Blood Rose
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| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Blood Rose |
| Author(s): | Nina Boal |
| Date(s): | 1993 |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | Blake's 7/The Professionals |
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Blood Rose is a Blake's 7/Professionals story by Nina Boal.
It was printed in the zine Songs of Innocence.
Reactions and Reviews
A post Star One story that has Blake drinking himself into a self-loathing depression because he's gay but never had the guts to admit it. He rents a male prostitute named Ray who's predicament appraently galvanizes him. Um...Ray has curly hair...anyone want to suggest a last name? 8-) [1]
I was sure the Ray of the Nina Boal story was meant for Ray Doyle; the physical descripition is just the sort of thing that appears in the wimpier Doyle as prostitute stories. The character is nothing like Doyle of the episodes, but that never stopped anyone. [2]
I enjoyed it enormously. Isn't it wonderful when one's favourite fandoms dovetail? Who would have thought a confrontation between Blake and Doyle would be so convincing? (The Collision of the Curls?) The two characters do have quite a lot in common: sexy voice, earthy chuckle, bouts of temper, twinkly eyes, over-developed guilt complexes, desire to right the world's wrongs, easy manipulations of others, unnatural feelings towards dark, handsome smoothies.[3]
See, this one I dislike - and I can't imagine it's much better if you like Pros. Basically Blake thinks about what a terrible person he is, feels sad because he never got to have sex with Avon, and takes repeated advantage of a prostitute, with no personality. In the end, they escape together, but I assume 'Ray' is going to drug him and run away at the first opportunity. This should not be in a zine called 'Songs of Innocence'.[5]
References
- ^ Subject: Zine review: Songs of Innocence by Sue C. on Lysator dated August 4, 1993.
- ^ Subject: Songs of Innocence and Love and Necessary Discipline by Susan H. on Lysator dated August 4, 1993.
- ^ from DIAL #6
- ^ Review posted to the Virgule-L mailing list on May 24, 1993 (quoted anonymously with permission).
- ^ June 18, 2014 review by Aralias at her journal, Archived version