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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 20/09/2026

They have a whole collection but I ended up getting this one. Comfy nerd clown shoes lol

Screenshot of crocs website with photo of Yu-Gi-Oh! Yami Yugi Classic Clog.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 13/09/2026

Table is set up and we're here until 8 at ravenswood event center!

Selfie with smiling people in front of table with For Your Safety on a monitor. A car is also in the background, for some reason.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 13/09/2026

SPX, my heart is very full, thank you to everyone I got to see, already feeling so energized, I wish I didn't have to duck out so soon!

Photo in front of gold glimmery backdrop with big wooden WANTED sign over the top. Looking slightly away from camera, wearing a rose embroided red and black shirt, and o-ring jewelry.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 11/09/2026

And if you're around Chicago, on Sunday I'll be at @indiecitygames.org's CIGS showing off For Your Safety, and hyping up @dateknight.bsky.social, would love to see you there! If I have any zines leftover, will have them there too!

CIGS 2026 promo graphic with text on the left saying from top left to bottom left, "I'm showcasing @, [Indie City Games] CIGS 2026, Chicago Indie Game Showcase, September 13, 2026. Ravenswood Event Center, 4021 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago IL 60613."

On the right, the title card for For Your Safety is framed with white space around the top and bottom of the frame.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 09/09/2026

anyway here's my september direct bingo card

custom nintendo direct bingo card with very serious predictions.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 07/09/2026

Basically just a portable speaker and headset mic, there's a few different brands but winbridge is the one I know that basically just does this Only thing you need to watch out for is occasional feedback if you're too close but if you've got it on the table or around your neck, it's usually fine

Screenshot of winbridge portable voice amplifier

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 27/08/2026

Ooh the hammocks are such a good choice! I have most of my guys on shelves atm

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 24/08/2026

Late in posting this but I have a micro game as part of @indiecitygames.org Chicago Indie Game Showcase next month on Sep 13th! There's going to be *so many* devs there, come hang out! www.indiecitygames.org/calendar/cig...

Poster for Chicago Indie Game Expo with a full game lineup, date and location info, featured game art and poster art of Indie City Games mascot at a dingy State/Lake train stop. Arrows are pointing at "For Your Safety" on the games list.

Zoomed-in poster with game names more easily visible, and For Your Safety circled in red.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 24/08/2026

Make a band bigger: 100 gecs: enter the gecko

100 gecs album cover edit with gex the gecko heads edited onto the band's heads.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 25/07/2026

I never actually posted most of my photos from visiting the fossil exhibit, I'm realizing! A real treat if you can make it out to see it, there's a lot of love and care put into what's been put together!

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 25/07/2026

Do y'all prefer your models with or without the skin

Skeleton Aerodactyl model figure on a clear plastic stand over a wooden table. There's some blurry stuff in the background, don't worry about it.

Aerodactyl model figure on a clear plastic stand over a wooden table. There's some blurry stuff in the background, don't worry about it.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 08/07/2026

Backerkit is featuring @percypropa.bsky.social's MORIAH: Final Cut on their front page right now! There's less than 2k left to go before this beautifully tragic RPG meets all of its stretch goals, and less than 2 days to do it! I know we can get there! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...

Screenshot of Backerkit.com home page with MORIAH: Final Cut as the first game featured at the very top. A small snippet of the campaign text is featured with a header image. It is currently at $8,053 raised with 172 backers and 47 hours left to go.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 28/06/2026

Proof of life from the one corner not covered by boxes atm

Looking directly at camera, wearing Mal Blum tank top, shoulder and inner arm tattoos exposed. One hand is held up to their neck, and one cigarette earring is is visibly dangling.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 15/06/2026

I mean yeah, not surprising www.idrlabs.com/neon-genesis...

Quiz results for Evangelion character quiz, with highest being Misato at 75%, second highest being Kaworu at 65%.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 10/06/2026

chat, I might just be a ground-type trainer grids.fun/t/about-me-p...

