Chocolate Blue
The History of CB:AV
(ver 1.2)By: Ashley Delfín
It all started around somewhere In 2000, exactly when I can't remember but it's not really important. Anyway, we had just moved from Guadalajara, Jalisco to Cuernavaca, Morelos (both in Mexico, got get an Atlas and look for them if you have no idea where they are). It was my first year of High School, and I was middle-of-the-year new at a school that was 600 km away from any known friends. To top it off, most people I met were either snobbish or stupid or both. What was I to do? Well I had Sephy (short for Sephiroth, my fave FFVII bishonen), my laptop. I spent most of my time in an RPChat and on ICQ (I still used it at the time).
One of my friends from Guadalajara, Xerdo, told me he had a website. "Well," said I, "I could do something like that!" So I did. I started "The Whisper Library"! The idea was very much like this one: I would post my stories and offer space for other authors to post theirs. I went bonkers with colors, backgrounds, fonts, images… everything! It was an interesting but visually exhausting website. I managed to update it a few times but since no one knew it existed, I gave up on it after a few months. I tried to revive it later, but managed only to promise more stories and poems that never came to readers that did not exist.
"The Whisper Library" died a quiet death. I just mentioned it to a few people so they could read my stuff with the least effort on my part. They all liked my stories, said that they'd send me stuff for me to post, then didn't.
I lost Sephy in my second (or third, not sure) year of high school when he fell off a table, and the lack of a decent PC made it very hard for me to dedicate myself to a website. Plus, I had acquired a social life through drama club so I didn't write as much. My last three semesters of high school were chaos, although very enjoyable.
After high school (summer 2002), my dad got transferred to Stamford, CT. We took my brother's old laptop, Lime, which was shared by my sister and me (my brother stayed in Cuernavaca to study). My dad kept insisting I needed a new laptop, I didn't want one. All I did on the damn thing was use MS Word and chat. I've never felt the needed for a faster-than-the-eye Internet connection so I didn't mind waiting a little for pages to load. My father, however, would not be swayed. After a few fights I got a new laptop: Seifer, who is with me right now (Someday I might tell you the story of WHY I was refusing the offer of a new computer and the chaos the whole thing provoked, it's really funny).
Anyway, at some point during all of this, Sabu, a fellow writer and acquaintance from Cuernavaca popped up on my MSN Messenger. I told her about my webpage and she started on one. I don't know when or how or why but I found myself revamping "The Whisper Library", renaming it "The Khronoz Writers' Guild" (after another one of my characters). She knew some authors and hopefully we would find more. We were beginning to feel (or at least I was beginning to feel) we were about to create this huge center where authors of original stories could come together.
Summer 2003 I realized something I had actually realized before but refused to accept, "The Khronoz Writers' Guild" original website was well beyond repair. I erased everything there and started a new on another homepage, this one.
After some debating, Sabu and I decided that running a Guild would be too much trouble and decided to settle for hosting sister sites that would favor original stories over fanfiction. The name of my website is just something that came to mind when thinking of silly names that are nifty, cute, original, and seem to have a deeper meaning than the one the mere words have. I added the "Angelic Version" because I felt like it, really. (okay, that and there's a German site called Chocolate Blue. So I decided that I liked the name but I needed to add a personal touch to it). Sabu's website, my sister site, is named Satisfactory Uniqueness because she feels it describes her website. I rather like it (both the website and the title, I mean).
To be honest, I don't know much about making websites. I make mine on MS Word (it makes it easy for me and although at times the damn thing gets stubborn, I get to not have to learn HTML right now). I just wanted to share my works and invite others to share theirs, really. Hopefully this site and my sister site will grow over time. The layout is now simpler, and I'm better at keeping up with my life and e-mails.
That's it, the story of Chocolate Blue: Angelic Version. Well, more or less, I didn't want to bore you too much.
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