Aytch

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| They/them He/him | AuDHD | Queer | Artist | Writer | BA, PGCE, Msc/M.ILS | once Art Teacher | once Librarian | now #Accessibility Professional | Based in SW England

8 small nursery plat pots arranged inside a nursery plant tray, the lid off. The top row of 4 pots each have sprouts: left to right, 2 tiny sprouts, 2 mid sprouts, 2 large sprouts, 1 tiny sprout. In the bottom row, only 1 pot has a mid size sprout.
Twisp, a 22 year old herringbone tabby cat, laying comfortably on my legs and looking at me with one open eye.
A fluffy tuxedo, and a fluffy seal point, 9 month old kittens sprawled out yin-yang style on the living room floor in the sun.
Twisp, an old herringbone tabby sits on the bed between my legs contemplating whether to come closer.
Photo of my lap and lower legs and feet. I'm wearing a dressing gown, over a hospital gown and purple fluffy slippers. I'm sitting in a hospital theater waiting cubicle, waiting to be talked to by the anaesthetist.
Work in progress. Screenshot of Procreate. Zoomed in on the character’s face, neck, and a lot of his hair. Sketch is in blue, red, and green, partial inking is in black. The character is a Klingon version of Aizawa Shouta, Eraserhead, from the manga and anime, My Hero Academia. His eyes are half open, he looks tired. His right eye is blind, with a long scar that cuts down from his forehead over his eye and down into his cheek, cutting through another sickle shaped scar below the eye.
13 hanks of embroidery thread, arranged neatly on my sofa. 3 laying horizontally at the top: variegated greens, variegated turquoises, variegated pink green blue. 2 laying horizontally: 2 of the same pastel rainbow variegation. 8 laying vertically in a row, 6 metallic, 2 neon. 2 rainbow variegation, 1 saturated, 1 pastel. 1 gold, 1 copper, 1 purple, 1 sea-blue. 1 neon green, 1 neon yellow.
A clear plastic storage box, filled with 17 smaller clear plastic boxes. Each box has a different colour of threads in. Clockwise starting bottom left at pale pink, it goes through pink, red, orange, yellow and green. Ending bottom right at dark green.
The trans man sticker from the previous post, on a glass cabinet door, near a ‘The first pride was a riot’ pink triangle patch and a holographic Asexual playing card sticker. You can just make out One Piece and Naruto figures in the cabinet.
The needle nanny resting on my current project. It is an enamel charm, in the shape of a cluster of crystals, coloured with shades of purple, one of which has glitter in. It is still attached to its display card, displaying the shop name and details. Hartiful, found at Hartiful.co.uk and @HartifulUK on Instagram.
Photo of a large hardback book resting on my thigh and knee. Star Trek Derp Space Nine. Illustrated Handbook. Front cover is a line diagram of the station, and 3 smaller images in a banner across the bottom: an isometric illustration of the station ops, a photo of Benjamin Sisko, an image of the Defiant.
Black line digital drawing in Procreate. A slightly younger Garak stands facing us, drawn from the knees up. He wears a mid-thigh tunic that follows the usual Cardassian civilian fashion, except for a cut-out shape on the upper chest. The cut-out is something like an upside down triangle, with the points snipped off. It is situated just low enough to hide the crest set around where a human clavical is and displays the ridges and scales that run down his torso. He is smiling gently with a soft expression and happy eyes. I gave him a crocodile like tail.
A procreate digital sketch. A bust of Elim Garak, in blue line for his have and body, red line for his clothing. He is smiling gently with bright eyes, there is a cut out on his chest displaying his chest ridge and scales.
Unfinished digital sketch in procreate. Blue line undersketch of Garak’s figure, red line clothing sketch. He is wearing a tunic that drapes to the thigh, the neckline scoops low revealing most of his neck ridges. In the upper middle chest is a triangular cut out, point down, revealing the scales that go down the center of his torso, and his upper pectorals.
I’m holding the book open on page 219, where I found tucked in as a bookmark, a pink London Underground day travel card. Dated July 14, 2002. It cost £4.10.
I’m wearing the long thin rainbow striped pendant, it’s resting outside my bright red hoodie. To the right is a trans power flag pin. To the left are two pin badges: Abolish Capitalism and Eat The Rich.
Two necklaces in their individual boxes. On the left, a long thin rainbow striped pendant on a long white metal chain. On the right, a round white pearly pendant with holographic elements, on a long thin silver chain.
I'm holding up a box, the lid open, and inside is my copy of Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Section 31. Title: Abyss. Authors: David Weddle and Jeffrey Lang. The front cover is a black and white portrait photograph of Julian Bashir, his expression is confused, worried, determined.
Close up on the bottom left corner of a cross stitched frame. The thread is rainbow variegated and metallic, stitched into a pastel galaxy aida.
A tiny little black cat with a pink nose and pink eyes, back arched in fear, in a medieval style. Stitched into an off-cut of the galaxy printed aida I’m using in another project.
