Zahra Huselid, Freelance Bard
@zahra-the-bard.bsky.social
Pop culture writer • burnt out former academic • transfeminine and obnoxious about it • giant robot enthusiast • I HAVE EMERGED FROM THE PLACE OF SPELLS AND FAIRIES
https://zahrathebard.neocities.org
https://zahrathebard.neocities.org
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✨ The first piece you did in 2025
✨ Your favourite piece of the year
✨ Your most popular piece
✨ Your most recent piece
I've definitely leveled up both as a painter *and* a photographer! 😅 I've got two more big projects in the pipe this year, too 😁
✨ The first piece you did in 2025
✨ Your favourite piece of the year
✨ Your most popular piece
✨ Your most recent piece
I've definitely leveled up both as a painter *and* a photographer! 😅 I've got two more big projects in the pipe this year, too 😁
Quote with your starry art!
December 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Quote with your starry art!
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From The Archives: Why American Hubris Will Never Catch Up To Us
December 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
From The Archives: Why American Hubris Will Never Catch Up To Us
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❌ trad-wife
✅ trad-wolf
✅ trad-wolf
December 8, 2025 at 6:45 AM
❌ trad-wife
✅ trad-wolf
✅ trad-wolf
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The current world story is dying and the next world story is ready to be born. The stories we believe in now, the ethics and morals we hold dear now, will shape that world story going forward. There are a lot of ways it can go, but there are a whole bunch of us, and we can write the story together.
December 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The current world story is dying and the next world story is ready to be born. The stories we believe in now, the ethics and morals we hold dear now, will shape that world story going forward. There are a lot of ways it can go, but there are a whole bunch of us, and we can write the story together.
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
December 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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For those of you not able to come to the Winter Queer fest in Portland tonight to grab books in person, please consider other options to get into my extremely gay, extremely trans magical girl books!
magicariot.com/buy
magicariot.com/buy
December 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
For those of you not able to come to the Winter Queer fest in Portland tonight to grab books in person, please consider other options to get into my extremely gay, extremely trans magical girl books!
magicariot.com/buy
magicariot.com/buy
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I really don’t like how people are diagnosing these fascists with personality disorders instead of acknowledging that this is the type of personality that psychology never bothered to pathologize because it neatly fits into our society and upholds the status quo
What sticks out to me is how absolutely unafraid of prosecution this psychopath is. Part of it is narcissistic personality disorder, but it's mostly the perceived weakness of Democrats. Should they retake power, no one expects Democrats to hold anyone accountable.
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I really don’t like how people are diagnosing these fascists with personality disorders instead of acknowledging that this is the type of personality that psychology never bothered to pathologize because it neatly fits into our society and upholds the status quo
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Transexual Furry Hackers?!?! MFF booth Q2 with @trianglemanor.bsky.social , on sale this weekend! Limited quantity!
December 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Transexual Furry Hackers?!?! MFF booth Q2 with @trianglemanor.bsky.social , on sale this weekend! Limited quantity!
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ketamine ? mid. molly ? dogshit. acid ? dont even. if you want the real shit, you should try this. *shows you a four minute long video of a cat sitting in a cardboard box*
December 4, 2025 at 11:54 PM
ketamine ? mid. molly ? dogshit. acid ? dont even. if you want the real shit, you should try this. *shows you a four minute long video of a cat sitting in a cardboard box*
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A quick reminder for folks, the next Pirate Point issue is looking for submissions of flash fiction, art, miniature photos and more for this fantastic BattleTech fanzine!!
There's so many ways you can take part & show your love for the hobby & community. So check it out! 🏴☠️
There's so many ways you can take part & show your love for the hobby & community. So check it out! 🏴☠️
Ay yo mechwarriors, Issue #3 submissions are open! Looking for flash fiction (500-1000 words), fan art, and painted minis, all based on our favorite stompy robot setting.
Lets start some trouble.
piratepoint.itch.io/pirate-point...
#Battletech #mechwarrior #ttrpg #minipainting #wargaming #lgbtqia
Lets start some trouble.
piratepoint.itch.io/pirate-point...
#Battletech #mechwarrior #ttrpg #minipainting #wargaming #lgbtqia
PIRATE POINT: Issue #3 by Pirate Point
A Queer Punk Fanzine for Outlaw Mechwarriors, March 2026
piratepoint.itch.io
December 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
A quick reminder for folks, the next Pirate Point issue is looking for submissions of flash fiction, art, miniature photos and more for this fantastic BattleTech fanzine!!
There's so many ways you can take part & show your love for the hobby & community. So check it out! 🏴☠️
There's so many ways you can take part & show your love for the hobby & community. So check it out! 🏴☠️
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The fascists are counting on you finding erotica and porn too distasteful to support. Because they always start here. And even if they ended here, sexuality and erotism are integral components of queer expression. You can't support queer creators without supporting 'nsfw' content.
