https://iraktheoracle.com/ Trans woman, video maker and writer. Long-form and short videos, fantasy character work, and notes on life after transition. en https://iraktheoracle.com/#a-room-of-my-own iraktheoracle-a-room-of-my-own Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 So this is the new place. My own domain, my own corner, nobody else's rules about what counts as a real post or whether the algorithm thinks today was interesting. https://iraktheoracle.com/#commission-notes-the-collar iraktheoracle-commission-notes-the-collar Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Spent most of a week on a detail nobody will consciously notice: the way light catches a studded collar when the head turns. https://iraktheoracle.com/#nobody-notices iraktheoracle-nobody-notices Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Realised on the bus today that I hadn't thought about it once. Not that morning, not the day before. Whole stretches now where it simply doesn't come up. https://iraktheoracle.com/#nightwood-process iraktheoracle-nightwood-process Mon, 11 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 New animated piece up on the art page. Bioluminescent forest, character walking through it, sixteen seconds that took an embarrassing amount of iteration. https://iraktheoracle.com/#three-years iraktheoracle-three-years Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Three years this week. I didn't mark it. Realised two days later, doing the washing up. https://iraktheoracle.com/#on-giving-advice iraktheoracle-on-giving-advice Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Someone messaged asking how I knew. Not the first time, and I still handle it badly. https://iraktheoracle.com/#tools-i-actually-use iraktheoracle-tools-i-actually-use Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Asked often enough that it's worth a post. There's no secret. There's a generation step, and then there are hours of ordinary work. https://iraktheoracle.com/#the-box-of-old-photos iraktheoracle-the-box-of-old-photos Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Cleared out the spare room and found the box. Everyone warns you about the box. https://iraktheoracle.com/#second-christmas iraktheoracle-second-christmas Sat, 20 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Second Christmas at my parents' since. Vastly less eventful than the first, which is the highest praise available. https://iraktheoracle.com/#dorian-finally-asked iraktheoracle-dorian-finally-asked Sun, 09 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000 My brother asked, after two and a half years, whether it had been hard. First time he's raised it unprompted. https://iraktheoracle.com/#drawing-hands-badly iraktheoracle-drawing-hands-badly Wed, 15 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Doing a hundred hand studies. Not for accuracy, for character. A hand tells you more about who someone is than a face does, because nobody poses their hands. https://iraktheoracle.com/#voice-still iraktheoracle-voice-still Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Two years and change, and voice is still the thing I work at. Nothing else has needed this much sustained deliberate effort. https://iraktheoracle.com/#the-letter-came iraktheoracle-the-letter-came Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Paperwork finished. The name is the name now, on everything, legally, with a document to prove it. https://iraktheoracle.com/#waiting-rooms iraktheoracle-waiting-rooms Sat, 21 Jun 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Another beige room, another clipboard, another stranger who needs the story in the correct format. https://iraktheoracle.com/#colour-and-memory iraktheoracle-colour-and-memory Fri, 09 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Noticed I use the same violet in everything. Went back through two years of work and it's in almost all of it, usually in the shadows where you wouldn't clock it deliberately. https://iraktheoracle.com/#two-years iraktheoracle-two-years Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Two years. I marked it this time by doing absolutely nothing, which felt like progress. https://iraktheoracle.com/#winter-and-the-shape-of-a-year iraktheoracle-winter-and-the-shape-of-a-year Mon, 17 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Bad few weeks. Not about anything in particular, just February doing what February does. https://iraktheoracle.com/#what-i-thought-would-happen iraktheoracle-what-i-thought-would-happen Mon, 09 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000 Found an old note to myself from before I started, listing what I expected. It's revealing mostly in how much of it was about other people. https://iraktheoracle.com/#drawing-myself iraktheoracle-drawing-myself Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0000 First self-portrait in about six years. Took four attempts and the first three went in the bin for being flattering in a way that wasn't accurate. https://iraktheoracle.com/#starting-again iraktheoracle-starting-again Tue, 20 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0000 New blog. I've had several. They tend to die around the four-post mark, when the novelty goes and the work starts.