Screenshot of grids.fun board for About Me: Pokémon with a 3x5 grid of different selection choices

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 08/06/2026

For context, the Instagram post where Reyookah mentions this. Absolutely heartbreaking, not what anyone should have to be worrying about at 18. www.instagram.com/p/DZTiDNMpEjr/

Screenshot of Reyookah's Instagram post, which has a nondescript bag background with centered text reading: "I was outed as trans to my abusive conservative father and I've been kicked out".

Screen of caption from Reyookah's Instagram post. Text reads:

hi guys. i never thought i would be making a post like this, not now or in a million years.
I will make this short.
I am an 18 year old trans guy. My father, who is transphobic and abusive, recently found out I am lgbtq. I can no longer live in my house. I'm going off to college in a few months, but I don't know what I'll do before then. I am scared. I am really scared. This is the most scared I've ever been in my entire life.
If you like my comics and want to help me financially, there is a kofi link in my bio.

Even if you can't donate, I still appreciate all of the ways that you guys have made my life better, whether that's praising my art in the comments, liking, sharing, talking to others about my art, etc. you all have restored my faith in myself.

Thank you all, I love you. Every last one of you.

#transgender #transteens #gofundme

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 06/06/2026

Very late to post but I'll be opening stream tomorrow for another 24 hr Daggerheart charity event! Watch and donate at the links here, come hang out! www.twitch.tv/chicagorolep... square.link/u/MwMqOHUo

Graphic spotlighting Chicago RPG and Yes And Dragons's Roll for Pride charity stream, benefitting The Trevor Project and The Center on Halsted. A QR code is included that goes to the donation page for the event.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 19/05/2026

Mostly finished a flower shop build in pokopia, great for regulating the nervous system lately

Pokopia screenshot of interior flower spreads, berry basket, various plants and other garden equipment indoors.

Flower shop exterior with flowers raised on pipes and columns for planters. Flower garlands, shell lamps, and ivy for wall accents. Garden flowers dangling in the left corner.

Second floor of flower shop with shrubs planted around a garden bench, string lights placed over second floor windows.

Other side of flower shop interior with various flowers planted, and accessories placed on countertops.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 11/05/2026

I went to Kickstarter's rules page to see what their "detailed mature content guidelines" entail, and this is beyond puritanical. The majority of erotic work funded through Kickstarter wouldn't be allowed under these guidelines. Payment processor Stripe has effectively shuttered those options.

Screenshot of Kickstarter's Mature Content rules, part 1. Text reads:

We do not allow:

Any project specifically stating it or the rewards being offered are being created for sexual pleasure.

Any project that distributes or enables distribution of pornographic content.

Any project that seeks funding for receiving or providing sexual services or spaces that offer sexual services.

Screenshot of Kickstarter's Mature Content rules, part 2. Text reads:

Any project that promotes, glorifies, or praises sexual or abusive content or language that is coercive, degrading, humiliating, or otherwise sexually exploitative or abusive. For example: derogatory terminology (“slut”, “whore”, “MILF/DILF”, etc.) and explicitly violent (rape fantasy, etc.)

Screenshot of Kickstarter's Mature Content rules, part 3. Text reads:

Photographs, photo-realistic depictions, printed models, sculpture, and illustrations of:
Sex acts or implied sex acts, inclusive of masturbation.
Nudity inclusive of female nipples/areolas, genitalia, anuses, gluteal cleft (buttocks).

Screenshot of Kickstarter's Mature Content rules, part 4. Text reads:

Implied nudity where the subject is wearing lingerie, fetish wear, or clothing that is see-through or very tight and shows human genitalia, the anus, or the nipple/areola of female breasts.
Sexual wellness products that:
Are explicitly designed for sexual stimulation through insertion or penetration, or are intended to have body parts inserted into them.
Are marketed or presented primarily for sexual gratification in a manner that creates heightened safety or moderation concerns.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 27/04/2026

It's time for @cartoonist.coop's third annual Comic Worker Survey! It’s crucial we track this info so we can see rate trends and address pay disparities across the industry. Anyone making comics in the US should please take the survey here: cartoonist.coop/2026comicwor... (Art by Egypt Urnash)

Inkling, an inkwell, is standing atop a pile of gold bars, gleefully waving a fistful of money in the air. Nibford, a dip pen, is clutching a single nickel to their chest and trying their best not to cry,

Floating text urges you to TAKE THE 2026 COMIC WORKERS SURVEY! because PAY TRANSPARENCY HELPS US REACH PAY EQUALITY!.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 14/04/2026

We got a huge bump, y'all, @dateknight.bsky.social is SO CLOSE to getting funded at less than 2k away!!! Can you help get us the rest of the way this week? 🗡️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/149...

