Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك

@joandark

(they/them) Writer, organizer, gamedev. I say good words sometimes too! Currently steering @cartoonist.coop, working on @dateknight.bsky.social, formerly @bluestockings 📧: mxjoandark@gmail.com 🕸️: linktr.ee/whoaitsjoan

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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· 1h

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

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· 3d

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.

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· 3d

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.

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· 5d

Heard it was butch appreciation day?

Selfie with look alive sunshine cap, round glasses on, teeth earrings and mouth slightly open.

Smiling selfie with hat off, and light green messy hair visible against white background.

Selfie with glasses off, head turned slightly to the side.

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· 17d

it's you! @sagecoffey.bsky.social

Big Walk screenshot of creature standing next to symbols loosely spelling "SAGE"

Big Walk screenshot pointing at the creature who's raising one arm up next to the lettering

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· 18d

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Jul 25

Hell yeah dude

Statue of fossil digger Pikachu riding Aerodactyl at the Pokémon fossil exhibit

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Jul 25

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.

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Jul 8

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.

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Jun 28

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.

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Jun 15

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%.

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Jun 10

love wins

Relicanth looking at a coelacanth at the Field Museum, with hands texting in the shot on the left

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Jun 10

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

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Jun 9

I got bingo and I'm not happy about it

The bingo board again with x's over things that done happened

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Jun 9

Nintendo Direct tomorrow

Nintendo Direct bingo card, 5x5 grid of realistic predictions

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Jun 8

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

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Jun 6

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.

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· May 19

The only jpeg 2000 that matters

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· May 19

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.

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· May 11

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.

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Apr 27

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!.

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Apr 14

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

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Apr 11

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.

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Apr 5

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.

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Apr 3

caught in 4k

Pokopia screenshot of toxel sleeping in a chair in front of a tablet. On the tablet is a photo of toxel sleeping in front of a tablet. In that image, the tablet has a photo of toxel in a chair in front of a tablet.

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Apr 2

Today's a weird day for me, why not

White text on black graphic: let your followers fancast you as any character. Character is weirdly spaced at the bottom separately with a gap in between.

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Mar 31

He didn't like being called an ipad baby

Pokopia screenshot of toxel looking at a tablet. On the tablet is a photo of toxel looking at a tablet.

Pokopia screenshot of toxel looking at the camera. On the tablet is a photo of toxel looking at a tablet.

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Mar 28

"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!

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Mar 20

🆒 Birthday 🆒

Selfie smiling at camera while wearing black floral shirt and blazer on top, frieren earrings.

Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك@joandark· Mar 7

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