[Report This]Date: 22 Sep 2021 20:53 Title: Dakh Pthak
A long chapter here but one that flows really well as we continue the adventures of every day Vulcan life. Although, maybe this episode is not so routine.
As always, enjoyed the level of detail in your stories.
[Report This]Date: 21 Sep 2021 18:38 Title: Dakh Pthak
Lots of interesting stuff here as well as a little vulcan humor: "With the exception of Starfleet officers, who will meld with anything that they even suspect might have a consciousness ten minutes after meeting it, and then are surprised when they are diagnosed with three different neurological diseases before they reach the end of their first century."
The mental construct remonds me strongly of the memory palace used by mentalists to remember large numbers of random facts quickly.
Thanks!! rbs
[Report This]Date: 20 Sep 2021 10:07 Title: Dakh Pthak
Very logically constructed deep dive into the mind-meld and telepathy in general. Lots of great details, both about vulcan culture and telepathic combat/subterfuge.
Looking forward to this one. Great fare as always - Thanks!! rbs
[Report This]Date: 21 Nov 2020 13:07 Title: Khaf-spol t'M'aih
A really great story this one, as usual. Very much enjoyed the change of perspective and the showing the Vulcan mothers are just as caring and concerned about their offspring as those of other races.
The final sentiment here is also well presented. Very succinct but undeniable. The torch has been passed with mother's blessing.
Author's Response: Thank you so much! I really appreciate you taking the time to comment on my fic and all of the kind words. :D
[Report This]Date: 21 Nov 2020 13:04 Title: Khaf-spol t'M'aih
Another great installment here. With Veral finally showing up (and I believe you explored his reasons behind his hesitancy) in other stories, T'Lyra finally get the chance to tend to the parts of her life she has clearly neglected.
The healing begins for both daughter and mother.
Author's Response: Thank you! :)
[Report This]Date: 14 Nov 2020 12:16 Title: Khaf-spol t'M'aih
Talk about starting things off with an attention grabber. Great, disturbing and hilarious first line, all it one.
Really good to see T'Lin beginning to recover here. Of course the focus remains on her mother and it be very interesting to see what kind of psychological impact all this hardship will leave on her, even after T'Lin has recovered physically.
Author's Response: Thanks so much for the feedback! :)
[Report This]Date: 12 Nov 2020 20:45 Title: Khaf-spol t'M'aih
So, the long recovery begins. The perspective from the mostly helpless parent remains intriguing, especially as she struggls to contain the emotional toll of dealing with T'Lin and trying to balance the rest of her family at the same time.
Author's Response: Thank you! :)
[Report This]Date: 11 Nov 2020 21:23 Title: Khaf-spol t'M'aih
This chapter was inevitable of course and I've dreaded it a bit. Pure anguish, even for a Vulcan mother to see her daughter in this manner.
Really well written as usual.
Author's Response: Thank you! It was hard to write (I have a serious squick for medical stuff, which is ironic considering I decided to center a series around a doctor), but I didn't want to shy away from what the entire family went through. (One of the things I really try to focus on with this series is how trauma ripples out and affects everyone.)
[Report This]Date: 05 Nov 2020 14:57 Title: Khaf-spol t'M'aih
Really interesting to see a mature Vulcan woman like T'Lyra struggle to maintain her emotional distance when it comes to the well-being of her daughter.
Although one might read into this that this is a gender issue, i.e. female Vulcans are more emotional than their male counterparts, I don't think that's what's going on here since the likes of T'Yri and T'Kara seem to be doing far at controlling their emotions.
Really appreciate this exploration of T'Lin's history.
Author's Response: Thanks very much! :) Definitely did not intend it to be gender issue, just that T'Lyra personally isn't the most controlled Vulcan in the galaxy. ;)
[Report This]Date: 05 Nov 2020 09:28 Title: Khaf-spol t'M'aih
Enjoying this shift of perspective from T'Lin to T'Lyra for this tale, giving us the opportunity to see our favorite Vulcan heroine from a different perspective.
Also, break-ups are though. In every culture.
Author's Response: Thanks very much! :)
[Report This]Date: 05 Nov 2020 09:24 Title: Khaf-spol t'M'aih
Somehow missed this story. Nice piece of foreshadowing here, although, I know what's coming next. Sadly.
Author's Response: Thank you!
[Report This]Date: 19 Oct 2020 20:07 Title: Kwi'kusut
This reminds of that time Spock said "Live Long and Prosper" in the 09 Trek movie and it sounded much more like a certain two word sentence.
Maybe not quite as harsh here but not an entirely different sentiment, I'm sure. And it's hard to blame him.
Great story, once again, even if it took me a minute to get to the end.
Author's Response: Haha, Suvin's pretty cranky right now. I feel for Pel, but I also get where Suvin is coming from, poor kid. Thank you again for taking the time to leave feedback and for your kind words. :)
[Report This]Date: 19 Oct 2020 20:00 Title: Kwi'kusut
The absentee parents finally return. Yeah, I know that's not fair but if nothing else, T'Lin got a great spooky house out of all this.
Author's Response: Thanks! Yeah, T'Lin had a rough few days, but the house is pretty cool...
[Report This]Date: 18 Oct 2020 21:07 Title: Kwi'kusut
Returned to this after a bit of an absence. Still a telling look behind the curtain of a traditional Vulcan family. And as it turns out, not everything they do is inherently logical, or at least, doesn't appear that way.
Prime example, Veral's mother is quite a piece of work while T'Lin continues to struggle with very human like insecurities.
