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crack_van2007-08-24 09:55 pm
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Middle Ground by Maggie B (NC-17)
Fandom: THE SENTINEL
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: unknown
Why this must be read: Jim’s character fascinates me and I love stories that use his thoughts or his actions to examine the inner man.
This story does that in a wonderful little trip of self-discovery for Jim when he comes to realise he’s in love with Blair.
Of course, being Jim and a hands-on, kinesthetic-thinking kind of guy, he discovers this by experience rather than reflection. He’s familiarly taciturn but is still perfectly able to have an extended inner monologue which is all the more fascinating for the fact that he doesn’t actually say very much at all in the story.
And the reader, being less emotionally repressed than Jim, has the fun of figuring everything out before he does then watching him get around to catching on.
"I'm taking a break here, Sandburg. Not that you would understand the concept of needing a break since you haven't mastered the art of work yet. Why don't you head back to your sandbox?"
He did the exact opposite, of course, and sat in the nearest chair. He drummed his fingers on the table and stared with a wide-eyed look, deceptively casual. Blair Sandburg collected facts by putting you at ease, making you drop your guard and reveal things, little things like why the toilet paper has to roll under and why the dishrag can't hang on the faucet to dry. He listened intently, gathered the facts, then just as you relaxed into that content space of feeling understood, he laughed at you and leveled twenty reasons why you were anal and how to recognize repression-based behavior in yourself.
"That meant 'leave,' Sandburg."
The writing here is fresh and original, and some of the descriptions and images from this story stuck with me for ages after I read it.
Middle Ground
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: unknown
Why this must be read: Jim’s character fascinates me and I love stories that use his thoughts or his actions to examine the inner man.
This story does that in a wonderful little trip of self-discovery for Jim when he comes to realise he’s in love with Blair.
Of course, being Jim and a hands-on, kinesthetic-thinking kind of guy, he discovers this by experience rather than reflection. He’s familiarly taciturn but is still perfectly able to have an extended inner monologue which is all the more fascinating for the fact that he doesn’t actually say very much at all in the story.
And the reader, being less emotionally repressed than Jim, has the fun of figuring everything out before he does then watching him get around to catching on.
"I'm taking a break here, Sandburg. Not that you would understand the concept of needing a break since you haven't mastered the art of work yet. Why don't you head back to your sandbox?"
He did the exact opposite, of course, and sat in the nearest chair. He drummed his fingers on the table and stared with a wide-eyed look, deceptively casual. Blair Sandburg collected facts by putting you at ease, making you drop your guard and reveal things, little things like why the toilet paper has to roll under and why the dishrag can't hang on the faucet to dry. He listened intently, gathered the facts, then just as you relaxed into that content space of feeling understood, he laughed at you and leveled twenty reasons why you were anal and how to recognize repression-based behavior in yourself.
"That meant 'leave,' Sandburg."
The writing here is fresh and original, and some of the descriptions and images from this story stuck with me for ages after I read it.
Middle Ground
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