, is A Passage That Sings by Rave. I know I read Pinto before that, but that’s the one that sticks in my mind most clearly. I think it is definitely one of the most quintessential Pinto fics and I recommend everyone read it, because it’s just too good.
Other than that…idk, I struggle with reccing, because, like I said, it depends on what you want, and also, I really think that the fic has evolved a lot? Like, I think there’s a big divide in tone between fics written before STID and fics written after STID, and since I came into fandom after, I tend to prefer the newer stuff overall, because it’s what I’m used to. So my Essential Pinto list would probably be wildly different from someone who has been a Bean for years. BUT, here are the things that always immediately come to mind when someone asks me for must-reads (in addition to A Passage That Sings):
Agree that A Passage that Sings may be the quintessential, intro to Wordplay as Foreplay fic for newcomers. It was one of the first Pinto fics I read and the one that cemented my love for this pairing. I even forced my husband to read it, I thought it was so brilliant.
I love A Passage That Sings, too. Though for real Wordplay as Foreplay (word wars, poetry) I have to add Suave Sesquipedalian Bastard to the list of early quintessential (quintossential?) Pinto fanfics. it has so many great Pinto tropes. And I’m a wordy girl, and used the dictionary at least twice…
Oh, certainly! It’s really nothing elaborate. I’ve just got this headcanon that, at least back when they first start making the Star Trek movies, Zach had unrequited feelings for Chris. There are so many instances of Zach looking at him like he hung the moon. (Especially when Chris is looking away, so he can’t catch him, right?)
Or hey, maybe the feelings were requited and Zach just did a worse job of hiding them. We can make this happy too! But for all people talk about how Chris looks at Zach like a lovesick puppy, well…I mean, just look!
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