Esama has departed from the internet overnight.

I don't know whether or not this is out of line for DLP, but does anyone have copies of Esama's Sherlock stories, or the Naruto fic 'End of One World?' Or the weird Yu-Gi-Oh fic where Yami was playing Sleeping Beauty for the majority of the posted fic?

 

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I assume the only stuff that would survive getting taken down is the stuff in the WBA threads.

 

All I can say is: good riddance. I don't think any of Esama's stories were particularly good. Most of them were average, dull, and lifeless. Perhaps we'll finally have people stop recommending those stories here.

 

First time I've been Rickrolled in years.

 

TheSoundofSilence tried to download every fic in our library. He might have at least the stories found here.

Oh, and a few can be found here: http://onj1.andrelouis.com/hp/esama/
It's a repository I usually check when fixing links in the library.

 

I've got a good chunk of Esama's stuff saved. I know that I'm missing some of it though; a few of the more explicitly slash fics, as well as his purely Yu-Gi-Oh stuff.

Here is what I have in a public dropbox folder.

 

What was the reason for Esama deleting their stories?

 

I've seen something floating around about her taking a year off from fanfiction because of some form of stress or another. I didn't see anything about her removing her stuff in advance, and the only thing left on the bio is;

Lol.

Thanks for the Dropbox link, Zill - I snagged a copy of End of One World, Cinder Breadcrumbs, Toil and trouble, and Whispers on Corners.

 

The only thing I got was that she was tired of something. Something about having to deal with stuff for too long, but I did not really care enough to think it was important at the time.

 

The one thing I've noticed about Esama's fics is he tends to take a few chapter to build up a plot then suddenly the characters will be gay and the whole thing goes striaght to hell.

Not that Homosexual characters are bad, but yesh. How many stories did he ruin like that?

 

The interesting thing that I noticed with a couple of stories, though, was that it was advertised as 'this will be slash', but was abandoned before that - so it was kinda safe to read some esama's stories even though they were marked as slash in the first place.

Case in point - did anyone save the 'Alone Together', the HP/Temeraire crossover, by any chance? It was marked as slash, but in 15 chapters there was barely the slightest hints, if that. And the first 9 chapters were kinda interesting, too.
It has Harry Potter having kinda two bodies - one his one, and another a dragon's of the first task. It was rather silly in that regard.
To be fair, yeah, it was a stock Esama story - some interesting ideas with execution that leaves you hoping for better quality and, thus, disappointed.

 

Here's what came up on a message board. Not sure if it's different than what was posted before, but there might be some that were missing between the two:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/92776639/Esama.ZIP

 

Meh, no matter that every story ended up being slash, he did make some interesting ideas. This is a loss.

 

So is there something I'm missing, or did he just decide to say fuck the internet and leave?

He also had a habit of finishing nearly 0% of what he started.

 

They said fuck the internet, and left.

Apparently Esama had original fiction up under the same username on other websites that wants to revamp and publish, and he doesn't want to be connected to his fanfiction.

 

He was better than 0%? Seriously though, the ideas were original and that was good enough to care about him.

 

I'm pretty sure he wrote at least one one-shot.

 

She was just sick of everything, being a BNF apparently loses its appeal after a while. Keep in mind she was online for like eight years. She also mentioned how big of a distraction it was and how she now felt like she was growing up and concentrating on her original work and home life away from fanfiction.

You can see her archive at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/esamafans/ which her fans created after she left a few days ago.

She took down all her websites, tumblr, fanfiction sites, her original yahoo group and pretty much everything bearing the handle 'esama'.