Footnotes
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Footnotes |
| Author(s): | Destina Fortunato |
| Date(s): | 2000 |
| Length: | |
| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | Sentinel |
| Relationship(s): | |
| External Links: | online at AO3 |
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Footnotes is a Jim/Blair story by Destina Fortunato.
Author's Notes
"Written March 2000. 'Footnotes' was the first Sentinel story I began after entering the fandom. It originally appeared in the zine "Thinker, Tyler, Soldier, Spy". Thanks to Lori and James for editing, and to all those who beta'd bits and pieces over time. And to Valerie, for her honest opinion."
Reactions and Reviews
More build up than you could ever wish for.[1]
This story does what, to me, is the main reason I read fanfiction: Destina takes the existing canon and writes about what happens in the in-between times, and in the process creates a more resonant and affecting story. "Footnotes" take The Sentinel and extracts the good parts - the characters' developing friendship and barely-subtextual romance - and so reading it is a bit like rewatching all the best moments of the show (only better written). It's long, engaging, sweet, satisfying, and utterly true to the characters.[2]
I've been in a Sentinel place just lately, so it's just a great *joy* for me to come across a story I hadn't actually read yet. And, well, it's Des, so you know it's good.I loved the conceit used for this fic, loved the utter *Blairness* of it, and the way it manages to work through many of the collective kinks of Sentinel fandom in a fresh, believable way.
Very nicely done.[3]
Summary: In the episode "Sentinel Too, Part One", we see Blair making notes on his research subjects, Jim and Alex, by talking into a hand-held tape recorder. Later, we see Alex find the Sentinel research tape collection when she sneaks into Blair office. By listening to them, she gets the edge she needs to go up against Jim.In Destina's story, we get to listen to those tapes; one entry after another showing the ways Blair gathers and organizes his research, his daily observations and his struggle and failure to remain the objective anthropologist.
Reccer's Notes: Although this reads like a diary, it's more than a personal log of day-to-day happenings. It's edgy and insightful and sad and hopeful. Enjoy.[4]
References
- ^ Merrin Recs: because life is way too short to read bad slash
- ^ 2004 comments at Crack Van
- ^ Sometimes a girl just needs a man with excellent taste.
- ^ Fancake, August 2014