Starting from January-2012, DarkRula Media has seen four eras. Each changing something up about this label of mine. Back then, known as CDS Media, this label of mine was about fan fiction and occasional articles. Across more than ten years, it has slowly grown to hold a lot more. To become a true home to my likes. The history of the site is something I wanted to document, showing all the new additions and the eras I split them into. The brief history of the site can be found below, with each era banner giving a greater look at that period of time.
January-2012 was the start of the label, with the name of CDS Media being used to front a website that held two fan-created stories. CDS was a name I’d used plenty of times when younger, adding in the business after the letters – such as CDS TV or CDS Games – simply because they were my initials with the D representing a period (or as I’d call it ‘dot’). New stories would be added, with a blog being started in June of that year, which opened the CDS name out to have an actual meaning. Cyber Digital Services.
The start of the second era came when the blog moved from Weebly to Blogger just before June-2014. Eventually, the stories would also be moved to a new home in 2016, with The Chameleon Chronicles being the first to release on Wattpad in June-2016. Focus on stories had also taken a backseat in this era as the focus moved to university work, with more effort being put to the blog, though there would occasionally be a short story being uploaded.
Having announced it before this era began, CDS Media no longer existed in name on January-2017, having been changed to DarkRula Media. That wasn’t the only change, with the main site seeing an overhaul to be a showcase of everything under the label. But larger than that was a push to be known to the wider world. A push that started with the Kindle Store, and releasing some originals onto it throughout the years. There was also a greater push onto social media through additions to the blog.
A move back to Weebly on March-2020 marked the start of the fourth era, where I was intent on unifying everything under this label to one site. Making it a true home for all my content. A change of host happened over a year later, with the WordPress site keeping things similar in look, but with a greater toolset for me to utilise in working the site. More articles and quite a lot of short stories were published in this era, along with a greater push with video content as I started streaming on Twitch. Before video content then completely fell off in 2023.
And then, with the start of 2026, the fifth era began. DarkRula Media Trifecta aims to make big things of both my articles and stories. While adding the third of my loves to the content available in photography.