One happy recipient this morning

The Unsent Letters ficathon has gone live, and I received the dysfunctional fraternal letters of my dreams:


Letters for a Dead King (1981 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great & Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen (1726-1802)
Characters: Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen | Henry of Prussia (1726-1802)
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Love/Hate, Talking To Dead People, Canonical Character Death, Dysfunctional Family
Summary:

Just because one's king and brother is dead doesn't mean one has to stop writing to him.

Now excuse while I revel in it some more and read the other letters....

ST: Strange New Worlds (Pilot) and ST: Picard (season finale)

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1.01.: Since I had really liked Discovery's version of Pike, Spock and what little we saw of Number One in season 2, I was looking forward to this, and the first episode did not disappoint. Incidentally, if there was one thing that could have kept me from watching, it's the annoying type of DISCO basher who was loundly anticipating "real" Trek. (These kind of utterings are what reliably keeps me from watching The Orville. Seriously, every time someone recs The Orville to me by dissing Discovery, by by now I love as much as my other favourite Trek tv shows, DS9 and TNG, they further ensure I will never watch it.) However, said annoying type of fan is not the fault of this latest show, plus I can report that not only was the pilot charming, but affectionate Discovery references were flying fast, and also, it did not escape me that Pike and Spock were the only men on the bridge of the Enterprise, plus the present day parallels to what was going on on the planet of the week were less than subtle and as firmly messaging as both Discovery and Picard are. (Which is a fine Trekian tradition. The shows don't always pull it off well, but they try.)

( Spoilery details are hitting it in ST: SNW 1.01 )

( Star Trek: Picard 2.10 )