☆paging doctor gorgeous☆

I'm really feeling like I want to write something centered around hanahaki disease, because every time I think of it or read a story about it or see fan art inspired by it, I feel something inside of me clench in response to my very real - and currently ongoing - personal experience with unrequited love. As a concept: living quietly with this condition that will one day kill me.

I like the idea of projecting; of tracking a character's lonely, secret struggle.

I like the concept of flower language, and the research I'd get to do in order to decide just what sort of flowers are involved here, based on who the character is, who the person they love is, and what their relationship is like.

It'd be angsty and dramatic and entirely self-indulgent.

I'd probably want to write McKirk, since that is the only pairing I seem to feel comfortable enough writing at present, only there already exists a McKirk fic about this. I've read it, and it was wonderful. In fact, it was only published about a month ago! I'll link it here, at the end of the entry, if anyone's interested in having a look.

So, dear readers, what would you do? How much of an unofficial crime is it to write a story that is probably bound to be pretty similar to somebody else's, even if only at it's roots? Is this a Remix situation? Do people still do Remixes? Would you, like, reach out to the other author?

I dunno. I dunno.

Regardless, here's a rec!

Title: Like Petals in a Storm
Fandom: Star Trek AOS
Pairing: Jim Kirk/Leonard McCoy
Rating: M
Length: 10,338 words