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Avon in a tower
I had an unusually bizarre dream last night, which came out as a Blake's 7 episode (although there was a lot of stuff with bicycles and cinemas earlier on that I have forgotten) in which Avon was for some reason condemned to death by being taken up inside a tall tower and left to stand in the darkness on a high beam there with only two vertical ropes on either side to cling onto for support... so once the ladders were taken away, the moment he lost his balance or became so exhausted he could no longer hold on, or was no longer able to stay awake, he would inevitably fall. (I have a feeling it was actually a bell-tower or something similar -- not a special execution place, in any case.)
He managed to survive overnight hanging on for grim life, while the others down below and at relative liberty (although they couldn't actually talk about the condemned man or his situation, because they were still captives being watched) were desperate to come up with some escape for him before the ticking clock ran out. And Tarrant manages somehow or other to save the day by going down to the cliffs on the nearby sea-coast and setting off something that was specifically labelled in my dream as an Armada-beacon placed there for the purpose by Queen Elizabeth, through whose eyes I was momentarily seeing it -- apparently this was one of those quasi-historical episodes! -- but which looks more like a brightly-painted red wooden barrel on its side, and turns out to be a (?nuclear) bomb of some sort.
Absolute blinding flash. I would have assumed it would surely have involved complete vaporisation of Tarrant, but apparently it did bring down the tower in some manner that didn't instantly kill Avon in the process and allowed him to stumble free of the rubble while striking terror into the hearts of their captors -- but my subconscious was seeing this as a happy ending, so maybe Tarrant does somehow survive.
At any rate it was weirdly specific: I never normally dream about Blake's 7 and the S3 crew wouldn't be my default line-up, although the 'hang on for grim life in the face in the face of inevitable oncoming demise' plot is fairly standard nightmare stuff. The unexpectedly optimistic(?) ending is certainly not normal for my dreams, though, which tend to end with a sense of relief at having woken up.
I have a suspicion that it may have been triggered by reading Joe Simpson's anecdotes of mountaineering deaths on the Eiger yesterday, which featured several cases where climbers were eventually found frozen while still attached to their ropes or wedged onto their ledges -- I'm not at all sure where the B7 content can have come from, save that I was also coincidentally rereading the exchange Mei Bruges and I had about Blake/Avon slash last night while looking back over the records of my AO3 stats script. But Blake wasn't part of this dream at all, so I don't quite see the relevance...
I did, however, receive a review on "Chick or Child" on AO3 almost immediately after bewailing the lack of readership there (now up to 10 hits!)
He managed to survive overnight hanging on for grim life, while the others down below and at relative liberty (although they couldn't actually talk about the condemned man or his situation, because they were still captives being watched) were desperate to come up with some escape for him before the ticking clock ran out. And Tarrant manages somehow or other to save the day by going down to the cliffs on the nearby sea-coast and setting off something that was specifically labelled in my dream as an Armada-beacon placed there for the purpose by Queen Elizabeth, through whose eyes I was momentarily seeing it -- apparently this was one of those quasi-historical episodes! -- but which looks more like a brightly-painted red wooden barrel on its side, and turns out to be a (?nuclear) bomb of some sort.
Absolute blinding flash. I would have assumed it would surely have involved complete vaporisation of Tarrant, but apparently it did bring down the tower in some manner that didn't instantly kill Avon in the process and allowed him to stumble free of the rubble while striking terror into the hearts of their captors -- but my subconscious was seeing this as a happy ending, so maybe Tarrant does somehow survive.
At any rate it was weirdly specific: I never normally dream about Blake's 7 and the S3 crew wouldn't be my default line-up, although the 'hang on for grim life in the face in the face of inevitable oncoming demise' plot is fairly standard nightmare stuff. The unexpectedly optimistic(?) ending is certainly not normal for my dreams, though, which tend to end with a sense of relief at having woken up.
I have a suspicion that it may have been triggered by reading Joe Simpson's anecdotes of mountaineering deaths on the Eiger yesterday, which featured several cases where climbers were eventually found frozen while still attached to their ropes or wedged onto their ledges -- I'm not at all sure where the B7 content can have come from, save that I was also coincidentally rereading the exchange Mei Bruges and I had about Blake/Avon slash last night while looking back over the records of my AO3 stats script. But Blake wasn't part of this dream at all, so I don't quite see the relevance...
I did, however, receive a review on "Chick or Child" on AO3 almost immediately after bewailing the lack of readership there (now up to 10 hits!)