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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 20h

I've been working on this skirt for five years. It's nice having a slow project to keep adding to. I didn't really know where I was going with it when I started. I'll find some nice fabric to sew into it when it's done and we'll have a nice thick ankle-length winter skirt. #knitting

A bundle of pink sparkly fabric knitted from thin yarn, still on the circular knitting needles. There are two visible holes worked into it for pockets, one horizontal and one vertical. The pink is in stripes of different shades.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

Here's the first animation I did at all, like a month ago. You can start learning new hobbies literally whenever. #animation

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

Behold the final form of my first attempt at animating a real-world object. The fact that A HAND was where I went probably says something about me but idk what #animation

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 13/09/2026

Now that I'm on Northsky, uhhhh here's the sort of art I've been teaching myself lately! #animation

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 24/06/2026

I made it so the decorative divider on my new creative writing website pulses like a heartbeat when you refresh the page or hover over it and also the mouse cursor is transgender and I would like to share this online. Hello online. :3 heartsystembeats.nekoweb.org #creativewriting #writersofbluesky

The homepage of heartsystembeats.nekoweb.org. The title at the top says "Hearts Beating Out Words," and the subtitle says "Alex R. Haze." There's a divider with a gradient across the page that says "my heart beats" over and over. The welcome page announces that this website is for creative writing and is under construction, that writing can be found but filtering hasn't been put together yet. There's a filler space for a bio and a navigation sidebar that shows links to a homepage, a publication page, a tip jar, a blog layout, an ao3 layout, a "random works" button, and just visible at the bottom is the start of links to social media, the top one being tumblr.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 19/11/2025

I'm still committing to shifting over to the fediverse due to bluesky's moderation being very unstable and suspect, but I'm not shutting down here. I hope links to where I'm posting more is ok. Here is an apologetic picture of my cat doing a drink thievery.

A cat with her face fully inside a glass, drinking from the tiny puddle at the bottom of it

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 28/09/2025

I was thinking of finally returning to amigurumi designs, starting with this unfinished little trans frog, but I can't. I can't find the pattern. I swear I was writing it down but. I. don't know where it is. How will I remember how I made this???? God??? Dammit???? Will update when/if I find it. 🧶

A tiny crocheted shape made in trans pride colors. It's roughly the body and back legs of a frog.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 25/09/2025

Ok time to buy some knitting needles that aren't cheap as dirt. (This is the second time a pair has broken on this project. 😔) 🧶

Close up of a part of a circular pair of knitting needles with a pink project on it, showing where the hollow plastic tube that makes up the circle has torn open due to twisting over time.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 04/09/2025

Reading through a fairly thorough outline I wrote a while back for a short story and A) realizing this may work better as not a short story (a novel??? novella??? idk???), and also B) loving the way I wrote this paragraph. #writingcommunity

Maria decides to calm her down with a date. They have a date and it’s nice and I’ll decide what happens in that later. Vivian does a lot of rambling and infodumping, which Maria adores. The scene culminates in whatever level of intimacy and implied or actual sex I feel up to write. Romance stuff. Heehee hoohoo. Lesbabs.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 03/09/2025

She's sampling the lap-sitting that will happen when this skirt is done. 🧶

A small cat loafing on a clump of fabric being knitted on circular needles.

Another angle and position of the same description as the previous image.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 31/08/2025

Been having a lot of story ideas lately that capture me emotionally and I want to make real, but I don't have enough details or focus or motivation to do anything with them—or like.... work on one of my WIPs. Frustrationnnnn #writingcommunity

Spamton from Deltarune punching a dumpster

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 20/08/2025

I REMEMBERED I FINALLY HAVE MY GIANT BALL OF SPARKLY PINK YARN BACK I can work on my neverending knitting-slow-style ankle-length skirt again! So good to have when I can't focus on anything else I could cry

Some in progress knitting on thin wooden needles. Out of focus behind it is a ball of yarn the size of a decent scrying orb.

The same image but the ball of yarn is in focus.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 20/08/2025

I wrote a big thing being dramatic about this for tumblr and mastadon but the character limit sadly makes the crossposting to bluesky too much of a hassle. Have a summary:

Gif of an anime child lying face down in the rain

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 20/08/2025

Here's some fabric I measured, cut, ironed, and hemmed through the fog of fatigue I have Chronically. I am power. #sewing

The fabric described in the post. It has stripes in various sizes and shades of blueish grey. It sits next to a sewing machine and some scrap fabric.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 17/08/2025

I shouldn't have looked up transfeminist terms about transmascs on here. 🙃 Not going to make it a habit. Good morning Bluesky, here's my cats.

A long haired grey tuxedo cat lying on a crocheted lap blanket.

A short haired grey tabby cat with white on her nose that makes it look like she dipped it in milk lying in a closet behind some hanging coats.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 08/08/2025

The tiny beast subdues her prey (accident) (doesn't realize she is putting too much pressure on my neck) (it's ok because she's very small)

Selfie of a cat lying on someone's chest, the persons face out of view. The cat is looking at the camera and has her paw pressed into the person's neck.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 07/07/2025

Dragging this one out to transgender Bluesky 🏳️‍⚧️⚧️

Tumblr post by somethingmissingthiswaycomes: "Not everyone who is a woman is a non-man, and not everyone who is a man is a non-woman. Some people's genders aren't non-anything. Sit on that and nurture it and let it hatch and grow up to be a healthy worldview love and peace on planet earth"

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 29/06/2025

Some low stakes #sewing practice happening. I'm sewing two pieces of cheap fabric together with different machine settings, then I'll move on to making the resulting piece into a pillow cover. I hope it turns out nice, but it's ok if it's bad so long as I get it done and have that experience. 🪡

Some brown and beige fabric in a sewing machine. There are leafy patterns on the top piece of fabric.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 27/06/2025

Here's my boy on a low dose of sedatives to prepare for a big trip next month. It made him chill as fuck. Success. 🐱

A long haired grey cat loafing in a soft carrier. One ear is tilted as if he's hearing something, but his eyes are contentedly dilated and he's staring at nothing in particular.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 21/06/2025

Okay SO First pic is from several days ago. I did not have the energy to type out alt text, so. it just didn't get posted. Second pic is today, and it's my first time blocking, babeeee 🧶

A crocheted blanket spread out on the floor. It's made in a gradient of colors from purple to brown to bronze.

