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✨ You know me as Isidora Hart - Writey Fighty Dancer Nerd. Belly dancer and—okay, I’m ALSO a belly dancer. Considering all the other stuff that has infiltrated my 30 year dance career, I’m more of a…BellaDancer. Badum-tsss!

✨ You followed my old blog, Bella & the Beast, and are wondering where all my art & nature and the create & innovate adventures went. I’m migrating them here.

✨ You love any of my arts and want a closer look at how/why I do what I do. Or you’ve never experienced my arts but you’re interested in the creative process of a multi-medium, neurodivergent artistic innovator (read: notorious hack-bastardizer who “does it all wrong”). 😈🤪😈

✨ You loved my Dancing the Elements series and want to experience the broader spectrums of how I use this 5 Elements System for all my artistic and healing journeys—my whole life, really.

✨ You’re curious about the behind-the-scenes shenanigans of a Writey Fighty Dancer Nerd. Besides the obvious writing, training, dancing and geekery, this also includes:

• costuming, hair & makeup

• music

• photography & videography

• vision boards & collage

• tarot & altar building

• fantasy world building

• using tarot cards to build fantasy worlds (it’s a thing around here)

• fictional character building

• confidence building in actually letting anybody else geek out about one’s arts besides one’s pets, self, and dust-bunnies

✨ You, too, are obsessed with my hyperfixations. You can check those on the Hyperfixator’s Haven Section.

Sections & Notes

Please take advantage of the Sections feature of this platform. If you’re on the desktop version, you can pick and choose which topics you want to receive in your inbox and which ones you want to mute.

Seriously, if you’re not as obsessed with this stuff as I am, that’s why I’ve corralled it into its own Section. For your sanity, but also so that I can feel free to GO OFF about this stuff to my heart’s content without worrying about rabbit holes, tangents, info-dumping, or glazing your eyes and making drool dribble out the sides of your mouth.

We only want the good kind of drooling around here. Like drooling over art & nature, fantastic tools, music and wonderful toys.

I’ll use the Notes feature a lot here, because the work-in-progress stuff often doesn’t require an entire post. Also because the hyperfixation is strong with this one. So is the—

✨ Ooooh, Shiny! ✨

And sometimes you just need to share that shit.

Join me on Notes

The Lab (short for Laboratory as well as Labyrinth)

✨ To learn more about my System of Elemental Alchemy, I’ve made a special Section for us to explore it.

✨ Here’s a teaser of what it looks like in the Earth Element’s Realm of Dance:

Subscriptions

At the moment, all my content is available on the free subscription, but that could change in the future as I become accustomed to this platform and what I want to put here.

It will also depend on what kind of community we build around here, and the ever-fluctuating state of my health. Living with six brain traumas can squash one’s ability to sustain consistent output on a longterm basis.

Then why should I sign up for a paid subscription?

If you generously subscribe with a paid membership…whuff. I SALUTE YOU. You have my deepest gratitude, because you will be helping to save my disabled butt! I’m currently drowning in medical bills while I can’t afford basic living expenses, much less the expenses it would take to get my business back up out of the abyss.

(I actually don’t qualify for Disability Assistance because I was not a minor, not elderly, and yet too young to have earned enough working credits when a drunk driver gave me my first TBI.)

Hence why I do not issue subscription refunds after 7 days.

By not paywalling my stuff, this is one of my Pay It Forward dances to anybody in a situation like mine who can’t afford such luxuries as paid subscriptions, and in gratitude to everyone who has been generous with me.

Plus, when brain glitches or other un-fun adventures occur, I stop being able to be consistent. I mean, everybody does, but this happens to me so frequently and hits me like a tank, which prevents me from promising you some sort of clockwork special subscriber somethin’-somethin’. This is why I don’t feel right about charging a specified price for what I do.

As such, if there is something you’d like from me as a paid subscriber, please ask. I’ll let you know if I’m up to it, and if it’s something I’m willing to give.

Since $5/month is a hefty commitment but it’s the lowest option I can set my memberships to, I offer you THE DAILY SPECIAL - 50% off by using this code:

https://elementalalchemist.substack.com/2aa3fd9c

The Other Stacks

✨ If you followed me from my old blog and you’re looking for the Damsel To Dangerous posts, including my journey with Traumatic Brain Injury, bodily injury, and all that other un-fun stuff that inspired me to learn the arts of self-defense, those are on my other Substack publication, BELLA & THE BEAST. We sail through some NSFW and 18+ waters over there, hence the separate Stack. So be warned: There Be Beasties Over Yonder!

✨ Fiction set in our world is a separate Section inside Bella & the Beast. A bunch of it is actually a side-trail from my memoirs. Deeper truths that I was only able to talk about under the safety net of fiction, and the imaginings of a girl who came of age around Lake Superior in the 80s. Travel back in time with me: TALES FROM THE WRECK ROOM.

✨ I will be posting my fantasy fiction under TWISTED HISTORY & MYTH, because again, we can get pretty graphic & gory, and the erotic content can be high-heat and even downright kinky. The first serialized novels will be my Persephone & Haides tales, but there are already some short stories there. Those are pretty tame, even sweet. My longer fiction is not.

Okay, my longer fiction always has sweetness and soul-searching, but not all the deep dives are wholesome. 🔥😈🔥

✨ Around here in the Elemental Alchemist’s playground…well, I won’t promise to completely leave my horns and forked tail over yonder. After all, these are my arts, my passions, my obsessions, and I am a Fire Sign.

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