Archvied fic rec - Waking

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Title: Waking

Author: Resonant

Fandom: The Sentinel

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Jim/Blair

Warnings: explicit sex (gay)

Other notes: get together, first time sex

Length: 11k

Summary: A sentinel, a guide, and a New Age alarm clock.

 

I was looking for inspiration to write more recs, and I thought, well, I’m always energetic when I get into a new fandom. This isn’t the first The Sentinel fic I’ve read, but the moment I read it, it jumped to the top of the queue. This is the sort of fic I started this blog for–the one where I read it and immediately have to start writing my thoughts down.

I remember I was looking into this about the time I started looking at Due South, but, well, I found the DS episodes first, so I put this to the side and forgot about it. Now I definitely have to track it down. *sigh* Stupid hot fics dragging me into fandoms.

Now, with Due South, I did exactly what I’m doing now–read the hot fics, wrote my notes, and then went back and actually watched the show. So, when I went to re-read the fics, I got a whole new perspective, which is pretty cool. So I’m not even gonna pretend I’m reading these from a fan view. This is strictly from a “wow, this fic drew me right in and I want more” view.

So, I kind of guessed, from reading the show description, that over-stimulation would be a big kink in this fandom, and this fic does not disappoint.

You know what really gets to me, though? I’ve always read a lot of good sex. Romantic sex. Sex where everything works out well. Satisfactory sex. Oh my god best of my life sex. And I found myself getting a little bored with it. I like the fantasy, sure, and I like the true love conquers all and gives you really amazing sex. It’s pleasant to read stuff like that.

All the same, for a while I’ve been much more interested in realistic and awkward sex. Sex where things go wrong, or people get grossed out or can’t orgasm or all sorts of unexpected things that can happen. It’s just more interesting to me right now.

This fic, though–holy hell, it drags me right back to the amazing sex side of things. I think I mentioned with Informed Consent that sometimes I forget what it was like not to know kinks. I read fic. I watch porn. I have a mental image, if not personal experience. Takes a lot to shock me. It probably also helps that I’m pretty evenly bisexual, so the idea of a sexuality crisis is something I haven’t really had to deal with (in the sense of, “I thought I liked one thing but I actually like another.” I pretty much always liked both. For me, it was less, “this confuses and frightens me” than “oh, this all makes perfect sense now.”). So this vision–oh, yes, that is the best word, an absolute vision–of Jim discovering a whole new spectrum of sexuality and absolutely responding to it is amazing. Part of me is thinking, wait, all of this is just a little too perfect, but most of me is drooling and being reduced to “GUH, so pretty, yes, take him apart, do it.”

Which is totally a mature response.

There’s also something to be said for writing both participants being very enthusiastic, and going over why topping and bottoming are both amazingly hot experiences.

And I definitely recognize Pat Benatar. Despite that song being older than I am. I am totally old enough for corrupting stories like this one. I am.

 

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Originally posted on tumblr on 10/09/13