Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك

@joandark.com

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(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

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.
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.
Quiz results for Evangelion character quiz, with highest being Misato at 75%, second highest being Kaworu at 65%.
Relicanth looking at a coelacanth at the Field Museum, with hands texting in the shot on the left
Screenshot of grids.fun board for About Me: Pokémon with a 3x5 grid of different selection choices
The bingo board again with x's over things that done happened
Nintendo Direct bingo card, 5x5 grid of realistic predictions
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".
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.
Pokemon the movie 2000 poster
Pokopia screenshot of interior flower spreads, berry basket, various plants and other garden equipment indoors.
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.
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!.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pokopia screenshot of toxel looking at a tablet. On the tablet is a photo of toxel looking at a tablet.
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!
Selfie smiling at camera while wearing black floral shirt and blazer on top, frieren earrings.
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.
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.
Pokopia text generator over a screenshot background, generated with an emoticon: ( •̀ ω •́ )✧
Smiling towards the camera, sitting in a booth. Wearing a red button down, black overshirt on top.
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."
On-Together screenshot of Joan's bunny, wearing a hijab, with pink freckles peeking out, a 3 mouth, and a peach top.
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.
Sea Towaki as Alucard opposite Yuma Kizuki as Dracula, aura farming so much
Sea Towaki as Alucard stepping down stage stairs, and stealing my literal soul
Looking towards camera, up against a spraypainted wall outside. Wearing a leather jacket, bright red shirt, shadow against wall and hanging on left side.
Jacob wysocki poorly edited on top of shinji from evangelion in the shinji chair meme
Graphic for Emergency Vigil with candles lit in bottom-right corner. Hosted by Ward 40+ Community Response Team. Rest of text reads: We gather in loving rage to mourn the rapid responder killed by ICE in Minneapolis today. Wednesday 1/7 6 pm. Winnemac Park, Damen and Winnemac. ICE out of Minnesota. ICE out of Chicago. ICE out of everywehre.
Text list of prose books I read
Updated Bluestockings closing sale graphic circling 12/27, and new text reading LAST DAY in the bottom-left corner.
Alternate edit of Almost Christmas meme with lights strung around courtoom and Phoenix's neck, santa hat on and snow falling. Text now reads: "Christmas" means it was Christmas!
Ace Attorney original "Almost Christmas" means it wasn't Christmas! Screencap from the GBA version.
Calendar graphic with heading BSTOX FINAL CLOSING SALE on top. Center text reads: Come through to help us offset the debts of the store *and* benefit a prisoner solidarity org. 12/13, 12/20, 12/27, 12-5 PM, 116 Suffolk Street. Masks required. This text is flanked by an exclamation point outline on the left, art of a megaphone held up on the right, and the Bluestockings logo underneath.
Steam Machine announcement ad with Steam Machine, Deck, controller and VR headset in center. Header text reads "We're besties!" with compatibility info listed underneath.
"Small dog alert" newscast with little poodle struggling against the wind on a set. Center text box reads W 40-50 MPH GUSTS with big block letters reading WINDY underneath.
Selfie in front of big mirror, wearing shirt with straps running down the middle and jeans with red and black stripes going down. Wearing a face mask and tilting head to the side while looking at phone held in center.
Photo from Angel's Egg screening holding up egg in foreground
Bluescreened Garth Merenghi head over a space background
Pokemon Black and White, walking into Cynthia's house in Undella Town and her seeing you
Selfie looking at camera, titling head to the left a bit, wearing cigarette earings, a green flowery shirt and a brown corduroy overshirt. Hair is cut into a shag mohawk with a mullet.
Selfie, head is titled slightly to one side, looking at camera with a neutral expression. All black shirt on flannel, wooden sword earring and bird skull necklace are visible along with sword tattoo on sternum.
Screenshot of the How to Touch Grass Kickstarter page, currently sitting at $18,312 pledged out of $69,699. With 324 backers and 5 days left to go.
Page from "My Gender is the Trees" of the character's hair merging into a large tree, and dandelions and flower petals blowing in the wind. Narration reads "Do pine trees get goosebumps... when fingers run up their branches?"
Screenshot from Hollow Knight: Silksong of the game completion screen, reading 100% and with a playtime of 62 hours, 3 minutes and 9 seconds
Top-down view of spread out comics over hotel bed
Poorly edited spongebob screencap of Plankton saying "goodbye everyone" where the end is replaced with a black bar and the hollow knight: silksong logo
Pokémon GO cropped screenshot, 7 shiny Rookidee of varying CP
Cover of Tasmyn Muir's Nona the Ninth, edited with Tomie dePaola's Strega Nona over the character's face. The text "Strega" is added over the cover text.
Screenshot from How to Touch Grass Kickstarter page. The goal amount being pointed out is $69,699.
Screenshot from the Kirby Air Riders direct cropped to show Cappy looking back at a bomb exploding.
Edited screenshot from Poképark Kanto announcement with YouTube comment underneath. Comment reads "That's nuts. I had no idea he was real".
Screenshot of Sylveon ex card from Pokémon TCG Pocket
Green haired person standing in front of chain fence, with a face mask on, buttoned shirt and a leather jacket and overshirt. They are looking at the camera.
Spot art for The Abomination playbook.
And they were SHIPMATES sticker design