Fanatics
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| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Fanatics |
| Author(s): | Bryn Lantry |
| Date(s): | 1989 |
| Length: | |
| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | Blake's 7 |
| Relationship(s): | |
| External Links: | online here |
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Fanatics is a Blake/Avon Blake's 7 story by Bryn Lantry .
It was originally printed in the zine Before & After.
Reactions and Reviews
Eh. [This zine] was just a one off, and the editor required happy endings for Blake and Avon. Someone needed to explain a Gauda Prime to that editor. What can I say, I bought if for the [Bryn Lantry] story, Fanatics. Would someone kind editor be nice, and collect all this woman's B7 fic in one zine? [1]
And one gem, by Bryn Lantry, 'Fanatics'. Lantry does something with language and characterization that really works for me. The dialog is there, the portrayal is believable, the participants are handled with dignity and made multi-dimensional. B & A are marooned on a deserted planet, some five weeks after Cygnus Alpha. They find desire and need, no little hurt, and no promises. I don't need happy endings, but I do want stories that make sense, and this one does, even with a more-or-less happy end - no, beginning. Worth the price of the zine? Maybe, maybe not. But certainly worthwhile on its own.[2]
Sarah Thompson asked people's opinions on good fanfic Blakes; my experience is obviously limited, but I thought Bryn Lantry's in "fanatics" was very good. I could hear him, see him... (just why *was* he using that shovel, anyway? Tsk tsk.) [3]
One of the first B/A stories Katy ever read - if not the first - and now imprinted on her consciousness forever. Which is no bad thing, because this is fantastic. Blake and Avon stranded on a planet together in series one and Avon is relentlessly cruel to Blake (first out of irritation, then out of habit and then out of panic) up to and even past the point where he realises (in a truly wonderful bit of prose) that he's loved him all along. Blake, meanwhile, is wonderful - as patient as he can be until Avon massively crosses the line, then hotly angry and also passionate and tender and warm. Fantastic stuff.[4]
I really like Fanatics. Very nicely written, very interesting and plausible characterisation of Avon, and very kind and also interesting characterisation of a Blake who is strong and can appear unruffled, but isn't. It plays out nicely. Set interestingly early in canon too - you don't get many fics that pair them up before The Web! This fic does not deserve to be in this zine.[5]
References
- ^ comment by Lynn W.
- ^ October 5, 1993, review by Nicole V at Virgule-L, quoted with permission
- ^ a fan in Rallying Call #13
- ^ Katy and Molly's 77+ Favourite A/B and A-B Stories, August 5, 2013
- ^ scroll down for comments by aralias at Blake-focused zines - Procrastination Central, Archived version, June 9, 2016