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Obsessed with all things Vulcan and Romulan. lilacs_in_space on AO3. Fandom elder. She/her.

Chapter Eight of A Perfect Match is now up!

Title: A Perfect Match

Rating: E

Tags: High Steam, Arranged Marriage, Pon Farr (Star Trek), Vulcans, Romulans, PTSD, Explicit Sexual Content, Interspecies Romance, Exploration of Vulcan and Romulan Culture, Vulcan Mind Melds (Star Trek)

Summary: After the Dominion war, Captain Solok finds himself inexplicably sidelined by Starfleet and resigned to seek peace in domesticity as he searches for a wife to ease his approaching Pon Farr. Meanwhile, Senator Letant scrambles with increasing desperation to stop the Romulan Star Empire descending into civil war while struggling to keep his sanity intact.

don’t talk to ME about gay yearning. in 2020 during lockdown i lived alone on a boat for three months. i went ashore once a day to work in a marine bio lab. we all had to access the lab at different times so we were never together & risking infection. i was alone all day every day, from my boat to the lab and back to my boat. one day a woman anchored her boat beside mine. we passed each other ashore just once at the harbor and she hit on me and invited me back to her boat. i told her i’d love nothing more but i could not risk exposure because of my weak immune system. she said it was a shame but that she understood. that night i was watering my vegetable garden i grew in 5 gallon buckets up on my roof and playing music on my speaker. “american pie” came on and she climbed up on her roof and shouted all the lyrics to every verse at me across the water and we danced together on our respective roofs. she raised anchor and moved on a few days later.

so yeah i know what it is to die a thousand deaths in an instant while your heart beats on.

Any writer needs an eye for the double entendre in the same way that the gamekeeper has to have the mind of a poacher. The deliberate double entendre, on the other hand, is not to be sneezed at; I myself once perpetrated a treble entendre, and I suspect that if sufficient grant money could be made available, the quadruple entendre should not be beyond our grasp.

-- Terry Pratchett - A Slip Of The Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

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