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Best MM Ship Ever: Group 1 - Round 1

Jim Ellison/Blair Sandburg vs. Catwin (Cat King/Edwin Payne)

The Sentinel - Jim/Blair

Dead Boy Detectives - Catwin (Cat King/Edwin)

Voting ended onJun 17

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How gay relationships changed since The Sentinel was first aired and the first slash stories were written.

We talked about writing last night at the chat and what was the longest story we had written. For me it was Professor Sandburg, a two part story in an AU setting.

I started to reread a bit and suddenly became aware how times have changed since I had written it. When TS aired, gays had to stay in the closet if they lived an ordinary life. It was just actors-artists-flight attendent-arts dealer, and eccentrics etc. who were out. You needed either money, power or living in San Francisco or L.A. to be out and about.

It was already different in Europe, but in the US, especially in conservative jobs like police it was outright dangerous to be gay. Even Blair in academia could't afford it since gay teachers weren't tolerated.

And then there was AIDs which totally changed the sexual behaviour of people. Again. After the sexual revolution and Free Love and having sex as much as you can. The dark rooms in the back of gay clubs dissapeared.

Gay life was a really closed off subculture, with it's own rules and traditions. Many early writers were gay/bi themselves or were close to the community. Many writers, who weren't in, made an effort to write this world realistic to give it justice, researched, visitied clubs, talked to gay people.

Writers from Europe wrote an already a more modern view. In TS stories of today the anti-gay situation doesn't even come up anymore.

The old TS stories serve here as contemporary witnesses of a very conservative and oppressive world.

Addendum

The slash writers and fans were in the closet too. You could loose your job and get into real trouble if someone found out.

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The sentinel tv show (1996) is so messy I love it.

They legit have a whole episode where they introduce Naomi; Blair’s mom and have her and Jim flirt in front of Blair as to say “if Blair (gender neutral name) was a girl they would for sure get it on, but since he isn’t let’s have the female version of him flirt with Jim”, although towards the end it’s more Jim trynna mess with Blair, cause the ending of the episode is Blair coming into their apartment and hearing giggling and euphemisms for sexy time coming from Jim’s room upstairs but it was only them eating tongue (Blair’s favorite food) and looking at Blair’s baby photos something that a mother would show to her kids significant other. This show definitely knew who their intended audience was (fangirls from the 90s)

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The Sentinel - 1x01 - The Switchman gifs

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this promo pic is everything to me. get off the damn floor

#ITS SO FUNNY #and on Every site i watch it on it always flashes on the background before the video loads #so its just split second of them all staring up like i pushed them over #the sentinel #the sentinel tv series #like they wanna get the logo in the shot fine #whys it gotta be the one on the floor?? so theyre like weirdly huddled like that fdsgdghg #my post #bugs when i lift up the rock looking ass #im just noticing sandburgs literally sitting in jims lap too #jimblair #all of the promo pics for 90s/2000s series are so funny but this is my favorite sentinel one by FAR #also note the 3pixel quality cos i couldnt find a better pic

Happy Holidays !!!! XD

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If you ever wondered why The Sentinel became a huge slash fandom, here a nice video, that will get you some idea...

There is soooo much casual touching!!! :-)

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Season One | Season Two | Season Three | Season Four

A very special thanks to Robyn (roomie dear!) for purchasing the TV card that allowed me to transcribe the Closed Captioning texts for the majority of the episodes which I used as the base for the transcripts as I rewatched the episodes for correctness.

Also thanks to Pumpkin, Toni Rae, and Paul's Sentinel Transcripts for supplying the Closed Captioning texts for a few of these episodes.

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