So I want to say, before I start, that I don't care if you fulfilled any of the prompts. You're writing this, so I'm sure it fulfils something I want. And I must suck at giving prompts, huh? I wonder what the secret is.
You're breaking my heart from the beginning. I always wonder what exactly he means when he talks about friendship. Is it like with marriage, where he just didn't get how to *be* a friend, either? How, you know, it's not a one way street ending with HIM? And doesn't it make sense, yes, to consider Jim Kirk a friend, who can't leave, who can't misunderstand you, who is you and does end with you.
his own charm a hundred times magnified
Yes, oh yes. That paradox. So true.
*flail* Okay, I don't know if I'm going to say this very well, and anyway you wrote it so you know exactly what I mean, but all the conflicting thoughts about loving Kirk and being him and resenting him and somehow simultaneously knowing he's not but believing he is are so spot on. I loved the stuff about the women, about trying that on but not really wanting to be him to him, not able to be Bill without Jim but not able to be Bill if someone's looking at Jim.
I'm not sure Shatner ever thinks about Kirk this way. Internalizing him. But it works, so well, and it works on *me*, and it's wonderful, him speaking to Jim in the mirror, him needing to be Jim's friend, too.
You naughty girl, including his giggle!
Oh. You know, this all makes me think of so many things, about acting, about RP (both ours literally in terms of our interactions and the emotional bleed from it for the writers), about what Bill's relationship to Kirk really is. It's so wonderful to see it explored, and I can assure you, without checking back to see what I prompted, that you filled them. Something. You always know what I want, anyway, or at least what will interest me.
And we've got confused, conflicted, embarrassed Bill, and thoughtful understanding Leonard, and it's just lovely and awesome. Thank you. I'm tickled and touched and will have fun reading again.
Oh, and,
And maybe something else if you read it that way, my_daroga. ;)
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You're breaking my heart from the beginning. I always wonder what exactly he means when he talks about friendship. Is it like with marriage, where he just didn't get how to *be* a friend, either? How, you know, it's not a one way street ending with HIM? And doesn't it make sense, yes, to consider Jim Kirk a friend, who can't leave, who can't misunderstand you, who is you and does end with you.
his own charm a hundred times magnified
Yes, oh yes. That paradox. So true.
*flail* Okay, I don't know if I'm going to say this very well, and anyway you wrote it so you know exactly what I mean, but all the conflicting thoughts about loving Kirk and being him and resenting him and somehow simultaneously knowing he's not but believing he is are so spot on. I loved the stuff about the women, about trying that on but not really wanting to be him to him, not able to be Bill without Jim but not able to be Bill if someone's looking at Jim.
I'm not sure Shatner ever thinks about Kirk this way. Internalizing him. But it works, so well, and it works on *me*, and it's wonderful, him speaking to Jim in the mirror, him needing to be Jim's friend, too.
You naughty girl, including his giggle!
Oh. You know, this all makes me think of so many things, about acting, about RP (both ours literally in terms of our interactions and the emotional bleed from it for the writers), about what Bill's relationship to Kirk really is. It's so wonderful to see it explored, and I can assure you, without checking back to see what I prompted, that you filled them. Something. You always know what I want, anyway, or at least what will interest me.
And we've got confused, conflicted, embarrassed Bill, and thoughtful understanding Leonard, and it's just lovely and awesome. Thank you. I'm tickled and touched and will have fun reading again.
Oh, and,
And maybe something else if you read it that way, my_daroga. ;)
You know I'm on it, bb.
Love you!