Alas, I'm going home for Fall Break, and I'm leaving on Friday afternoon. :( I'll see if I can stay a day into Winter Break or something? I'd imagine Jen's staying, and everyone at her house, since they live there and all, but I don't know about anyone else.
I guess what squicks me is the infantilization and the caretaker mystique
Funny thing is, I don't understand the "infantilization" aspect in its extreme form (which is how I most often see it represented in kinkfic - adult diapers and such), but the caretaker as an eroticized figure makes sense to me. I kind of see it as another aspect of power play - the sense of having that much control over someone, and having someone need you not just in an emotional but literal physical way, carries a tinge of dominance along with the responsibility-and-care tender feelings. I'm not sure why my mind applies hard brakes so soon as those aspects are equated with a parent-child relationship, but it does.
What pairing was it, out of curiosity?
...it was Three/Brigadier with the Doctor as the one drugged, except his mental capacity was closer to late childhood/early preadolescence than infancy because it was easier to write that way and the Brig was in charge of keeping him out of trouble until Liz found a way to cure him. STOP THAT. I CAN HEAR YOU JUDGING ME OVER THE INTERNET. D:
Yes, I did mean establish it. Thank you for thinking of words when I am too incompetent to do so. And I guess I went with Starfleet as more U.S. military and thus more accustomed to the informal use of corporal punishment, trial-by-fire, physical activity as punishment (i.e. 'drop and give me twenty') rather than codified corporal punishment. The latter strikes me as a more boarding-school thing*, but I wasn't aware of its prevalence in the British military, so that makes a little more sense in context.
*The reason it brings boarding-school, specifically, to mind is largely because the student living at school makes it much easier to blur the line between parent/child and student/teacher. Also, the students aren't yet considered adults, and because of its association with punishing children corporal punishment thus becomes tied to an adult punishing a child; the students at Starfleet are young, but they're not children.
That said, I do like the way you set it up as an archaic rule that Pike digs up, as it adds yet more layers to the whole thing because Pike's trying to drag Kirk out of his own messes but is doing that by, you know, taking a whack at him if he has to. Kirk having to sign off on the thing is just another non-physical slap to the face, because the only thing Kirk hates worse than someone else telling him he screwed up is having to admit himself that he screwed up. Basically what it all amounts to is that I find this all a bit fascinating and am looking forward to seeing what you do with it. :)
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I guess what squicks me is the infantilization and the caretaker mystique
Funny thing is, I don't understand the "infantilization" aspect in its extreme form (which is how I most often see it represented in kinkfic - adult diapers and such), but the caretaker as an eroticized figure makes sense to me. I kind of see it as another aspect of power play - the sense of having that much control over someone, and having someone need you not just in an emotional but literal physical way, carries a tinge of dominance along with the responsibility-and-care tender feelings. I'm not sure why my mind applies hard brakes so soon as those aspects are equated with a parent-child relationship, but it does.
What pairing was it, out of curiosity?
...it was Three/Brigadier with the Doctor as the one drugged, except his mental capacity was closer to late childhood/early preadolescence than infancy because it was easier to write that way and the Brig was in charge of keeping him out of trouble until Liz found a way to cure him. STOP THAT. I CAN HEAR YOU JUDGING ME OVER THE INTERNET. D:
Yes, I did mean establish it. Thank you for thinking of words when I am too incompetent to do so. And I guess I went with Starfleet as more U.S. military and thus more accustomed to the informal use of corporal punishment, trial-by-fire, physical activity as punishment (i.e. 'drop and give me twenty') rather than codified corporal punishment. The latter strikes me as a more boarding-school thing*, but I wasn't aware of its prevalence in the British military, so that makes a little more sense in context.
*The reason it brings boarding-school, specifically, to mind is largely because the student living at school makes it much easier to blur the line between parent/child and student/teacher. Also, the students aren't yet considered adults, and because of its association with punishing children corporal punishment thus becomes tied to an adult punishing a child; the students at Starfleet are young, but they're not children.
That said, I do like the way you set it up as an archaic rule that Pike digs up, as it adds yet more layers to the whole thing because Pike's trying to drag Kirk out of his own messes but is doing that by, you know, taking a whack at him if he has to. Kirk having to sign off on the thing is just another non-physical slap to the face, because the only thing Kirk hates worse than someone else telling him he screwed up is having to admit himself that he screwed up. Basically what it all amounts to is that I find this all a bit fascinating and am looking forward to seeing what you do with it. :)