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Aytch
@aitchbaggins.bsky.social
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| They/them He/him | AuDHD | Queer | Artist | Writer | BA, PGCE, Msc/M.ILS | once Art Teacher | once Librarian | now #Accessibility Professional | Based in SW England
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So! My team at work are doing a Dwarf Sunflower growing challenge. On Wednesday 2nd we (most of us) potted our seeds.

Apparently I’m the only one who used the whole bag, 3 seeds to a pot. I now have 8 sprouts 😌

I am enjoying this 😌
8 small nursery plat pots arranged inside a nursery plant tray, the lid off. The top row of 4 pots each have sprouts: left to right, 2 tiny sprouts, 2 mid sprouts, 2 large sprouts, 1 tiny sprout. In the bottom row, only 1 pot has a mid size sprout.
April 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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My lovely old lady, Twisp 💖
Twisp, a 22 year old herringbone tabby cat, laying comfortably on my legs and looking at me with one open eye.
March 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Solar charging kittens 💖
A fluffy tuxedo, and a fluffy seal point, 9 month old kittens sprawled out yin-yang style on the living room floor in the sun.
March 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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My lovely 22 year old lady cat, Twisp, has joined me and is purring away :)
Twisp, an old herringbone tabby sits on the bed between my legs contemplating whether to come closer. Twisp, an old herringbone tabby, has come close enough for m to pet her, though the laptop on my lap is a little bit in her way. Twisp, an old herringbone tabby, has lounged down over my right thigh and is happily letting me rub her left cheek and ear as she looks at me. Twisp, an old herringbone tabby, lounges over my right thigh, and I'm petting her back as she looks over to my right a bit. You can see my Brian Froud, Dark Crystal tattoo.
March 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Bored, tired, and hungry 😷

(Nothing to worry about, got a necessary surgery today, all things being well, I will be out by the end of the day!)
Photo of my lap and lower legs and feet. I'm wearing a dressing gown, over a hospital gown and purple fluffy slippers. I'm sitting in a hospital theater waiting cubicle, waiting to be talked to by the anaesthetist.
March 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Gave in and used the ‘Technical Pen’ again 😑

Anyway, Klingon Aizawa, anyone?

(Because I can 🤫)

#WIP #FanArt #StarTrek #BNHA
Work in progress. Screenshot of Procreate. Zoomed in on the character’s face, neck, and a lot of his hair. Sketch is in blue, red, and green, partial inking is in black. The character is a Klingon version of Aizawa Shouta, Eraserhead, from the manga and anime, My Hero Academia. His eyes are half open, he looks tired. His right eye is blind, with a long scar that cuts down from his forehead over his eye and down into his cheek, cutting through another sickle shaped scar below the eye.
February 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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By Special Threads, I mean these bad boys!

Pretty variegations, metallics, and eyeball blasting neons lol

I bought those 3 at the top on a whim, the pastel rainbows because HOW COULD I NOT, and the rest because I’m a magpie lol

#CrossStitch #Sewing
13 hanks of embroidery thread, arranged neatly on my sofa. 3 laying horizontally at the top: variegated greens, variegated turquoises, variegated pink green blue. 2 laying horizontally: 2 of the same pastel rainbow variegation. 8 laying vertically in a row, 6 metallic, 2 neon. 2 rainbow variegation, 1 saturated, 1 pastel. 1 gold, 1 copper, 1 purple, 1 sea-blue. 1 neon green, 1 neon yellow.
February 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I think I forgot to share how I ended up storing my embroidery thread 😶

So, here. I had some fun sorting everything by colour and tone, and put them in rainbow order 😌

Might need another box for my special threads though 🤔

#CrossStitch #Sewing
A clear plastic storage box, filled with 17 smaller clear plastic boxes. Each box has a different colour of threads in. Clockwise starting bottom left at pale pink, it goes through pink, red, orange, yellow and green. Ending bottom right at dark green. A clear plastic storage box, filled with 17 smaller clear plastic boxes. Each box has a different colour of threads in. Clockwise starting bottom left at royal green, it goes through blue, purple, brown, tan and creams. Ending bottom right with grey, black and white.
February 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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I bought that sticker from you last year, still love it, I’ve blue-tacked it to the cabinet door in my front room, right where I (and guests) can always see it :)
The trans man sticker from the previous post, on a glass cabinet door, near a ‘The first pride was a riot’ pink triangle patch and a holographic Asexual playing card sticker. You can just make out One Piece and Naruto figures in the cabinet.
February 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Anyway, I got myself a cute glittery needle nanny 💖

