hustling for the record machine

[unfitforsociety]

Star Trek Reboot

lethal poison through the system by asimaiyat
When she was a kid she thought she was going to grow up to be a spy -- a secret agent. With boots that would let her slink silently down dark corridors, and some kind of special secret weapon, like the phasers she saw in vids but quieter and sleeker. Working on the side of good, to help bring down the Bad Guys, standing outside their doors and listening in on their secret messages.

Yeah, definitely that. Or else a pirate. Nyota Uhura is fiercer and more awesome than everyone. possibly ever.

Pomegranate by loneraven
Nyota goes home after the movie. This is gorgeous, and it made me cry. Her mother hugs her fiercely, without care or delicacy but with love, and Nyota thinks about the long nights she spent in this room, sitting straight-backed at her desk while her mother lay on the bed, leaning on a stack of pillows, grading papers. She tried to persuade her daughter to sleep late on weekends and not to drive herself so hard, and Nyota didn't listen; so Nyota studied late into the night, every night, and her mother made tea after dark and poured out mute, loving cups. Nyota passed the entrance exams for the Academy with the highest distinction, and took packets of tea leaves to San Francisco.

"I'm so sorry," her mother says, softly. "I'm so, so sorry. I know I can't understand." She lets go and stands up. "Let me make you some tea, baby, okay?"

She's gone without waiting for an answer, which is just how Nyota remembers things should be.

~*~

Comments

[secretsolitaire]

Hadn't seen Pomegranate, and it's gorgeous. Thanks for the rec.

[musesfool]

You're welcome! I hope you let the author know.

You put me to shame!

[sherrold]

I have a pile of stories waiting for me to rec them...but I ignore them, and miss file them, and frequently forget they exist altogether. You...you actually write and post your recs, and do the stories justice!

Maybe I'll post some tomorrow. It could happen.

Re: You put me to shame!

[musesfool]

That's what delicious is for! That way even if I never get around to posting them here, I still have them tagged and organized. *g*

delicious...

[sherrold]

I love it, I use it (heh, I have more stories linked than you do [g])...but these days, I'm doing most of my reading on the kindle instead of my computer, and it's hard to remember to update delicious afterwards -- I often don't have the URL around anymore, even.

So at this point, it would be just as easy to make a rec post as it would to remember to put the stories into delicious. I love the kindle, but it isn't *quite* perfect for fannish reading.

Re: delicious...

[musesfool]

Ah, that would make it more difficult. I tend to be really lazy, so I probably wouldn't post 'em either if I didn't have a schedule for it, and thus, feel guilty when I don't do it. *g*