The above blanket pinned to a couch that's spread out into a bed to make space for it. The colors look more vibrant in this lighting.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 28/05/2025

Just for the heck of it, I put a small radish into my smoothie today. It's good! The blanket continues to grow. 🧶

A bunch of fabric being crocheted with thin gradient yarn in front of a laptop and a large mug half filled with a purple-ish smoothie. The laptop screen shows a bit of the game Outer Wilds being played in German.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 27/05/2025

Tbh I wish I could find people who'd pay me to make them blankets like this but it would have to cost them upwards of 5,000€ and no one who respects me enough to pay that would be able to afford it. It would be so good, though. So good. A girl can dream. 🧶 (#blueskynightmarket?)

The baby blanket so far laid out on a couch. The size of it is more like two baby blankets lined up next to each other; it would fit over most people's legs. A fork sits by it for scale.

It's crocheted with very thin yarn in a diagonally striped gradient from purple to lilac to light brown to dark brown and then a lighter brown again.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 27/05/2025

It's a crochet and Torture Tuesday vod kinda Tuesday. 🧶

In progress baby blanket being crocheted with thin gradient yarn bunched up in front of a laptop with Wayneradiotv on the screen.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 21/05/2025

Hey all! I've been not super active with the creative posting for a while now—partly because this one project became top crafting priority, but also because I've been really spent. Burnt out. Again. I'm disabled. Anyway here's an update on the baby blanket. I finally attached the second skein! 🧶

A small rectangular blanket in the middle of being crocheted from one corner to the other with very thin yarn that is a striped gradient from deep purple to bright lilac to golden brown to dark brown. It's laid out on the back of a couch.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 19/04/2025

The lighting on these pics turned out weirdly perfect. Anyway it was delicious.

The pizza, baked. There's a slice through the middle.

A close up of the crust as the pizza is lifted by a spatula at the slice so we can see the melted cheese inside.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 19/04/2025

We're trying handmade stuffed crust for the first time ever tonight.

Pizza dough hand-pressed into a rectangle on a baking sheet. The edges have been rolled up with cheese inside. Some bits of shredded cheese are scattered around the dough.

The pizza now with its toppings, including pre-spiced gyro meat and paprika slices, in the oven, ready for baking.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 07/04/2025

If anyone's been wondering about the baby blanket for my first nibbling, I have two updates: 🧶 1. Baby is due within the day! 2. I'm like. less than half done. because things got in the way of working on it consistently. Here it is so far!

A blanket being crocheted from one corner to the other. It's striped in a gradient from dark purple to bright magenta to light brown, so far.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 26/03/2025

Finally got space to arrange my craft supplies how I want, accessibly, in some wonderful shelves in a new apartment. I'm currently getting things out and organizing and putting them away. It um. Well. 🧶

A mass of tangled yarn of various colors, textures, and sizes held up by a hand holding a small ball of black yarn which extends into the mass. Shelves in the background hold several skeins and balls of yarn. Embroidery hoops are also visible.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 12/03/2025

This is a huge improvement on how I've been storing my #embroidery floss up 'til now.

A box formerly used to store teas. The inside of the cover has an image of a teacup and leaves, on which is text that reads, "Find your mood... Revive, relax, enjoy."

The inside has some dividers where there used to be nine kinds of tea. In these little compartments, I've arranged embroidery floss lined up in a color gradient going through the whole rainbow from red to reddish-pink.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 03/03/2025

I spent today asleep because of a pretty bad flu, so the kitty will have to head out tomorrow. She's* getting ready for her big trip. 🏳️‍⚧️🧶 *pronoun subject to change by the buyer of course

A tiny loafing cat shaped plush crocheted with trans pride colors. It is sitting on top of a brown envelope. Behind it is a purple drawstring pouch with a few similar plushies poking out of it.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 24/02/2025

I haven't been writing or sharing crafts in a while because I'm still moving btw. Here's a pic of the kitchen cupboards so far.

Three wall-mounted kitchen cupboards. Two have greenish wooden doors, one is an open set of warm-brown colored shelves. The top shelf is empty. The bottom shelf has some novelty mugs in it.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 01/02/2025

The beginnings of a fursona. I don't and never will wear piercings but I thought it'd be fun if the glasses went through ear holes and gave him an earring to get that idea across a little.

A tiny pencil sketch of a cat face with the same expression as the person sketched above. It's a calico cat with glasses and a small loop earring.

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A. R. Haze 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/they/she/it) @heartsystembeats.northsky.social · 01/02/2025

Attempting to draw myself. Sketched it from a photo, then used that sketch as the reference for something more simplified, then used that as a reference for a li'l cartoon thing. I don't have an art style atm but I think I'd like to start developing one. We'll see. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Three pencil sketches of a chubby face wearing glasses, each growing smaller and less complex from left to right.

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