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Rebels and Fools
| Zine | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Rebels and Fools |
| Publisher: | Jaelijn |
| Editor(s): | Jaelijn |
| Date(s): | 2017—ongoing |
| Series?: | |
| Medium: | digital zine |
| Size: | |
| Genre: | |
| Fandom: | Blake's 7 |
| Language: | English |
| External Links: | Rebels and Fools Tumblr; back issue information and downloads; download of current issue 5 |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
Rebels and Fools, or R&F, is a once-yearly Blake's 7 digital anthology fanzine published by Jaelijn. The first issue was published in August 2017. The zine is largely created by Tumblr users, who use a blog of the same name to collaborate.
As of 2018, there is also an eponymous Discord channel for zine announcements and collaboration as well as for generally chatting about Blake's 7. Since its creation, the Discord channel has been advertised in every issue of Rebels and Fools.
There are currently five issues as of August 2021. A sixth and seventh issue are planned.[1]
The zine is provided as a pdf download. Some of the content is also archived in an Archive of Our Own collection of the same name.
Rebels and Fools is open to all pairings and ratings. Contents below are Gen unless otherwise indicated.
The Rebels and Fools Discord
Active since its founding in 2018, the Rebels and Fools Discord channel encourages Blake's 7-related conversation. It has text-chat channels for fannish creating and meta as well as for general conversations and discussions of fandoms with connection to Blake's 7. Until March 2021 it was on-topic only, at which point an off-topic channel was introduced.
Announcements and updates regarding the fanzine are generally also posted and/or crossposted to the Discord, with channels dedicated specifically to the zine.
The Discord is also used to organise watch-alongs and listen-alongs of the Blake's 7 (Big Finish Series). As of August 2020, it runs a regular themed headcanon discussion round on Thursdays.
The Rebels and Fools and Archiving
From the last issue:
With this issue, the zine series Rebels and Fools ends. However, as I, Jaelijn, aka the editor, intend to keep the “Rebels and Fools Press” label, if not active, at least dormant rather than closed, access to the R&F series will continue to be maintained as normal for the time being. The zines won’t suddenly go away. The Tumblr page will remain active for as long as Tumblr allows, and I, Jaelijn, will make sure that the download links are working (or will fix them if someone comes yelling at me about them having broken). In the event that Tumblr should go down, an alternative (secondary) home for the zine is already in the works.
That said – if all backup plans fail or I should become unavailable for whatever reason, I want to remind you all that while the zine cannot be edited, pulled apart or made profit of, it is free to share and archive in full and as-is for the purpose of preserving it for fellow (and future) fans. So if in twenty years you find yourself the only person with a copy of the R&F issues, don’t be afraid to share them. I have always wanted this zine to be both inclusive and accessible, and the last thing I want is for it to become difficult to get at. It ought to never disappear in a vault or behind a paywall. So if you are an archivist or a future fan – thank you for keeping R&F around and I hope it brings you much joy! — Jaelijn
Issue 1 (2017)
You can download issue 1 here.
Fanfiction
- Rascals and Scoundrels by Silikat
- The Choice to Stay by Fireswan
- The Springtide by Bruinhilda
- Dance with Me (Avon/Vila) by Jaelijn
- Night Games by Fireswan
- Rainbow by Jaelijn
- Duel, Again by Bruinhilda
- Peace (Avon/Vila) by Jaelijn
- Therein Lies the Shadow by Emma Butler
- Present by Bruinhilda
- Counterparties: Vila (Blake/Vila) by Match
Fanart
Images by Clare, Jaelijn, Roz, UnlimitedRicePudding
Other
- Fic Recs by funforahermit, Ilsa-Fireswan, Jaelijn, paddy tz and talesfromthenorsesmouth
- Editorial by Jaelijn
- List of contributors
Issue 2 (2018)
You can download issue 2 here.
Fanfiction
- The Designer by CertifiedDiplodocus
- Into Darkness by Jaelijn
- Long Time No See (Avon/Vila) by Jaelijn
- Promises by Jaelijn
- Into Light by Jaelijn
- After the Reports by Bruinhilda
Fanart
Images by Clare, Jaelijn, Roz, UnlimitedRicePudding
Other
- Favourite Liberator Chronicles Audios Review by Bruinhilda
- Editorial by Jaelijn
- Blake's 7 Discord Announcement
- List of contributors
Issue 3 (2019)
Issue 3 is dedicated to the memory of Paul Darrow, actor of Kerr Avon, who died in June 2019.
