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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis

@keeva.bsky.social
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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 linktr.ee/keevacomix

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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
CAMP MIASMA: one of my favorite films of all time after one viewing. I felt so nervous 30 minutes in, not about the fate of the characters, but about whether the whole thing would sputter or derail. I almost always leave art thinking of what I would have done differently, but genuinely: no notes.
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Still practicing my "furry art." Here's some inspiration for all the fellow cuties who find themselves Athwart the Demiurge: (cw: painted blood)
The image depicts an anthropomorphic cat in armor; she's yelling while holding a greatsword. There's rain and lightning and she's drenched in blood and it's all very dramatic.
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Concretely, that means I have a book with an agent and am making sure every page of it is soaked in my blood; hopefully that will be out in the world soon. I maybe want to start up a Clowes-ish one-woman comics anthology. I maybe want to make the Baldur's Gate III of 2D Indie Furry RPGs. Stay tuned?
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I've been putting some thought into what to do next (besides get on unemployment). I think I have to give up this idea of "stability" and go back to the rancid waters that birthed me: writing, making comics, making indie RPGs. Abstractly, I need to become The Black Paladin of the Three-Form Goddess.
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Checking in, tho I never use this thing. I know you all heard about the demise of Hampshire College two months ago, but maybe you didn't know that was where I worked. I've been really heartbroken over it all; I loved my students and don't think I can ever be happy teaching anywhere else after that.
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Checking in, tho I never use this thing. I know you all heard about the demise of Hampshire College two months ago, but maybe you didn't know that was where I worked. I've been really heartbroken over it all; I loved my students and don't think I can ever be happy teaching anywhere else after that.
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I got a sketchbook a week or so ago with the intention of drawing in it quickly, without much planning, without caring about the result. I've never done that before! Anyway, here's today's page, which @ohtiniestplanet.bsky.social said I must post.
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I got a sketchbook a week or so ago with the intention of drawing in it quickly, without much planning, without caring about the result. I've never done that before! Anyway, here's today's page, which @ohtiniestplanet.bsky.social said I must post.
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I loved this art so much ;_; ;_; THANK YOU MT~~~
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 25/10/2025
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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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 23/10/2025
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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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Release the tapes ;_;
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Yoshitaka Amano (b. 1952), “Circé” (1986), acrylic, colored ink, 56.6 x 76 cm.
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
For anyone else looking to block all these fucking losers: bsky.app/profile/eva....
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Taught my class about Donald Duck and the burning pentagram today.
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."
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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.
‘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)
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
A lot of stories read as if the writer has lost the distinction between subtlety and cowardice and is afraid that writing actual scenes will make them seem artless or ideological. It is okay to believe things and have characters respond to the world in ways other than befogged helpless dissociation.
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Slept the Full Fellini (a rarity for me) last night, strong sleep, deep sleep, good sleep. Then woke up and realized I slept through therapy u_u A girl can't win.
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matthew @pahuski.com · 13/10/2025
Happy Columbo’s Day
Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”“If the car’s gone,”“I’ll give you another cookie anyway”“because I love you.”
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
1. Mushrooms, which I understand is my loss :( 2. Rob Zombie's "El Superbeasto"; I reject the based/cringe binary, but this made me physically cringe, a lot. 3. Not a hot take but "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime" is disgraceful. Criminal.
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I had my first climate-related nightmare. Someone was just calmly explaining to me how "the autumn that was starting has now been obliterated," that "there was an anomalous wave of heat we didn't see coming and all the leaves instantly died" and they didn't think the trees would come back in spring.
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
About to start my Brundlefly Arc.
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Besides Sleepaway Camp, this begins to articulate my feelings on Silence of the Lambs as well. You can't convince me that's not a movie about the triangulated relationship between a trans woman, a gay man, and a (possibly asexual) lesbian, in which the world outside is of no real consequence.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...
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Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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Peytral @peytral.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Have you destroyed the Trojan Horse? Just use the Zakrello. Mass-produce the Big Zam. The Gouf can do it. Literally just use the Adzam. This is a job for the Gogg. Dude use the Zeong. It's a Bigro specialty. Use the Gelgoog. The Gelgoog can do it. Just send the Gelgoog at it. Deploy the Gelgoog to d
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Raz @asmilewithoutacat.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Just so y'all know how ridiculously good at this @keeva.bsky.social is, she made us matching badges.
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I've been trying to learn to do furry/anthro art for a long while now and this is the first piece that I was really pretty pleased with! Drawn for my very sweet friend @canineconnie.bsky.social
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Do I not know any other trans femmes who are into strength training but in a cool/sad/goth/potato-crushing paladin kind of way? It seems like a fucking wasteland out here.
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
There's a lot of greatests tbh but nine off the top of my head: the RZA, the GZA, Raekwon the Chef, Inspectah Deck (perhaps the most underrated of all), Method Man, Ghostface Killah, U-God, Masta Killa, and the Ol' Dirty Bastard.
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Sorry to repost this shit, but it's just staggering how limited the imaginations of these people are with respect to things like divinity and eternity. How shallow can your conception of godhood and life get?
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
One thing that's ridiculous but made me happy in the midst of all this turmoil was yesterday I took receipt of a "Level-III Captains of Crush Grip-Strength Training Tool." I'm told if you make your way up to the Level-10 tool, you will have the power to crush a raw potato in your hand (!)
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
It's been one of the most overwhelming weeks I can remember. Besides all the horrors of the world, in the span of twenty-four hours I got incredibly bad, heart-rending, life-fucking news (no, I'm not dying or anything like that, but still v bad) AND very good, heart-restoring, life-affirming news.
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bites u @snuffbait.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
gm
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Do I know anyone at all up at 3am?
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Pseudo-beefed my lower back on a Romanian deadlift yesterday and now I'm Nosferatuing up the stairs to my office stooped at a 45 degree angle. Might have to ask students to meet by sitting on the floor because I can't look straight in front of me T_T
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Katerina Marchán 🐈 @zkat.tech · 10/09/2025
I’m sorry but let me unbury this lede: *the genAI industry is literally the financial engine that is powering the fascist regime in the United States* I hadn’t even made this connection and now I’m even more horrified by this tech than I have ever been. Boosterism == fascism, literally
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Pedagogy:
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Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
this is your annual reminder to please take off your hetero-imitative frogskin and dance to a lesbian/gay spirit
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Mainstream American art/literature is allergic to any kind of drama that isn't mediated through sex. It seems to feel that any other expression of deeply-rooted personal messiness is melodramatic. Interesting landscape to confront if you're a writer whose sexuality is inherently fetishized.
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Caoimhe Harlock, Heresiarch of Charybdis @keeva.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I've taken up strength training again, but in a gay way. Being in Western Mass, I found an outrageously gay gym with almost no effort. I'm talking "there's an old rescue dog hanging out by the front desk" gay. "Progress flag hanging from the back of the squat rack" gay. "Macrame owl decor" gay.
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