Name: What? Disclose my real name? On the Internet?! Nope, far too paranoid for that. I don't even have a Facebook, for goodness' sake, that's how Internet-safety-conscious I am! Online I answer to either "goddess of all daleks" or "Seleya", depending on the context. I also sometimes get called "the Pudding-Meister", so you can call me that if you like.

Age: Hang on, let me check... Nope, still paranoid. Sorry, not telling!

Sex: Female, if you couldn't tell from my penname.

Location: I was born in and am currently living in the USA. Having grown up across the Pond in England, however, I usually consider myself a Brit.

Profession: I am a university student. This is like having a profession, except my "employers" don't give me any money. They expect me to give them money instead. Mostly I'm studying linguistics. And Ojibwe, which is a highly amazing Native American language.

Current hobbies and/or addictions: Where to begin?! Coffee, chocolate, conjugating verbs, using far too many emoticons, chocolate pudding, singing, lefse, the Internet, knitting a Doctor Who scarf (mwahahaha!), reading, playing traditional fiddle, noodles, my fandoms, transcription into and out of IPA, crossover fics, www.t2tmud.org, Shostakovich, funky socks, Internet TV, and sleeping.

Fandoms: Ah, now we're finally getting to the good stuff!

As far as television goes, I am completely and irrevocably head-over-heels in love with Star Trek and Doctor Who. I am also engaged in an intense, long-term affair with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I have a soft spot for Bones. I recently discovered Heroes as well, which I watch because Sylar pwns the world. Go ZQ!

As for books, the collective works of J.R.R. Tolkien are my one true love. Harry Potter I thought was brilliant. Twilight... well, I enjoyed it while reading it, but then as soon as I finished it and put it down I promptly forgot everything in it. It was okay, I guess. Hmm, what else? If you haven't read Mary Stewart's Merlin trilogy, you ought to, because it's absolutely mindblowing. I discovered it in junior high school, and as soon as I got home that afternoon I locked myself in a cupboard for five hours in order to devour it properly and without interruptions. Ask my mum, she'll tell you it's true!

Films I enjoy include The Lord of the Rings (although the books are a million times better), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (aww, Gary Oldman is so sweet in this one!), Scrooge (with Alastair Sim in the title role; sometimes titled A Christmas Carol), and Dracula (especially the one with Béla Lugosi). Once or twice a year I go on an intense Labyrinth kick, though if you ask me while I'm not actually on one I may vehemently deny this.

Parings I ship:

Oh, dear, this is going to be an extensive list! Most of the time I support canon/semi-canon pairings; occasionally I'll branch out slightly.

Star Trek: Scotty/Uhura, Spock/Saavik, Spock/Charvanek, Charvanek/Narviat, Kirk/Gillian Taylor, Picard/Beverly, Riker/Deanna, Lwaxana/Q, Worf/Jadzia, Jadzia/Lenara Kahn, Kira/Odo, Bashir/Ezri, Garak/Bashir, Janeway/Chakotay, Neelix/Kes, Tom Paris/B'Elanna, EMH/Kes, Calhoun/Shelby. Spock/Uhura since I saw ST:XI!

Doctor Who: Koschei/Theta, Borusa/Flavia, Ian/Barbara, Two/Jamie, Brigadier/Liz, Three/Delgado!Master, Benton/Jo, Four/Romana II, Five/Ainley!Master, Eight/Grace, Eight/Fitz, Fitz/Trix, Eight/Romana III, Shalka!Nine/Shalka!Master, Nine/Rose, Nine/Jack, Nine/Rose/Jack, Ten/Rose, Ten/Jack/Rose, Jack/Martha, Jack/Donna, Jack/Brigadier

Torchwood: Jack/Ianto, Jack/John, Gwen/Rhys, Owen/Tosh

Buffy: Buffy/Angel, Buffy/Spike, Spike/Dru, Giles/Jenny, Giles/Joyce, Willow/Tara, Willow/Oz, Xander/Anya

Angel: Doyle/Cordelia, Wesley/Fred

Heroes: Sylar/Elle, Sylar/Claire, Matt/Mohinder, Sylar/Mohinder, "Zane"/Mohinder, Micah/Molly, Sylar/Maya

Bones: Booth/Brennan, Angela/Hodgins

Tolkien: Aragorn/Arwen, Éowyn/Faramir

Harry Potter: Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione, Hermione/Krum, Sirius/Lupin, Lupin/Tonks, Dumbledore/McGonagall (Yes, I know he's gay. If people can ship slash pairings of straight characters, then I can ship het pairings of gay characters!), Dumbledore/Grindelwald, Neville/Luna

Dang, these pairing lists make it look like there's a heck of a lot of sex going on in Star Trek and Doctor Who, don't they?! Not to worry, all you mummies and daddies of budding sci-fi nerds - there's actually probably less sex in these than in, say, Torchwood, Buffy, or Angel. They've just got more characters in them for us dirty-minded fanfic authors to ship.