You can download issue 3 here.
Fanfiction
- A Study in Gold by Jaelijn
- Satellite (Poem) by Lituo Huang
- Who Says Life Is Fair by Jaelijn
- Tales in the Night (Avon/Vila) by Jaelijn
- Sleeping Problems by Bruinhilda
- Tidy Little Lives (Avon/Vila) by Jaelijn
- Next by Bruinhilda
Fanart
Images by Jaelijn, Van Donovan
Other
- Editorial by Jaelijn
- Save Rebels and Fools by Jaelijn (a request for volunteers to help in zine production)
- Blake's 7 Discord Ad
- List of contributors
Issue 4 (2020)
You can download issue 4 here.
From the editorial:
Once more, dear friends... Welcome back to Rebels and Fools! We’ve made it to issue #4, and one step closer to my dream of eventually reaching seven issues. Because that would be appropriate, naturally.
It’s been a chaotic year for all of us, what with real life apocalypses – “I don’t like bugs. You can’t hear them, you can’t see them and you can’t feel them, then suddenly you’re dead.” – but fandom keeps ticking on, pro- viding comfort and escape. I can’t claim that this particular issue is more than usually com- forting – it is Blake’s 7, after all! – but hope- fully the contents do their best at least on the escape front. And we have a lot to offer!
Issue #4 is a big one for you all, with a number of firsts for Rebels and Fools – our first filk, a number of first-time contributors, and also, Avon/Blake fans rejoice, our first content for that pairing!
I live in the never-dying hope that someone actually reads these editorial that I always struggle over. Perhaps it’s a mistake to extrap- olate from my habits to everyone else’s, but I know I barely pay attention to the editorial when I pick up an old fanzine. Who cares about that rambling at the start, right; we’re here for the fanworks!
[snipped]
...I hope that this fanzine endures in the new resurgence of our little fandom, with the many who I know will be reading this zine who were not around yet when last issue came out. I hope that it isn’t yet a relic of ‘fandom before your time’, de- spite its grand age of four years. A zine is only as good as its contributors, so we need your enthusiasm and your creativity, and then this zine can be whatever you want it to be! And to those of you who have sent in contributions for this issue – thank you! You made this zine what it is and you should be proud.
Readers, as always: enjoy, and share your joy with the creators of this zine.
Fanfiction
- Thief's Sigil (Avon/Vila) by Jaelijn
- Three Times the Fool (Avon/Vila) by foreignobjecticus, illustrated by Colonel Christie
- Born to Sing (filk in 4 parts) (Avon/Blake) by sothatsagoodthing
- "Avon," to the tune of "Carmen" by Lana del Rey
- "Off to the Bases," to the tune of "Off to the Races" by Lana del Rey
- "Big Sleeves," to the tune of "Blue Jeans" by Lana del Rey
- "GP Rebellion Complex," to the tune of "Mariners Apartment Complex" by Lana del Rey
- A Work of Art (Avon/Vila) by Jaelijn
- Little and Late (Avon/Vila) by Jaelijn
- Release (Avon/Blake) by SeedyGan
Fanart
Images by Bruinhilda, Colonel Christie, Jaelijn
Other
- Editorial by Jaelijn
- "Rebels and Fools needs your promotion" (a request for volunteers to help in zine promotion)
- Blake's 7 Discord Ad
- Crack Fic Generator by foreignobjecticus
- List of contributors
Issue 5 (2021)
Issue 5 marks the fifth year anniversary for the zine. It is also the first issue that focusses entirely on Avon and Vila in terms of its fanfiction, though this was an accidental result of the received submissions rather than a planned feature.[2] It is also the first issue to include puzzles and meta.
You can download issue 5 here.
