Glassfish
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| Sentinel Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Glassfish |
| Author(s): | Agnes Mage |
| Date(s): | |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | The Sentinel |
| External Links: | online here |
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Glassfish is a Sentinel story by Agnes Mage.
Reactions and Reviews
This story was nominated in the Cascade Times Awards 2001 for Favourite Drama Story, which is why I read it. Why I started reading it. I don't normally review stories that I haven't finished, but I simply couldn't bear to finish this one. Why? It wasn't the style -- the writing was very good, most noteworthy in the little passages which were put in front of each part, where others often put quotes -- those were lovely, and very quotable. No, it was the characters. The Jim and Blair here are off -- as if they'd been viewed in the Goblin's mirror, and distorted, just enough, into the worst versions of themselves. Just one or two steps beyond. Blair is free-spirited and disorganized, yes -- but he isn't an irresponsible child! Jim is organized and a control freak and sometimes a bit of a hardass, yes, but he is neither Blair's father nor his commanding officer, and he has absolutely no right to treat Blair the way he treats him. Blair is a responsible adult, dammit! He's perfectly capable of looking after himself. And yet this Blair is grateful -- grateful for the way this Jim "looks after him". And this Jim doesn't trust Blair to even tell the truth about whether or not his friends were drinking! This was a distortion for the worst of both of them, and it was just too painful for me to bear to watch. So when a friend told me to stop being a masochist, I did, and didn't finish the story. Now, I know that this story is obviously popular, otherwise it wouldn't have been nominated. That's fine. Some people obviously adored it. I didn't. YMMV.[1]
It's Blair's first day as a detective in Major Crimes and Jim is searching for a gift. He comes across a beautiful glass sculpture of a fish created by an artist with hyper acute vision. Jim feels a connection with the artist and his own vision begins to flash in and out of microscopic depths. He's seeing too clearly, especially Megan and Blair's growing interest in each other. This is a slow, quiet story as Jim becomes aware of his own feelings and tries to do the decent thing.[2]