Secrets (Blake's 7 story)
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| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Secrets |
| Author(s): | Linda Norman |
| Date(s): | 1999 |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | Blake's 7 |
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Secrets is a Blake/Avon Blake's 7 story by Linda Norman.
It was originally printed in the zine Fire and Ice #5.
Reactions and Reviews
Linda Norman is one of my favorite B7 writers, and her two stories in this zine live up to expectations. I have one minor complaint about the editing: I wish that the two stories had not been placed together, as the placement initially gave me the impression that they are part of a sequence in the same universe, like the first two stories in the zine. But no, they are completely separate. In "The Quick and the Dead," Avon uses a professional male courtesan on a doomed planet to make Blake jealous. He is repaid for his cruelty to the courtesan in a startling way. "Secrets" deals with Blake's discovery of the darker side of Avon's sexual interests, with a seemingly happy resolution that, however, points toward ultimate tragedy. Very B7, very well done.[1]
A has masochistic tendencies. When he comes back from planetfall covered in whip-marks, B is first disgusted then interested, realising that his disgust was caused by envy. I don't feel the characterisation's entirely "filled in" at one point--they're having an argument and then A asks B in sultry tones to come to his cabin--but this may be the reader being thick, of course, rather than the author not explaining. Very hot s/m sex. Like the above story, it has an elegiac tone in implication, and unlike Serious Moonli8ght, Linda N has enough ability to manage the one-line sad ending perfectly, because the foreshadowing and characterisation suggest things have not changed because they had sex.[2]
Another D/s one, but one of my favourite versions of this genre that I've read across the zines because Avon is getting off on it, but still fighting the bits he doesn't like/even the bits he does like and as himself, rather than in character as a submissive slave. So, I like that. I agree with Predatrix who reviewed it on Hermit that the move from whatever is happening with Jenna (which I also don't understand) to Blake being angry at Avon to them having sex is a bit odd. I also think Blake comes off as a bit of a jerk in the early stages of the fic, but not unrealistically so. It's a good fic. Do recommend.[3]
References
- ^ from Sarah Thompson at Judith Proctor's Blake's 7 site
- ^ from Predatrix at Judith Proctor's Blake's 7 site
- ^ aralias reviewed this zine in November 2013 on Dreamwidth, Archived version