I know I'm not alone in being a huge fan of Tera's work when she was here. It was occassionally a little raw and a little blue but that was all part of it's daring honesty. On top of that, Tera and I had some really intersting converstions via PQ, and I knew she was doing some storyboard work for a cartoon, but she seems to have dropped off the planet. Any ideas about where she might be and how someone could contact her?

RM

Um this probably belongs in the networking forum...



Who knows if you were actually talking to the person you thought you were...?
The guy who did Bird and Worm would be the one to talk to.

Unless it, you know... wasn't honest at all.

Getting three admin replies huh? Hmm...

Thanks to whoever for moving it to its proper place...

I can tell you that she's storyboarding The Mr. Men Show on Cartoon Network

But thats all I know

Indeed

That's a Mark Risley production... There may actually be a real person by the name of Miss Sanders, but it's doubtful she ever had a comic here.

Some people at Mr Risley's studio played a bit of a game with users here... In more ways than one

Ozone are u trying to tell us that Tera was not infact Tera but a person pretending to be Tera?

that seems like a very mean joke to me.

It seems like a tremendous waste of time too, to what end?

Indeed, if that is the case, it would be a slap in the face to everyone who eagerly read, believed and even voted for "her" "real life" comic in the DD Awards last year.

OO, what you described is not a game, it's technically a form of fraud. Maybe intellectual and emotional fraud, but fraud nonetheless.

The Mark Risley folks have caused us a lot of trouble in the past. They've basically admitted that was a fake account. I don't know the purpose of the joke, but that kind of thing happens on the internet pretty often. I'm sure philosophical arguments could be made about 'online personas' being fictional anyways and something-something. I don't know how much of the comic was truly fictional, but the 'tera' account was not a 'real' person.

The rumor I'd heard was that it was the dude who wrote Bird and Worm the whole time. I never really believed it though. Not out of any misplaced love for Tera, but I just didn't think he was a good enough writer to pull it off.

I mean, why would Bird and Worm be so cheesy if he could craft a character as realistic as Tera? It just never added up.

Not that I ever thought Bird and Worm was *bad* per say. The complexity of the writing was just never one of its strong points.

Maybe I severely underestimated him

The person with whom I traded PQs with claimed to know the Bird and Worm guy, claimed that they were working on the storyboards for the cartoon together. She claimed she was approached to work on the cartoon because of Scott's recommendation and because of 'Tera Forming'. Tera Sanders even has an IMDB account that lists her as a storyboard artist for that cartoon series.

I also received a couple of PQs from that account in the last week or so. Tera or whoever she really is, claimed to have just been checking in.
I have to be honest here and say that it would be a great disappointment to me to find out that the individual with whom I actually had a handful of really deep discussions with turned out to be some guy playing a prank.

Do you have any sort of refernce for this admission that it was a fake account?

We might still have it, I would have to dig through one of our threads in the admin forum I think, which is going to take some time (which I don't have just now). To be honest I'm not sure that it's my job to confirm identity or not- or whether we should have said anything in the first place. It seems kind of like an invasion of privacy. Any info I give you would still be secondhand, anyway. Maybe we're not the ones to ask- we've been known to be fallible on rare occasions

Regardless of whether Tera is a real person, and if so, was the person behind the DD account, someone's been lying to someone. The whole business seems a little squirrely and it seems a little suspicious that the thing isn't straightfoward. The Bird and Worm, Mark Risley bunch has pulled quite a few questionable 'pranks' in their time here on DD so that doesn't speak well in their favor to me.

Well remember that this whole thread started because I was a big fan of her work and was wondering if anyone knew of anythig else she was doing.