Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis

Dr. Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis

@keeva.bsky.social

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

246 Followers 126 Following 219 Posts Joined Jun 2023
1 week ago
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I'm always telling @ohtiniestplanet.bsky.social we need to collab on a comic about queer art students in 1990s Boston. The other day she showed me a pic of legendary bar RATHSKELLAR circa 1992, so I drew this one page as a sort of "proof of concept":

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3 months ago

I loved this art so much ;_; ;_; THANK YOU MT~~~

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3 months ago
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I usually get all gothed up for these but this year, you get regular-ass errand-running band-shirted slightly-sleepy me. Today marks EIGHT YEARS since my ESTROGENESIS (a term I stole from the amazing and lovely @ohtiniestplanet.bsky.social, who also reminded me the day was here)! I'm still here!

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4 months ago

I'm dying.

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4 months ago
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For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin.

Here's the video of it running.

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4 months ago
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4 months ago

i really could give a half of a shit about like the honor of "the american presidency," a world-historical evil, or the white house, which is the castle that the devil lives in. that said the shit where they are just tearing it down is uuhhh semiotically sort of unmooring huh

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4 months ago

What if instead of going to work, I simply initiated a transformative protocol where I re-center my life around the Three Pillars of: writing, moving iron, and snugging cats (traditional and human-type)?

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4 months ago

Release the tapes ;_;

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4 months ago

Few feelings better than logging on and having no clue why everyone is talking about Andrea Dworkin. I don't need to know!

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4 months ago

I agree with your takes on the first movie and said a lot of the same things about it re: scrubbing out the race component, though in the end I think I came down on it as being "pretty good but flawed." But Chapter 2 was one of the worst films I've ever seen. Literally exhausting to sit through.

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4 months ago

I've never done karaoke because I'm a disgraceful coward, etc., but in my dreams the perverse rotation would be:

- Rhiannon
- Na Na Na
- Cabaret (wide-eyed heartbreaking Liza version)

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4 months ago

Legit request: if you don't sell out Sunday, set one aside for me and tag me? Would love to buy one tbh.

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4 months ago

I have a weird love for it even though (or maybe because) it taught me a harsh lesson about save slots as a teenager and made me have to restart the game, lol. I can be kind of masochistic about these things though, I watch the wheel of pain scene in Conan like ":D I want to try!"

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4 months ago
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Yoshitaka Amano (b. 1952), “Circé” (1986), acrylic, colored ink, 56.6 x 76 cm.

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4 months ago

For anyone else looking to block all these fucking losers:

bsky.app/profile/eva....

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4 months ago

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

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4 months ago

Love to cozily drift off to sleep, only to snap awake an hour later feeling completely wired and alert. A wonderful experience!

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4 months ago

Watch him in "Winter Light" sometime if you get a chance; he can easily command like 400 years of heartbreak to appear on his face somehow.

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4 months ago

The thing he did that impressed me most was completely changing the theme of Haunting of Hill House, making it pro-family instead of entirely about a queer terror of heteronormative domestic duty, and still having me think the show turned out "pretty good." Like, I should totally hate that.

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4 months ago

Yeah, I'd agree with that. I have to imagine his following comes more from just being like a "he reliably won't totally fuck this up or anything"-tier creator than from being someone making great work? Because yeah, otherwise, I don't know either.

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4 months ago

I don't dislike him but the endless monologues get WILD at a certain point, like damn near self-parody. That was especially the case in Midnight Mass, I thought.

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4 months ago

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

Hellraiser
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Blob (1988)
Night of the Comet

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4 months ago
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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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4 months ago
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."

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

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5 months ago
‘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)

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.

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5 months ago

Because it fuckin rules

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5 months ago

Bonus "Genre Fiction" Edition:

- "Magic systems" are always bad.

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5 months ago

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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