Leigh Harlen (Birch)

@leighharlen

Horror writer living on Duwamish land/Seattle, crocheter, and autistic queer trans nonbinary goblin prince. Novellas: A Feast for Flies and Queens of Noise. Monarchs of Mischief coming soon! Fuck AI. leighharlen.com

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Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· 18d

Polaris reporting for scritches! He likes snacks, but he LOVES scritches

A lanky young white pit mix laying belly up on the couch. His face is very pink with sleepiness and he looks generally like a bit goof ball

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· 20d

Polaris wasn't either. The hole was just like that when he got there

Polaris, a lanky young white pit mix in a pink harness is laying a hole in the sand that is big enough and deep enough that if he could feasibly be buried in it. His feet are suspiciously dirty and his face is very content with his hole and the sunshine

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· Jul 14

Who has four paws and is pouting about getting a bath? This piglet!

Polaris, a white pit mix is laying on the couch wearing a bright pink robe with a curly pig tail and ears. His back is very empathically to the photographer

Piglet Polaris from the front, his cute brindle eye patch on display and his floppy little ears mushed under the snood

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· Jul 2

Do you like birds? Do you especially like it when they're borbs? I have some very wee soft and velvety birds and borbs for you at the @romancingthevote.com auction!

a collage of crochet birds. Starting top left, a grey parrot, a rink-necked parakeet, a cardinal, a caique, and a puffin

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· Jul 1

"how does my clean laundry already have dog hair on it?"

Polaris, a young white pit mix with a brindle eye patch is laying on a bed. He looks very sleepy and cute as he uses a pile of fresh from the dryer clothes as a pillow

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· Jun 26

oh no it's contagious

Polaris, a young lanky pit mix with a brindle eyepatch and the cutest little pink toe beans is laying on the back of the couch. he is partially knocking the back pillow over

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· Jun 24

She had no use for people besides us. But she loved the kids at the youth shelter across the street. She'd say hi to all of them while they waited outside. One called her his therapy dog. Another gave her the "Evangelista" part of her name (she used to be Linda) because she was "a fucking queen."

Anya a very young pre-t me. I have a shaved head and facial piercings. I appear to be asleep with my head resting against the side of her head while we both sleep on the bed

Anya and youthful pre-t me laying in bed. she is fully on top of me asleep and I have one arm draped over her

Anya and my partner (also youthful and pre-t) Anya is wearing a rainbow bandana and laying fully atop my partner trying to lick their face

Anya laying on the bed on her side doing backbends to lick my partner's face

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· Jun 24

She tried, but she didn't really "get" dog toys. Not balls, stuffies, or rubber/nylon gnawers. We had to handfeed her for a month because otherwise she just wouldn't eat dog food. She didn't really "get" other dogs either. But she did get offended if they walked by without paying their respects.

Anya laying on a bed with a soft zombie head with a stuffed brain coming out of it's mouth hole. she is asleep with her head pressed against the side of the toy

Anya and the zombie head. She's got a little scamp to her expression with one paw resting on the zombie but she seems to be looking at the camera seeking an explanation

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· Jun 24

The shelter estimated her age at 4 which was almost assuredly low by at least two years but who cares, she was perfect. She gave very gentle kisses (haha!), she was very shut down, and disinterested in pretty much everything except sleeping for several weeks. Living in a shelter is hard.

Anya again, this time laying on a bed on her side with her fat shaved belly exposed

Anya laying on the floor with her head on one paw. she has a distinctly eeyore look to her

a very funny picture of Anya sleeping so hard that her face is smooshed against a blanket pushing up her nose and upper lip so that you can see her little teethies.

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· Jun 24

Here's the first two photos of her from @seattlehumane.bsky.social We don't know much about her early life as she was a stray, but someone had loved her enough to love feeding her (She was 74lbs. When she died she was 38lbs), she had several litters of puppies, and someone once shot her with a bb.

a german shepherd mix with big begging eyes and ears that droop adorably somewhere between standard pointy ears and floppy ears. she has a touch of grey on her muzzle

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· Jun 23

He is beauty He is grace He has an itch upon his face

Polaris, a young lanky white pit mix with a brindle eye patch standing in some heat murdered grass. He is mid sneeze and looking very silly with one eye closed and his mouth in a kind of snarl position

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· Jun 20

Bit of a close up because damn but the art is so good

The same tattoo as in the first post photographed from closer

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· Jun 20

Hey there bluesky, I realized that after literally years of chipping away at this, I never shared a picture of my latest tattoo

A white person with dyed hair standing on a beach photographed from behind. Their back is covered in a tattoo stylized deep sea scene. A bit less than half of the tattoo are yellow whale ribs being consumed by hag fish and dumbo octopus. Above that are a vampire squid, a viper fish, and a frilled shark. All on a bubble texture black background

