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Award-winning 🏳️‍⚧️♿️ author/illustrator /nerd. Makes queer comics & books, mostly fantasy & historical romance. See: Just art Main tags: Finding Home / Trans historical comics / wizard tower, / vampire romance

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my books:

[WIP] 🌊 A TRUE GENTLEMAN (2028 graphic novel!) Trans historical romance inspired by real queer history, my own disability, big ships for people who hate the british empire, and BIG YEARNING (tag)

🎩 I SHALL NEVER FALL IN LOVE (2024 graphic novel) historical rom-com with an n-b/transmasc MC about not finding a rich husband. Queer history vs Jane Austen mashup plot. Out now, in shops and everything. (Full info || tag)

🌿 FINDING HOME (2017-23, complete) free to read, slowburn 🏳️‍🌈 webcomic about slowly clawing your life back after things have been shit, + trees, flower language, fae boyfriend, cooking, agonised pining. (Intro post || tag)

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[NEW]🍷 NIGHT AT THE VAMPIRE CASTLE: choose-your-own romance for adult readers of any gender. Illustrated dating sim vs gothic novel energy. Choices include: Eat the rich! Discover the dark backstory of an emotionally tortured man! Werewolf party! Be devoured and enjoy it! Die in a forest! And more. (full info || tag)

✨ INTO THE TOWER (2023) illustrated journey to the top of a spellbinder’s very magic tower via a masquerade ball. Like several mini fantasy novellas in one. Options include: cursed librarian, steal from the rich, dramatic queer treason, losing yourself forever in the source of all magic. (full info | tag)

🗡️ INTO THE DUNGEON (2018) short, fun, & kid-friendly choose-your-own dungeon crawl (intro post)

also

✨ my illustrated romance/fantasy, backburner wip (tag)

More art & first looks at WIPs on patreon

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The Great Library: illustration for Into the Tower (x)

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happy pride month to everyone - to other disabled people, to people who don’t fit into neat labels, to people made to feel they’re not queer ‘enough’. To people who get shit for being out & people who can never be out, i’m thinking of you all, i love you

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When I drew this, I wrote a blog alongside about the tension between being a 'palatable' trans or queer person vs genuinely being yourself, and why it means so much to me to tell queer stories - in the current climate, I think it feels more relevant than ever.

For this pride, I just unlocked it for anyone to read here.

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what if a puff sleeve renaissance doublet, but it’s also a puffer jacket

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illustrated adult story (part 1 here) 13k words + 16 illustrations.

Finishing up the arc, Charlatans 2 is bigger and juicier, with more nsfw art, gothic energy, moorland, longing, and... background workers' history ✨

2: Secrets of Arkford Hall

Forced to return to his looming family house in the North, Markham finds himself haunted by the past, losing his firm grip on his self-control, and in increasingly intimate proximity with his ‘servant’. Blake is determined to discover the secrets of the strange house and provoke his boss into giving way to temptation, before his schemes - and hidden purpose - catch up with him.

What to expect: Historical setting, explicit, m/m, trans top, voyeurism / putting on a show, “there’s only one bed so I’m making you get down on the dirty floor and surely that will avoid all temptation”, leather, begging & withholding, trespassing as foreplay, rough sex.

Includes nsfw drawings & text.

Not the focus, but mentioned: war, murder, injury, slavery, starvation; trauma & disturbing hallucinations; quite ‘it’s grim up north’ but in a factual industrial revolution way; it’s actually very hot to be ride or die for workers’ rights

Is this the end? There's no HEA / together-forever type ending in part 2, but it wraps up the arc & brings this part of the story to a climax. (I do have a future part 3 in mind, if sales & response for 2 are as good as the last bit!)

• Get it cheapest as a $1 patron

• Or buy as a one-off, there or on itchio

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History zone: Yearning, moors, radical poets, resistance, & smashing your computer | Hari draws

History zone: Yearning, moors, radical poets, resistance, & smashing your computer by Hari draws on Patreon. Join Hari draws's community for

i'm in yorkshire right now so obliged to post this recent blog

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thinking about fishing villages, quietly half-deserted

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It’s kind of an old trope to have an evil scheming deceptive gay man and/ or servant character. And I simply want to continue that tradition, hard on the side of the scheming gay servant,

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illustrated adult story (part 1 here) 13k words + 16 illustrations.

Finishing up the arc, Charlatans 2 is bigger and juicier, with more nsfw art, gothic energy, moorland, longing, and... background workers' history ✨

2: Secrets of Arkford Hall

Forced to return to his looming family house in the North, Markham finds himself haunted by the past, losing his firm grip on his self-control, and in increasingly intimate proximity with his ‘servant’. Blake is determined to discover the secrets of the strange house and provoke his boss into giving way to temptation, before his schemes - and hidden purpose - catch up with him.

