Challenge #1

In your own space, update your fandom information! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


Hello! I go by ‘seleneheart’ because ‘raederle’ was taken when I first set up my Livejournal back in 2003 (I’ve been kicking around for a while). My identity on non-journaling websites is ‘Raederle of An’. So if you run across that, it’s probably me. Both names are from beloved books. My pronouns are she/her. I fall on the Star Wars side of the space epic debate, and am more of a Fantasy fan, although I do enjoy me some Sci-Fi. I watch the extended versions (yes, 12 hours worth) of all three Lord of the Rings movies on odd-numbered years on Christmas day (although I’m not the slightest bit religious - the day is for other reasons), including this year. And I cry every time.

I’m fascinated by fairy tales (myths, ghost stories), and have adapted many of them for many different fandoms. Some of them are pretty obscure - I have quite a few fairy tale books to use as reference so the odds are good I’m going to adapt one you’ve never heard of before. I’ve even smushed elements from several tales into one story (And one memorable time, I made a fairy tale from a tale that was in a completely different reality from ours). Someday I will make a post and collect the links for all the ones I’ve written into one place and include all the fandoms. We’re talking somewhere between 20-30 tales.

I’m also a huge science nerd and read as much science stuff as I can, and try to learn new things about it. As a result, my journal is full of random science info and videos. I'm also a nature girl, although currently stuck in a large city. Someday, if I get my way, I'll go back to the woods. Oh, yeah, and I'm a hockey fanatic. I believe it was Chris Rock who said, "There are no casual hockey fans."

My journal is sometimes personal, but most of the time I don't really vent on here. It's more my ponderings of fandom and the state of the world. I'm pretty passionate about accessibility in web design, especially in simple things like journal coding.

In addition to writing sporadically, I dabble in various art mediums from digital art to painting to ceramics (I love wheel throwing). I’m constantly watching tutorial videos or taking classes.

I’m fortunate enough that I can work partially from home. By profession, I’m a lawyer, which takes up a lot of my mental energy that I would otherwise use for creative works. I keep a bullet journal that I decorate, and very much enjoy the open-endedness of bullet-journaling, where I can change up what I'm doing on a whim. I have a planner for my work life, which I decorate a tiny bit with the stickers that came with it (however, I love watching YouTube videos of people who go crazy with stickers in their planners). I love planners, and while new ones are nice, there's something I find very satisfying about a planner at the end of the year - the pages are covered with my writing, there's a few coffee stains here and there, the cover is showing its use.

I dabble in graphics like icons and banners when I have the time. I was able to participate in a couple of challenges and share some of the traditional art I did on drawesome. I think I completed one story this year. Although I started one that will be pretty long if I can get up the motivation to finish it.

Current Fandoms: Julie and the Phantoms, Avatar: The Last Airbender (yes, I know I'm late to this one), Stranger Things, due South, and Letterkenny. I feel something stirring, a change in the air perhaps, but I'm feeling like I'm going back into the Lord of the Rings fandom.

In the past year, I've consumed these things:
Podcasts

• The Steve Dangle Podcast


• Puck Soup


• Deep in the Heart of Hockey
<-- these two are fanfic writers who started a hockey blog, and now are legitimate members of the hockey media. However, they are boycotting hockey in the time of COVID, and are currently doing a marathon + analysis of the Twilight movies. They are the reason I watched Julie and the Phantoms

• Stargazing


• The Friendship Onion - Billy and Dom


• Myths and Legends

TV Shows

• What We Do in the Shadows


• Bridgerton


• Julie and the Phantoms


• Queen's Gambit


• Great Pottery Throw Down, Season (?)


• The Nevers


• Stanley Cup Final


• Black Sails (finally!)


• The Irregulars


• Avatar: The Last Airbender


• Sex Education


• Legend of Korra


• Shadow and Bone


• Fate: The Winx Saga


• Prime Suspect


• Over the Garden Wall


• Great British Baking Show, S9 & S10 (I think? Whatever the latest two seasons are, when they're in the bubble)


• Wheel of Time


• The Witcher, S2


• Letterkenney, S10

Movies
None of these have been in the theaters. The last movie I saw in a theater was Knives Out. Many of these are re-watches.

• Ladybird


• The Dig


• Enola Holmes


• Labyrinth


• Mad Max: Fury Road


• In the Heights


• Skyfall


• The Shape of Water


• Were the World Mine


• Hunt for the Wilderpeople


• Hail, Caesar


• Dune


• ParaNorman


• Single All the Way


• Fellowship of the Ring


• The Two Towers


• Return of the King

Transformative Works Statement: Blanket permission is given to use any of my stories to make podfic, translations or other transformative works with proper credit. It would be awesome to have a link to anything created, but there's no need to ask for permission - please go ahead!

I'm currently tiling my laundry room floor and I'm exhausted.