| 1997 - |
On August 28th The Warrior's
Hut went up for the first time. It took
me over a month to come up with the name. |
| 1998 - |
The Hut bridges out to
more than one page! Yippee! It now has
a couple image galleries of Xena and Gabby
to browse. |
| 1999 - |
Multiple pages, and The
Hut breaks the 1,000th visitor mark! |
| 2000 - |
On May 2nd The Hut recieves
its first award from The Empress! |
| 2001 - |
The first Fan Art contest
is held in January! |
| 2002 - |
The contest and galleries
are renamed Spilled Ink, and the fan fic
section takes on the title of Bleached
Parchment. |
| 2003 - |
Now at over 40,000 unique
visitors The Hut continues to branch out
with new Dollz, Avatars, and Games. |
| 2004 - |
60,000+ visitors! Spilled
Ink gets a face lift with a shoutbox for
each artist. ^_^ And as the year came
to a close so did much interactive content
on The Hut. December 31st saw the 91,000th
visit! |
| 2005 - |
Unfortunately many of The
Hut's pages are no longer acccepting fan
submissions, but a new title graphic and
a new concentration on creating and showcasing
Xena art should prove a great remedy for
boredom. |
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My name is Katie Wilks and I run SoftAsSteel.com and all the pages herein. Unlike most other large fan sites I do not have a staff to help with updates, or to design new pages. I slave alone on this labor of love. ^_^ The only parts not done by myself are the galleries of Spilled Ink, many of the Dollz, and some of the Mantras. I have tried single handedly to keep The Warrior Princess' spirit alive and kicking, even after the show (and character) died.
Running this shin-dig is not free, and often updates
are put on hold because I do not have the time
between work and University
to get to them. If that pisses you off, or you
are just a kind soul who wants to help out,
please consider supporting The
Hut with a donation!
Check out more on the SaS.com
homepage!
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The Warrior's Hut has seen many incarnations. It started out as a small one page site with awful graphics and just a few spatters of text on Geocities. It was the first webpage I ever built. I had no knowledge of HTML when I started out...thank the gods for the page builder at Geocities!
The Hut went through over 6 servers before landing at home here on SoftAsSteel.com, my very own domain address. Right now The Hut takes up over 2 gigs of space, and gets an average of 90 unique hits (different IP addresses, ie different people) on it's front page every day. ^_^
So, what's with this Best of Both Worlds crap?
The most important part of The Warrior's Hut for me is the embracing of two warring factions here in the Xenaverse...the Shippers and the Subbers. For most of the time I've been here the debate has been "are they or aren't they?" and this has lead to everything from mild discussion, to heated debates, to broken friendships. Well, I've had enough! The writers never presented us with a concrete they ARE or they AREN'T, and so that is what I too have embraced.
GABRIELLE loves XENA loves ARES, or mathmatically GABRIELLE + XENA + ARES
By taking away one part of that equation I think you rip meaning away from the show. There never was a resolution between the love lives of any of these characters, and that tension is what kept us all coming back week after week. In fact, some of the highest ratings ever recorded for a syndicated show was for the episode "A Necessary Evil" the week after Xena and Gabrielle shared a psuedo kiss in "The Quest." People wanted to tune in and find out of they would kiss for real, whether or not they liked the idea!
And no one can deny that Ares has his thing for Xena, and that Xena returns the emotion. Whether you play it off as lust or love, there is something there, something powerful enough to make a god give up his immortality. Xena would not be the person she is if not for Ares and Gabrielle, and that is what I would like to remind everyone of. There is no way to seperate these three, they are ALL soulmates.
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