Fic: Information

[clocketpatch]

It should be well evidenced by now that Blake's 7 has eaten my brain a bit, but now it's official because I've made fic, and me writing non-Whoniverse fic is a rare thing indeed. It's also filling the cursed prompt on my H/C bingo card.




Title: Information
Word Count: 1717
Characters: Zen, Kerr Avon
Warnings: N/A
Summary:
Set after Redemption, Avon interrogates Zen to find out who is really in control of the Liberator and what happened to its former crew.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

I left an inadequate review over at AO3 but I danced inwardly just seeing this!

And it was excellent - it rings very true to the universe, you have the voices down right (and Zen is not easy, or at least, I find him difficult to get right) and your backstory is interesting, fits with the B7 universe and is also the right kind of creepy.

And B7 is totally still Whoniverse fic. It's just one corner of the vast multi-verse the Doctor travels in. :-)

(Also, that reminds me - I don't think I mentioned Kaldor City, and at this point, I should. If you can obtain them, either from their website, or by your own methods, they are... um a Chris Boucher-fest with Carnell from Weapon, characters from Robots of Death, Paul Darrow playing a character who Definitely Isn't Avon Honest (I refuse to believe he is, but Avon's brother would totally make sense), and it mashes up elements from B7, Image of the Fendahl and Robots of Death and possibly Star Cop (which I don't know) together. It makes no sense but in the most entertainly snarky backstabbing way, and mostly because Paul Darrow seems to think a microphone is either something you eat or growl at. There are 6x 50 min titles, plus a thing only available from the website called Metafiction, which I haven't heard and should, because I think it's suppose to explain what actually happened. Possibly. Also Russell Hunter, Peter Miles, Nicholas Courtney, Brian Croucher, Scott Fredericks, David Baillie, David Collings, Philip Madoc and even Gregory de Poligny returning as a Voc at the end, and no doubt people I've forgotten. Anyway, the point is, DW's Kaldor City is where Carnell from B7's Weapon escapes to, and this happened in the BBC books title Corpse Marker, and Kaldor City runs with that - it's the official B7/DW crossover. I don't think it adds much to the B7 universe, but Paul Darrow/microphone is definitely the cracky OTP here.)

[thisbluespirit]

Also I just went and recced this - and then realised maybe I should have asked first. But I think it's great, so I hope that's okay.

[clocketpatch]

but Paul Darrow/microphone is definitely the cracky OTP here.

You don't know how much joy this sentence on its own has brought to my life. Possibly it was sleep deprivation, but it made me giggle like a loon for several minutes. Alas, there seems to be no way to legally download them off Chris Boucher's website and I'm not sure my feelings on sending away for CDs because the disc drive on my laptop is notoriously unreliable and I've no idea if I'd actually be able to listen to them once they'd arrived...

Though, the idea of Paul Darrow growing into a microphone for 50 minutes is almost making me want to try. And all of those other awesome actors as well! Hmmm. Are they very good?

[thisbluespirit]

As I said elsewhere, I was pretty ill when I listened to them. I do worry sometimes that I imagined a lot of the very strange things I listened to/watched in the last couple of years. However, most of them on checking proved to be real and just as ridiculous as remembered. (I seriously thought I hallucinated Scrooge, because I was far, far too ill to cope with a singing David Collings with a cockney accent and amazing hair and lots of red-headed children. These things should come with warnings.)

Paul Darrow doesn't grrowwl the whole time. Just most of it when he's around. :-)

[clocketpatch]

Nope, you didn't imagine it and I think you described it perfectly. He's trying to eat the microphone - or do some kind of sexy growl and failing hilariously - I'm not really sure. It had me in tears of laughter for the duration of my night shift though, so that can only be a good thing. The other characters + plot are okay too.

(I went through three of them before I decided that maybe I should save the rest for another day)

[thisbluespirit]

I will upload 5 tomorrow, then, I promise - don't skip to 6. Or you can, but it will make no sense whatsover. In any way. It doesn't exactly ever make sense, but at least 5 prepares you a little. Ish.

:-)

And, hahaha. I am glad it isn't just me who finds Paul Darrow as Iago hilarious. I giggled through all his scenes when I listened to them. (Scott Fredericks and Russell Hunter do a nice job of resurrecting one off characters from back in the day, though.)

[clocketpatch]

:D :D :D

I'm actually impressed that he managed to growl through all of those lines without bursting out laughing. I can see how some people would find it sexy, but... well... it's certainly interesting, and it's not not sexy, but... how do you not giggle at how fake!intense he's trying to be?

On a different note... it would appear that while I was half asleep I for some reason attempted pod-ficcing part of your story Compendium. So, I suppose I should ask belatedly if that's alright? It's only two of the parts. Want to hear some really really rubbish Avon impersonating?

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, wow! No, don't worry - I'm very flattered! Nobody's ever wanted to podfic anything of mine before. I am now, of course, wondering which two parts in case I can edit the rest to save you from any horribly clunky sentences lurking in there, but yes, that's amazing. :-)

(I am very funny about audio listening generally for three different reasons, so I cannot promise whether or not I will be able to listen - I hope so! I will try! But it is a thing that is a thing and I can't help it. I approve of podfics, though, very much - I spent too long as a librarian not to appreciate how important it can be to make things available in as many different formats as possible to be inclusive. So that is very exciting to hear!! \o/)

ETA: Also I meant to say that I have just managed to fish Checkmate (KC5) out, so hopefully will sort it out later.