My name is Isabeau, though you'd probably figured that much out already.

No, it's not my real name. I don't particularly make a point of hiding my real name [particularly for snail mail purposes]; and, in fact, when I started getting involved in fandom, I didn't even bother. I didn't use my last name, 'cause that's somewhat rarer than my first name, but I didn't hide who I was.

At some point, though, it occurred to me that, especially since I was getting heavily involved in slash, I might want a pseudonym. Mind you, at that point I'd been doing IRC for a while, and changed nicks often; I have the attention span of a gnat. Isabeau just happened to be the IRC nick I was using at the time. Somehow, though, it's managed to stick, and has sort of become my fandom identity.

I am a fandom butterfly-- attention span of a gnat, remember-- and tend to add (or drop) fandom interests at a whim. As such, I'm not going to try to list a full description of fandoms I've been interested in, although I will say that it has at one point involved any fandom I've written fic in.

I can be contacted by email at usermail dot com or at livejournal dot com -- in both cases the username is, predictably enough, isabeau.

My site has gone through several drastic changes (more in appearance than in content, though some of the latter as well) over the last few years.

The first real incarnation was under the domain name jedihawke.com ('cause, see, I was into TPM at the time, and my name comes from Ladyhawke, and no it really wasn't all that clever, but I wanted my own domain and it was all I could come up with). That died because the stupid-ass hosting company I used was, er, stupid-ass, and I couldn't get control back of the domain name, nor could I convince them to transfer it. So I moved on to the second real incarnation, under the domain name qsagent.net (because I was into Invisible Man at that time, and I needed a domain name, so "qs" was quicksilver, so "qsagent" was -- sort of -- Darien). And because of the domain name, I'd structured the site vaguely like a really weird copy of The Agency, with hallways and rooms and stuff.

I warned you I got bored easily. (And if I haven't warned you yet? Warning: I get bored easily.)

That site was with a different hosting company, but I had problems with them too (note to potential webhosts: it is a Very Bad Idea to let your customer's account -- both the hosting account and the domain name registered through you -- expire without warning. It's a worse idea to have customer service lagtime and not let said customer renew said account and domain name.)

Third time around, I wised up and actually got the domain name registered separately from the webhost. We'll see how long this lasts. But I decided not to pick Yet Another Domain Name, so I stayed with the qsagent thing. I did not, however, stay with the Agency theme.

Well. Obviously.

Web-design-ly, I tend to have a pendulum of pretty-vs-usable. The extreme end of 'pretty' involves lots of images (including mouseover changes) and the like. The extreme end of 'usable' is pretty much entirely text, and is clean and usable (if not Pretty) on essentially all browsers. Right now, I'm leaning towards the 'usable' end, hence the lack of images. This will change, I assure you. (Attention span of a-- ooh, hey, shiny. *wanders off*)