Nothing I'd Rather Do
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| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Nothing I'd Rather Do |
| Author(s): | Willa Shakespeare |
| Date(s): | 2005 |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | Blake's 7 |
| External Links: | Nothing I'd Rather Do at AO3 |
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Nothing I'd Rather Do is a Blake's 7 Avon/Blake story by Willa Shakespeare.
It was published in Fire and Ice #8.
Reactions and Reviews
Willa Shakespeare's "Nothing I'd rather Do" is a twenty-eight page rendering of Shakepeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing. I have no clue if it makes more sense if you are familiar with the play or not, but I am guessing that it does. I've forgotten the play since it's been decades since I read it. This story ends the zine. So I guess Resch wanted to start the zine off with wild humor, "Silver Tongued Orator," and end with something mimicking an old English classic, thus bookending the zine with stories which are not the usual type of B/A story. If nothing else, it is an interesting exercise which has been rarely done in print zines-mixing Shakespeare with B7. One story which also does this which I dearly love is a gen story by Margaret Scroggs in Horizon 17 called "Duel or the Folly of Madness." [1]
And you should know how I feel about this one by now, I've recced it often enough. The bit where Blake and Avon finally 'admit to a mutal attraction'/'more than that' and then talk about GP and forgiveness and then tiredly agree to marry each other and then have desperate sex and then Blake wakes up and Avon is working and wants him to go away because he's too distracting... it's just one of my favourite bits of writing in this fandom. I love it - 'more than that', it's one of the pieces of B/A fic that has most inspired how I write this pairing. 'Nothing I'd Rather Do' really tails off towards the end because we have to stick to the stupid Hero/Claudio 'marrying a cousin who looks exactly like Avon' plot, which I bet even Shakespeare knew was duff, so it's not perfect, but the bits that are perfect... are. Perfect.[2]
An amazingly close adaptation of Shakespeare’s 'Much Ado About Nothing'. Bursting with energy, warm, witty and surprising, this story contains some of the best dialogue you’ll find anywhere in the fandom, and has one of Katy's favourite PGP reaction scenes. Manages to be poignant as well as hilarious and to address head on Blake and Avon’s mutual obsession with betrayal. One to re-read on a rainy day.[3]
References
- ^ a 2005 review by Joyce Bowen at Judith Proctor's Blake's 7 site, Archived version
- ^ 2014 review by Aralias, Archived version
- ^ from Katy and Molly's 77+ Favourite A/B and A-B Stories, Archived version, August 5, 2013