Excellent dialogue, great read.
Author's Response: Thank you! :)
[Report This]Date: 09 Aug 2020 09:47 Title: Kwi'kusut
Uh, some super low key Vulcan-style passive aggression there at the end. Nice.
T'Lin's reaction to coffee is much like my own. Love the smell, hate the taste. Although, spitting the stuff out didn't seem very Vulcan to me. On second thought: If you hate it, don't drink it, seems logical.
"Oh it's a math game!" is the clear winner in this chapter. Also, love the tie-in with DS9, yet another example of canon Trek going out of their way to make Vulcans unsympathetic to the point of villainy.
Author's Response: LOL, thanks! I feel like she had no choice but to spit it out because there was no way she was going to be able to gag it down. (I actually like coffee, but I only drink it when I go out. When I'm home I stick with tea.)
And I 100% agree about canon and Vulcans. I think a big part of why so many of my stories are Vulcan-centric is because I'm so disappointed with all of the unsympathetic Vulcans in canon.
[Report This]Date: 04 Aug 2020 20:16 Title: Kwi'kusut
A wealth cap? That sounds so ... logical. An idea difficult to imagine in our uber capitalist society but I can certainly see the merit in it. And not just in a socialist kinda way.
"Perhaps it is," Veral said. She suspected he used that same tone when he told a patient with a serious disease that there was still a slim chance of survival.
That made me chuckle.
Author's Response: Thanks! I felt to me like a Vulcan way to deal with ambitious people who might otherwise go full robber baron on society.
[Report This]Date: 30 Jul 2020 20:17 Title: Kwi'kusut
Yeah, I always assumed Vulcan bureaucracy to be the stuff of nightmares and I'm sure you touched on this before.
But hey, if T'Lin and company can get a new house from it, great for them. Not that I would want to live in it. It ain't logical, I know, but I'm with Zira on that one. Better not take the chance of stirring long dead, vengeful Vulcan spirits.
Author's Response: Definitely! You just know they will make you re-do the entire form if you make a single typo...
The next story actually deals in part with those Vulcan spirits, maybe not literal ghosts, but the long persistence of memory in a species that lives for centuries and passes down its memories telepathically.
[Report This]Date: 30 Jul 2020 20:13 Title: Kwi'kusut
If only contemporary humans were as prepared for "widespread quarantine" as Vulcans. We may have been able to avoid the great 2020 Toilet Paper Crisis and perhaps even far more serious matters.
Oh well, I'm not the one to talk, really.
Author's Response: I will admit that the bit about everyone having their emergency supplies in order was very much inspired by current events.
Thank you for the comment. :)
[Report This]Date: 30 Jul 2020 20:09 Title: Kwi'kusut
I liked T'Lin's fascination with the house and the Vulcan history lesson focused on their less than logical past.
To me, T'Lin felt a bit more unsympathetic to Zira here, perhaps more so than usual and I wonder if it might be due to the stress she has experienced from the turbulent last few days.
Author's Response: Thank you very much! I can't say I wrote T'Lin that way specifically, but now I wonder if I might have done it unconsciously because she is under so much stress and not at her best.
[Report This]Date: 20 Jul 2020 18:13 Title: Kwi'kusut
I liked that the story remained on Vulcan and tightly focused even as larger events were occasionally referenced. The story has a bit of the feeling of the movie "Signs" in that narrow, successful focus.
An interesting place to end the story. With this type of story there really is no typical ending place because things never completely resolve - and if they did it would almost necessarialy ring false.
Really well done! Thanks! rbs
Author's Response: I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I really appreciate you leaving comments on my fic. It's so encouraging to know that people are reading and enjoying my work. Thank you again! :)
[Report This]Date: 20 Jul 2020 18:08 Title: Kwi'kusut
Odd the amount of not talking to Suvin and allowing him time to process. Again - not very human, but believably vulcan.
Nice short chapter - to the point.
Thanks!! rbs
Author's Response: Thank you much!
[Report This]Date: 20 Jul 2020 16:59 Title: Kwi'kusut
Another glimpse into the emotional lives of these emotionally damaged vulcans.
Interesting discussion regarding the music and its therapeutic effects.
Thanks!! rbs
Author's Response: Thank you for the comment. :)
[Report This]Date: 20 Jul 2020 16:48 Title: Kwi'kusut
Favorite line: "especially among species that used the same oriface for both activities..."
Of course it makes sense vulcans would like baseball. Unlike modern Americans, they would have the patience for it.
Nice clue with the taste of cold metal.
Author's Response: Thank you!
[Report This]Date: 20 Jul 2020 16:37 Title: Kwi'kusut
Wealth cap - very logical. That would go over like a led balloon in the US. But it would make the lives of the very wealthy so much better - they could stop and simply enjoy. Not to mention the beneficial impact on the rest of society.
Ambitious vulcans, who'd have thought?
Thanks!! rbs
Author's Response: Yeah, I feel like reaching a wealth cap is the equivalent of "winning" the game of making money, and now you can move on to something else.
[Report This]Date: 20 Jul 2020 16:31 Title: Kwi'kusut
Nice complexities of vulcan history and law, making this a very rich, interesting story.
Vulcans are amazing compartmentalizers. A human family would fret endlessly over the missing child and not get much else done.
Thanks!! rbs
Author's Response: Thank you very much! One struggle I have writing these stories is making sure my characters are distinctly Vulcan and not just humans with pointy ears, so I'm glad that they seem to come across that way.