Bene Dictum

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Bene Dictum is a series of slash anthologies. The first and third issues have entirely Professionals content and the middle one is half Professionals and half Blake's 7 content.
"the BENE DICTUM series (well put, well said, well dicked)"
==Issue 1 ("A Dickensian Christmas")==
Bene Dictum 1 has the subtitle, "A Dickensian Christmas". It was published in February 1992 and contains 161 pages.
All of the stories are by M. Fae Glasgow.
From the editorial, by the editor Caroline K. Carbis: 
* Shopping Days or Doyle (the) Copper Felt (Up)"-- (an elf story) (4)
* Seeing is Believing or All Over Twist (lots of talking, no sex) (26)
* Baaah Humbug! or Bleak House (35) 
* Jingle Balls or Hard Times (58) 
* Panting for It or The Artful Roger (70) 
* A Night at the Opera or The Pickwick Papers (90) 
* Snowbound, A Tale of Two Situations -- (has two endings, one unhappy "...The Worst of Times" and "Little Doyle" and the happy "The Best of Times") (105)
* On Thin Ice or Skate Expectations (part of The Sports Series) (133)
* Screwged or Nanny's Christmas Carol (146)
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1===
 
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==Issue 2 ("Half 'N' Half")==
Bene Dictum 2 is subtitled, "Half 'N' Half." It was published in 1995 and contains 174 pages. 
Half the content was Pros and half was Blake's 7. All stories were nominated or won a Huggies or a STIFfies.
The Pros content:
* Pigs Might Fly by Crone/J.M. This may be HG, as J.M. is a pseud HG used in The Small Print. - 6 pages (won a 1995 STIFfie Award)
* After Ojuka by Sebastian - 13 pages (won a 1995 STIFfie Award)
* End of the Line by Tallis - 7 pages
* Sweetness and Light by M. Fae Glasgow - 19 pages
* The Killer in Me by Alexandra - 9 pages
* One Who Has Made a Long Journey by Jane Mailander - crossover with The Crying Game - 11 pages
* The High Road by M. Fae Glasgow - 32 pages
The Blake's 7 content:
* Open All Hours by M. Fae Glasgow Blake's 7 
* The Night Watch by Erszebet Bathory Blake's 7 
* Bothy by M. Fae Glasgow Blake's 7 
* Clean Slate by M. Fae Glasgow Blake's 7
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2===
==Issue 3 ("Noughts & Crosses")==
Bene Dictum 3 is subtitled, "Noughts & Crosses." It was published in 1995 and contains 164 pages.
* The Same River by Helen Raven - 41 pages (the cyborg story)
* All You Need is Love by M. Fae Glasgow - 59 pages (has two endings, one happy, one not)
* Wonderful Tonight by Sebastian - 58 pages (won a 1995 STIFfie Award)
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 3===
==Issue 4 ("Heads & Tails")==
Bene Dictum 4 is subtitled "Heads & Tails". It was published February 1999 and contains 20 X-Files slash stories by M. Fae Glasgow, 19 Mulder/Skinner, one Mulder/Krycek. It has 120 pages.
* The Fox Who Cried Wolf
* Movie Magic
* Paper Hearts
* Succor
* Trinity
* Band of Gold
* Skintone
* Skean Dhu
* Post-Redux II
* Teal Dreams
* Beacon in the Night
* A View from the Top
* The Ice Queen Cometh
* Kill File
* Saving Walter S.
* Mortal Sin
* Torrid
* Foxhole
* A Proper Charlie
* The Gift
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 4===
==Issue 5 ("Nanshoku & Other Tales of the Master and His Apprentice")==
Bene Dictum 5 is subtitled "Nanshoku & Other Tales of the Master and His Apprentice". It was published February 2000. It is a Phantom Menace slash zine with one novella and 17 Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan stories by M. Fae Glasgow. It has 136 pages (84,700 words). 
Editing and design was by Caroline K. Carbis.
