Spock/McCoy (TOS)

Spock/McCoy is the second most popular slash pairing in TOS fandom.
Spock and McCoy have a great deal of intense interaction, and in TOS the two are often framed together in scenes. The arguments are epic, very much like an old married couple.
One fan explains the basis for the pairing:
From the Spock/McCoy Ship Manifesto:
==Reactions==
While some fans have reacted negatively to the pairing:
Others have rejected criticisms of Spock/McCoy as limited and shortsighted:
Some K/S fans found themselves in the ironic position of defending the traditional K/S stories from “out of character” premises.
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In 1985, a K/S fan explained how Spock/McCoy would work for her: 
Charlotte C Hill, a Spock/McCoy shipper from the zine era, commented on the unpopularity of the pairing in the early slash fandom and speculated about the possible reasons of it:
==A Place in Awards==
The pairing has received recognition in some of the online fan fiction awards. In 1997, the ASC Awards began offering awards for Best Spock/McCoy Fanfiction. In 1998, the Golden Os followed suit.
[Note: was the pairing recognized in print fan fic awards? were there awards any for pairings or were there just general categories?]
==Fanworks==
===Fanfiction===
Several fan historians have attempted to pin down the first Spock/McCoy story with little luck. The first known Kirk/Spock/McCoy threesome story was "Between Friends" which is part of Gayle F.'s Cosmic Fuck series. It was published in Obsc'zine #3 in 1978.
====Stories====
 
* Yesterday by by Jane Carnall (1994)
*Cataclysmic Binaries by nemo_the_everbeing
* Impromptu Bondmates by nemo_the_everbeing
*The Other One by Greywolf the Wanderer
*Sugar Magnolia by Greywolf the Wanderer
* Ghosts by Jaye-Voy
* On Vulcan Genomic Engineering and Love by E.
* Fascinating by Acidqueen
* Or The Doctor Gets It by tprillahfiction
*Unicorn (Star Trek: TOS story) by TJ
*The Sound of His Voice by Laura Jacquez Valentine
*Cave of the Heart by Gayle F
*Back to the Heart by TJ
===Vids===
* McCoySpockLove's youtube channel of S/Mc vids
* You Had a Bad Day by VenisKaio
* Sun to Me by VenisKaio
* Heartache by Lunamaie
* Fever by crappyvideospotter
* Calico Skies by SpockeMc
* Us by XxLeschaxX
* Screaming Silence by XxLeschaxX
* Ice by retroUFO
* U + Me by Darlapr0duction
* Lithium by Spirksbuttbaby
* Spock's Song by badvidhater
*Please Don't Leave Me by pantswarrior
===Artwork===
Before the Internet, Spock/McCoy fanart was vanishingly rare. Spock and McCoy were not usually depicted together in the same scene without at least Kirk also present, and almost never were they drawn into an unambiguously sexual or romantic scenario. Compare the few zine art examples below with the K/S art category on Fanlore, which contains over 300 images. Note that most of these images are from Mind Meld, officially a gen zine.
File:Antimattermccoyspock.jpg|from Anti-Matter #3, 1969, artist is Carol Lee, one stanza of the poem: "Ignoring truth and duty for your pleasure/ Loving, bating, filling years with worthless meanings/Despising what you do not understand/Xenophobia turning you from all that's different"
File:Rr3art5.jpg|from R&R #3, 1977. Early Spock/McCoy art by Gayle F illustrating the pon farr story "None There Embrace" by Connie Faddis.
File:Obs3art1.jpg|from Obsc'zine #3, 1978. Spock/McCoy art by Connie Faddis illustrating a Kirk/Spock/McCoy story by Gayle F (Between Friends)
File:Asidothee1art9.jpg|from As I Do Thee #1, 1984. Art by Merle Decker
File:Legendsendinside3.jpg|from Legend's End #1, 1984. Hurt/comfort story illustration from a maybe gen, maybe slash Kirk-Spock zine.
File:Mindmeld3art4.jpg|from Mind Meld #3, 1986. A typical gen depiction of The Big Three, based on a scene from the episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" where Spock pets a tribble. Even with the addition of McCoy (he was not present in the shot), his slash-bait expression of fond amusement is a straightforward representation of his canon attitude toward Spock.
File:Mindmeld4art5.jpg|from Mind Meld #4, 1987: artist is Sherry Veltkamp, context for this image unknown.
