Joy
@swordofcharlemagne.bsky.social
they/it - 29 - Melbourne (UTC+11) - agender/neutrois/transneutral - ΘΔ
The dream of a gently woken lamb. Each blade of grass as it lies down. Sibling to those other blades you might have heard of. I've been described as "resilient; optimistic; patient."
The dream of a gently woken lamb. Each blade of grass as it lies down. Sibling to those other blades you might have heard of. I've been described as "resilient; optimistic; patient."
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Joy
@swordofcharlemagne.bsky.social
· Aug 20
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I’ve been pursuing gender-affirming surgery in the face of financial hardship for six years. Please help me access it:
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(hatefully) i hope you make deeply personal art that gets advertised as Cozy Wholesome Media to Relax To
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
(hatefully) i hope you make deeply personal art that gets advertised as Cozy Wholesome Media to Relax To
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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eg: commission posts using the alt text system for artist credits. or videos using subtitles for bonus commentary, track titles or source lists. why would you not just, add text to your video or leave the credit in the post text lmao
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
eg: commission posts using the alt text system for artist credits. or videos using subtitles for bonus commentary, track titles or source lists. why would you not just, add text to your video or leave the credit in the post text lmao
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most puzzling development of the modren content era is the usage of subtitling/alt-text systems to provide not subtitle or alt text, but bonus information that could have just been included in the content
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
most puzzling development of the modren content era is the usage of subtitling/alt-text systems to provide not subtitle or alt text, but bonus information that could have just been included in the content
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A sword is a hard thing to love 🗡
November 24, 2025 at 5:24 AM
A sword is a hard thing to love 🗡
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— “Noxus” Low angle shot —
Another design experiment for the non-binary masked bird creature. They go by the name Noxus.
Saw this low angle shot drawing meme on X and really wanted to try it out and god it’s fucking hard to draw~!!
#furry #furryart #mapaint
#characterdesign #avain
Another design experiment for the non-binary masked bird creature. They go by the name Noxus.
Saw this low angle shot drawing meme on X and really wanted to try it out and god it’s fucking hard to draw~!!
#furry #furryart #mapaint
#characterdesign #avain
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
— “Noxus” Low angle shot —
Another design experiment for the non-binary masked bird creature. They go by the name Noxus.
Saw this low angle shot drawing meme on X and really wanted to try it out and god it’s fucking hard to draw~!!
#furry #furryart #mapaint
#characterdesign #avain
Another design experiment for the non-binary masked bird creature. They go by the name Noxus.
Saw this low angle shot drawing meme on X and really wanted to try it out and god it’s fucking hard to draw~!!
#furry #furryart #mapaint
#characterdesign #avain
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You can get this same effect if you read The Incal and listen to Comus- First Utterance at the same time.
doing enough psychedelics to convince yourself that jodorowsky's Dune actually exists
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
You can get this same effect if you read The Incal and listen to Comus- First Utterance at the same time.
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Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
“This is total armageddon for the online right. It’s looking like half of their large accounts were foreigners posing as Americans all along.”
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
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nobody:
peacocks with [REDACTED] eyes:
peacocks with [REDACTED] eyes:
October 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
nobody:
peacocks with [REDACTED] eyes:
peacocks with [REDACTED] eyes:
I would like to clarify, if it’s ever been ambiguous, that “hhhhh” is the sound of purring
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I would like to clarify, if it’s ever been ambiguous, that “hhhhh” is the sound of purring
God help me- I’m coming around from finding the KA-BAR katana really funny to finding the KA-BAR katana really cool
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 AM
God help me- I’m coming around from finding the KA-BAR katana really funny to finding the KA-BAR katana really cool
![24 Jan 2025:
cute post by Patricia Taxxon on Tumblr
["I don't care about anyone romanticising their mental illness and you should be allowed to pretend to be cool and special if treatment isn't within reach but I also think you owe it to yourself and to anyone watching to show a little of the painful side, too. let it breathe.
there's a big cute family of animal characters in my brain and it is utterly terrifying."]
24 Jan:
she gets at something in particular for me:
for years and years, I would show my experience of gender dysphoria exclusively through the lens of the joy I would find upon its being treated. it felt dangerous in furry’s often tacitly transphobic spaces for me to voice so much as that about myself, but it felt overwhelmingly so for me to voice anything about what it’s like for me now.
you’ve been seeing my gender dysphoric mental breakdown worsen over the past year, but you’ve also seen me get sick of trying and failing to find in privacy a safe place for me to express in full how I’ve always felt. amidst a broadly worsening mental state, it’s been healing for me to conclude that you, stranger, are going to learn how I feel.
24 Jan:
(ah! I feel like a broken record going on and on about my gender dysphoria as I do - I feel like a broken record experiencing my gender dysphoria as I do. if you wish, substitute “gender dysphoria” in that above message for any one of the likely-knock-on effects I’ve here described in turn.)
