Blake's 7 RPF

Blake's 7 RPF for the show Blake's 7 very much mirrors Star Trek RPF. 
Most of the RPF were humorous fics describing the actors and characters switching places.
Fans being fans, there certainly was RPS before the internet, but it was almost entirely underground and in the form of drawerfic.
RPF took the stage during the Blake's 7 War, but its public prevalence, and even very existence, was hotly debated.
==Earth, Liberator Switcharoos==
Like much Star Trek RPF, the vast, vast majority of the small amount of Blake's 7 RPF had the set-up of "the actors and the characters end up switching places, and have to find their way back to their own reality." Some examples are The Totally Imaginary Cheeseboard and The Other Side of the Coin.
A rare public example of Blake's RPF that includes a spouse is the very tame fic, "Episodes," by Judith Seaman in the zine 1982 Episodes. It was written with the "approval and permission of Paul and Janet Darrow." This zine was reprinted in 1988, right at the cusp of The Blake's 7 Wars. Another example is the zine, The Other Side of the Coin (1991) which includes both Janet Lees Price and Michael Keating. It contains a disclaimer: 
==Examples of Differing Memories and Explanations: The Supposed Story That Set Off "The Blake's 7 War"==
 
In 1989, several fans wrote in The Federation Archives that they have never seen the RPF explicit story that was rumored to have been sent to Paul and Janet Darrow: 
A fan's explanation in 2005, one that begins innocuously enough, but then drifts into a version of the repeated urban myth:
In 2006, another fan explained:
An exchange in 2007 illustrates the unreliability of memory: 
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See much more at The Blake's 7 War.
==Increased Visibility==
It was the internet that pushed all RPF, not just that for Blake's 7, into greater visibility. From Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Henry and Cynthia Jenkins (2012):
==Some Fan Comments==
===1993===
From a 1993 discussion on a slash mailing list:
==Some Examples==
===Fic Without a Sexual Element=== 
* "Episodes," a story by Judith Seaman in the zine Episodes. It was written with the "approval and permission of Paul and Janet Darrow." In the story, Paul Darrow is knocked unconscious, ends up on the Liberator, minds his way home, and then has a conversation with Michael Keating and Janet Darrow. (1982, reprinted in 1988)
 
* "The Alien" by Felicity Millard was published in The Chronicles #15 (July 1984)
* "What?" by Moira Dahlberg is a RPF crossover published in Standard by Seven #11 (April 1982) 
* "Seven Plus Two Equals... Episode 4" by Susan J. King was published in Voice of Oracle #3 (October 1984)
* The series: The Totally Imaginary Cheeseboard, The Other Side of the Coin (1988), and The Cost of the Cheeseboard (1995)
* "Epiphany" by Irene Stubbs is a RPF crossover published in The Seven Live On #2 (January 1989)
* "Booting Orac" by Steve Oualline was published in Syzygy #5 (February 1991)
* "Dead or Alive" by J.D. Humphries (S5; real world crossover, RPF, Avon-Chris Boucher) published in Horizon Newsletter #9 (early 1993)
===Fic With a Sexual Element===
* by Toft (RPS) (Paul/Gareth written from Gareth's point of view, "Actor fic that mirrors the source.") (September 7, 2005)
===Blake's 7 Characters Writing RPF===
* Willa Shakespeare's "The Inkplot Thickens" in Tales from Space City #7 (2003 or 2004) has Vila writing RPF about his crewmates. "He and Avon see money to be made; Blake sees it as propaganda for the revolution. The money-making side goes awry, but Vila is not defeated and at the end is branching out into a new fictional field...." by Hafren at 
==References==
* Category:Blake's 7
Category:Blake's 7 Wars