File:Mindmeld4art8.jpg|from Mind Meld #4, 1987. Illustration accompanying a poem. Only the juxtaposition of the poem, in which an unidentified narrator declares his? admiration for Spock's music, with the images of McCoy smiling at something off-camera and Spock playing the Vulcan lute indicate that McCoy is actually gazing in admiration at Spock.
File:Shadesgrey3 int2.JPG|from Shades of Grey #3, 1988. A Spock/McCoy scene from a Kirk/Spock threesome anthology zine.
File:Therearethreeinside17.jpg|inside art from There Are Three (a gen zine), the artist is Kate Maynard
File:Mindmeld6art3.jpg|from Mind Meld #6, 1991. A tender moment whose intimacy is enhanced by shading with colored pencils to create an indistinct, dreamlike purple background and illuminated foreground that focuses the viewer's eye on the gentle touch of their hands. Slashy out of context, this art illustrates a scene from a gen story, Journey of a Soul. 
====Post-Internet Fanart Examples====
*The All-Ages Spock/McCoy Online Archive ArtWebCite for Artwork.
* Spones on deviantArt
*In The Shower by tripperfunster
File:Unity.jpg|from Spiced Peaches #4, 2006. Unambiguousy slashy art from an e-zine.
File:Secret santa - spones by hughesation.png|Secret Santa - Spones by Hughesation (2011)
File:Tumblr o9hin1aawD1uwkjxzo1 500.jpg|structmain.tumblr.com (deleted account) (2016)
File:Tumblr ov6w6qt6Gc1uwkjxzo4 1280.jpg|Spock/McCoy fanart by Tumblr user "structmain" (deactivated account) (2017)
File:Tumblr opl0svInU81uwkjxzo1 1280.jpg|Spock and McCoy sharing a bed, by Tumblr user "structmain" (deactivated account) (2017)
File:Tumblr inline ojryophaNV1tvv2tm 500.jpg|Movie-era Spock and McCoy, by Tumblr user "structmain" (deactivated account) (2017)
File:Tumblr omt81fLhom1uwkjxzo1 1280.jpg|Spock and McCoy dancing, by Tumblr user "structmain" (deactivated account) (2017)
File:Tumblr ojzawcj13X1uwkjxzo1 1280.jpg|structmain.tumblr.com (deleted account) (2017)
File:Tumblr oo94cyfc431uwkjxzo1 1280.jpg|Spock/McCoy fanart by Tumblr user "structmain" (deactivated account) (2017)
File:Tumblr ol3y0ypQqK1uwkjxzo2 1280.jpg|Mirror!Verse Spock and his victim by structmain.tumblr.com (deleted account) (2017)
File:Tumblr os5pmiUwn61uwkjxzo1 1280.jpg|structmain.tumblr.com (deleted account) (2017)
===Meta===
* by Tempest
* by magnetic-rose
=== Zines ===
* Spiced Peaches (2005-2019) (online e-zine anthology and archive)
** In 2005 the first issue of Spiced Peaches, the first online Zine totally dedicated entirely to Spock/McCoy, was published by Tempest Coyote.
**The last Spiced Peaches issue was #58 published in 2019. 
* We Go Together
==Communities==
*spockmccoyhaven (link) - a Yahoo Group mailing list founded in 2002
*spockmccoy on LJ
*spockmccoy on Dreamwidth
*spockmccoy kink meme on LJ
*sponesvalentine - Spock/McCoy Valentine commmunity on LJ
*Fuck Yeah Spones tumblr
== Archives and Links ==
* Leonard "Bones" McCoy/Spock, TOS at Archive of Our Own
* Spock McCoy archive (both TOS and AOS)
===Spock/McCoy Archives - Multi-Author===
*The Spock/McCoyote's Den
*Spock/McCoy Haven (defunct)
*The All-Ages Spock/McCoy Online Archive (archive link)
*Trekiverse Spock/McCoy pairing tag
* Spock/McCoy on AO3
* Spock/McCoy Archive
*Spiced Peaches Livejournal Community
===Single Author Websites===
* Fics by Jane Carnall
* Spock/McCoy stories by Amphioxious Obnoxious
* Spock/McCoy fics by Tempest
*Fics by Drusilla Dax
==References==
Category:Slash Pairings
Category:Star Trek TOS Relationships