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.

Bella & the Beast

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

  • Ye Olde Memoirs - And the new. Yaaaar! Here there be Beasties! As well as the beauty & wonder of life.

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

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

Sunroom

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

COMING SOON!

  • Instruction & Coaching

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

  • Behind the Scenes

  • Bloopers & Shenaniganry

  • Members Lounge

Twisted History & Myth - Fiction Hub

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

  • 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.

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! ✨