Hartebeast Lair

Pronounced: "Heart...a beast!"

Tinkerings of an Elemental Alchemist

A playground for Innovative Creatives. Art & Nature. Passion & Principle. Curiosity & Play.

  • The System: Experiments with my Dance of Elemental Alchemy and the healing & creative process it spawned.

  • DanceStory: Dance. Story. History--mine as well as that of the dancers, artists, entertainers & characters who made me.

  • Hyperfixator's Haven: All the nerding, geekery, and dorklicious stuff I'm particularly obsessed with. Rabbit holes. Infodumps. Hyperfixations.

  • Art & Nature: and how they intersect.

Where In the World...?

Where else you can find me.

  • YouTube: current dance, vlogging, art & nature adventures, travels, slideshows & more.

  • Olde YouTube: Izzy old-school - my original belly dance channel.

  • Spotify: where you can find all my elements, dance, mood, and story soundtrack playlists.

  • KoFi: Do you dig what I do? 💖 Become a Patron! 💖 Then I can afford to keep doing all this good stuff. And...you know...pay my electric bill and stuff.

  • Facebook: If you like my stuff, it will really help me if you pass it around like glitter. ✨ That stuff gets everywhere! ✨

The Lair: Live!

Fire Sign. Furnace. Phoenix. In-depth and up-close.

NEWLY LAUNCHED! and disassembled. COMING SOON! somewhere else.

  • I did an experiment with Sunroom. It failed. And was a huge success, even if it doesn't look like it. This is why.

  • So I'm going to experiment with putting this stuff on my YouTube channel. We'll see how that goes. I have no idea what I'm doing. It's all just a big toy. Come play with me!

  • This is what Sunroom had been and what I'd like to make in a new way:

  • Members Lounge

  • Instruction & Coaching

  • Progress serials - like knee surgery & TBI recovery, creative process, etc.

  • Behind the Scenes

  • Bloopers & Shenaniganry

  • Exclusive content seen nowhere else

  • The stuff that's too spicy for tha socials!

Bella & the Beast

Damsel To Dangerous tales. Silver lining treasure hunts for surviving TBI, nice-girlidom, & neurodivergence. And a little Gen-X-itude.

  • YAAARR! ENTER IF YE DARE. HERE THERE BE BEASTIES! As well as the beauty & wonder of life. It's NSFW around here.

  • Tell It Like It Is - Traumatic Brain Injury, bodily injury & recovery.

  • Sex, Love & Violence - Undiagnosed neurodivergence. Sexual liberation in a female. Professional belly dancer. Long-term martial artist. Purring, cuddly kitten. Passionate, rebellious, eccentric soul in a human meatsuit. Welcome to the Jungle.

  • Ye Olde Memoirs - The Section where I first load all of the tales I'm migrating from my old blog, in case you've read them already.

  • The Wreck Room: Coming of age in the 80s tales. Other fictional shtuff and its creative process.

Twisted History & Myth - Fiction Hub

Fantastical fiction full of soul-searching, love & war. And Beasties, of course.

BLAHHH. Another experiment that I'm in the process of migrating.

  • Substack is really not friendly to fiction, especially not long-form, so I'm learning how to do the publishing module of Campfire. In the meanwhile, you can get a taste of how I write novels here:

  • Home: Gladiators, gods & myths galore. Mermaids, mind-messers, minotaurs, more.

  • Tales of Olympos & the Underworld: Ever wonder who Persephone & Haides were before that infamous snatching? I did. So I asked.

  • Short Stories - occasionally I do write them.

  • Worlds & Building: Behind-the-scenes nerd-geekery. Work-in-progress shenanigans. Research rabbit holes & inspiration that goes into the fiction I write.