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· Jun 17

She came and godzillaed her way through one final game of Good Dogs, Bad Zombies 😭😭😭 my beautiful chaos girl

Anya, an elderly gsd mix with a pretty gray face is standing with one foot on top of a game board that she has kicked all the cards and pieces off and the other on scattered cards

Anya sitting down just before the events of the previous photo. Her tongue is lolling out the side of her mouth

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· Jun 17

We took Anya on one last trip to her favorite place, the Seattle center. We revisited the magic tree that a squirrel once fell out of, she sniffed all the stuff, and someone gave her the rest of their artichoke pizza. A good Anya day all around

Anya, a senior gsd mix walking on a paved path with greenery behind him. Anya has a very happy very beautiful gray face

Anya again, a senior gsd mix, is sitting in the dirt with her front legs splayed and her back legs under her. She clearly fell over and decided to make the best of it . There is an open and empty pizza box in front of her

Me, a white trans queer in a button up shirt pointing up into a tree while Anya stands next to me completely disinterested

A close up of Anya determinedly sniffing some tall grass

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· Jun 15

I'm gonna miss this perfect little face so much in all it's hues

an elderly gsd mix with a beautifully gray face lays on a grey blanket. she is looking directly at the camera and she is very flat

an early middle age gsd mix (same dog) laying on a bed. her face is much darker and her eyes more alert. her ears flop to midway between up and down and it is very cute. you would give those eyes anything she asked for

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· Jun 13

CW: pet death We'll be saying goodbye to my sweet Anya on Wednesday. One of the hardest things is everyday I realize "this is the last time I'll ever do this" about something. Today was the last Saturday afternoon walk we'll ever go on

Anya, a beautiful senior German shepherd mix wearing a help em up harness and a purple leash with sharks on it. She's standing on the sidewalk looking off to the side. There are pink roses to her right. She's panting and her ears are perky

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· May 27

just a boy* and his dog

me, a white queer with dyed red hair, facial piercings, glasses, and a weird selfie-ing with Polaris, a young white pit mix with a brindle eyepatch

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· May 27

My dog when I try to just put his food in a bowl

scene from jurassic park. drs grant and malcolm are in a jeep looking at the window. grant says "t rex doesn't want to be fed he wants to hunt."

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· May 21

This is a cat checkpoint; relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone. 🐈

a elderly long haired tabby with big green eyes curled in an orb on white bedding. she looks very angry about something

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· May 20

Baby hippo got a bath

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· May 19

The rarely seen dirt kangaroo very happy in his natural habitat

Polaris, a lanky white young pit mix is laying in a dirt hole with his tongue hanging out and looking very happy. His back legs look exceptionally long and his front paws are held close to his body giving him a kangaroo like shape

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· May 17

After chatting with our vet, its very likely we'll be saying goodbye to Anya in a matter of weeks so it's good that nature decided to lay out a carpet fit for the Dame

Anya, a beautiful senior German shepherd mix is wearing a help em harness and pink leopard print socks. She's standing and sniffing at a ground covered in bright pink flowers fallen from the tree above

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· May 14

when the water is EXTRA refreshing

Polaris, a young white pit mix with a brindle eyepatch wearing a pink harness is standing with his paws on a park drinking fountain determinedly lapping at the water coming out of the faucet. his tongue is so long. like, how does that fit in you head long.

Polaris and the drinking fountain again, but now his eyes are closed, his tongue is hiding, and the water is just flowing directly into his mouth. he looks blissed

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· May 13

Polaris definitely wouldn't know anything about excessive social enthusiasm to the point of upsetting/annoying anyone.

a young white pit mix with a brindle eyepatch is sitting on a sandy ground with a background of dune scrub grasses. he's looking over one shoulder with his tongue lolling out. he looks extremely happy and extremely chaotic

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· May 12

I don't think she likes her new grippy socks, but she looks so cute

Anya, a senior gsd mix laying on a wood floor with her front paws splayed wide. she has little socks made to look like pink socks with black mary janes with a dark pink flower on the buckle. she is looking very intentionally away from the camera

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· May 11

he plays like such a baby when he's with his lil puppy friend

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· Apr 30

😋

Polaris, a young white pit mix with a brindle eye patch, is extremely asleep on a couch. he's so asleep that one side of his adorable face is all smooshed against the back couch cushion and a little bit of tongue is poking out

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· Apr 17

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it)

a much younger Anya, who is in this picture a chunky middle aged german shepherd mix wearing a blue harness and who has actually the cutest ears in the whole world the way they flop at a ninety degree angle. she has a very intense look on her face and one front paw lifted in a stalking posture

Leigh Harlen (Birch)@leighharlen· Apr 17

my son had his first breakup this month. his favorite dog who he's played with pretty exclusively* at the dog park since he was seven months old told him he was Too Much. so now he sits at the dog park and gazes sadly at his ex beau who is in fact named Beau while Beau plays with everybody but him.