From the flyer printed in DIAL #13: 
The editorial: 
The summaries are from a flyer:
* Nanshoku (5,129 words) - a last time story; no deaths; focus on the relationship; a look at the Samurai tradition applied to the Jedi; gentle sex; handkerchiefs recommended. (5)
* Wordplay (4,659 words) - established relationship; a play on cliches that appear in Master/Apprentice fan fiction; extended sex; light tone. (13)
* Leaving Tatooine (2,339 words) - an exploration of why Qui-Gon cannot yet accept Obi-Wan's wish for a sexual component to their relationship; a look at Qui-Gon's past, his failings and the choices he made. (21)
* Just Another Day (2,609 words) - ordinary life for our two Jedi; sex included; nothing earth-shattering; light, pleasant piece. (26)
* Chrysalis (1,507 words) - slight skewering of the fan cliche that Obi-Wan is so small; Qui-Gon's awakening to the change from cocoon to pupae to butterfly of Obi-Wan; seeing through new eyes. (31)
* Monday Morning (2,332 words) - a relationship still in the process of being established; exploration of what it means to let loose the passions that Jedi are taught to hold in check; acknowledgment that this does not have to lead to the Dark Side. (35)
*Scottish Trifles (a section of seven short scenes that are whole unto themselves or which could be parts of longer stories - but won't be written): 
** His Promise (884 words) - Qui-Gon insists he will keep his promise to Obi-Wan for time off together... just before the Jedi are called to mediate a dispute between the Trade Federation and Naboo. (40)
** On Lessons and Lunch (1,250 words) - Obi-Wan teaches young padawans, explains the meaning of the beads in his braid, demonstrates sabre fighting with his master, and goes off to lunch. (42)
** Accounting (570 words) - Obi-Wan inveigles his master into helping with the expense reports. (44)
** On Day's End and Dinner" (665 words) - skewering the fan cliche of raping poor Obi-Wan. The Jedi are more powerful than you think and very well trained. (45)
** Screwed" (1,287 words) - slight parody of the fan cliche of having sex in public (46)
** Pyre (382 words) - Obi-Wan copes with his loss of Qui-Gon and with his change from padawan to knight by ritually burning his clothing and braid. A cleansing of the spirit (48)
** Evening Entry (425 words) - an entry in Obi-Wan's journal. (49)
* Ecce Homo (11,386 words) - translated from Latin, this means Behold the man. A major story. A first time. An exploration of how and why Qui-Gon would wish to see Obi-Wan as eternally an adolescent, and of how and why he would gradually awaken to the fact that Obi-Wan was an adult. Includes sex as it's a first time. (50)
* Dirge (1,416 words) - a commentary on the movie's handling of Qui-Gon's funeral and of its treatment of Ani. Obi-Wan deals with Qui-Gon's death and comes to understand the true wisdom and greatness of Qui-Gon: trust your feelings. The Code cannot always be followed. Qui-Gon's love and wisdom flowing into Obi-Wan and saving Anakin in the process. (66)
* From Secret Places (1,040 words) - through the medium of formalized punishment in some culture where the Jedi have a mission, Obi-Wan learns something of himself and of his relationship to Qui-Gon.Very short BDSM that looks at the why of it all. (69)
* The First Time (1,993 words) - a first time story of a different sort of first time. Reveals something of the relationship between this particular master and padawan and points to where their future together will lie. (72)
* Benediction (45,000 words) - an almost-novel. This is the heart of the zine. M Fae first began this last autumn when the M_A list was doing pon farr stories. It was supposed to be short and sweet Instead, it is a pon farr story (Obi-Wan in pon farr) but it is really the development of the relationship between Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan leading to their first time. Lots of sex off stage. Lots of anguish and angst for Qui-Gon. Connection, intensification, bleed-through of emotions, recognition of desire, oaths of celibacy, virginity, stunting of emotional growth, the blossoming of love, love expressed, a bond so strong that it cannot be broken. Two adults coming to terms with what they mean to each other and what they are willing to sacrifice for each other. Sex (!) eventually. (76)
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 5===
==Issue 6 ("Due Cut")==
Bene Dictum 6 is subtitled "Due Cut". This all-due South zine is Fraser/Ray K by M. Fae Glasgow. 
It was published in February 2002 (at Escapade) and contains 223 pages (68,800 words). 
The zine is offset spiral bound and contains no art or poetry.
Award: 2003 Serious Duck nominee (Best Anthology).
This one is not available as free pdf. 
The editorial: 
*Echoes - a canon ball, set during Burning Down The House. (5)
*Unboxing - a reworking of elements of Flashback, set nebulously in third season (14)
*Drawing the Eye - a canon ball, post Spy vs Spy (87)
*Holding On - after Odds (105)
*Aftermath - a canon ball, immediately after Ladies Man (114)
*Dance Away - during Dead Men Don't Throw Rice (118)
*And Eating It, Too - a lead-in to Say Amen (137)
*Out With the Old - during Call of the Wild (154)
*Reaching Out - a canon ball, after Call of the Wild (220)
==References==
Category:The Professionals Slash Zines
Category:Blake's 7 Slash Zines
Category:Multimedia Slash Zines
Category:1990s ZinesCategory:2000s Zines