#CrossStitch
The needle nanny resting on my current project. It is an enamel charm, in the shape of a cluster of crystals, coloured with shades of purple, one of which has glitter in. It is still attached to its display card, displaying the shop name and details. Hartiful, found at Hartiful.co.uk and @HartifulUK on Instagram.
February 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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👀

#StarTrek #DS9
Photo of a large hardback book resting on my thigh and knee. Star Trek Derp Space Nine. Illustrated Handbook. Front cover is a line diagram of the station, and 3 smaller images in a banner across the bottom: an isometric illustration of the station ops, a photo of Benjamin Sisko, an image of the Defiant.
February 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Have a younger Garak, wearing a boob window! From an AU verse where he ended up joining Starfleet at roughly the same time as Julian 😌

Please imagine them ‘arguing’ during an ethics class the first time they meet ;3

#StarTrek #DS9 #Garak #Garashir
Black line digital drawing in Procreate. A slightly younger Garak stands facing us, drawn from the knees up. He wears a mid-thigh tunic that follows the usual Cardassian civilian fashion, except for a cut-out shape on the upper chest. The cut-out is something like an upside down triangle, with the points snipped off. It is situated just low enough to hide the crest set around where a human clavical is and displays the ridges and scales that run down his torso. He is smiling gently with a soft expression and happy eyes. I gave him a crocodile like tail.
February 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Doodle doodle doodle

Cardassian fashion is interesting to play with, lots of geometric shapes and layers and dimension.

Usually also clearly protecting their chest crest 😶

#StarTrek #DS9 #Garak #FanArt #sketch #WIP
A procreate digital sketch. A bust of Elim Garak, in blue line for his have and body, red line for his clothing. He is smiling gently with bright eyes, there is a cut out on his chest displaying his chest ridge and scales.
February 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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I remembered how to draw today, and I am putting it to good use by drawing younger Garak in a slutty boob window. Because I have the power to do that 👍

#DS9 #Garak #doodle #sketch #FanArt #WIP
Unfinished digital sketch in procreate. Blue line undersketch of Garak’s figure, red line clothing sketch. He is wearing a tunic that drapes to the thigh, the neckline scoops low revealing most of his neck ridges. In the upper middle chest is a triangular cut out, point down, revealing the scales that go down the center of his torso, and his upper pectorals.
February 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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And this is why I love buying secondhand books, I sometimes find fun things used as bookmarks!

These are SO OLD, 2001 and 2002!

And apparently it cost £82 to go from Edinburgh to London in 2001. That’s almost £200 these days, wtf.
I’m holding the book open on page 219, where I found tucked in as a bookmark, a pink London Underground day travel card. Dated July 14, 2002. It cost £4.10. I’m holding the book open on page 251. Tucked inside is a national rail travel ticket, Edinburgh to London, saver return. Date August 24th, 2001. It cost £82.80.
February 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Chews carefully on the rainbow pendant from @nora.zone
I’m wearing the long thin rainbow striped pendant, it’s resting outside my bright red hoodie. To the right is a trans power flag pin. To the left are two pin badges: Abolish Capitalism and Eat The Rich.
February 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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My pendants from @nora.zone arrived :3 They’re so pretty!
Two necklaces in their individual boxes. On the left, a long thin rainbow striped pendant on a long white metal chain. On the right, a round white pearly pendant with holographic elements, on a long thin silver chain. The two necklaces out of their boxes. On the left, a long thin rainbow striped pendant on a long white metal chain. On the right, a round white pearly pendant with holographic elements, on a long thin silver chain. A long thin rainbow striped pendant on a long white metal chain. A round white pearly pendant with holographic elements, on a long thin silver chain.
February 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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My Julian S31 book arrived!

