The Cure for the Common Zone-Out
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| Jim/Blair Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Cure for the Common Zone-Out |
| Author(s): | Brenda Antrim |
| Date(s): | 18 July 1997 |
| Length: | 8146 words |
| Genre: | Slash, First Time |
| Fandom: | The Sentinel |
| External Links: | A Cure for the Common Zone-Out on AO3 The Cure for the Common Zone-Out (Squidge Wayback link) |
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The Cure for the Common Zone-Out is a Jim/Blair story by Brenda Antrim. It was original posted to 852 Prospect and later imported to AO3.
On AO3, it's listed as "A Cure..." but within the story itself, and everywhere it's referenced, the title is "The Cure...
Reactions and Reviews
This one made me jealous in a way I was to become familiar with over the years: The "Damn, I wish I'd written that!" syndrome hit me early. Brenda Antrim writes in any number of fandoms, and sometimes you may feel like the characters are a little too similar to one another - but only sometimes, and certainly not in my favorite Antrim story:
The Cure for the Common Zone-Out - Brenda Antrim. Jim zones in the middle of a firefight, and latches onto the closest thing to him...[1]
Brenda Antrim - in all her various personifications - tends to write long, dark, angsty stories that are usually not to my taste. This one is an exception in all respects. The characterizations are pre-Alex, the plot a bit clichéd, and there refreshingly is no expounding on the mystical component of the sentinel-guide relationship. All in all, this is a solid story set early in the series that allows Blair to be on the bottom without being transformed into a feminized version of himself. Well worth reading.[2]
References
- ^ Radio Free Recs: "Radio Free Old-Recs". Archived from the original on 2 November 2000. Posted 4 July 2000.
- ^ "recommendations by allaire mikháil". Archived from the original on 6 April 2023.. Posted 23 May 2000.