15th Jun - Hehehehe... I'm still here! (but for
anyone who doesn't know... scroll down.. this site IS officially
inactive, I'm just here anyway.) Basically, I'm just saying hi
:) AND, more importantly, if you want to chat about TP or anything
else, that'd be great! Come here
and join with me and Lina and...well, it's mostly us, but ANYONE
is welcome!
21st April 2003 - LOL, I know... Not again!!
Anyway, a link. Anyone else read Louise Lawrence's Journey Through
Llandor? Yahoo group just started up here!
12th April 2003
- An update??? Well,
just a teensy one, in books, because someone kindly mailed me
to tell me the title of a book I couldn't remember. Ah, much
better, that was bugging me :) And actually, I sort of checked
up on all the sections and made minor changes. But what's down
there *points* pretty much still stands... don't expect more.
Some people have been
wondering why there are no Circle options in Who's da Best and
such - er, basically cos 1. not enough options and 2. this is
primarily a Tortall-based site! Actually, the Polls are probably
the best part of the site... certainly the most amusing... Read
the comments!! There's PAGES and pages of them and they're funny
:D
29th December 2002
Tough decision time,
and you might know that I don't like desicions in general.
I haven't updated for
months.
It looks like Teens
of Tortall won't ever see it's 2nd birthday; not really anyway,
although the place may still be sitting here, taking up space
for angelfire ;) I've never 'closed' or discontinued a site before,
and I'm not entirely sure what to do with this one. To be quite
honest - and I realise this could offend a lot people, including
me, and a year ago I NEVER thought I'd be saying this - I'm not
anywhere near as obsessed with Tortall and everything as I used
to be. It's been a long time since I was. For months I've been
trying off and on to put something new and exciting here, but
there isn't anything I want to do with it anymore. Maybe I'll
go read SOTL again (they were always the best!!) and try to get
back into it. Sorry, everyone... (anyone? I guess this won't
be so bad if no one's here...) I feel really, really bad saying
this, but I also feel really bad just not updating and NOT saying
anything.
I loved this site to
death at one point, updated the whole time, and Tortall was on
my brain constantly. Seriously, it was the obsession that got
me through the school day at one point; I'd pretend I was Kel
and go all stoic when anyone was mean. I learnt so much, and
it was through this that I got into writing in the first place,
got into web 'design' and the internet (hehe, I shouldn't think
my parents are too pleased about that...) If anyone actually
cared about this place, believe me - I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL. I remember
being stunned and upset when Tara's placed closed - probably
more than a year ago now.
Tamora Pierce books
are a GREAT obsession, one I highly recommend to anyone!
But as for me... what
I'm trying to say here is: I realise I'm no longer
really updating. But I won't be closing this site. That
is, it will remain on the internet and if anyone sends
me in anything, I will gladly put it up. I just want to let people
know that I don't really intend to do much in the way of updates
necessarily myself anymore. Who knows, I might yet even add to
my fanfic, but it's unlikely and I don't want to confuse anyone
(like I haven't already...) Thank you to EVERYONE who's
ever been here, especially people who submitted stuff, especially
people who signed the guestbook or e-mailed in those early days
when that absolutely made my week! And I'm not really disappearing,
I'll be around if anyone wants to e-mail me for anything, and
like I said; feel free to keep on sending me fanfic and everything,
or continuing the story of your alter ego.
OK..... I've just written
paragraphs and paragraphs on this... From the point of view of
some people, it might be seen as a huge waste of space. But this
has meant a whole lot to me, and I think any fellow obsessee
- past, present or future - will know the effect and importance
of Tortall... whether I stay around the internet community or
not, something inspired me, and it will always be there :)
One more note about
this site: It was the first anywhere near serious website I ever
made ever. I wrote (a tiny bit of) my first fanfic here. I wrestled
with pure HTML and actually learnt it. This site was never as
good as I thought it was in terms of looks. In terms of content...well,
I used to update a LOT more even when no one ever visited. Now
that I've got onto a slightly more impressive look of things,
I don't want to mislead anyone... This is nowhere near a good
representation of the TP fansites out there, but I really have
to keep it going for sentimentality's sake. There some decent
enough stuff, I guess, for you to enjoy, and there's always Alter
Egos :)
~JestaAriadne
This site part of Another
Realm where there's a load of other stuff, some of it even
updated! LOL, that's my "collective", I guess...
