Sentinel Slash Virtual Season Interview with April Valentine
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| Title: | Sentinel Slash Virtual Season Interview with April Valentine |
| Interviewer: | Sentinel Slash Virtual Season |
| Interviewee: | April Valentine |
| Date(s): | 2000 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | The Sentinel |
| External Links: | interview is here; reference link |
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April Valentine was interviewed for Sentinel Slash Virtual Season.
Part of a Series
See Sentinel Slash Virtual Season Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
How did you get started in fanfiction?
I read Star Trek Lives in 1975 and it described fanzines. Met other local fans in the summer of '76 and started contributing to zines. Did Trek for years, then in about '84 moved on to Starsky/Hutch, from there to Kiefer/Lou fandom (their characters in movies, not the real people), Wiseguy and on to Sentinel and Highlander.
How did you get started in TS?
I was pimped into [The Sentinel] by my long-time friend, [redacted here as Rosemary C], but resisted because it was a 'live' fandom and I'd been very upset when "Alien Nation" was canceled after only one year. I liked the show, liked the guys, read some fanfic but didn't get involved until I saw Sentinel, Too, Part 1. I was at MediaWest and everybody was upset about Blair being in the fountain but I was galvanized to start writing -- I couldn't resist Jim saying "This can't be happening," over and over... I also realized I got more emotional satisfaction from TS than from the Duncan/Methos relationship in HL.
Are either Jim or Blair a total "bottom" in your universe ? If so who and why?
Though I love Jim being on the bottom, I usually write them in a reciprocal relationship.
Are you a Jim or Blair babe? Who and why?
That's a hard one -- I love Jim and Blair more equally than I've loved any pairing I've ever been into. I think if anything I lean toward Jim a little cause he's the one I tend to 'get' when I'm writing something angsty, although in World AIDS Day, it's Blair who's doing more of the mental suffering... I find them both attractive, sexy and I love both their characters.
Are you a "angst" or "owies" author?
Well... yes. (see my answer to #4 above.) And, my costume for the Mardi Gras party at last year's ZebraCon was "Miss Jim Owie 2000." I tend to want to get into the character psychologically and angst or h/c can do that but I'm not into gratuitous torture or injury
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Are you "into" threesomes? If so who do you pair "our" pair with usually? Why?
Bhech. Not my cup of tea. If others enjoy it, that's fine, it just does nothing for me, even in WG where I could see it the most easily. In TS, Blair and Jim have a relationship that I don't think needs anyone else or would admit anyone else into the closeness they share as Sentinel and Guide.