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Leigh Harlen (Birch)

@leighharlen.bsky.social

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Horror writer living on Duwamish land/Seattle, crocheter, and autistic queer trans nonbinary goblin prince. Novellas: A Feast for Flies and Queens of Noise. Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc. leighharlen.com https://findyourfamiliar.bigcartel.com/

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · Nov 25

All invoices are paid!!!! That means it's donation time!!
I just sent $13,200 to Trans Lifeline
@translifeline.bsky.social

Thank you so much to everyone who donated items, bid, shared, and kept me going with your enthusiasm. This was really amazing, thank you all.

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You have helped us continue our mission in a meaningful way.
You have donated
$13,200.00 to Trans Lifeline
Charged Amount $13,200.00
Donation Date 11/24/2024

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 1d

Lol right? But you know, it wasn't written by or about a straight cis white man sooooo obviously it can't be for grown ups because no one else is a real grown up 🙃

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 1d

I would have loved that book as a teenager, but I was a pretentious teen who didn't really read YA when I was a YA. Wild. Lol
I've found my collection in YA a few times. And the first story in it is about a woman who kidnaps a child to feed, heal, and feed again to her murdered and reanimated son.

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 1d

The way I want to play twenty questions to figure out what book hurt you lol

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 2d

nothing quite like your enthusiastic puppy jumping up to lick your face while you're trying to write a horny scene

Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 2d

She would like the sammich plz

Anya, an adorable gray faced senior gsd mix with the cutest midway between up and down ears and big brown plaintive eyes looks at the camera

Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 2d

Have you been out to see the dahlia garden at volunteer park?

a long narrow garden full of dahlias of various shapes and colors

a dark redding pink dahlia close up with narrow, pointy petals

a big pinkish orange dahlia with the center not fully blossomed

a dark pink dahlia with small petals in a kind of beehive shape

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 2d

oh I see, we just have to make them pay taxes on their POWER and then the problem will be solved

Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 2d

Notoriously uncool square dweeb... Johnny Cash, the man in black. Lmao what

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 3d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 2d

it's a really good thing that there's vitamin c in salsa because when I was single my ability to eat nothing but chips and salsa for dinner every night would have given me scurvy. And by dinner, I mean breakfast when I woke up at 5pm because I'd been awake all night hyperfocused on some nonsense

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 2d

Oh this house turns into a den full of take out containers, weed smell, and a me in full no sleep, third day of the same clothes, no sleep schedule goblin mode when my partner is out of town

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 3d

honestly quite possibly my biggest flex. only pity is that about 5% of people I talk to understand

Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 3d

Somehow Polaris is a year and a half today. Happy half birthday to the best little goblin prince I could ask for

Polaris, a lanky white adolescent pitbull mix with a brindle eye patch lays on his side in long grass. he's wearing a pink harness and holding a squeaky chuck it ball in his mouth. He looks extremely pleased with himself

Polaris, a lanky white adolescent pitbull mix with a brindle eye patch is wearing a pink harness. He's sitting in the grass looking at the camera with great big doofy pitbull smile on his face

Polaris, a lanky white adolescent pitbull mix with a brindle eye patch is wearing a pink harness and playing in long dry vegetation growing in sand. He has is little butt in the air while he paws at something on the ground

Polaris, a lanky white adolescent pitbull mix lays on his side (hiding his signature eyepatch) on a pale teal couch. He's knocked the back cushion over so he can sleep halfway on top of his. He is so so so asleep.

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 3d

I fucked around and spent most of a semester reading books, most of which I didn't even use, then wrote a 25 page paper on modern Turkish literature in seven hours that my professor liked so much that she emailed it to her friends, Orhan Pamuk and Elif Şafak

GenAI could. fucking. never

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 3d

My partner yells "PERSON PERSON PERSON" like a very angry robot

Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 5d

halp

polaris, a lanky white adolescent pitbull mix is standing at the door. Anya, a senior gsd mix has walked underneath him and gotten stuck. she's looking at the photographer plaintively

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 5d

stop trying to makes "posts" happen. it's not going to happen.

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 6d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 6d

whenever I'm like "HRT hasn't changed my face shape all that much" I look back at a pre-T photo and remember I actually used to have a chin you could put an eye out with

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 6d

but he the prince of goblins

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Jordon Nardino @jnardino.bsky.social · 7d

They are called writers

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 7d

That's eau de goose poop

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 7d

An goblin

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 7d

Chaos boy

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 7d

A most handsome lad

A white adolescent pitbull mix wearing a pink harness, a turquoise bandana with bats and moons on it and a yellow flag in his leash reads "no talk no touch." He is sitting in the grass looking very dignified

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