The Sentinel by Jim Ellison by Francesca and Miriam (NC-17)

[snycock.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm snycock, and I'm back to take the Sentinel van for another spin.

One of the best recommendations for newcomers seeking to read up in TS fandom has always been the Light My Fire Awards (LMFAs). The awards ended in 2010, but until recently, the website with links to nominated and winning stories was still available. Unfortunately, the website went defunct last month, but fortunately for TS fandom, lists of the winners from 2004 through 2009 have been preserved on Fanlore here. So I thought, in honor of the awards and in memory of the website, that this month I'd try to highlight some of the LMFA winners through the years.

Starting with this story, one of my favorites and the winner of the 2005 slash post-The Sentinel by Blair Sandburg category:

Fandom: THE SENTINEL
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Length: 57k
Author on LJ: cesperanza, miriam_heddy
Author Website: (or a link to where more of their fic is archived): Francesca and Miriam
Why this must be read:

This is at once a clever homage to a fantastic science-fiction writer (you get points at the end for guessing who correctly!) and an interesting take on what could have happened post-TSbyBS. Jim has retired, with a wife and a new life, and Blair's moved on to a life of anthropological adventure... or have they? You'll have to read to find out.

The Sentinel by Jim Ellison

(ETA: Miriam's LJ)

Comments

[magician114.livejournal.com]

Sadness about the LMFA site, but happiness that you'll be reminding us of the great stories celebrated there.

Miriam's LJ is http://miriam-heddy.livejournal.com/

She hasn't posted there in a couple of years, though.

[snycock.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks! I can at least edit the entry to have her LJ handle on with Francesca's.

[t-verano.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to get ready for my November's turn at the wheel and I pretty much worship at your feet for your posts with all the c.v. recs that make it so easy to find out if a fic has ever been recced before. Just wanted to say that. :-)

[magician114.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you so much for the compliment. You are always so thoughtful. I'm excited that you signed up. Looking forward to see your choices.

And, of course, anything I can do to help just say the word!

[t-verano.livejournal.com]

*eyes you narrowly and wonders which other fics she will have to remove from her list for her October's attempt at C.V driving*

:-)))

[snycock.livejournal.com]

Hee! That always happens to me, too.

Maybe I should just rec a lot of your fics so you won't have to worry about it... ;-)

I'm so glad you're going to do Crack Van, though!

[t-verano.livejournal.com]

::makes snorfling noise:: :-)


I'm so glad you're going to do Crack Van, though!
It's a little scary, but hopefully I'll survive. :-)

What's really scary is finding that some classic fic that I wanted to rec is just *gone*, not even on the wayback machine -- it's okay for me, since I've got most or all of the author's stories saved on my hard drive, but I hate thinking of new TS fans never getting a chance to read those stories. It makes me ache. And you add in the vanished LMFA site, and the geocities apocalypse, and there's just so much vanishing it's hard to handle.

[bluewolf458.livejournal.com]

I think that happens to all of us! :-)

[t-verano.livejournal.com]

Heh heh.

It's interesting, though, to see the different things that pull reccers towards particular fics; I love how varied we are as readers in what we value most in the stories we read. A while back I had to try to analyze what matters most to me as a reader, and that turned out to be harder than I thought it would be to put into words. (I find this whole reading/writing thing ridiculously fascinating from just about any perspective, and can babble about it endlessly. It's going to be hard to be reasonably *concise* in my crack van posts, I can already tell this. :-))