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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 · 4h

The fact that none of these weirdos have done this is proof that money really is wasted on rich people

Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 4h

A massive park that's full of life size dinosaur (and dinosaur like) animatronics with realistic feathers where appropriate. Go down a water slide that deposits you in trexs mouth. Escape room where you have to evade velociraptors. scuba dive with liopleuradan

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 11h

on the one hand, it's fucked up people get enraged about violence to animals in a way they don't people, but on the other, if someone murdered my dogs I would [redated] until [redated] and [redated] and a lot people who can't make that first empathy jump also have dogs and you gotta use what you can

Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 14h

he was always a fraud but this is such a predictable turn. it's almost as if his primary fan base was democrat leaning wine moms who hate all of this lmao

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 15h

Dr. Phil went full MAGA and tried to reinvent himself as a MAGA media mogul and culture warrior. Now his world is unraveling, his media company is laying off thousands and had to file for bankruptcy, and he's being sued for fraud. The whole plan is collapsing.

www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

www.rawstory.com

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Otherwise Award @otherwiseaward.org · 16h

Spotlighting more 2022-23 gender-expanding genre fiction:

“Vagabonds!” Eloghosa Osunde
“The Deep Sky” @yumewrites.bsky.social
“The Water Outlaws” @slhuang.com
“If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You” @johnchu.bsky.social
“A Feast for Flies” @leighharlen.bsky.social

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 17h

nananananana bat doooog!

Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 17h

he did call my taste in books "demented" though. which was, and is, true but only one of us thinks that's a compliment

Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 17h

the bat boy

Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 17h

my dad and I don't talk much anymore, he's more red flags than green, but in middle/high school he did take me to my favorite bookstore once a month to buy me a giant chocolate chip cookie and any (paperback) book that I wanted and that was extremely cool.

Ź🖤🥀 @lalaspeaks.bsky.social · 2d

What’s ONE green flag about your father?

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 1d

nancy no!!!!

(recipe: Hamburger Steak with Onions and Gravy)

recipe review

Nancy Wood
1 star

Do NOT use vanilla in place of sherry! I just made this exactly as written and used vanilla since I didn't have sherry. It is now down the disposal. The smell alone was a huge indicator of what it would taste like. Whoever thought of vanilla with meat? Nasty.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 15d

Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.

A four panel comic called Happy Halloween From The Birds. In panel 1, a pileated woodpecker has pecked its huge gaping rectangular holes in a pumpkin. In panel 2, a yellow-bellied sapsucker has pecked a face using its standard rows of small holes. In panel 3, a satin bowerbird has carved a pumpkin into a bower and placed its favorite blue candies all around it. In panel 4, a loggerhead shrike has impaled mini pumpkins on a fence's metal spikes and is saying "fight me."

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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

an creecher

Polaris, a white adolescent pitbull mix with a brindle eye patch is laying on his side. both of his ears are standing straight up to reveal how pink they are. he looks quite like a bat. his eyes are narrowed in bliss

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

If you ever figure out how to make them understand that, do please tell me.
STOP EATING THE SPICY SKY RAISINS, DOGS

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

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 5d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 5d

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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