Sustenance
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| Star Trek VOY Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Sustenance |
| Author(s): | Tenderware |
| Date(s): | 13 May 1999 06 February 2000 |
| Length: | ~19,600 words / ~30,600 words |
| Genre: | femslash |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: Voyager |
| External Links: | Sustenance (DQV) Adaptations (DQV) |
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Sustenance is a Janeway/Seven couplet by Tenderware. It consists of the stories "Sustenance" and "Adaptations".
Sustenance won the Delta Dreams 2001 Janeway/Seven Fanfic Contest in the PWP/NC-17 Category. It also won Platinum in the Janeway Seven Blue Awards in the Best Guilty Pleasure category.
The Story: Sustenance
Summary: "Rescued after weeks stranded on a desolate planet, Janeway tries to come to terms with what she and Seven were forced to do to survive."
The Story: Adaptations
Summary: A Sequel to Sustenance. Their love helped Janeway and Seven survive several weeks on a desolate planet. Will it also sustain them now that they're back on Voyager and confronted by a crew that seems incapable of adapting to the captain's new relationship with the former Borg?
Reactions and Reviews
[Sustenance]: The only femslash in this list because it’s not a favourite genre of mine. This has Captain Janeway and her favourite Borg marooned on a deserted planet without food and the ingenious solution to the problem involves Seven breast-feeding her Captain. Beautifully imagined and written with real emotional insight. [1]
[Sustenance]: long, plotty and extremely satisfying. I don't go in for femslash at all but I'll rec this one to all and sundry as one of the best-crafted pieces of fan-fiction that's ever come my way.[2]
[Sustenance]: One of the most unusual and beautiful hurt/comfort stories I've ever read, this is also an enthralling first-time tale that begins with a rescue and a mystery as Voyager returns to an abandoned planet for the Captain and Astronemics Officer they were forced to abandon there weeks before. The Janeway and Seven which come back to Voyager are somehow different though - thinner and secretive, unwilling to share the exact details of their survival and struggling with a newfound need to stay close after an ordeal which bared raw their vulnerabilities and forced one very proud starship captain to make a choice that may have forever altered her self-perception. Tenderware skillfully structures this story into an unfolding tapestry that will have you anticipating each new revelation with captive interest. The characterizations add a wonderful depth to the Janeway/Seven dynamics making for a deeply emotional, WONDERFULLY satisfying fanfic gem. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED![3]
[Sustenance]: An original and extremely well executed J/7 piece.[4]
[Sustenance]: this one is cute but a leeeeeetle weird[5]
[Adaptations]: In the much-anticipated sequel to Tenderware's spectacular SUSTENANCE, all is not well for a certain Borg and her captain despite the deeply loving and supportive relationship they have formed. For the crew of Voyager their leader's new association with a Borg is problematic - some seeing it as a conflict of interests, some seeing it as simply repulsive. It's a situation that comes to a head when the opportunity presents itself for Voyager to shave decades of travel from their journey home but in order to take advantage of that opportunity a manned shuttle must be left behind - a shuttle whose inhabitant will never be able to follow Voyager home. In the difficult days that follow tempers will flare, old hatreds will resurface, a vulnerable heart will be trampled and Captain Kathryn Janeway will risk it all to show her crew just what one Borg means to her. In a sequel that easily matches the exceptional quality of its predecessor, Tenderware has written a story that is gripping and emotional, grounded in what is without a doubt one of fanfic's most sensual and sizzling depictions of the Janeway/Seven partnership - this is one to avoid at work people! Tenderware has a very firm grasp of these characters making them easily recall the TV counterparts while the sci-fi elements of her tale are clever and well-constructed, very much in keeping with the Trek universe. A definite MUST READ folks! VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! - 60 pgs., 2/7/00 [6]
References
- ^ from Sue the Android at MY TOP TWELVE
- ^ "Comment on Long Femslash Fics (of any fandom), April 19, 2010 livejournal post". Archived from the original on 2022-06-17.
- ^ "LUNACY'S FAN FICTION REVIEWS Tenderware". Archived from the original on 2013-06-21.
- ^ "Links to ten of my favourite fan fiction stories". Archived from the original on 2022-06-17.
- ^ "Jun 26, 2020 Tweet". Archived from the original on 2022-06-17.
- ^ from Tenderware (2000)