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Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis

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Writer & Artist | she/her | PhD Duke, MFA UT Knoxville, Tin House '23, Lambda Lit '22 | I dig queer art, stories, comix, witchy stuff, spiritually fraught relationships to baseball, and 80s/90s goth music | See my stuff at http://linktr.ee/keevacomix

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Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 43m

The lovely @asmilewithoutacat.bsky.social and @canineconnie.bsky.social commissioned this sketch of me from the great @twist.dog at the furry convention they're currently at ;_; Is so cute ;_;

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Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 1h

Taught my class about Donald Duck and the burning pentagram today.

In the background, a classroom. In the foreground, a laptop featuring Donald Duck's face with a pentagram emerging from his third eye. A still from the 1960s animated short, "Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land."

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16h

Just rereading The Symposium and was reminded of the wonderful fact, which I had forgot, that even the ancient Greeks had drama in their fanfic communities about who would top and who would bottom. All men are brothers, human nature is eternal.

‘Achilles, the son of Thetis, however, they honoured and sent to the
Isles of the Blest.48 For when he found out from his mother that if he
killed Hector he too would die, but if he did not kill him he would
return home and live to old age, he nevertheless dared to make the
choice of standing up for his lover Patroclus49 and avenging him; thus
180a he also died, and died for his sake. (Aeschylus actually talks nonsense
when he asserts that it was Achilles who was the lover of Patroclus:
Achilles was not only more beautiful than Patroclus but also more
42 As Apollo into Aeneas at Iliad 20.110. 43 ‘those in love’, in Greek hoi erontes; see eran.
44 philia; see philein. 45 eros. 46 psuche. 47 arete.
48 In Greek myth, islands in the legendary far west of the Greek world where after death specially
favoured mortals, notably some of the heroes, pass a blissful afterlife, rather than having a
phantom existence in the Underworld like everyone else.
49 Homer in the Iliad did not make Achilles and Patroclus lovers, but Aeschylus represents them
as such in Myrmidons, a lost tragedy from which a few quotations survive.
The Symposium (‘The Drinking Party’)
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beautiful than all the rest of the heroes, and still beardless; and according
to Homer he was much younger.50)

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Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 18h

Because it fuckin rules

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Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 20h

Bonus "Genre Fiction" Edition:

- "Magic systems" are always bad.

Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 20h

Secondly, pre-stocked signifiers like "hetero couple" or "the family" aren't meaningful on their own. You can't expect readers to value those things just because. You have to put in the work to make them real and specific. Way too many widely-lauded works fail to do this.

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Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 20h

A lot of stories read as if the writer has lost the distinction between subtlety and cowardice and is afraid that writing actual scenes will make them seem artless or ideological. It is okay to believe things and have characters respond to the world in ways other than befogged helpless dissociation.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 1d

Slept the Full Fellini (a rarity for me) last night, strong sleep, deep sleep, good sleep. Then woke up and realized I slept through therapy u_u A girl can't win.

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matthew @pahuski.com · 2d

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 1d

There's a quote about This Very Thing you said like 20 years ago in an IRC chat that I think about, at minimum, once a fucking week, but I won't repeat it here without your say-so. I'll text it to you if you want tho :3

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Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 2d

It's doing good for me as well. Also the winds blew a bunch of leaves down in people's yards.

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Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 2d

I want to arrange for you to say this somewhere publicly, so I can rise up and clap, tears in my eyes, embarrassingly snorting out "SAY IT AGAIN! SAY IT AGAIN!"

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Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 2d

1. Mushrooms, which I understand is my loss :(
2. Rob Zombie's "El Superbeasto"; I reject the based/cringe binary, but this made me physically cringe, a lot.
3. Not a hot take but "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime" is disgraceful. Criminal.

Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 2d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

1. cereal. yes all cereal
2. Zoolander 2
3. "Chicken Fried" by Zac Brown Band

Jen (early transition arc) 🏳️‍⚧️ @transducer.bsky.social · 2d

not to be negative on the Monday morning TL, but…

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.

1. shellfish. Any shellfish 😖
2. “Repo the genetic opera” 🤢
3. That pestilential “hey soul sister” song from the early 2010s

Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 2d

Have you seen that CNN video where the live bombing of Kyiv is disrupted by an ad for Applebee's blaring "Chicken Fried" at peak volume? I played it for a class to show them "this is the kind of discordant weirdness you should stock your brain with as a writer." They all said it was "very American."

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Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 2d

(By which I mean, I had the Skeletor version of this exact same thing.)

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Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 2d

Real ones know.

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Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 2d

It's gonna take more than donuts; she needs a bird-based daily delivery service from the local bakery that brings tortes, cinnamon rolls, etc. directly to her window.

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Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 2d

Apocalypse dreams aren't at all uncommon for me, but this was the first specifically climate-related one so far as I can remember.

Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 2d

I had my first climate-related nightmare. Someone was just calmly explaining to me how "the autumn that was starting has now been obliterated," that "there was an anomalous wave of heat we didn't see coming and all the leaves instantly died" and they didn't think the trees would come back in spring.

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Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 3d

About to start my Brundlefly Arc.

Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 4d

Truly the GOAT. I will never forgive them for taking FF12 away from Matsuno in the eleventh hour.

Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 4d

Is it the Severin Blu-Ray you have with that menu?

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Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 4d

What's it about? (I know I could google it but --)

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Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 4d

Wow, I've never even heard of this movie, but I'm so on board.

Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 4d

Oh my GOD o_o

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