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Bittersweet by Sebastian
Fandom: Blakes7
Pairings: Blake/Avon/Vila, Blake/Avon
URL: (It's part of the Oblique Publications archive):
http://www.oblique-publications.net/archives/oblaqueiv/1_OblaqueIVbitter.pdf
Why This Must be Read:
"Here's much to do with hate, but more with love
Why then, o brawling love, o loving hate!" (Romeo & Juliet)
For a lot of people, it just wouldn't be B7 without the angst. Sebastian (who many of you know from other fandoms) launches a novelette that starts with Vila having the bad judgment to initiate a drunken Alpha sandwich and ends with a really bad breakup between Blake and Avon (with intimations of worse to come). There are lots of stories in which Vila hankers after Avon (it seldom does him much good--it's a very common story pairing, but Avon is usually a complete cad in this incarnation). Not all that many straight-out Blake/Vilas, although a triangular relationship is not that uncommon.
Hey, the *manifest* content of B7 is endless struggles between Blake and Avon. A lot of the fics treat the sparring as a disguise against the depth of their real feelings, and everything is OK once they resign themselves to being soinlove. But here, Sebastian writes about a relationship where the sexual obsession continues to escalate but the level of horrible behavior never gets any lower.
There's also a standalone zine of the novelette "One Night Stand," which was started by Sebastian and completed by Nova. It's available (US price is $15) from http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7/Fanzines/Judiths/ONS.html
Oblique Publications published paperzines in many fandoms (including, recently, Smallville) and has generously made its archives available on the Web. Of course there's always a catch--the files are posted as two-column PDFs, which looks pretty nifty if you print them out but is a right bastard to read on screen. (Bittersweet is 46 pages long, so either you use a lot of paper and toner or squint a lot.) There's a whole series of "Oblaque" single-fandom zines, and there are B7 stories in other Oblique publications as well. Many of them are darkfics, and overall the tone is so relentlessly "Can this marriage be saved?" that at the very first hint of Spuffy I was reminded of Oblaque--where "Well, I do beat him up a lot. For Avon, that's like third base" would fit in perfectly.
Pairings: Blake/Avon/Vila, Blake/Avon
URL: (It's part of the Oblique Publications archive):
http://www.oblique-publications.net/archives/oblaqueiv/1_OblaqueIVbitter.pdf
Why This Must be Read:
"Here's much to do with hate, but more with love
Why then, o brawling love, o loving hate!" (Romeo & Juliet)
For a lot of people, it just wouldn't be B7 without the angst. Sebastian (who many of you know from other fandoms) launches a novelette that starts with Vila having the bad judgment to initiate a drunken Alpha sandwich and ends with a really bad breakup between Blake and Avon (with intimations of worse to come). There are lots of stories in which Vila hankers after Avon (it seldom does him much good--it's a very common story pairing, but Avon is usually a complete cad in this incarnation). Not all that many straight-out Blake/Vilas, although a triangular relationship is not that uncommon.
Hey, the *manifest* content of B7 is endless struggles between Blake and Avon. A lot of the fics treat the sparring as a disguise against the depth of their real feelings, and everything is OK once they resign themselves to being soinlove. But here, Sebastian writes about a relationship where the sexual obsession continues to escalate but the level of horrible behavior never gets any lower.
There's also a standalone zine of the novelette "One Night Stand," which was started by Sebastian and completed by Nova. It's available (US price is $15) from http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7/Fanzines/Judiths/ONS.html
Oblique Publications published paperzines in many fandoms (including, recently, Smallville) and has generously made its archives available on the Web. Of course there's always a catch--the files are posted as two-column PDFs, which looks pretty nifty if you print them out but is a right bastard to read on screen. (Bittersweet is 46 pages long, so either you use a lot of paper and toner or squint a lot.) There's a whole series of "Oblaque" single-fandom zines, and there are B7 stories in other Oblique publications as well. Many of them are darkfics, and overall the tone is so relentlessly "Can this marriage be saved?" that at the very first hint of Spuffy I was reminded of Oblaque--where "Well, I do beat him up a lot. For Avon, that's like third base" would fit in perfectly.
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