User Profile

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I am selenay on Dreamwidth - but continuing to cross-post everything over here.

I'm a Brit and, in August 2008, I became a British ex-pat living in Canada. I can no longer call myself a recent graduate of the Open University because it's over three years since I graduated with a degree in IT and Computing. Sadly, I haven't quit let go of the learning thing because I just finished two years of French with the OU and I'm just starting to get tempted by lots of other courses. I worked as a data analyst for a major retail company for three years and now I'm a database programmer for an insurance company. It's my first job outside the retail world and I'm not quite used to not caring about the location of turkeys at Christmas yet. I also do the odd bit of web design on the side. Apparently I'm boring because my ratio of fannish to RL post has dropped so that lately this journal has been 90% RL. I'm working to change that and talk about fun stuff more often :-)

I'm a fanfic writer, having written gen, het and slash for various fandoms including Buffy, SGA and Atlantis. Doctor Who is my current writing love, although I'm considering taking the leap into a couple of other fandoms as well. Yuletide has a lot to answer for. I also read and review fanfic because my life obviously isn't full enough. Just for variety, I'm also going back to the wilds of original fiction in hopes that I can finally finish a novel. This journal is a place for me to ramble about fandom and meta thoughts, babble about books, vent about crappy stuff, discuss writing progress (or the lack therof) and occasionally make silly comments when all other ideas dry up.

Very few entries in this journal are friends-locked, so you'll get most of the gossip even if I haven't friended you back. My friending policy is based around whether I already know someone and whether we have enough in common for me to be interested in a reasonable number of your entries. I'm always happy if you want to friend me, but please try not to be offended if I don't friend back - my reading time online is fairly limited and I usually only manage to get through part of my friends-list when I am online!

I'm not a great icon maker, but brushes and gradients for any icons that I make are by crumblingwalls, teh_indy, lilmonstericons, a_fallenstar, inexorablyhere, verycolorful, alaskanicons, colorfilter, feverishicons, fluffy_monster, garishlight, dearest, iroka, mythographica, scarsonchest, september_icons. Caps are from Abydos Gate, New Atlantis and my own collection. Some wallpaper textures are from innamoramento. And I hope that I haven't forgotten anyone :-)

Useful Links

The famous Newsletter Index, listing all the LJ (and now IJ, GJ and JF if anyone can supply some links) fandom newsletters is available at: http://www.selenayhaven.com/newsletters01.htm

I've been told that it's very useful and I'm always glad to get new links for it - comment on any post on my journal or fill out the feedback form at my website to get your favourite newsletters added.

There are RSS and Atom feeds for this journal and thanks to the latest LJ upgrade, you can now get feeds just for entries with certain tags. Possible useful feeds are:

All website updates:
RSS: http://selenay936.livejournal.com/data/rss?tag=haven+update
Atom: http://selenay936.livejournal.com/data/atom?tag=haven+update

Just fic:
RSS: http://selenay936.livejournal.com/data/rss?tag=fic+posting
Atom: http://selenay936.livejournal.com/data/atom?tag=fic+posting

Any Doctor Who post:
RSS: http://selenay936.livejournal.com/data/rss?tag=doctor+who
Atom: http://selenay936.livejournal.com/data/atom?tag=doctor+who

All posts:
RSS: http://selenay936.livejournal.com/data/rss
Atom: http://selenay936.livejournal.com/data/atom

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