Retention of Title

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Title:	Retention of Title
Author(s):	Gloria Lancaster
Date(s):	1994
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Fandom(s):	Blake's 7
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Retention of Title is a Blake's 7 Blake/Avon story by Gloria Lancaster.

It was published in Avon Calling #3.

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Marvellous Oblaque-style psychological tragedy, the sort where a word in the wrong place can send a nearly-functional relational back careering down the wrong track. A brothel story, but completely original. Hot sex and incredible angst. Read.

Avon's kink is that he likes to perform as a prostitute for fun. Well, guess who walks in by chance to become his paying customer? Now back on the Liberator, Blake can't get it all out of his mind. This is a darker story, one you sort of have to think through. Just my sort of A/B.

This is more interesting, particularly since Lancaster and R Olivia Brown (two stories down) are responsible for the silly, fluffy, fun time that is 'Gorgeous', and Brown is responsible for 'No Iron Bars A Cage', which is made of terrible rape and torture. So, I assumed that Lancaster was the steadying fluffy hand - I assumed wrong. So, that interested me. This is a well written fic - but I don't like it. It's never clear to me what Avon gets out of being a prostitute, given that it's not sexual gratification, and although I had a long conversation with elviaprose in which she convincingly argued that what Blake feels doesn't make him a bad person, it's just a sexual urge - it's clearly a metaphor, isn't it? And unfortunately while I hoped I'd mellow with time and be able to accept characterisations of Blake that I thought were monstrously unfair to someone I believe to be ultimately a good man, trying to do the best he can in the face of massive opposition, in fact I've just grown crazier and less able to accept it. So, I respect this fic to some extent, but I don't like it at all.