Book: Star Trek DS9. Title: Warchild. Author: Esther Friesner. Caption: Dr Bashir must save a dying child who may be Bajor’s last chance for peace! Cover: portraits of Bashir, Dax, and a Bajoran child, superimposed over the DS9, superimposed over Bajor. For some reason Dax is central and larger than Bashir.
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Photo: the deep dark cavernous depths between my sofa seat cushion and the arm.
Screenshot of Discord: I’m yelling in all caps: Julian WTF are you wearing. I shared a photo of the first page where Julian shows up, he’s wearing a pale blue roll neck shirt and what can be charitably called a pastel olive green open front tunic. He looks ridiculous, even by typical Star Trek fashion standards.
Graphic novel collected edition: Deep Space 9, The Maquis, Soldier of Peace. A 3 issue mini series. The front cover is a promotional photograph of Julian Bashir in uniform, looking very serious, gaze directed off to our left, with his hands resting on his medkit.
An old, slightly battered copy of the book, A Stitch In Time, by Andrew J Robinson. The cover shows Garak standing in the rubble of Cardassia, looking pensive and cradling an Orchid blossom.
A geometric heart, made out of triangles, squares, and a central diamond. Each shape is a pastel colour, pink, purple, blue, green, and yellow. The white Aida is still in the wooden hoop. The whole is resting on my thigh.
I'm holding up a book. Title is: Enigma Tales. Written by: University McCormack. It is about Elim Garak and set post series, when he is Castellan of Cardassia. The front cover is a shot of the capitol city in shades of orange, brown, and bronze, with a picture of Elim Garak himself superimposed on top, his expression is wary but curious.
Embroidery hoops on my thigh. Stitched into it is a cut diamond shape made of triangles, squares and a central diamond shape, in pastel pink, purple, blue, yellow, and green.
A quarter of a small red velvet cake with cream cheese icing, sitting in a Tupperware box, with a black steel fork, on my pink fluffy bedcover.
A small wooden embroidery hoop with a 5 inch white Aida square in it, test on my thigh. I’m wearing rust orange jeans. Cross stitched into it is about two thirds of a geometric heart made of triangles and squares arranged around a central diamond. The colours are pastel pink, purple, blue, green, and yellow.
Non-Binary flag: Yellow, white, purple, black in equal horizontal stripes.
My cross stitch resting on my thigh, I’m wearing rust orange jeans. Small wooden hoop on a 5 inch white Aida. The bottom half of a heart made of triangles, squares and a diamond is stitched in pastel pink, purple, blue, green, and yellow.
Julian Bashir and Elim Garak from Star Trek DS9, season 5, episode 14, In Purgatory's Shadow.
An embroidery hoop with Aida cloth clasped in it eating on my thigh, a triangle pointing down made of six smaller triangles is cross stitched into it.
I’m holding up a boxed cross stitch set. This is two mermaids, Yin Yang on a circular framed aida. One is light brown skin with brown hair, the other is pale cream skin with orange hair, they both have blue and white striped tails.
Birthday Card. It says The Many Moods of Iron Man. There are 9 identical pictures of his golden age mask. Each has a different mood label. Happy, grumpy, distracted, excited, embarrassed, angry, confused, surprised, and bored.
Sketchy digital drawing. Elim Garak and Julian Bashir from DS9. Garak sits in front, smiling, one hand on his lap, the other gesturing as he speaks. Sitting behind him, Julian Bashir is grinning as he inexpertly braids a section of Garak’s hair. Garak’s tail is draped over Bashir’s thigh.
Two sketched head shots of Elim Garak from Star Trek DS9. Elim’s hair reaches past his shoulders in both. Left, a 3 quarter view from behind, a triangle shaped hair piece has been woven into his hair, strands passing through it and tying into two thick multi strand braids. Right, a side profile, his hair has been half tied into one thick braid, with 4 thin braids draped around and into the thicker braid. In the profile view, he is clearly smiling, soft and happy.
An ache for the ones who've walked before me, And joy for the ones who walk beside me. And an echo of the ones who've walked before me, And joy for the ones who've walked beside me. Sadness for the ones who've walked before me, And joy for the ones who walk beside me.
Julian Bashir (left) and Elim Garak (right) from Star Trek DS9. Julian is wearing a purple and gold Sherwani, gold trousers and gold shoes, with intricate gold embroidery on the Sherwani. He has a long draping purple and gold bolt of fabric over his right shoulder and arm and around his back to his left forearm, that sparkles in the light. The purple sparkles a little green in the light. Elim is wearing a green and gold outfit, with a green tunic, deeper green over-layer, and gold trousers, gold shoes, with a gold amulet in the middle of his chest with gold chains that hang from it around his torso. Elim also has blue makeup in his crest and his neck scales. Elim also has a long, thick crocodile like tail. His green tunic sparkles a little purple in the light.