Crossovers: I adore crossover fics. If anyone has written or knows of any good crossovers between Doctor Who and Star Trek, Heroes, Harry Potter, Tolkien, or Bones, I'd appreciate being directed to them!

Beta reading: I'm happy to beta-read anything in fandoms I'm sufficiently familiar with - check out my beta profile for more info. Also, if you think I need a beta and you want to do it, let me know!

My fics:

A Bunny and a Bad Day - My first foray into fanfiction. Reasonably good-ish, in my opinion. I think it's funny, anyway. Includes a Classic!Master. Classic!Masters FTW!

The Wonders of Modern Technology - I'm quite proud of this one. It's a humour-fic, and people seem to like it, which is immensely gratifying! Does include one or two embarrassing typos, as I posted it before I figured out that ff.net likes to filter out websites, then never quite got around to going back and fixing it. (The edited-out website in question was meant to be Dictionary.com.)

You Thought I Was a WHAT! - Erm, yeah. This one is on indefinite hiatus. I had what I thought was a brilliant idea, wrote up the first few pages, and posted before I realised that I really didn't have any, you know, plot. Or anything. So if you have any suggestions for where it should go, feel free to PM me - I'd love to hear from you! Otherwise I expect it'll languish until I get some more inspiration for it, which could be never.

Mmm, Sparkly - As pointed out in my author's notes for this one, the plot bunnies made me do it! If you're into both Doctor Who and Labyrinth, please give this one a read, as I'm quite proud of it as well. It really ought to be moved to the crossover section, but I just haven't got around to doing that yet. This may or may not happen at some indeterminate point in the future.

Whose Line Is It, Anyway? - This is a sort of almost-but-not-really-crossover between Buffy and Whose Line. It's complete-ish as is, but there is room for further updates if I get the inspiration and the chance to collaborate some more with Pickles, my co-writer, so it's not tagged as complete at the minute.

Vengeance - Urgh. This was an ill-advised late-night angst-fest in my brain and should never have made it into (poorly) written form on my computer, let alone onto the Internet. Unfortunately, the people here are too kind to tell me outright how truly awful it is - in fact, some people have left glowing reviews. (Thank you, you guys! You make me feel a little better about this fic!) The sole reason I'm leaving it up here is for those people who liked it, cos I'd feel guilty if you reviewed it favourably and then I took it away from you. So I'll say only... if you're going to read only one of my fics? Please pick a different one!

Dodging Blame - I had fun with this one! It's Classic!Who!Expanded!Universe, so if you're strictly Nu!Who I'd be surprised if you really get it, but you are of course welcome to check it out anyway.

A Supernatural Encounter - This was another attack of the plot bunnies. Well... not so much the plot bunnies as the crack bunnies, maybe, but I like it. Yes, I misspelt "Shakespearean" and never bothered to go back and fix it. Deal with it. =P

A Pair of Knickers - I spent rather a lot of time and effort on this one, and I must say I'm very pleased with the finished product. Yes, it's Classic!Who, but I think (hope!) it should be accessible to Nu!Whovians as well, so go on and take a look!

So come on in and have a look around! Like many people here on ff.net, I am something of a review whore, so any and all comments are enthusiastically accepted! (And recorded, and taken out and looked at on a regular basis...) ;)

Worth noting here: I read a lot of fanfic. I may have read your stories. I may have then internalized some element from your stories only to remember it later and think 'Man! That's a good idea! I should write a fic with that in it!' If you think I've done this (or if you are a prat and think I've actually intentionally plagiarised your work), please contact me and tell me so. I'll either remove the offending fic/passage(s) or try my best to rewrite to your satisfaction.

Okay, I swore I'd never clutter up my profile with all these copy/paste things... but I think these ones are important enough that I'm going to break my own rule and post them here anyway.

Gay Marriage:

1) Being gay is not natural. Real people always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, liposuction and air conditioning.

2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britney Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

8) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. Therefore it should never be allowed as all religions are always right and all governments are theocracies.

9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans...

Re-post this if you believe in legalizing gay marriage.

Homophobia:

I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.

I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.

I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.

We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.

I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.

I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.

I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.

I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.

We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.

I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.

I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.

I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.

I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.

I am the person who is afraid of telling his loving Christian parents he loves another male.

I am the boy tied to a fence, beaten to a bloody pulp and left to die because two straight men wanted to "teach me a lesson".

I am the girl who fears for her girlfriend's life because her mother doesn't think she deserves to have it.

I am the girl who was told by her own mother that I shouldn't have kids because she would never wish that sort of 'messed up life' on innocent children.

I am the girl who's parents are ashamed of her, because she doesn't want to hide who she is.

I am the girl who's mother doesn't understand why I need to be who I am, when I could just pretend to be normal.

Re-post this if you believe homophobia is wrong. Please do your part to end it.