I just realised I should probably do a quickie intro on account of friending memes and people possibly passing by?
Hey, I'm Sel/Tielan, I'm in Sydney, Australia which is anywhere from 12-18 hours ahead of continental US depending on time zones and daylight saving. I've been in "online fandom" in its current iteration since 2001 - yahoogroup mailing lists that shifted to LJ that shifted to DW that shifted to Tumblr. Before that, I did have online fandoms, but they weren't the kind of social media communities that proliferated since LJ.
I'm pulling back from a lot of things these days: priorities, spoons, and Those Damn Kids On My Lawn.
As far as active fandoms go, I started in SG1, dropped it for Justice League cartoons around Season 7, then switched over to SGA when Justice League because Justice League Unlimited. I dabbled in Buffy, Angel, NCIS, Firefly, BSG, Bones, Harry Potter, and probably several other fandoms, until I landed in the MCU, mostly thanks to Maria Hill. Apart from a quick dabble in Pacific Rim (Mako Mori!), I've mosly been in the MCU since then - largely because Maria reappeared in CA:TWS. Otherwise, I'd probably have drifted out entirely.
I am a sewist - mostly quilting and bags. I love cooking and kitchen gardening. I aspire to be published. I am a feminist and a Christian (Christ alone, grace alone, faith alone). Politically, in Australia, I think I lean somewhat left-of-centre. However, I suspect I'm practically a Communist in the US political spectrum. :)
My favourite characters are always female and rarely the popular female characters. My OTPs are inevitably het. However I write a large body of gen, too (frequently female focused), and have been known to dabble in slash and femmeslash for very specific characters and dynamics.
Mostly, in fandom, I write and I read meta. These days, I don't generally read fic unless I'm sure that the author can write female characters well (or, at least, as I see the characters), and that I'm not going to come across 'casual backhands' of female characters by writers who aren't aware of their own internalised sexism. This tends to involve me sticking with stories by authors I know, and recs by people I trust.
2014 has been almost entirely about real life for me, though, with a house sale, a house purchase, a renovation, and a move. Family stuff, work stuff, life stuff. So I haven't had as much time/space for fannish things.
We'll see how that goes in 2015.
Expect quite a bit about the MCU (including Agents of SHIELD once I catch up) and Pacific Rim (depending on whether the new movie features Mako Mori), random bits about my life, my philosophy, my work, my quilting, my cats, and anything else I feel like dumping in here.