Once More Into the Breach
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| Title: | Once More Into the Breach |
| Author(s): | Emily Ross |
| Date(s): | 1987 |
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| Fandom: | Blake's 7 |
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Once More Into the Breach is a Blake's 7 story by Emily Ross.
It was published in Powerplay #1.
Reactions and Reviews
The two stories by Emily Ross could easily ooze over into something slashy-- especially "Once More," in which Blake is sold in a slave market. The description of the battered-but-attractive body is suggestive of London Bates. There's an equally suggestive illo by TACS.[1]
ok, so this is the one where blake gets sold at a slave market during... series 2? and avon and vila have to buy him back. obviously i was like 'where is this fic? get in me.' and yer, i kind of like it, but mostly the dialogue is a bit bland. there is a nice moment where blake looks at avon and avon is like 'argh, blake! he knows! he knows he is in control even though he is naked and chained up and really sexy.' and he covers this by telling vila that blake is laughing at him because avon said he wouldn't come to rescue him and then did. like that's any better. i also don't know how i feel about the art. i sort of like it. i mean, look at blake's pretty hair... but they both look subtly/not that subtly not like themselves. also - this scene doesn't actually happen in the plot, even if you assume that avon's not supposed to be holding blake's chain (which i guess, disappointingly, he isn't)(because, you see, i'd read the fuck out of bondage that way round. although i sense that blake would contrive to ruin it somehow). they're never that physically close to each other - avon stands at a distance and bids against servalan and it's jenna who does the actual contact-rescuing. and blake's smile is so quick that vila misses it.[2]
"There are two stories by Emily Ross:'Once more into the breach' is a prettily plotted and cleanly written incident, more or less suitable for the plot of an aired episode but handled more economically. The characters, though not emphasized, make the plot work and get in a few insights of their own."[3]
References
- ^ from Sarah Thompson at Judith Proctor's Blake's 7 site
- ^ aralias reviewed this zine in 2013 on Dreamwidth, Archived version
- ^ Pressure Point no.2