The Forest of Eshva

Personal Fanfiction Website
Website:	The Forest of Eshva
Author:	Eshva
Dates:	13 May 2001 - 10 August 2003 (last update)
Fandom:	Star Wars TPM, Blakes 7
URL:	http://www.ravenswing.com/~eshva/ (Wayback link)
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The Forest of Eshva was a personal fanfic and recommendation site. It also had a gallery with photo art.

Description from The Borrowed Ones:

Great fics, great recommendations, fascinating essays. A must bookmark site for Qui-Gon fans.

Rants and Recs

• TPM: Qui-Gon friendly slash recommendations - Eshva's TPM story recommendations. "Recs pages are most useful when you have some idea what kind of things the recommender likes. To put it bluntly - I like Qui-Gon. This means that my favourite stories are those where he is portrayed in a positive way (no moron or bastard stories and no grovelfic). My tastes also tend to run to the sweet and mushy, and I generally prefer happy endings :)"

• Sweet as a Little Pie - Some thoughts about dressing the Jedi in 'sexy' feminine outfits

• TPM: Symmetry in "Riding the Wheel of If" - An essay-type thing about the TPM slash series "Riding the Wheel of If"

• TPM: Was Qui-Gon responsible for Xanatos' fall? - A piece Eshva posted to a mailing list about the character from the Jedi Apprentice books

• Whatever Happened to Mary Sue? - Eshva's thoughts on some of the new directions that "Mary Sue" has taken

• Why "just don't read it" doesn't always work - Some thoughts about avoiding (or not) stories that squick the reader

Links

TPM

Forest Qui, from the gallery

Qui-Gonline - The Qui-Gon Jinn Discussion List homepage. There's a fiction archive (up to PG-13), essays and lots of excellent stuff about Qui-Gon.

QJEB Archive - A good fiction archive, with gen, het and slash

Pumpkin Patch - The home of Pumpkin's fanfiction. Several other good authors are also hosted there.

Bonding Universe - One of my favourite AUs

Phantom Heresies - Fascinating articles, especially "Jedi Knight of Infinite Faith"

X Art - Wonderful fan art, including TPM

Blake's 7

Judith Proctor's pages - A huge B7 resource, including fanzines, fiction, news, links and just about anything else you can think of.

B7 Fanfiction Archive - Gen fiction

Liberated - B7 slash and adult fanfiction

Paul James B7 page - Includes a big collection of marvellous quality frame captures

Frame Capture Library - Another excellent collection of frame captures, very well organised

Blake Revisited by Francis Teagle - Interesting discussion of all aspects of B7

Other Fandom Links

Fanfic Symposium - Critical discussion of fanfiction issues. I don't always agree with the columnists, but this is a fascinating page.

Fanfiction Critics Association - Homepage for the discussion list, which features discussion of issues in fanfiction. Often heated, always interesting.

Minotaur's Site - Gay sex tips for slash writers, among other things. A brilliant resource.

Slash City - Home pages of many slash writers, plus plenty of other features.

Confessions of a Fannish Butterfly - I must confess I haven't read the fic on this page (not my fandoms), but the recommendations and rants are excellent. Check out the rape recs, "You big bullly" and "Hummus".

The Pantheon - Home of Timmerryn's divine slashy comic 'The Pantheon', as well as her slash fic, art, and many other nifty things.