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Welcome! I’m Isabelle Disraeli. I am in my early forties living with my spouse in the Southeastern United States. Please do feel like you may have a good long poke around and if you feel comfortable in saying hi, I'd love to hear from you. And if you don't hear from me right away, please forgive me I can't always keep up here but I'm always come back around. ;D

I've been recommending fanfiction (slash, femslash & het) almost daily since April 2014 and am off and on working on the backlog of recs that I did before joining Dreamwidth December 2018. Because I can schedule posts on my WordPress blog that is where one can keep a little more up-to-date with my recs.

||Fanfiction Recommendations by Isabelle Disraeli||

On my blog I keep a running list of my fandoms, though these are by no means ALL of my fandoms. Multi-Fandom does not quite seem to cover it. ;D I go with whatever seems to strike my fancy. I have plenty of 'ships, some OTPs, and a few NOTPs but I am very much a "ship and let ship" sort of person.

A couple years ago, I'd started to produce more varied content including moodboards, and recording podfics of some of the stories that I'd recommended in the past. I've also been producing podfic & fanfic covers for myself and others. I also write on occasion, definitely of a pornish persuasion.

Let's see, let's see what else. I have always worked in libraries and will likely always work in libraries. I'm asexual/biromantic, and identify as genderqueer with she/they pronouns. (Oh, and if someone does not state their preferences I will usually use they/them as my go to.) I am weak to cute things, especially fuzzy cute things.

Last but certainly not least the Transformative Works Policy: I give blanket, non-exclusive (and ecstatic) permission to use any of the works I've posted as inspiration for your own transformative work. I'd only ask for you to credit back to the work and to let me know so I can come squee over your stuff!! Also if I have made a work (moodboard, cover, etc.) that was inspired by YOUR work, you totally have my permission to put the cover or what have you on your own page with credit.

Current Mood: cheerful

It's been a little over a week since joining Dreamwidth, and all in all I am pleased with the platform and am excited to be in what really feels like a fandom community! Tumblr always felt a little like taking a walk on a busy street, tons of people around but rather lonely.

One thing I am jazzed about today is that I have finally gotten the backlog of posts from Tumblr all scheduled on my WordPress blog. This last summer, completely ignorant of the changes coming to Tumblr, I was introduced to WordPress at a class at work. Well actually the class talked about a lot of different blogging platforms including Tumblr. When the teacher asked if any of us had blogs already, my ass that had been on Tumblr recommending slash fanfiction for four years was all "no I've never heard of this tumble thing you speak of". There are just some things co-workers don't need to know, y'know (especially if you live in the South [US]). Anyway, the teacher showed us her blog (all about her grands and the BBQ recipe she just tried) and I was instantly interested in the fact that WordPress kept stats on views, not just likes or reblogs. (You can also see what country the view originates from, there is a little map of the world and the country lights up with a view from there and it's flag appears below. I feel like I've really brushed up on my geography ;D)

Recommendation sites or blogs are quiet places in my experience, occupying an almost liminal space between original content and a straight reblog of someone else's content. I've been on the other side of this for years, ghosting onto rec sites, mining them for the good stuff, and than moving on without a word. I begrudge no one this experience. But I had already grown tired of Tumblr's setup from a social interaction standpoint so I thought it might be nice if I could at least see that people were indeed even looking at what I had worked on. So I signed up for a free WordPress account and started to feel out how I wanted to do this thing.

I don't know if I've said that I work at a public library, but I know I've not said that I took a degree in Graphic Design. I dusted off my rusty skills and set about decorating my new blog with graphics and I find myself quite pleased with the appearance of the thing especially with my limited means. I say blog but WordPress allows you to build a blog/website hybrid and so far it has been a good experience from the graphics/organization/stats side of things.

One major drawback about WordPress is that it is not a Fandom Space. Well at least not a transformative fandom space (like Dreamwidth or Tumblr) but more of a curative fandom space with blogs reviewing movies and books. Oh the book review blogs, there are so many of them and in various flavors. I'm not saying I've not met a few nice folks and had some nice interactions, but this did not turn into the kind of fandom experience that I had been looking for though I certainly have no plans to take it down or stop posting there mostly because I really am quite pleased with how pretty it is (I'm bragging and no one has to agree, but I'm proud).