24 Jan:
(dw it's gonna get so much more repetitive still - my saying so is a repetition, too)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gtdqdetarbz72ro4qzrgx32j/bafkreicmeljkwzy4jqtuhympqywgsaw62e3hulxwlfvfcxa5fo7lhkzyby@jpeg)
the authors of the American Foucault's Pendulum, the American Battle Royale, the American Roadside Picnic, they're all *sneering* at me as they watch me fumble the light novel series I'll swear to have never heard of- the thing is, I can't *find* a political thrust to leave out!
truly I have no one to blame but myself for my not having become "the one to finally crack the American isekai"
November 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
the authors of the American Foucault's Pendulum, the American Battle Royale, the American Roadside Picnic, they're all *sneering* at me as they watch me fumble the light novel series I'll swear to have never heard of- the thing is, I can't *find* a political thrust to leave out!
truly I have no one to blame but myself for my not having become "the one to finally crack the American isekai"
November 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
truly I have no one to blame but myself for my not having become "the one to finally crack the American isekai"
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just received word that the game awards staff ran a speed test on their network, built a giant wicker effigy of me on stage, burnt it, then ran the speed test again and their connection was better. unsure of what this means for future game releases
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
just received word that the game awards staff ran a speed test on their network, built a giant wicker effigy of me on stage, burnt it, then ran the speed test again and their connection was better. unsure of what this means for future game releases
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wanted to draw sergi in a dress for a while but i've realised the exact perfect outfit for it. gotta cite my sources as an artist
September 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
wanted to draw sergi in a dress for a while but i've realised the exact perfect outfit for it. gotta cite my sources as an artist
task failed successfully: I don't think the short haircut I've gotten for my passport photo is going to help me pass for straight while traveling, but I do just really like it
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
task failed successfully: I don't think the short haircut I've gotten for my passport photo is going to help me pass for straight while traveling, but I do just really like it
and it’s fucking demeaning to have found that dogged pursuit of healthcare access, starting in childhood, will get you the result of being destitute, with a personality disorder, without healthcare access
for the rest of my life, I think I’ll go somewhere quiet
for the rest of my life, I think I’ll go somewhere quiet
it’s neat. I’d planned my life around “what will get me healthcare access?”- because obviously nothing else could top that as a priority -so this whole time I’ve been only able to wonder at what could possibly come afterwards.
something more liveable
something more liveable
okay. I’m not going to panic and scream and cry over the things someone’s stuck to me. I’m going to have those things removed after all. I’m not going to have to turn to self-surgery.
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 AM
and it’s fucking demeaning to have found that dogged pursuit of healthcare access, starting in childhood, will get you the result of being destitute, with a personality disorder, without healthcare access
for the rest of my life, I think I’ll go somewhere quiet
for the rest of my life, I think I’ll go somewhere quiet
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November 21, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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i always get so many comments that are like "cant believe this horny girl penis sex game made me cry" like why can you not. its by design. your whole gamut of human emotion is being explored to draw you into the story you just are afraid of being sincere that you're fundamentally a sexual creature
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
i always get so many comments that are like "cant believe this horny girl penis sex game made me cry" like why can you not. its by design. your whole gamut of human emotion is being explored to draw you into the story you just are afraid of being sincere that you're fundamentally a sexual creature
by the way, I have launched my long-planned Minecraft server. you can probably come play if you’d like to :)
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
by the way, I have launched my long-planned Minecraft server. you can probably come play if you’d like to :)
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Literally all you should ever put anywhere is a Thanks! Tipping a drag queen or a hairdresser on a pay app? Thanks! Paying for a comm or gear or anything? Thanks! Anything identifiable is narc behavior whether you realize it or not.
Apparently P*ypal now asks for customer opinions on accounts sending invoices.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.
November 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Literally all you should ever put anywhere is a Thanks! Tipping a drag queen or a hairdresser on a pay app? Thanks! Paying for a comm or gear or anything? Thanks! Anything identifiable is narc behavior whether you realize it or not.
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If Paypal asks for your opinion, you do NOT say it was NSFW or a commission! Spread the word, because we need to innoculate ourselves to this paypro bullshit.
Apparently P*ypal now asks for customer opinions on accounts sending invoices.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
If Paypal asks for your opinion, you do NOT say it was NSFW or a commission! Spread the word, because we need to innoculate ourselves to this paypro bullshit.
way back to the announcement of Halo Wars it always really bugged me just how transparently that game’s priorities did not in the least resemble those of “the Marathon-set follow-up to Myth” which it was ostensibly about recreating. the first of the “faux-nostalgia” games
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
way back to the announcement of Halo Wars it always really bugged me just how transparently that game’s priorities did not in the least resemble those of “the Marathon-set follow-up to Myth” which it was ostensibly about recreating. the first of the “faux-nostalgia” games