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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Dec 8, 2006 2:00:51 GMT -5
Jane Davitt has been writing a lot of short Sentinel fics, but a lot of them are Ds or sexual bargaining stories that I'm not a good audience for; tonight she's got a story which is more to my taste, and which makes me feel guilty for not recommending the others- which are, by the way, at 852 Prospect, and I'm glad she's archiving there. Anyway, "Mine all Mine" is h/c, with Jim the one laid up in the hospital and Blair being soothing and reassuring and informative, and delaying his freak-out until he gets home: janedavitt.livejournal.com/622625.html?style=mineJulia, I feel the need to make some kind of statement somewhere warning people that there are many fics which I don't recommend because they're outside my comfort zone |
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Dec 16, 2006 20:33:23 GMT -5
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Dec 20, 2006 0:37:18 GMT -5
A new Sentinel fic from Lamardeuse is a rare event; she's writing mostly in SGA these days (and I really need to get the recs written for some of her stories there). Past, Present, and Future was written for the 2006 Moonridge Auction, a post TSbyBS story where Naomi keeps running, and Blair doesn't. J/B, NC-17, a little angsty and a lot of character exploration. The important distinction, to me, between a fanwriter who writes in many fandoms, and a multi-fandom master fic writer, is that there is little need to be reminded, throughout a master writer's story, of who the characters are; there's no danger of confusing Lamardeuse's John and Rodney with Jim and Blair. She writes in-character, and in-canon, and doesn't do the easy thing of writing two meat puppets with labels around their necks doing things which any character anywhere would do. Julia, well pleased that this is so. |
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 4, 2007 15:27:29 GMT -5
Jane Davitt has been writing a great deal of TS fic lately, and is very good about uploading it to 852 Prospect; I advise people to go check out her offerings there, because the chance of me getting caught up on my recommendations is vanishingly small. I am, however, trying to start the new Year on a better pattern, and I'm prompted to better performance by the really damned fine fic she posted last night, 10,500 words detailing the chaos which acrues when Ethan Rayne sets up a table at a street marken and Blair wanders by on New Years Eve. "With Love," J/B UST/first time, and Ethan doesn't much care about consequences: janedavitt.livejournal.com/639174.html?style=mineJulia, lovely blue jungle stuff |
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 26, 2007 20:45:17 GMT -5
Lit Gal is working on a great pre-series AU called "The Witness" but I am not doing well at picking up new WIPs, sorry. Today, she also has written a post series Gen fic called "Rules and Rituals" where Jim takes Blair to buy his weapon, close to the end of his time at the Academy. There's a lot of worry on Jim's side, and some serious logic on Blair's. Julia, I am in love with her characterizations of all of the dramatis personae in TS, but she may write the best Blair going |
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 26, 2007 20:46:06 GMT -5
Lit Gal is working on a great pre-series AU called "The Witness" but I am not doing well at picking up new WIPs, sorry. Today, she also has written a post series Gen fic called " Rituals and Roles" where Jim takes Blair to buy his weapon, close to the end of his time at the Academy. There's a lot of worry on Jim's side, and some serious logic on Blair's. Julia, I am in love with her characterizations of all of the dramatis personae in TS, but she may write the best Blair going |
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Mar 4, 2007 18:12:33 GMT -5
Jane Davitt has been writing a lot of The Sentinel fic lately, and being virtuous about loading it to her own site and to 852 Prospect. It's all worth reading, and if I was being as virtuous about recommending it as she was about writing it, I'd be much closer to 29,000 posts than I am today, is all. However, today is something so very Jane as well as being so very J/B, and so fresh and new, that I must make a specific recommendation. "Take a Chance" is R, and deserves to be read entirely unspoiled: janedavitt.livejournal.com/689470.html?style=mineJulia, off to the retail wars, again |
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Mar 16, 2007 23:48:21 GMT -5
I really like the way LitGal writes Jim and Blair, especially Blair,and I love her way with plot. I'm less enamoured of Ds NC-17 stuff, but in "The Witness" it feels intrinsic to thestory and not just a way to feed kinks I don't have. The story is a preseries AU, but the angle of the alternative vision is very slight, and the occurences of the story grow closer and closer to cannon as the story progresses, to end with the explosion in the drug lab at Blair's warehouse apartment: www.852prospect.org/archive/archive/27/witness.htmlJulia, I like it a lot, I do. |
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 22, 2007 22:12:50 GMT -5
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 20, 2007 21:53:24 GMT -5
There is nobody who can write action as well as Jane Davitt, and "From Pillar to Post" (J/B, R, mid-series) is a classic example of her ability to keep things moving without a hitch. Morning at the loft, packing for a fishing trip, the phone rings, and stuff gets whacky: janedavitt.livejournal.com/740227.html?style=mine#cutid1Fun caper-film feel to the piece, with humor, chills, explosions, and a moll in very high heels. Julia, so very good, you must read |
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 21, 2007 13:05:09 GMT -5
Lamardeuse is someone I added to my flist when I realized that I couldn't bear to miss any fic she writes. Today it's a pluperfect Post TS by BS, Refugee Status shows Jim post Blair- or rather, post sending Blair back into academia for his own good, as Jim sees it. Doesn't work as well as he thought it would, but things keep changing... (NC-17, M/M) Julia, most highly recommended |
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Dec 15, 2007 12:48:09 GMT -5
Oh, geez, I know I've read recommendable TS fics since May! Sorry, sorry, sorry... Lit Gal has a couple of long WIPs going, neither of which are to my tast (and both of which Nan would have loved). She's busy at work, and doing a good job getting healthy, and when she writes a stand-alone fic it'sa a great good thing. Today comes a nice nugget of H/C, when Jim gets a call at work that takes his world apart and putting it back together takes a long time and a certain amount of painful bluntness. If I Know Not Love is PG, unslash Jim and Blair, post TSbyBS and thank god one of the few cheery fics I've read this week. Julia, Merry Christmas and all that jazz |
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 7, 2008 20:46:14 GMT -5
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 18, 2008 18:45:15 GMT -5
The Cascade Police Department is having trouble at a scifi con, and Blair is the natural person to deal with the malefactors: When Knuckles Drag: The Sentinel meets the Open Source Boob Project. PG-13, songfic (Brad Paisley, that geek himself) and writing well is the best revenge. Julia,  |
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 12, 2009 22:20:04 GMT -5
LitGal writes in a lot of fandoms, and likes to mix it up. Dark, Still Water takes the low point of the Sentinel Guide relationship of The Sentinel s4 and combines it with the screaming paranoia of SG-1 season 4/5, when Daniel seems to get kidnapped or tortured every time he goes through the stargate. The investigation of a kidnapping leads both teams to meet in Cascade, and the SG-1 folks are immediately at odds with Jim Ellison over the way he's treating Blair Sandberg- especially the big guy, Murray, you know the one who wears a hat all the time? There's a whole lot of plot between the beginning in Cascade and the end at SGC, and both Jim and Jack get taken down a peg (their persistant alpha male faceoffs are sometimes disturbing but also hilarious) and Blair is led astray by his shamamistic impulses. PG, no explicit pairing, and long, which is fine with me. Julia, crossposted for both fandoms |
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