So now we finally get back around to my subject line, I'm now looking at maintaining into the new year three blogs running concurrently on Tumblr, WordPress, and Dreamwidth all of them functionally different and I begin to wonder if I am perhaps in too many places and trying to maintain too many sites at once. Dreamwidth is non-negotiable as this is the place that I'm finally found the kind of interactive fandom experience that I've been looking for, but WordPress and Tumblr both have their pros and cons. I guess for now it's best to just try to make a go of it, I certainly have time to change my mind later. :)

In other doings, I have SO much Christmas stuff to get done this weekend and though I am well on my way to recovery from my cold this last week . . . it's rainy, I hate shopping, I hate wrapping, I HATE going to the post office, and I don't wanna adult. *pouts shamelessly* *sigh* I'm just going to have to put on my big girl pants and do it anyway, which I guess is the definition of adulting.

If you're still here, thank you for reading my ramblings. Oh and I've also made inroads in getting my previous recs up on this site, I've logged them back to July. Please go have a look :D.

Current Mood: lazy
Current Location: Having a lie in on this rainy morning.

On Commenting from

trascendenza

I have seen this around on other journals and I couldn't help but be charmed. So I am officially adopting this as my policy :D.

I welcome all of the following types of comments on any of my entries:

+ Single or two word comments.

+ "+1" or Facebook style "like".

+ Otherwise brief comments, e.g. single sentences.

+ A comment that is a punctuation mark(s) to let me know you read, e.g. a period, an asterisk.

+ A comment that is a punctuation mark(s) to express your response, e.g. an exclamation mark or question mark.

+ A comment that is an emoticon(s) to express your response.

+ Long, wordy comments. Rambling is totally okay.

+ Comments and links on related topics.

+ Comments on single links, entities, paragraphs, topics, or words in the entry.

+ Sequential commentary. It's totally okay to comment about one thing as you read it, then another thing in a separate comment, then a third thing.

+ Incoherent comments. I would rather have you here and showing interest, even if it's just a *flail*, than for you to stay silent because you are afraid or unable to get the perfect comment out.

+ Talking amongst yourselves in the comments is fine. I like creating a place where people get to interact!

I also welcome:

+ Comments on old entries.

+ Comments from people who are not subscribed to me.

+ Comments from people who I’ve never met.

+ Comments from people who haven’t talked to me in awhile.

+ Comments from people who’ve never talked to me.

+ I like knowing the provenance of new commenters. If you're new, I'd love to know where you came from and what brought you here. (But if you're feeling shy that's okay too, you can try again another time, no pressure) :)

Due to the recent policy changes over at Tumblr and the general break down of tag searches with outgoing links, I've begun expanding my presence over a few new platforms in the event that fandom decamps en mass from that sinking ship. I don't think that it will happen all at once on the 17th but I'm just trying to get ahead of this thing.

So I think I'd best introduce myself, I’m Isabelle Disraeli. I am in my mid-thirties living with my spouse and assorted fur-babies in the Southeastern United States. I identify as an asexual/biromantic and while I would like to do some posts about asexuality positivity, I’m primarily here to recommend fanfiction that I have enjoyed. The lion’s share will be slash, but I will be including a selection of femslash and het stories as well. Though I am well old enough to have been on LiveJournal in its heyday, sadly in those days I was but a lurker in the halls of fandom and it was only later that I felt inspired to give back. That being said the Dreamwidth interface is proving to be a bit of a learning curve for me and I kind of wish I had a fandom mom to show me the ropes.

I do hope to start making regular posts here once I get everything figured out. :D

So fandoms, you better buckle in 'cause I plan to list them all. These are the fandoms that I have rec'd for and have plans to rec for, but I will probably add to this list.

( Cut to Slash Fandoms )
( Cut to Femslash Fandoms )
( Cut to Het Fandoms )

Anyway, I am here to make some fandom friends and share my love of fanfic with others, so if you feel like chatting I'm game. :) [If I don't write back right away, it probably means I'm at work, asleep, or have the migraine and can't look at a screen :P.] I don't think I'll be doing too much personal posting here, though I might change mine mind later but I anticipate that this will be a predominately fandom space for me. Feel free to link to any public posts, but please do drop me a line letting me know that you are going to. :D

Current Mood: hopeful

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