Loooookk

#StarTrek #DS9 #Bashir
I'm holding up a box, the lid open, and inside is my copy of Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Section 31. Title: Abyss. Authors: David Weddle and Jeffrey Lang. The front cover is a black and white portrait photograph of Julian Bashir, his expression is confused, worried, determined.
February 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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I said I was determined to use the shiny metallic rainbow variegated thread, and I AM. Here it is so far! It is a pain in my ass, but very pretty :)

#CrossStitch #XStitch
Close up on the bottom left corner of a cross stitched frame. The thread is rainbow variegated and metallic, stitched into a pastel galaxy aida. Wider shot of the whole bottom part of the frame. The thread is rainbow variegated and metallic, stitched into a pastel galaxy aida. Close up on the middle of a section of the frame. The thread is rainbow variegated and metallic, stitched into a pastel galaxy aida.
February 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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I wanted to try the tiny scared kitty, so here is an off center (again, goddamnit) scared kitty :3

I think I’m gonna try this again properly, but this is cute :3

#CrossStitch #cat
A tiny little black cat with a pink nose and pink eyes, back arched in fear, in a medieval style. Stitched into an off-cut of the galaxy printed aida I’m using in another project.
February 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Anyway, another book arrived this morning!

And in this one, Bashir goes AWOL because his ‘I’m a healer, I must heal’ thing is triggered and he disappears into Bajor to heal dying children from a plague.

Looking forward to reading this :3

#StarTrek #DS9 #Bashir
Book: Star Trek DS9. Title: Warchild. Author: Esther Friesner. Caption: Dr Bashir must save a dying child who may be Bajor’s last chance for peace! Cover: portraits of Bashir, Dax, and a Bajoran child, superimposed over the DS9, superimposed over Bajor. For some reason Dax is central and larger than Bashir. Back of the book. Warchild blurb: A message left behind by the Kai Opals gives Commander Benjamin Sisko a fateful mission: Find a young Bajoran girl destined to be a great healer who could bring together the warring factions of Bajor. While Lt. Dax tries to find the healer, Dr. Bashir goes planetside to treat a rare disease that is killing the children in Bajor’s resettlement camps. Surrounded by thousands of dying children, Bashir goes AWOL from Deep Space Nine, vowing not to return until the plague has been stopped. But by the time Dax finds the girl from the Kai’s prophecy, the child has fallen victim to the plague. Now, with the fate of the entire planet at stake, Commander Sisko must find Dr. Bashir in time to save the child who may be Bajor’s last chance for peace.
February 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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As a digital accessibility specialist, I expect no less of myself tbh
Screenshot of my results: 1125 posts, 102 contain images, 24 are replies, 102 posts have alt text. Score: 100% ☺️
February 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Goddamnit, just dropped my needle and it vanished down here 😠

#CrossStitch
Photo: the deep dark cavernous depths between my sofa seat cushion and the arm.
February 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Also, my first reactions upon opening the comic when it arrived this morning lol

#DS9 #StarTrek #Bashir #JulianBashir
Screenshot of Discord: I’m yelling in all caps: Julian WTF are you wearing. I shared a photo of the first page where Julian shows up, he’s wearing a pale blue roll neck shirt and what can be charitably called a pastel olive green open front tunic. He looks ridiculous, even by typical Star Trek fashion standards. A screen shot of discord, where I am saying: Also there is a Gul wearing a fucking cape. Cardassian’s are never living down the melodrama accusations. I mean, look at this motherfucker. Then there is a cropped photo of the Cardassian in question, he is standing with hands on hips, hip popped, and genuinely wearing a calf length cape with his military uniform. He looks ridiculous. My final comment is: Sassy melodramatic cape wearing Cardassian villain.
February 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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This short series collected edition also showed up this morning, and it is absolutely ridiculous, I love it.

For some reason, the colourist couldn’t remember #Bashir is a brown man, at all.

And the artists got every face BUT Bashir’s mostly right, in a book where he’s the MC!

#StarTrek #DS9
Graphic novel collected edition: Deep Space 9, The Maquis, Soldier of Peace. A 3 issue mini series. The front cover is a promotional photograph of Julian Bashir in uniform, looking very serious, gaze directed off to our left, with his hands resting on his medkit.
February 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM