This is the most sad and beautiful and hilarious and heartrending thing that I have ever read. It made me laugh through tears, laugh to tears, and just positively ache. I love your Bones and all the wit and sarcasm that you wound throughout. I feel like you really capture the essence of the Enterprise crew. As a huge S/U shipper, I would love to read more of your work with their relationship. Seriously, this is an incredible piece of literary gold.

This is... kind of beautiful. Really. Especially the roses. Thanks for writing )

This was a lot of fun to read! As a language nut, huge fan of both TOS and the 2009 AU, and native Portlander, I had fun "getting" the structure and various forms of homage in this fic. It's fun to imagine my home city so far into the future and yet still holding onto its most core Portland-ness complete with water fountains and vegan food carts. I am pleased. :D

Oh, and plomeek soup. Yes. It's a thing. Thou amuseth me with thine cross-references.
Damn, I need to re-watch classic.

"May thy shade thirst for water a thousand years!...May thy daughters be given unto the desert, and the daughters of thy sister unto the slaver!"
Did you come up with all of those curses yourself? I'll admit, I can see why Uhura would be a little bit turned on... LOL

This makes me very much desire more knowledge of the Vulcan language, since I know next to nothing. It can hardly be more difficult than Sindarin, Hebrew, or Japanese, right? In any case - I appreciate a fic that reads intelligently. I'll have to check out your other work.

side note: I think you meant "gradations of meaning", not "graduations of meaning" about midway up the page. Not a huge deal, just noticed. :)

Oh this is great. Nerd Kirk is Best Kirk.

But more seriously, you've worked such depth onto the characters that this story feels longer than its wordcount implies. Thanks very much for this story. It's even one of the few I find on the Net that's worth printing out to share with people offline.

THIS.

RIGHT HERE.

IS (SUCH) A THING.

this story is really brilliant. i often get really fangirly in my reviews, with lots of !1111!1!ONE!ELEVEN!s but i won't this time. i'll just say it's brilliant, and leave it at that.

I cried pretty much the whole time I read this. Some of it was from, ya know, epic sadness, but most of it was because i was laughing so *DAMN* *HARD*. This is excellent, amazing, and so many words I can't even think of! A truly unique take on everything! Thank you for putting this up for the world to see!

Amazing. This story manages to be very, very funny, and very, very touching, all at the same time. I first found it earlier this year on LiveJournal. It's one of two or three stories that convinced me that fanfic was worth reading after all. As for Sakel, he's so awesome he ought to become canon, both in this timeline and the original.

The very first time I read this I let out a feew quiet sniffles at the last line. And I love the way Bones is in this one. Especially how he translates Spock-ese. So good.

Okay, I don't remember the last time I laughed out loud so many times while reading a fanfic...wait, I do, it was Tempestuous Muse's "Long List of Dammit, Jim!". I have no fic of my own to offer, so in thanks for this one, I think you would enjoy Muse's.

I read this once years ago, and then spent hours trying to find it on the internet again. It's one of the most gorgeous and heartwarming ensemble pieces I've read, not just in this verse, but across many others as well. The Vulcan characterisation is excellent, and it lends wonderful asides to Starfleet life outside of the Enterprise. Thank you so much for sharing.

Cheers,
Sarah

Oh my god the ending was so beautiful I don't even . /crying so hard

Seriously, this was definitely one of the best thing I've read in a long time, it was brilliant :D

This was really an amazing story, start to finish. Beautifully written, humor parts and sober parts alike. Admittedly a little confusing at the first couple time-skip-part-thingies, but worked out very well.

Yeah, um, crying like a baby, here. This is beautiful and amazing every time I read it, please continue to be awesome.

How 'bout I just strew petals upon the ground thoust walks? And pine elegantly for a favor of your hand? And, ya know, just fangirl the shit out of this and you? lol