Get excited and make things.

That's what Wil Wheaton encourages, and today that's what I did.

I got home to find my mum in the living room making beeswax candles, and after a moment, I agreed to the offer of making my own. My brother had tried not long before, and I'll be honest and say it looked awful. He'd rolled the wax alright, really, but he wasn't gentle enough, and there were dents from fingerprints or something.

But mine was good, I think. I started with it being green, because I couldn't decide between the options of green and yellow, and shouted for my dad to choose. Once I'd finished I was given the option of decorating, and chose red striped to signify the unity of Gryffindor and Slytherin. Also the brotherhood of Loki and Thor.

Then, later on, Ivan joked that on his Bones roleplaying blog, his Spock had mentioned wanting a Sarek around. I believe my reply was 'tell them if they can get my blog sorted out I'll fucking do it'. Ivan immediately rose to the challenge, and created the lamest blog we could make up, creating a Sarek that isn't entirely sure what he's doing, and it just making super important observations about his work and his son.

This has to be the dumbest idea we've had and that I've agreed to all month.

But, it is also one of the funniest. It started as pure crack, but I wanted to prove that I'm actually capable of serious writing and worked up a short drabble that I'm actually a little proud of.

Within an hour of him telling me, we had the blog running, and Ivan set up a side blog of a stupid version of Admiral Pike that we made up a while ago, and this promises to be a laugh, if nothing else.

Ivan can be a terrible influence on my writing habits, but it's interesting to branch out into characters that don't get a lot of scope. I mean, there's a book titles Sarek that I actually intend to purchase for the wonderful price of £2.80 when I can spare it, and he turns up a fair amount in the series, in the William Shatner authored fanfiction known as Starfleet Academy: Collision Course, but I've never seriously tried to write about him. Still, always good to broaden my horizons with a character I find interesting even though he utterly failed at parenting.