I am, Suzanne Deanna-Maria, Shadow Weaver obsesser, here and proud, dammit! That pic up top is Yours Truely dressed as none other than Shadow Weaver for Haloween '99! That big patch near my mouth is where I got elbowed in the nose! Blooooooood!
And again!
So, I'm 14 years old, born on the first of May, 1985, living in Queensland, Australia! I am a total tomboy... and a 'She-Ra' fan... can ANYONE see the connection here;)? Suprisingly enough I absolutly loved dolls and My Little Ponies as a kid. Wierd! So, like lots of other kids my age, I watched the Princess Of Power series. I wasn't born in time to see the original She-Ra's, just repeats. I started watching when I was bout four years old in 1990. I absolutly loved Swift Wind! Musta been 'cos of the My Little Pony thing. When I went into grade one in 1991, me and my best bud Samantha ran all around the school playing Princess Of Power- She was She-Ra, and of course I was Swifty. Sam used the cord on my hat as reighns... not a very good idea! I got whiplash a few times and broke many-a-hat! And often, the same hat over and over... those saftey pins just wouldn't hold!
She-Ra... I'm not sure if I ever liked her, but I was crazy about Swifty! One time our teacher asked us to draw a picture of something we liked to do. I drew this piccy of Swift Wind and wrote something like 'I pretend to be Swift Wind and we all have a good time.'! Give me a break, I was in grade one! The obsession continued when I moved into grade two. Once again, Samantha and I were in the same class, and also trouble-makers! The teacher often seperated us, and I remember one time saying 'Let's pretened that we hate eachother, that way she'll make us sit together!'. Kids say it all! Sam found new friends, but still hanged around with me. Playing She-Ra around the school-yard still happened, but on a smaller scale... now we were more into throwing rocks onto the road and watching every car come down the street, hoping against hopes it would run over one! I was the only one in the group that was REALLY into She-Ra anymore. I still loved Swift Wind! He was my absolute favorite, though I did like most of the characters.
But there was this one character I was really scared of in the series. Everytime they came on I got frightened and sometimes just looked away and yelled for mum to tell me when they'd moved off-screen. I wished that they wern't in the series at all because they scared me so much. And that character was... Shadow Weaver! She terrified me so much... I guess that's probably the reason that she, along with She-Ra (not Adora!) and Swift Wind, were branded into my memory.
Then, in about mid-late '92, She-Ra came to an end. From what I have been told by my mother, I was really angry about it and wouldn't watch TV for ages after! I called Sammy up on the phone and we were both really angry about it. As the days turned into weeks, the weeks turned into months and the months into years. Halfway through grade three, She-ra was long forgotten. And she was never heard of again. No one talked about her, no one wished for her to be back, nothing at all. Then, an entire six years later in January 1999 I got the internet! By now many other obsessions had come and gone, covering She-Ra even more- The Lion King was the first big hit in my books, and I was absolutly obsessed with it! Anything at all that was Lion King I bought, even if I had to put it on lay-by! The second obsession was the Disney-fied 'Hercules'. Wow, was THAT a wallet-lightner! In fact I've only just come away from it now! But as I was saying, in 1999 I was hooked-up to the information superhighway. I would spend hours upon hours on-line! A habit which never did die! Most of the time, the only thing I ever did was spend ages typing 'Disney's Hercules' or 'Disney's Hades' into the search engines.
This got boring fast! Eventually, I started thinking about other things to find on-line. There were a variety of things, like bull-terriers (I have one and a Staffy), dinosaurs (another obsession!), or The Land Before Time, but thinking really hard I found something in the very dark regions of my mind. Something so very, very clouded. Something I could barely remember. That something was She-Ra, Princess Of Power! I typed She-Ra into the Geocities search engine, not at all expecting anything to come up... not really caring if it did or not. Then, over 2000 sites came up! Boy, was I suprised... I had no idea anyone would like She-Ra enough to put up an entire website to the series seeing it had been cancelled so long ago! I immedeatly went absolutly beserk, clicking on as many links as I could... and right-clicking all the Swift Wind pictures I could find! After a while, I had quite a few in my collection, which I was quite proud of, plus a video-clip of the opening theme.
