Elaine Barlow

𝙈𝙚 𝙄𝙣 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙛 ... 📺 #Media coach 💨 #cigar enthusiast 🐱 #cat mom and 🐟 #aquarist 🕳️ #aphant ✍🏾 bad #writer 🗨️ #comic reader ☮️ #stoic 🚪 #agoraphobic / #hikikomori (Housebound since 2007) 🧠 INT/FJ-T/A. #Enneagram5 🇰🇷 #Hangul reader, #KDrama lover, and #Kpop enjoyer 🇯🇵 #anime watcher #introduction

Shut up and TAKE MY MONEY #Commodore64!! Flip Phone hell yes! commodore.net/callback/

The #HighPotential Copilot in-show ad brought back all those horrible Bones ads about cars .... and all the other in-show ads in shows ... I fucking hate this stuff.

Support @michaelkamm.games. That's all I have to say.

Kiersten White's The Fox and the Devil is EPIC AF. It ticked so many boxes and was narrated by THREE absolutely EPIC women: Alex Sarrigeorgiou, Barrie Kreinik, and the amazing Fiona Hardingham. Supernatural, sapphic, tech, Victorian, folklore, diverse and progressive romance, found family. YAS!

After 30 years our landlord has banned all forms of smoking on the porch ... there are people who live here who smoke weed and there have been complains so now I have to give up cigars which I only smoke a few times a year. I am really devastated. It was a connection to my grandfather. #cigarsky

𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 “𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱” 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘦, 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 … 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘧, 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳 … 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 - 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳.

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𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘷𝘶𝘭𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘺 ... 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴. thewebrecluse.substack.com/p/your-abuse...

𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘖𝘗𝘗𝘙𝘌𝘚𝘚𝘖𝘙𝘚 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘞𝘐𝘕𝘕𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳, 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘯𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘌𝘟𝘈𝘊𝘛𝘓𝘠 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘞𝘈𝘕𝘛 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘕𝘠𝘛𝘏𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦. thewebrecluse.substack.com/p/your-abuse...

Matt Prince, an adjunct professor at Chapman University in Southern California, says... “If the word ‘moreover’ shows up in your paper, there is a 99 percent chance that AI has written it.” So first it was the em dash and now it's another perfectly normal word...

The original #Muniemaker #cigars stopped being made in 2019. I got one of the last boxes and have tried to preserve 10 of the in air tight glass tubes. These were my grandfather's favorite and why I became interested in smoking cigars in 2015 or so. This will be my second cigar of 2026. #cigarsky

Anything that brings younger audiences to the theater is an autowin in my opinion. I love to see this kind of stuff. Like this and #StrangerThings that push the medium in new directions using tech. I hope I will be able to experience this sometime!

Find your tribe. Be your best and most authentic self. Don't change for people who don't want to see you. Don't diminish yourself into the background. Do you. You are enough. Stay epic.

Weather is starting to warm up ... I have so many #cigars I want to try ... Including the new #SkinnyBastarda ❤️ Born from the hands of Raquel and Patricia Quesada, this Corona blend is their secret. "To spark deeper conversations. And to recognize the growing tribe of women in the cigar world."

Special thanks to the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT for researching and officially confirming that my father, Edward J Barlow Jr was the FIRST African American appointed to their board of trustees in 1972. The librarians and director worked for over a month to confirm this historical fact.

What WP are doing to this country ... to the entire world ... is nothing short of madness. You would willingly hurt yourselves just to have a chance to make someone you hate (due to brainwashing, grooming, cultism, etc) suffer. When you have no logic and no reason ... it is called madness.

𝙆𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙡𝙮 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙣, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙣𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨. - Epictetus

Need ≠ Laziness Don't let any evil, broken troll convince you otherwise.

Remember to breathe.

I. LOVE. THIS. BOOK. I. LOVE. THIS. CHARACTER. I. LOVE. THIS. NARRATOR. #HemlockAndSilver #JenniferPickens #TKingfisher

When I picked up #EventHorizon Dark Descent #1 I knew I may have to be careful with each frame and that I might have to deal with things that are going to cause trauma to my system. I went into it willingly and I knew that I might end up paying a terrible price. So far … the price is … affordable.

New #cigar haul just arrived. Mix of things but mainly a restock and trying a few new sticks. #cigarsky #thecigarlounge

Great weather for writing on the porch and enjoying a new favorite #cigar. Find and protect your peace. Log off, turn off, see sky, hold a loved one close ... whatever you need to flood yourself with calm and peace. Do what will help you stay strong, positive, and focused forward. ❤️ #cigarsky

Great day for #writing outside on the porch and enjoying a #Sobremesa #cigar. Perfect weather today. #cigarsky #thecigarlounge

Your lived experience is directly tied to how you experience art. In the world of #Lazarus there is the wealthy and then there is Waste. In 2025, in the United States, I am considered Waste and reading a comic about the brutal dislike, disregard, and destruction of Waste is just too difficult.

#28YearsLater is very quickly becoming Garth Ennis' #Crossed ....

I think I finally was able to make a real connection to Forever in issues 3 and 4 #Lazarus. My experiences with abuse, control, helplessness, manipulation by family, and the kind of precariously restrained rage that many marginalized and oppressed people experience had a lot to do with it.

I don't write reviews perse. I write about my personal experience with different media. If you're interested in how I experience art, I write about it regularly on my blog. Most recently, @melissacaruso.bsky.social's epic #EchoArchives series and @gregrucka.com's‬ #Lazarus #comics.

Got these Surplus shade #cigars by #CAO just to fill out my #humidor. I am always looking for affordable smokes and thought I would try these. They are just ok. Not terrible, not great. Fine for when you just want to chill and smoke but it doesn't thrill me. #cigarsky #thecigarlounge

#Cigar haul with 3 new sticks I am excited to try but ESPECIALLY this #Asylum Split Personality. Have any of my folks in #cigarsky tried this? It smells like PURE CHOCOLATE heaven! I love Asylum Insidious and this is a whole different beast. It absolutely smells like dessert. #thecigarlounge

Dug thess #Djarum #cigars out from the depths. I have like entire cases of these aromatic beauties. I dont inhale these deadly things but I do enjoy the smoke. The aroma brings back memories of the 90s. ❤️ #cigarsky

It's a Cerberus day ❤️ #cigarsky #thecigarlounge

Panicked, delusional, dysregulated, irrational, selfish, under-educated and angry people are how we got to this point in the world in the first place. Don't contribute to that. Don't add to, or become, the problem. Be part of the solution by being better, healthy, regulated, and selfless.

Netflix appears to have its first No. 1 box-office title in it's 18-year history thanks to the sensation of #KPopDemonHunters. 1,750 theaters had sing-along screenings Saturday and Sunday. Ticket sale estimates were as high as $20 million.

#Diesel Whiskey Row #cigar for this beautiful weather. Enjoy your weekend if you can. Take moments of peace and restoration where you can get them. It's a long road ahead ❤️ #cigarsky #thecigarlounge

In 2015, when I first started reading comics, #GregRucka's #Lazarus was not what I expected a #comic to be. After 10 years of experience and education with comics, art styles, panel work and more, I understand that Lazarus is actually all the things that make comics an epic medium.

Beautiful weather for writing out on the porch and enjoying an Odyssey Connecticut #cigar. #cigarsky #thecigarlounge

I knew how much I was missing #MelissaCaruso's epic characters and unique world, but I didn't realize how much I really NEEDED these kinds of feels especially these days. What a perfect start to what has become my new favorite series. ❤️