Haarlow

art n comics 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️

[haarlow]

Updated my ‘Meet the Artist’ to reflect some recent changes. Still queer af, just trying to be more comfortable in my own skin.

[dailycatsblog]

[haarlow]

How it feels to be middle-aged in trans artist spaces.

Not a complaint! Almost without exception I’ve been made very welcome but that generational divide always plays on my mind.

[aurora-eos]

We need more old trans people in our spaces so badly. It’s really hard sometimes to see a future where we can live instead of dying young. I wish I had trans people your age in my town.

[haarlow]

When I first started getting involved in online trans spaces, I was very hesitant about revealing my age as the demographic skews quite young and who wants to talk with someone the same age as your crusty old parents, right? Not to mention the whole "inappropriate age-gap" thing that’s infected online spaces.

But on the whole, people have been very kind and welcoming and your sentiment of "seeing that there can be a future" is one that’s been said to me many times before.

If I don’t achieve anything else in this life, just being the inspiration for one other person to keep persisting will have been enough.

[lilyfaewood]

Finished a Vicar amelia drawing of a scene from my fanfiction. Quite proud of this one~

TW: blood, implied self-harm

"I am... a daughter?"

[haarlow]

How it feels to be middle-aged in trans artist spaces.

Not a complaint! Almost without exception I’ve been made very welcome but that generational divide always plays on my mind.

[m4gpies]

you thought we couldn’t see the loss

[haarlow]

My loss is your gain.

Have a jelly bean

[closetedcrisis]

CW: Mental Health

If you're struggling with loneliness, just know you're not alone in your feelings and I hope for one day we can all get the love we crave

[crazygnomenclature]

Fortnight (pt. 1-7)

Best friends forever, including retroactively

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[darcyisspidey]

Third Pride drawing! Featuring my Wolverine and Deadpool characters :D

I need to draw more of Loren’s and Wren’s dynamic, they’re so fun together

[haarlow]

Darcy is a super-talented artist, you should support him by commissioning some art!

That’s what I did - here’s Darcy’s "Godzilla on a smoke-break" piece on my wall:

[melodymooniight]

sisyphus posting

[haarlow]

Are you nodding in agreement or is it just breezy in here?

[coelii]

My wife and I fixed Star Wars Episode 1 last night with a very simple idea:

Age Anakin up to 14/15 years old

You do not have to change much else to instantly make the film more bearable while also fitting it better into the rest of the prequel trilogy

Think about it:

Anakin’s attraction to Padme in episode 2 makes more sense if they have some “teen romance” moments in the first part of the trilogy because that was pre-Jedi (thus pre-celibacy)

Anakin can be played as more of a Rogue character (which is an archetype completely absent from episode one) making his behavior in future films seem more in line with his character

An older Anakin with rougher edges could lend itself to more Han Solo-esque quips that would be a better delivery system for comedic relief rather than low brow Gungan bullshit

Yoda’s line “he’s too old to begin the training” would actually make sense

[coelii]

If I could have it my way I would also have a 3rd Jedi be assigned to accompany Qui-Gon and Obi Wan back to Naboo and have that Jedi be a bit more rogue-ish and comedic so Anakin gets to see at a young age that maybe he doesn’t have to be the “monk” style Jedi knight and can make his own path in life

[haarlow]

Or just make Qui-Gon the rogue-ish Jedi. I think that was the original idea but he somehow got watered down.

[coelii]

I think you’re right, or at least that would have made more sense, but I think Qui-Gon was supposed to be a more pure Jedi who believed in the will of the force over being petty bureaucrats like most of the council had become

[haarlow]

I think he could’ve worked as a pure Jedi who was also rogue-ish - the only reason the Council put up with his shenanigans was that he was very much a Jedi’s Jedi.

But hard agree that Anakin should’ve been in his mid teens and demonstrating his latent Jedi skills through pod-racing and maybe other nefarious stuff - like maybe Watto finds that Anakin can influence the minds of others so ropes him into a gambling scam. Instead we’re just told that he’s a skilled pilot in one sentence.

Hmm, I can feel a real temptation to go full Stoklasa on all the missed opportunities…

[coelii]

My wife and I fixed Star Wars Episode 1 last night with a very simple idea:

Age Anakin up to 14/15 years old

You do not have to change much else to instantly make the film more bearable while also fitting it better into the rest of the prequel trilogy

Think about it:

Anakin’s attraction to Padme in episode 2 makes more sense if they have some “teen romance” moments in the first part of the trilogy because that was pre-Jedi (thus pre-celibacy)

Anakin can be played as more of a Rogue character (which is an archetype completely absent from episode one) making his behavior in future films seem more in line with his character

An older Anakin with rougher edges could lend itself to more Han Solo-esque quips that would be a better delivery system for comedic relief rather than low brow Gungan bullshit

Yoda’s line “he’s too old to begin the training” would actually make sense

[coelii]

If I could have it my way I would also have a 3rd Jedi be assigned to accompany Qui-Gon and Obi Wan back to Naboo and have that Jedi be a bit more rogue-ish and comedic so Anakin gets to see at a young age that maybe he doesn’t have to be the “monk” style Jedi knight and can make his own path in life

[haarlow]

Or just make Qui-Gon the rogue-ish Jedi. I think that was the original idea but he somehow got watered down.

[cringe-but-freee]

whn on my canvas?? its more likely than you think

[haarlow]

I will never not reblog WHN fan-art when it pops up on my feed

[skelotom]

Ideally I'd make a post like "It is pride month! Yay! :D" ...But it is getting increasingly hard to exist as a trans person, let alone celebrate it.

We should still celebrate it. That celebration doesn't need to be loud. It doesn't need to be noticed by anyone except yourself.

They want us to feel shame at who we are. They want others to fear what we are. Pride in yourself is the antithesis of shame. So please, now more than ever, make sure you celebrate pride. Celebrate you.

You are worth celebrating. Happy pride.

[imstillalexcomic]

Shout out to Tsambika, the world’s best electrolysis technician.

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There were a bunch of places I called trying to find an electrolysist that was willing to take a trans client prepping for bottom surgery, and I was kind of stunned to learn tons of places weren’t down with that, even salons that listed themselves as LGBTQIA+ friendly.

There’s something to be said here about the trans experience, but I’d rather focus on something positive. 

I don’t know exactly what makes one technician better than another, but I have to assume that one of the most vital elements is client comfort.  At no point in time has Tsambika ever made me feel awkward, ashamed, or anything even remotely less than positive during our sessions.

Each appointment is basically me hanging out and chatting with a friend.  That friend just happens to be repeatedly stabbing and electrocuting my genitals. 

…ok so I just made electrolysis sound like it’s a nightmare, but with good prep it really hasn’t been too rough for me.  Some lidocaine and acetaminophen an hour beforehand seems to do the trick, though your mileage may vary!

Whatever prep it is you do, the most important prep of all is finding the right electrolysist.  Tsambika is absolutely the right electrolysist for me.

Love you, Tsambika <3

[deadeyedfae]

[haarlow]

Freshly shorn. I look so much like my mum

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"tumblr, enhance"

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happy pride to girls who didn’t know that women could be nice to you, inscrutable polycules, straight people in forbidden marriages, body snatchers who kiss their own reflections, poets obsessed with long-dead warriors, predatory cougars, lesbians who are in fact the problem, and girls who are in love with a corpse