Then, as memories of Madame Razz, Hordak and a bunch of other characters flooded back to me, I decided to check out the only characters besides Swifty I had remembered all these years- She-Ra and Shadow Weaver! Swift Wind and She-ra's images took a while to come back to me, and only from viewing pics from around the internet. But Shadow Weaver's image didn't come back to me by pictures... it had stayed imprinted in my mind all these years and I didn't even realise it! A few things were a tiny bit off- I didn't remember her floating, the belt or the tattered sleeves of her cloak, but I was very close. I only saved a couple of pics of her, and was still more intrested in Swift Wind than her.
But before I could find anything else out about the old show, my computer was struck down by the Happy Worm 99 virus! I lost everything- pictures, files, stories that had taken me forever to write. I was never taught how to back anything up. Even now I'm still suffering from that virus- I don't have Microsoft Word and my printer's not working. I sometimes thought about She-Ra in the two months I had to do without my beloved internet! I remembered how much fun it was playing Princess Of Power and breaking those hats! I remembered the time I tried to fly with Sam holding on tightly to my shoulders. Shadow Weaver soon gained my attention. After all, how could one forget something that terrified them so ;)? She seemed to have a place in my heart that nothing else had been able to fill for a long time. The longer I was cut off, though, the less I thought about going into search engines with She-Ra in mind.
When the glorious day came that I got my computer back on August twenty-something, I had a field-day! Hercules was back on track! But still, after a while I got bored with trying to find it on the internet. So, I resorted to She-Ra once more. It was great to get back some of the pics I lost! But the more I thought about Shadow Weaver, the less I cared for Swift Wind. After a while, the time came when I would over look a picture of the flying unicorn so I could right-click a picture of the Horde's sorceress. I often asked myself why I liked her so much. Then I realised- as a child, I may have been a fan of She-Ra, but I didn't completly understand it. Now that I was old enough, the plots made much more sense. And Shadow Weaver made much more sense, despite the fact I didn't even know she had a REAL bakground! She seemed to be smart, powerful and strong- that's something that I would just love to be. Plus, I've always loved characters that were mysterious! And also, I've always loved the bad guys- Swift Wind was the only good guy I had ever liked!
Then I found out more and more about Weaver's background. It was a breakthrough when I found out WHY exactly she wore that hood. As I worked my way through webpages, squeezing out every single tiny bit of info and poor-quality pictures of Shadow Weaver I could find, I half-thought of making a Shadow Weaver site. But I decided against it, because I already had three other webpages I seriously needed to update- I was having enough trouble as it was!
But the more I read and found out about her, the more I wanted to share it with the rest of the world and pay tribute to her. Soon, the feeling of loyalty was too much, so I set up 'Shadow Weaver- the best villain ever!'- a small website with many typos and only two pictures I had to use over and over. It was one of the smallest She-Ra sites you could find, and I didn't update much. The main page, And if it had ended THIS way, and a very, very small bit of background.
Now that I have rediscovered Shadow Weaver, she plays quite an important part in my life. Not just because I empty my wallet on stuff with her in it on eBay, but because finding her again was like recovering a part of myself. Even if this 'obsession' passes, like The Lion King and Hercules, she will still be someone I'll never forget!
NOW THAT THA'S BEEN EXPLAINED, YOU GET TO READ A BIT MORE ABOUT THIS INSANE WEBMISTRESS, BWAHAHAHA!!!
Stuff I like (aside from the Weaver/She-Ra stuff):
Stuff I hate (aside from most of the She-Ra characters!):
How I kill time:
What angers me most:
Fave song:
I love it when...
I hate it when...
Best and Worst subjects at school:
SO THERE'S A WHOLE LOTTA USELESS INFO YOU COULDN'T CARE LESS ABOUT!
Loud music, the Ekka (sort of like a GIANT fair), Brisbane, rainy days, Autumn, the colour black, drawing and writing, designing backgrounds and stuff like that on my computer, action movies, photography, tackling people when we have the rare game of football at school, insence and most definatly daydreaming.
When the VCR's broken, pages that take forever to load, pics that don't turn up and broken links, not being a Republic, the GST, adventerous stuff, how other countries portray Australia as some desert land with locals that have such a thick accent *I* can't understand it, not knowing what something is, the fact that I'm constantly broke, the thought of getting a part-time job, homework and Parent/Teacher interviews!
Daydream, write, draw, play music, watch TV, go on the 'net!
People putting down my beliefs and when people say there's no chance that SW will go back to good. ESPECIALLY the latter.
Too many to list!
I find new info/pics/etc with SW!
I don't get any e-mail!
Best: English and Religion, Worst: Science and Maths.
