30 Days of Blake's 7 - Day 26
May. 26th, 2026 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesDay 26: Favourite computer
I have written at least a couple of hundred thousand words of fanfic (not all of it has been published). I edited over a dozen zines. Looking at the shelf run of other people's zines even after a weed reducing it to no more than a fifth of what it was, that comes to several million words. Picking one, or even a small sampling, is not happening. I'm going with the alternative question proposed byvilakins
Favourite computer by a long way is Zen. He's quiet but still a real person, for want of a better word. (Shut up, Avon.) He isn't always helpful, and on a couple of occasions actively hostile, but that's not normally his fault - he's the victim of both preprogrammed and direct control by his creators. Orac is definitely a person, definitely a pain in the neck, and definitely wilfully disobedient. Slave is mostly annoying and/or a foil for Orac, although I did find his death scene genuinely moving and would like to think that in some computer afterlife he's finally free of the grovelling personality Dorian forced on him.
Add me to the list of people who cried when Zen said "I have failed you."
I have written at least a couple of hundred thousand words of fanfic (not all of it has been published). I edited over a dozen zines. Looking at the shelf run of other people's zines even after a weed reducing it to no more than a fifth of what it was, that comes to several million words. Picking one, or even a small sampling, is not happening. I'm going with the alternative question proposed by
vilakins Favourite computer by a long way is Zen. He's quiet but still a real person, for want of a better word. (Shut up, Avon.) He isn't always helpful, and on a couple of occasions actively hostile, but that's not normally his fault - he's the victim of both preprogrammed and direct control by his creators. Orac is definitely a person, definitely a pain in the neck, and definitely wilfully disobedient. Slave is mostly annoying and/or a foil for Orac, although I did find his death scene genuinely moving and would like to think that in some computer afterlife he's finally free of the grovelling personality Dorian forced on him.
Add me to the list of people who cried when Zen said "I have failed you."
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Date: 2026-05-27 09:14 am (UTC)Zen was my favourite too. I remember him better than all the human characters except Vila, Avon and Blake. It was nice to have someone who vaguely seemed to know what it was doing.