Screenshot of the Date Knight Kickstarter page on the goal page, with 24,572 pledged of $26,200, 542 backers, and 9 days to go

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 11/04/2026

ooh you wanna give us money for a dog knight ending so bad 👀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/149...

Character art for Dog Knight next to text summary. Text on the right reads: DOG KNIGHT. Beautiful greenery is Dog Knight's noble craft. When they're not uprooting dead trees in the name of public safety, Dog Knight spends most of their shift as an entertainer for the furry visitors at the Jeannestown park.

If only the co-manager would appreciate the park the same way.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 05/04/2026

for $10, we promise we will pin more knights, this is a threat

tumblr thread, OP writes: okay but chess terminology is like. you pinned your opponent's hung knight and now you can mate? oh im sure

Follow-up post screenshots chess.com search result with title "i love pinning knights a little too much", to which OP comments: OH I'M SURE.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 28/03/2026

"There are ways to address legitimate concerns about teen mental health that don’t require treating every editorial decision about third-party content as a defective product — but they involve hard, unglamorous work, like actually funding mental health care for young people."

Screenshot of the Techdirt article with the highlighted paragraph reading: None of this means the harms kids face don’t deserve serious attention. They do. There are ways to address legitimate concerns about teen mental health that don’t require treating every editorial decision about third-party content as a defective product — but they involve hard, unglamorous work, like actually funding mental health care for young people.

But suing Meta is more fun!

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 07/03/2026

Needed some kind of levity so here's my 9 games! my9games.com

9 game cover grid from my9games, featuring Ape Escape, Digimon World, Chicory, Pokémon Crystal, Lost Kingdoms, Metroid Prime, Jet Set Radio, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and Crypt of the Necrodancer.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 03/03/2026

Backing at $25 gets you the full game AND a digital art book AND the game's soundtrack AND beta access! If you think you'll enjoy this steamy knight VN, you're only getting more by backing it now, don't wait! www.kickstarter.com/projects/149...

Date Knight Day 3 screenshot in the bar, looking at Barkeep Knight with the text caption: The gracious form of the well-composed and burly knight shall not tempt you.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 08/02/2026

rewatching sailor moon and damn if mako isn't more and more relatable every damn time

Sailor Moon screenshot of Ami and Mako right before dancing, with subtitles under Mako saying: "Huh? When you're tall like me, no one asks you to dance with them."

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 07/02/2026

they've slept for 3 hours and will eat all your snacks

On-Together screenshot of Joan's bunny, wearing a hijab, with pink freckles peeking out, a 3 mouth, and a peach top.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 28/01/2026

And on Saturday, I'm excited to be part of the opening lineup for the Roll for Refuge 24-hour marathon supporting North Side Housing and the Immigration Law Center of Minnesota! Come hang out and donate if you can, you might even change the game with your donation! www.twitch.tv/chicagorolep...

Graphic for Roll for Refuge stream from Chicago Role Players' Guild, which runs from 10 AM January 31st to 10 AM February 1st. Two dragon silhouettes are flying over a fantasy Chicago cityscape that has trees cluttered on the bottom.

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 21/01/2026

Research for classes has led me to a takarazuka revue production of symphony of the night I am so normal about this

Sea Towaki as Alucard stepping down stage stairs, and stealing my literal soul

Sea Towaki as Alucard in all black, mid-sword swing against the Succubus behind him

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 31/12/2025

I've been trying to get in the habit of just writing down everything i've read, watched or played recently because especially this year, I dug into a lot and then forgot like a goldfish! Anyway, here's ones I remember and/or had written down so I could list them for the end of the year like this:

Text list of games I finished this year (with an asterisk and multiple allegedly funny comments)

Text list of TV shows I watched this year that I remembered

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