This is SO PRETTY ❤️
But they did not do these two justice in the show 💔 😩
^ Closeup of their cutey faces
My proposed bumper sticker design in honor of Threshold Day
Makes for good writing material though...
The only time I've ever spent a full day scrounging the internet to collect all 15 books was for Taylor Anderson's Destroyermen series. I cannot recommend these enough. I still have yet to read the first of the spinoff Artillerymen series, but if you need a SciFi/twisted history series to get lost in--this guy's books are it.
My beta reader is being nosy.
"I'm just gonna take a peek at what you've got in this here mug while I wait, kthx."
My Monday musings: I'm kind of surprised this isn't a bigger ship.
Michael and Nhan make a lot of sense to me. They went through the wringer together, they went to the future together, and Nhan was called in later to keep Michael in line because she knew her and how she would operate. Michael knew she would make the tough calls if she couldn't because that's what she'd done, and Michael accepted it and trusted her anyway. When push did come to shove, Nhan was convinced to forego her "duty above all" mindset and both of them grew from that experience.
It seems like Michael and Nhan had a way stronger foundation than Michael and Book, whose foundation the show skipped almost entirely and built through exposition once Michael and Discovery were finally reunited.
I love Jaylah so much 🥲 I need to do a meet & greet one shot with her.
Should she meet Seven of Nine or Jett Reno...?
Jaylah & Chekov STAR TREK BEYOND (2016)
Her core structures were much the same, her eyes were still blue and the shapes of the plating along her face identical to what Michael remembered. The colors, though, were different–black, charcoal, white and gold. The white threading of her uniform moved almost seamlessly into the synthetics around her lips and nose, the dark fabric melting into the inky black planes of her neck and throat. She was taller, more imposing somehow, but the stately, proud Airiam Michael knew was absent. This one's eyes, her very being, seemed altogether broken. Like the Airiam in the brig, she was in pain, too. But this one's pain was much different and it could not be helped.
Snippet from fic 4 "Breaking Free" of my Airiam series, and I've been wanting to do this photo edit for a while. I finally found some time, and even though the new idea I've got floating around in my head is a ways off, I am very excited to be able to write her as a villain ^^
This version is also the one I envision in "The Measure of Logic."
...I don't know why I'm like this.
For the Optics full series: https://archiveofourown.org/series/4208095
Rating: Mature (occasional NSFW, with plots)
Relationship: Airiam x Michael Burnham
Fandoms: Star Trek Discovery x Star Trek Voyager
This show will go down in history as the biggest missed opportunity for the most genuine and incredible enemies to lovers WLW arc and it's been YEARS and I am STILL HEARTBROKEN.
I don't even remember if I finished the show but I do know I continued watching even after Hook came in because Lana is worth watching no matter what.
Ain't no way those motherfuckers put those bitches looking at each other like that and expected us to believe they weren't madly in love
"she didn't want anything to do with me"
"I have to say goodbye to the thing I love most"
And with those lines??
bonus points:
Graphic designer and aspiring author of LGBTQ sci-fi, fantasy, & romance. Faithfully defending my pet turkeys from the local homesteaders. Probably still mad about Airiam. AO3: AdelineIsermanJaneway x Seven | Michael x Airiam | Sam x Janet | SwanQueen Star Trek: Discovery | Star Trek: Voyager | Stargate: SG-1 | Stargate: Atlantis | Farscape | Once Upon a Time
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