Until It's Gone by AstroGirl (gen)

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Fandom: Blakes 7
Pairing: none
Author on LJ: astrogirl2
Author Website: http://www.sdc.org/~ragan/
Why this must be read: This imagines that Vila survives the massacre at Gauda Prime, only to be imprisoned and interrogated. All you need to know is that he was first a member of the crew on the spaceship Liberator, then of a slightly different crew on Scorpio. And he has been, for a lot of the time, afraid, the butt of jokes and has never had it easy, but looking back on earlier times in his life, anything seems better than where he is now… This is one of those very intense, short fics one shouldn't quote from; every word needs to be read in just that order. It's a heart-tugger if you like Vila (who wouldn't?) but not in the least sentimental, just realistic and bleak. It also proves there is good writing on fanfiction.net, if you look hard enough….

Until It's Gone

Comments

[executrix.livejournal.com]

But it's not good because it's on ff.net, it's terrific because a goddamn great writer wrote it.

[hafren.livejournal.com]

I didn't say otherwise. I'm just saying that actually quite a lot of good writers have put stuff on ff.net; it isn't all "this is my school assignment on Romeo and Juliet" (though a few of those are quite interesting too). I sympathise with the frustration when some writer on fan fiction doesn't get past ff.net, but it's always going to come up high in google searches so if we want it to reflect better on us, maybe good writers should try to post there more often - though personally I've found it an awful hassle to do and for the life of me I can't work out how to amend a post.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Posting to ff.net is a major pain in the butt. But, yeah, the reason I've got stories there at all is that, in my deep, deep arrogance, I like to think that I'm helping to improve the place a bit. (Well, that and when I first started writing Farscape stories, I had no idea where the hell else to post them and wanted to put them up somewhere. At least, that's why I got the ff.net account in the first place.)

"Until It's Gone" is also up at the Hermit Library (http://www.hermit.org/blakes7/Library/DispStor.cgi?SR=13481&ST=0445&COUNT), just for the record.

And many thanks for the rec! I am blushing. :)