All I got left is my bones
#the fact that mccoy is a mess here but his hands don’t shake once because they’re trained not to #steady as a drumbeat and all grace under pressure #speaking in wide vowels and heavy consonants that take up space uncompromisingly and weigh the air down like ballast #i’ve watched this scene a billion times and there are two distinct halves to it #the half where jim looks cornered and the half where he doesn’t #and right smack in between those is this moment where he glances down right where bones’s hands would be unscrewing the flask #and when bones drinks from it his eyes linger there half a beat too long like they’re honing in on something before skittering away #suddenly boom there it is jim kirk letting his guard down just a little just enough that the breathing comes easy #for this total stranger with the steadiest hands he’s ever seen (tags via leighway)
All I got left is my bones
#the fact that mccoy is a mess here but his hands don’t shake once because they’re trained not to #steady as a drumbeat and all grace under pressure #speaking in wide vowels and heavy consonants that take up space uncompromisingly and weigh the air down like ballast #i’ve watched this scene a billion times and there are two distinct halves to it #the half where jim looks cornered and the half where he doesn’t #and right smack in between those is this moment where he glances down right where bones’s hands would be unscrewing the flask #and when bones drinks from it his eyes linger there half a beat too long like they’re honing in on something before skittering away #suddenly boom there it is jim kirk letting his guard down just a little just enough that the breathing comes easy #for this total stranger with the steadiest hands he’s ever seen (tags via leighway)
OK, so point the first: can we have a thousand fics where Scotty is always threatening to quit and Kirk learned his lesson this first time so new crew members panic hilariously every time it happens in the future but there is never any danger of Kirk accepting Scotty’s resignation ever again? And Scotty can use it on anything—from actual ethical showdowns to “I will not work on a ship that does not have three-ply toilet paper”—and Kirk will never do anything but roll his eyes in the future, maybe splutter a little bit in futile rage. And Scotty will use this in the future—all the fucking time—because Captain Tight Pants Perfect Hair deserves every second of it as far as he’s concerned.
Point the second: how much do we all love that Scotty and Kirk have to negotiate when and how one accepts/offers a resignation but Scotty and his life partner are 100% on the same page on this issue? And the dude doesn’t even, like, argue. He’s just like, “oh, whoops, sorry, is it time for my resignation letter now? Because I have it. It’s right here.” (PS: I am shipping these two SO HARD now. SO. HARD.)
Point the third: I want to see 10000% more instances of the clothes Scotty wears on shore leave. I want to see all the Hawaiian shirts, all the neon ties, everything.
Point the fourth: I want to see Scotty treat his communicator like a phone all the time. I want him to cover the mouthpiece—ineffectively—on away missions and while grumbling about Kirk and while eating dinner and while finishing off an argument with life partner dude about how much Scotch is a wise decision. I have always loved how all the inappropriate phone social conventions turn up with the communicators. I bet Scotty would totes save photos to his communicator and be projecting holographic renderings of his kids to diplomats in his old age as they smile politely and hope desperately that he hasn’t managed to add more memory for more photos on his (spoilers: he has) and that the photo stream will end soon (spoilers: it won’t). I bet he has invented horribly annoying games with lots of loud annoying music to play on his communicator when he’s bored on away missions.