Our fansite chris-marquette.com started out as a collaborative project of a trio of two Germans, DomesticElephant and TeeJay, and Sisterdebmac from Georgia in the US. We started running this site in 2006 to create a place for people to stop by if they wanted to know what Chris is and was up to and find lots of goodies if they were craving that. The website is a passion project that we’ve tried to keep running as best as we can, but these days it’s actually only TeeJay who’s still maintaining the site and adding content here and there.
Largely responsible for the content and all the technical stuff is TeeJay (she/her). She’s designed the layout, set everything up and written and collected the majority of material on the site. In real life she works in clinical research with a company in Germany. She loves hanging out with friends, photography, D&D (and pretty dice), good TV shows and movies, the English language, playing dead on her couch, writing and reading fan fiction, and Chris Marquette’s eyebrows. She hates hay fever, people who are disrespectful, computers that crash for no reason, caraway seeds and corny songs. You can contact her at teejay@chris-marquette.com.
Next up is Sisterdebmac, who’s giving input for the site and is the authority on movie scripts and things surrounding them. She’s our Website Embassador for all things US-related (like going out to cons and meeting up with Chris). She’s also a really good beta-reader for just about anything, (fan) fiction or non-fiction, articles or recaps. In real life she works from home in Atlanta, Georgia. You can e-mail her at sisterdebmac@chris-marquette.com. She loves Adam Rove’s hair, baseball, her pets and her new computer speakers because they make Chris sound so damn sexy. She hates the jerks at IMDb who used to litter the boards with inanity and swill and waiting for Chris’s movies to come out.
Last but not least we have DomesticElephant. She’s into media design, and mainly gives feedback for the site and sometimes has really cool ideas. She was trained as a media designer and isn’t afraid to show others that you don’t have to hide if you’re different, since she was born with Sturge-Weber syndrome. Her e-mail is domesticelephant@chris-marquette.com. She loves being online, painting, reading good books, watching good movies and TV shows, listening to good music, meeting her friends, chocolate, Chris Marquette’s hair and improving her English skills, especially with something that has Chris and his original voice in it. She hates asparagus, people who post inappropriate things on message boards or are mean, being pitied by others, and not finding the right words in any language.
The three of us met on the message board of Melissa’s old christopher-marquette.com site and quickly coined a name for ourselves: The Dorquettes (as in female version of dork, as in fangirl). We’ve had long e-mail conversations, online chats, and we’ve all met in person. And you wouldn’t believe the fun we’ve had and the crazy things we’ve done. Fabric-painting drool towels, t-shirts, putting Joan of Arcadia stickers on our cars, driving friends mad with talking for hours on end about Chris Marquette, and to top it off, flying out to Los Angeles to meet Chris for lunch. We kid you not! So, yes, we’ve met Chris in person, Deb and Tina even more than once. Which is awesome, and kind of a dream come true. Who’d ever think that might happen? We certainly didn’t…