What to expect: Historical setting, explicit, m/m, trans top, voyeurism / putting on a show, “there’s only one bed so I’m making you get down on the dirty floor and surely that will avoid all temptation”, leather, begging & withholding, trespassing as foreplay, rough sex.

Includes nsfw drawings & text.

Not the focus, but mentioned: war, murder, injury, slavery, starvation; trauma & disturbing hallucinations; quite ‘it’s grim up north’ but in a factual industrial revolution way; it’s actually very hot to be ride or die for workers’ rights

Is this the end? There's no HEA / together-forever type ending in part 2, but it wraps up the arc & brings this part of the story to a climax. (I do have a future part 3 in mind, if sales & response for 2 are as good as the last bit!)

• Get it cheapest as a $1 patron

• Or buy as a one-off, there or on itchio

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we're getting into the '18 hours of daylight / no true astronomical night' part of the year in Scotland, which results not so much in a mood change as a sort of consuming summer madness, where if I look at a good plant for too long or watch a witch hat episode I'm filled with the feral urge to plunge back into drawing another completely different WIP and it is absolutely not the time

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✧ THE END ✧

DO YOU LOVE TO YEARN?

Finding Home is a multi-award-winning, very-slow-burn queer romance comic.

It’s set in a fantasy world and explores relationships, mental health and GROWTH (mostly metaphorical), and the complete story is now free to read online.

hello I am listening tell me more

VIBES: gay fantasy road trip with extreme mutual pining. Member of the fae court decides no thanks actually. Secretly all about mental health/ trauma recovery. A solid 40% quiet drawings of forests. Don’t you hate it when your language-of-flowers magic gives away your crush.

It MAY make readers cry but someone on patreon also said it was the ‘ultimate feel good fantasy’ by the end, so make of that what you will

Comment testimonials. Readers love it!* (*sometimes).

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can I read it for free?

yes! the webcomic is free here in a full page version or here in mostly mobile/scroll format.

what if I want to OWN IT?

Physical copies are now sold out (they were limited) but

Downloadable book PDFs (& prequel minicomic) here

or $5 patreon has downloadable chapters also various nsfw AUs

I planned the ending for 5 years & it’s so exciting for it to be out in the world. thanks so much to everyone who’s been reading <3

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It's the 3-year anniversary of the end of Finding Home today 🌿

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Join me in being angry

I have been telling y’all about H.R. 7661 for a while now, and today I need to ask you for a favor. If you’re new to the newsletter or have

A special one-off newsletter this week about the nationwide book banning bill. I don't know what to do except keep screaming. Anyway, if you promise me you'll contact your rep I'll send you a character art card. Details at the link

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Interjecting with something out of real life here for a moment. This newsletter sums up the extreme danger of this book-banning bill, and lists out several good ways for reaching out to those who can stop it. This is the kind of shit that if it passes, your public library will be the next target. What they're doing in school libraries is a warm up for public ones, and it needs to be shut down.

Read, reach out, and please spread the word. I know you're tired, I'm tired, and I sure as hell didn't want to bring this into a fun space but please, help get more eyes on this and voices to oppose this.

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it's here...

new adult short story. 9k words + 10 illustrations.

Characters somewhat horrible, problematic, messed up and unhealthily sexually obsessed with each other. In a fun way. As a treat.

Markham is uneasily pretending to be his dead brother, scarred and desperate and in need of a servant to sell the act. Con artist Blake poses as a servant, hoping to seduce his new uptight boss before robbing him blind and destroying his life. Both are convinced they've left their turbulent pasts behind, have the other in their power, and their own desires under control. Both are wrong.

What to expect: Historical setting, explicit, m/m, stealth trans character, slowburn teasing, power dynamics, voyeurism, threats as foreplay & (fantasies of) rough sex.

Not the focus, but mentioned: war, death; character doing sexual favours to get something but finds it humiliating; permanent physical injuries & brief internalised ableism; small scene adding to my portfolio of ‘what if you were queer & out of place at a historical ball and it sucked actually’

Suggestive drawings + very nsfw text.

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if there's interest this will be part 1 of 2! (Or 3 if people are keen.)

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soon...

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writing a short story that’s going to be so fun and sexy, just as a nice change/ break from my big full-on main projects— (20 minutes later) i have forty tabs open as research and the most recent is about the chimney repairs on an east lancashire textile mill

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(laughing nervously) obviously it's just for fun and doesn't matter (2 chapters deep into a 1795 book describing tilling and manure in boggy ground near the Mersey)

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writing a short story that’s going to be so fun and sexy, just as a nice change/ break from my big full-on main projects— (20 minutes later) i have forty tabs open as research and the most recent is about the chimney repairs on an east lancashire textile mill