Title: Photographic Evidence by Annabelle Leigh
Fandom: The Sentinel
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Categories: angst, hurt/comfort
Length: Long (~28,000 words)
Warnings: not-too-explicit depictions of consensual sex between two minors; also, traumatizing homophobic language and William Ellison portrayed in a very nasty light
Author on LJ: n/a
Website: http://members.tripod.com/~AnnaBLeigh/the_library.htm
Review:
While searching through photographs for evidence in a child porn case, Jim comes across pictures of a young (eighteen or so) Blair. With a man. He does *not* take it well.
This is a tough one for me to explain. I mean, a good chunk of the story is based on Jim getting over his homophobia (and we all know how much I love homophobia), but at the same time it's more about *why* Jim is rather suddenly homophobic. In fact, this story is all about Jim and his past and his emotional issues and his fucked-up relationship with his father and how all of the above very nearly destroys his friendship with Blair. It's a lot of hurt and some very cathartic comfort and in the end I can only bow down in sheer awe of the way Annabelle can write all of the above and still have me liking Jim by the end. An angsty character study that is a must read for Jim fans.
Photographic Evidence (pt. 1) (pt. 2)
Fandom: The Sentinel
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Categories: angst, hurt/comfort
Length: Long (~28,000 words)
Warnings: not-too-explicit depictions of consensual sex between two minors; also, traumatizing homophobic language and William Ellison portrayed in a very nasty light
Author on LJ: n/a
Website: http://members.tripod.com/~AnnaBLeigh/the_library.htm
Review:
While searching through photographs for evidence in a child porn case, Jim comes across pictures of a young (eighteen or so) Blair. With a man. He does *not* take it well.
This is a tough one for me to explain. I mean, a good chunk of the story is based on Jim getting over his homophobia (and we all know how much I love homophobia), but at the same time it's more about *why* Jim is rather suddenly homophobic. In fact, this story is all about Jim and his past and his emotional issues and his fucked-up relationship with his father and how all of the above very nearly destroys his friendship with Blair. It's a lot of hurt and some very cathartic comfort and in the end I can only bow down in sheer awe of the way Annabelle can write all of the above and still have me liking Jim by the end. An angsty character study that is a must read for Jim fans.
Photographic Evidence (pt. 1) (pt. 2)
