Jim and Blair, sittin' in a tree...

[reenka]

Man, there is literally nothing to make me remember why I bother-- why I'm still around with HP, my poor little bedraggled puppy of a fandom-- the way reading good fics in other fandom does. That initial omg-so-good rush of finding all the good authors, or at least -some- good authors, now that I've discovered I can sort-of-kind-of get wireless if I uh, stand outside my door in the November-cold hallway, still in my pjs and with my hair all messy. It's embarrassing, but I really... -really- miss mindless fanfic after awhile, it seems like. Y'know, the kind where the only thing I notice is just the writing and the characters, and more stories that remind me of the same characters-- damn, there must be something wrong with mostly reading fics in fandoms I'd never watched much [or any] canon for, but reading fics for fandoms I -do- know (too much) canon for just depresses me. Just... you know, never quite good enough, especially after those initial few fics that become the markers of satisfaction.

In other words, I've been inhaling Bone's and now eliade's Sentinel fics, and oh -man-, is she an awesome writer. WOW. *______* I wish fic always made me feel this way, aaaaah.

I gave a little try to a Due South fic (by Bone), but no. I need that bit of fantastic something-or-other in the background to go with my intense homosocial bonding, I guess. I suppose it's vaguely possible I could get to reading SGA at one point, but... possibly I haven't just 'cause everyone's into it & I feel a little besieged when I stop & think about it. It's easy to just read in a quiet (yet large & diverse), mostly-dead fandom, but to read in a live-and-thriving fandom feels too much like joining something. Or something. I dunno. I do know that I'd read GW before I got to lj or I might have joined, and since then HP has been my only 'current' reading matter if you don't count bits of, y'know, PoTC, Spiderman, X-Men, Smallville & The OC here and there, but I'd never read enough of those to really get into it to the point of feeling tempted. Not that I'm likely to read that much Sentinel, either. ^^;;

...Which all goes to say I like to read but not so much to... um, deal with all the fannish stuff up close. Generally. Which is different than saying I'm generally a lurker unless it's HP, 'cause like, I don't tend to follow people or lj comms or whatever, just read stuff from archives & rec lists-- which isn't lurking unless you think I'm supposed to be commenting on stuff on archives. I -never- comment on stuff on archives (if it's email-comments). And I just feel plain weird if I read anything non-HP on lj... dunno why, but I do. Possibly the need to 'join' and 'delurk' (...even though I'm not really lurking, per se) would be overwhelming through sheer habit? I dunno. Uh. Not that anyone -cares-, but I'm babbly and excited, okay! :P

Anyway, this is like, a mini-paean to eliade's Sentinel fics. Bone has an awesome talent for voice in her stuff, but it was a little too much sex and a little bit not enough build-up and other stuff, but this.... There are so many telling details, and the characterizations are so vivid, and the dialogue so pithy & jumpy... ahh. It's totally distracting me from my pile of Lois McMaster Bujold space-operas, not to mention the need to sleep. It's funny 'cause Jim Ellison is totally not the sort of character I normally find interesting at -all-, and yet a good writer can obviously transcend that completely, and even capitalize on that feeling of alienness-turned-familiarity especially 'cause he contrasts so well with Blair (who's obviously my immediate stand-in, ahahah). And god, this has the potential for being fluffier than bad Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan what with the whole nearly-married partners thing, but so far in my uber-limited experience, it's just... refreshing. So, so refreshing. :D Wheeeeee, Jim/Blair!! :D :D :D