An orange and black Solar powered and crank powered radio, about 5 inches long, 2.5 high, 1 inch deep.
The wall over my headboard, dotted with many plastic glow in the dark stars of different sizes and colours. Plus one crescent moon, and one big star. With my bed-lamp pointed at them, so when I turn the lights off, they’ll all glow.
12 A5 and A6 paintings, in a mix of gouache and water colour, 3 pen and ink illustrations. 9 paintings are various landscapes, 2 are portraits. Illustrations are, 1 portrait, 1 life drawing, 1 mermaid. Arranged on my wall, above and behind a bunch of my art and craft stash on the shelving and in plastic drawers.
The Christmas tree is now gone! Photo shows an unobstructed view of my art and craft shelves with all lot of my stash. Also my art wall of my own paintings and drawings. And a glass door cabinet with some of my Iron Man merch collection in it. And a very long vine plant draping out of a pot on top of the cabinet.
The top of my Christmas tree. It is decorated in silvers and pastels. Behind it is my wall of my art, and my art and craft stash.
I’m holding up a square of aida against my thigh. Stitched into it is a 1.5 by 1 inch heart, to the top right are two more heats, one small and one tiny. The thread is red, pink, light blue and light green, so the hearts are all zebra striped in these colours.
A mini radiator, about a foot tall and two-thirds a foot long, about three inches wide. Daewoo, 800watt mini oil filled radiator.
Photo of a section of a wall in a church. The section is littered with carvings. The clearest are numbers, 1613, 1591, 1592, 1600, some partial circles, some V shapes.
Livingroom wall. Wall is pastel pink with glitter in. 28 postcard, A5, and business card size prints, cards, and advertising images are rather chaotically arranged. Subjects range from Bauhaus style abstracts, to illustrative trans men versions of famous art.
A blue line, digital doodle, of myself sitting on an office chair regarding a steaming mug of coffee. The coffee mug has Iron Man’s helmet on it. I am wearing a large hoody with Stark Industries logo on the chest. My jeans are too long, so they are folded up a few times over my ankles. I am wearing a black turtle neck under the hoody. I am wearing stripy socks, and fluffy slippers. My hair is shaved on my right, and long on my left. The shaved side is overgrown and messy.
Digital drawing. A white page with 4 blue sketches. Zariah is half Human half Cardassian, so her Cardassian ridges and scales are softer than a full Cardassian but still noticeable. She has large eyes and a full upper lip. Top left, baby Zariah around six months old, sitting up grasping her feet, smiling up at the viewer. Her hair is short and wavy and tamed with a bow. Top middle, newborn Zariah, swaddled and asleep, with a beanie on, her fluffy hair messily poking out from under it. Top right, four or five year old Zariah wearing a Cardassian style dress, her wavy hair now waist length and tamed with an Alice band. Bottom left, Julian Bashir asleep, with baby Zariah asleep on his chest, both tangled in a blanket. Julian has one hand on her back, and one around her legs.
Photo from my point of view, my feet are up on my coffee table, my legs draped in a blues and cream tartan fleece blanket, feet propped up on a folded blues and greens crochet blanket. Coffee table is strewn with general detritus of life, in the background is my tv cabinet filled with DVDs, games, a PlayStation, and a Blue Link plush and a chibi Iron Man plush. There is still tinsel on the top of the cabinet.
I’m holding up the electric rechargeable lighter, the lid flipped open. The outside is black silicone, the inside is chrome.
I’m holding up a yellow metal pocket compass that is open to display the actual face of the compass. It’s pretty, and reminiscent of pirate map compass drawings.
Electric rechargeable hand or pocket warmers. The box is open and the tray inside slid out to show one of the pair. They are red with a gold Iron Man style helmet shape on top. Other options in the box are solid black, black and silver, and blue and silver.
Left: long handle titanium spoon, with mat grey handle and a hole in the end to hang it up if you want to. Right: A Smidge brand midge-proof head-net from SmidgeUp.com rolled up and stuffed into a bag that fits in my palm.
Clockwise from top left: Purple foam sit pad. Bivvi bag. Green aluminium mug with carabiner handle. Titanium long handle spoon. Midge proof head net. Vango Banshee 200 2 person tent. Grey & purple Merrell hiking boots. Rechargeable electric lighter. Pocket compass. Extra cordage in bracelet form. Electric rechargeable hand/pocket warmers. Headband sleep headphones.
Top down view. A geometric heart, made up of 5 by 5 stitch squares, and triangles that are half-squares. The aida is 7.5 inches squared. Each square is 1cm squared. Diagonally from top left it is a pastel rainbow, blue, purple, pink, red, orange, yellow, green, then repeat until the final bottom right is pink.
An embroidery hoop. Two thirds of a geometric heart, made of neat squares and half squares, in pastel rainbow stripes. The bottom point and top right section are stitched, top left is still blank. Hoop is resting on a fluffy pink with white snowflakes bedspread.