Blake's 7 Resources

Originally called Resources for the Blake's 7 Fanfic Writer and then renamed Blake's 7 Resources, this website was a combined archive and resource site founded by Vickie McManus under her pseudonym Alicia Fox and maintained by Orac (fan). 
== History ==
Blake's 7 Resources included a resource center for fanfiction writers, an archive of fanfiction scanned from published zines as well as posted online and a "bulletin board" of sorts where requests for zine content and updates on Blake's-associated content. 
The site was initially started on GeoCities in 1998 as "Resources for the Blake's 7 Writer", but was transferred to a new location in December 1999. Between December 2000 and February 2001 the site underwent its name change to the less-unwieldy "Blake's 7 Resources". It was regularly update between 2001 and 2003, however the archive section was not updated past September 2001.
The last update for the site was in February 2003.
== Content ==
=== Archives ===
* Hammer to Fall, a Story Archive
* Bang and Blame, a Post-Gauda Prime Story Archive
=== News ===
What's New
=== Resources ===
==== Characters and Their Universe ====
===== Characters =====
Character icons provided with permission by Randym.
* Main Character Biographies - information revealed about that character in the entire series, complete with the relevant dialogue excerpts and some added speculations on conclusions we might be able to draw from it.
* Guest Character Biographies
* A Blake's 7 Soundtrack: songs, some with lyrics, that could apply to B7 characters. Contributors: Alice A., Aurora, Jennifer B., Susan B., Cami, Sandy D., Michael D., Pat F., Alicia F., Julie H., Pat Jacquerie, Russ M., Jay M., Mireille, Misha, Susan M., Kathy M., Alison P., Grace R., Erica S., Sarah T., Airan Wilkinson, TigerM, and Kat W. Includes comments with some lyrics.
* Relationships between the characters - essays and thoughts on character relationships by Alicia Fox and Neil Faulkner.
* Guest characters by episode, with hyperlinked cross-referencing
* Aroma-Genera by Airan Wilkinson. Characters linked to the essential oil that best matches their personality--lots of fun!
===== Essays =====
* Blake's 7 Universe
** Echoes, a discussion of contrasting leadership styles by Ellie Baskerville.
* Fanfiction
** Realism in Cave Stories by Helen Atkins. Comments on caves.
** How Many Ways Back?, categories of B7 fanfiction, by Neil Faulkner.
** Romancing the Slash by S. E. Thompson.
** PGP Fairy Tales by S. E. Thompson.
** B7 History: excerpt from "The Programme Guide" and commentary.
** Random Thoughts on Politics in B7 by Pat Fenech.
* Characters
** Aroma-Genera by Airan Wilkinson. Essential oils and the personality types of Our Heroes.
** Breaking Avon by S. E. Thompson.
** Avon's Bit of Paper in "Space Fall." - a few speculations on what that bit of paper might have been
** Shakespeare and Blake's 7 by Alison Page.
** Avon and Weapons by Linda J. Norman.
* General Topics
** Why I Like Heroes With Unsolvable Problems by Doris Egan. Self-explanatory title. 
** Chastity in Slash by torch. Do slash stories need to have explicit sex in them? Do they need to have sex at all? 
** I really tried to write this Blake's 7 story but... by Chris Blenkarn.
** Tips on Writing Erotica by Oliver Klosov.
** Some Tips on Description by Martha Wells Wilson. 
** Writing Filks by Judith Proctor.
** Zine Layout by Judith Proctor.
** Belles-Slash, collected themes favored by slash readers and writers.
** The Advantages of Fan Fiction as an Art Form, by Jane Mortimer. 
** The Advantages of Erotic Fan Fiction as an Art Form, by Jane Mortimer. 
===== Series Background =====
* Injuries, Illnesses, and Emotional Upsets.
* Canonical Touching among B7 characters.
* Story Ideas.
* Jean Graham's Costume Index.
* Gadgets: ships, weapons, and computers. Hardware and technology.
* Technology glossary.
* Planets:
** Series A
** Series B
** Series C
** Series D
** Index
* Drugs mentioned in the series.
* B7 actors in other television shows and movies.
* Sevencyclopaedia, compiled by Neil Faulkner, at Judith Proctor's site. Even more information.
===== Quotes =====
* Not the Usual Quotable Lines
==== The Show ====
* Episode List 
* Links 
* Transcripts of all 52 episodes at the lysator ftp site.
==== Writing ====
* Writing References 
** Fanfiction
*** Holy Mother Grammatica's Guide to Good Writing.
*** How to Write Almost Readable Fan Fiction. Humorous and useful.
*** torch's links, which include a lot of essays and rants and how-to pages that make a great playground for a fanfic writer. Instead of picking and choosing, I thought I'd just let my visitors choose which links they like.
*** Writers' Free Reference. A compendium of links to maps, dictionaries, encylopedias, etc..
*** Filk Music? What's That?
** SF and F
*** Guides to Writing from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Useful to writers of all levels of skill. Most are applicable across genres.
*** If you are interested in professionally published erotic science fiction and fantasy, try the Circlet Press website.
** Writing in General
*** For Writers Only: links to dictionaries and quote collections, spelling, grammar, style resources, and more. This is a frame-based site. If you've a desire to write a B7 alternate set in historical times, try their Guide to Historical Research link collection.
*** Are you a filker? Try The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary.
*** The Internet Public Library, if you're looking for that perfect epigraph or source of parody.
*** Drew's Script-O-Rama, a collection of links to screenplays, both film and television, on the Web.
* Beta-readers 
** Friendly First Readers - a list of people who are willing to read and comment on your story, if you would like feedback before submitting it to a fanzine or to a web publisher. Updated 27 April 2000.
* Zines and Archives
** Paper Zines that are looking for stories
** Webzines
** Online Archives 
** Mailing Lists
=== Dedication ===
At the bottom of the main page, this dedication:
In memory of Terry Nation, Vere Lorrimer, Darien Angadi, Gerald Blake, Geoffrey Burridge, Douglas Camfield, Paul Daneman, Valentine Dyall, Robert Holmes, Richard Hurndall, Stratford Johns, Roy Kinnear, Ronald Lacey, Alan Lake, Kevin Lloyd, Betty Marsden, and Mary Ridge. Requiescant in Pace.
== References ==
Category:1998 Archives
Category:1990s Archives
Category:2000s Archives
Category:Geocities
Category:Blake's 7 Websites