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The fascists are counting on you finding erotica and porn too distasteful to support. Because they always start here. And even if they ended here, sexuality and erotism are integral components of queer expression. You can't support queer creators without supporting 'nsfw' content.
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it rules that every day now is just watching everything in your life get more expensive and worse and then also constantly being told that nothing is more expensive or worse
Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post are at it again.
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
it rules that every day now is just watching everything in your life get more expensive and worse and then also constantly being told that nothing is more expensive or worse
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like i said months ago: reopen alcatraz and fill it with tech billionaires. they must be stopped.
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
like i said months ago: reopen alcatraz and fill it with tech billionaires. they must be stopped.
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This line from Count Zero by William Gibson has haunted my thoughts ever since I first read it:
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
December 2, 2025 at 5:07 AM
This line from Count Zero by William Gibson has haunted my thoughts ever since I first read it:
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
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People still constantly bring up my AI Statement page in the Scream zine. Some folks say it made them cry! I was going to be more eviscerating but instead felt the best way to make my point was just to be totally raw and vulnerable in a way AI can't be. sara-century.square.site
November 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
People still constantly bring up my AI Statement page in the Scream zine. Some folks say it made them cry! I was going to be more eviscerating but instead felt the best way to make my point was just to be totally raw and vulnerable in a way AI can't be. sara-century.square.site
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It's the most wonderful time of the year.
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
It's the most wonderful time of the year.
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Finally getting a blog going on the site, and I'm starting it off with a FYC for any potential award nominations (or just folks who wanna look back!) of all the stuff I released this year 🥰 blog.magicariot.com/for-your-con...
For Your Consideration: What I've Published in 2025
2025 has been my first full year as an author, after launching on November 1st, 2024. I have to say, this year has been a wild ride, to say the least!
h...
blog.magicariot.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Finally getting a blog going on the site, and I'm starting it off with a FYC for any potential award nominations (or just folks who wanna look back!) of all the stuff I released this year 🥰 blog.magicariot.com/for-your-con...
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This is genocide. Explicitly. The first step in killing off a population is ensuring that they’re not allowed to engage in public life.
Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
December 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This is genocide. Explicitly. The first step in killing off a population is ensuring that they’re not allowed to engage in public life.
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I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
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I understand that there are a lot of people out there who think they have good intentions and love to take their ideological opponents in good faith because it makes them seem fair and reasonable and I truly cannot overstate how dangerous this is to trans people and how much they should stop
December 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I understand that there are a lot of people out there who think they have good intentions and love to take their ideological opponents in good faith because it makes them seem fair and reasonable and I truly cannot overstate how dangerous this is to trans people and how much they should stop
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Feels like trans language forwarded by cis people("gender affirming care", "gender reassignment surgery", "identify as", etc) is less about respecting the full gender spectrum and more about keeping cis people from feeling uncomfortable about having to think about how gender/sex are variable
December 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Feels like trans language forwarded by cis people("gender affirming care", "gender reassignment surgery", "identify as", etc) is less about respecting the full gender spectrum and more about keeping cis people from feeling uncomfortable about having to think about how gender/sex are variable
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Lots of creeps from the deep this year too
December 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Lots of creeps from the deep this year too
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Scorpion Empire "Seeker" Victor C
Hoping to maybe work on some of the rest of the Star, maybe on one of the livestreams @sledgebattletek.bsky.social is running this December to fundraise for my medical debt.
ko-fi.com/bishopsbeerf...
more details in the ALT TEXT
Hoping to maybe work on some of the rest of the Star, maybe on one of the livestreams @sledgebattletek.bsky.social is running this December to fundraise for my medical debt.
ko-fi.com/bishopsbeerf...
more details in the ALT TEXT
December 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Scorpion Empire "Seeker" Victor C
Hoping to maybe work on some of the rest of the Star, maybe on one of the livestreams @sledgebattletek.bsky.social is running this December to fundraise for my medical debt.
ko-fi.com/bishopsbeerf...
more details in the ALT TEXT
Hoping to maybe work on some of the rest of the Star, maybe on one of the livestreams @sledgebattletek.bsky.social is running this December to fundraise for my medical debt.
ko-fi.com/bishopsbeerf...
more details in the ALT TEXT
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Autism diagnosis quiz where the first question is "do you try to open the microwave at 1 second because you hate the beep" and if you say yes it just skips the rest of the quiz and says yeah
December 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Autism diagnosis quiz where the first question is "do you try to open the microwave at 1 second because you hate the beep" and if you say yes it just skips the rest of the quiz and says yeah