Fanfiction
- Drowning (Avon/Vila) by Jaelijn
- Dental Care by foreignobjecticus
- Trustfall by Jaelijn
- Safe With You (Avon/Vila) by MoonDisc
- Snowblind (Avon/Vila) by foreignobjecticus
- Coming Storms (Avon/Vila) by Jaelijn
- The Window (Avon/Vila) by foreignobjecticus
- Strays (Avon/Vila) by Jaelijn
- Earth, Earth Sector (Avon/Vila) by Jaelijn
Fanart
Images by Colonel Christie, Jaelijn
Other
- Editorial by Jaelijn
- “Rebels and Fools needs your promotion” (a request for volunteers to help in zine promotion)
- Blake’s 7 Discord Ad
- Puzzle: Liberate the Word Search by ilsa-fireswan
- Puzzle: Connections by Jaelijn
- Writing Blake’s 7 for Life - An Author’s Story by Gillian F. Taylor
- Meta: A Blake’s 7 Timeline by Jaelijn
- Fic Recs - Off the Beaten Track by foreignobjecticus, Jaelijn
- List of contributors
Issue 6 (2021)
December 21, 2022 and contains 72 pages.
The art is by Jaelijn and OxideBlack.
From the editorial:
Finally it is here! After a half-year delay, you are at long last looking at Issue 6 – the second-to-last – of Rebels and Fools. If the zine were a child, it’ve started school by now! Certainly, the years have not passed any of us by without notice, not just as far as the delay to this issue is concerned – they even messed up yours truly the editor enough that I ended up accidentally recycling parts of my editorial between two of our issues. Embarrasingly, I only noticed when looking over the zine’s Fan- lore page – and considering the probably small number of people who read these zines and the editorial back to back, it’s likely nobody else took note and I could have got away with it, but I am telling this story now to, perhaps, make you, dear readers, smile or chuckle a little, in this time. If so, I don’t mind, Vila- like, making a little joke at my expense. As a contributor puts it – what better way to deal with our real-life dystopias than to escape to the fictional one of Blake’s 7?
Part of the beauty of a zine is that it gives you content from a range of creators all in one place that you might not come across in your everyday online archive searches, and the editor would encourage everyone to look outside of their box, but the headers are there for a reason – don’t like, don’t read, don’t send mean comments.
- In Transition, fiction (S1, Avon/Vila) (1)
- Trapped, fiction (S2, gen) (13)
- Silence is Golden, fiction (S2, Avon/Vila) (36)
- FSA Flight Training Manual, Wanderer Class Planet Hopper MK II (44)
- Eulogy, fiction (PGP, Avon/Vila) (52)
- Forever Avon 2022, Con Report (54)
- Contributors (62)
Issue 7 (2021)
August 23, 2023 and contains 126 pages.
The art is by Grey, Jaelijn, Lyf, OxideBlack, and Scorpio7881.
From the editorial:
...I want to introduce you to this, the final zine of the Rebels and Fools series: not as an ending, but as part of something neverending.I won’t claim that writing this editorial was not intensely emotional. I have often found myself getting deep in these, sometimes intentionally, sometimes less so, but the legacy this issue represents, the unerasable impact this zine has made, if not on the fandom at large, then at least on us, who have been involved in it, is special and lasting. Seven years of Rebels and Fools – in the grand scheme of our fandom, not all that long, but seven years nonetheless. I still can’t quite believe we made it here.
There are a million things I could reflect on – the highs, the lows, all our readers and contributors, all of the incredible fanworks that fill out seven issues. But instead I want to talk about storytelling – and why this issue’s cover is what it is.
[...]
Just as Post-Gauda Prime fanworks carry on beyond the show, the Rebels and Fools zines won’t vanish in a puff of smoke as soon as this seventh issue is out. Not only would that be silly – after all, you still have a whole seventh issue to read – it would also be highly unusual. Ours is not a fandom of ephemeral fanworks. Many fan favourites are decades old. We, with Rebels and Fools, haven’t even made it to one decade yet! And besides, we can always return, revisit, reread, and carry on forward, even – and especially when – things have ended.
- Unwinding, fiction (S2, Avon/Vila) (2)
- Not Alone, fiction (S3, gen)
- The Price, fiction (S3, Avon/Vila) (41)
- Setback, fiction (S4, undisclosed) (49)
- Homeworld, fiction (S4, Vila/Kerril) (90)
- Rebels and Fools - Fun, Facts, and Figures (106)
- Contributors (115)
Notes
- ^ Rebels and Fools Issue #5 Backcover, Planned Issues 6 and 7, accessed 15 August 2021.
- ^ Rebels and Fools Issue #5 Editorial, editorial mentions the zine being "accidentally" all Avon and Vila, accessed 15 August 2021.