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Rakeela Windrider

@rakeela.bsky.social

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Zie/zir pronouns. Asexual otherkin transhumanist. Writer of highly obscure books. Fan of dragons, gryphons, and otters. I'm schizophrenic. The voices in my head are usually friendly. I may repost artistic nudity, and I may expose NSFW thoughts.

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Rakeela Windrider @rakeela.bsky.social · Jul 31

If you've been looking for a badass gryphoness in a queer-friendly fantasy setting, my own contribution to #GryphonAppreciationDay is Knight of Talonia!

www.amazon.com/Knight-Talon...

Knight of Talonia (Arotha Knights Book 1)

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Rakeela Windrider @rakeela.bsky.social · 1m

This administration has been flagrantly violating the law while weaponizing the courts when they can and ignoring them when they can't. They are using the courts as a tool not to uphold the law, but to break it in their favor. Normality will not be restored by treating that conduct as blameless.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 3h

Strike a pose (Common Grackle) #birds 🌿

Iridescent black bird with bright blue neck and head, yellow eye and pointy, downward curve beak. Bird is perched on the edge of a concrete bird bath with beak pointed skyward. Background is soft focus green and pink.

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Rakeela Windrider @rakeela.bsky.social · 1h

I have an annual symptoms peak around this time of year. I'm not sure why. My mental health is generally worst in October.

Rakeela Windrider @rakeela.bsky.social · 1h

My symptoms are acting up today. I'm hallucinating smoke. I get very few visual hallucinations. Mostly just smoke that seems to emit from my hands when I'm writing. That sounds like a cool visual effect, and maybe it is, but it's associated with eye pain, a headache, and unclear thoughts.

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Alym 🔜 AQF, MFF @alym.bsky.social · 4h

Proud and strong 💙

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@alibi-cami.bsky.social

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Rakeela Windrider @rakeela.bsky.social · 4h

I admit I didn't suspect the error! Being open about something is kind of like being normal about it. I thought you meant you try to make it seem like you're just another person despite the neurodivergence. Of course, 'open' is a little more directly responsive to what I said!

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Rakeela Windrider @rakeela.bsky.social · 5h

I know it's unpleasant to see this kind of thing in your timeline. I'm sorry. I think I am too open to be quite popular.

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Rakeela Windrider @rakeela.bsky.social · 5h

Last night the voices in my head were pushing the "leftists are pedophiles" thing again. Annoying. I don't hate-watch conservatives spreading this stuff, but I still get it from my own head. I wish schizophrenia were curable. Maybe new treatments could be invented with neuroaffective immunology?

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🩸 morteraphan 🗝️ @morteraphan.bsky.social · 6h

Oh, and I haven't drawn them like this for ages! [oc]

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Rakeela Windrider @rakeela.bsky.social · 7h

I don't believe in a metaphysical mind, so the idea of subjectivity is a little odd to me. People absolutely have thoughts and feelings, but those thoughts and feelings occur, as far as we know, in the same objective reality as everything else, so aren't they objective states? Maybe I'm confused.

Rakeela Windrider @rakeela.bsky.social · 7h

I hired an artist to draw an extremely colorful dragon for a book cover, and I'm so self-conscious about it. I don't remember why I made that dragon so colorful...

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tlactl @tlactl.bsky.social · 8h

medieval birds

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Rakeela Windrider @rakeela.bsky.social · 12h

Were there never cats in Belamuria, or did they eat all the cats?

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Chroma Hydra is 🏳️‍⚧️🐉θΔ @chromahydra.bsky.social · 3d

Iggy needs help. Boost if you can please. Kidney failure sucks ass.

Iggy @iggydinosaur.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you again for everyone trying to donate a kidney for me.
I don't have any new updates or anything--they're still working through the list and yeah we are really beginning to run out of time. If you're on the fence but would like to try, get started at iggyland.org
Thank you everyone!

Iggy needs a kidney - Iggy's Up All Night

The TL;DR on how you can help (if you scroll down, the full story is below): In short I have a disease that requires a living kidney donor. There are no other viable options for me. I have only a few ...

iggyland.org

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Rakeela Windrider @rakeela.bsky.social · 12h

I would offer one of mine, but I fear organ transplants from schizophrenics might spread schizophrenia.

Rakeela Windrider @rakeela.bsky.social · 13h

I don't cee why we need an 's' when everyone knowc that the c can make the came cibilant hiccec. Thic duplication of letterc ic unnececcary.

And now that I've ruined the c to you, good morning!

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🎏 Anoroth 🔜 Reffurence, NFC '26 @anoroth.com · 21d

The elemental dragons [6-7/12]
🖤DARK & LIGHT💛

This duo is so iconic I just can't separate them

#art #dragon #fantasyart #furryart

dark dragon poster by anoroth showing a portrait of a black dragon on a red background

Light dragon poster by Anoroth showing a portrait of a yellow - gold dragon on a sun emblem background

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Ello @ellohcee.bsky.social · 1d

An old old pokemon fusion that I sometimes think about revisiting, luxray +talonflame

A fusion of the pokemon luxray and talonflame, looking largely like a traditional gryphon as far as anatomy, colored mostly in blue and black with pops of yellow.

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Rebecca Wang Art @rebeccawangart.bsky.social · 1d

#BlueSkyArtShow The theme is #Glow. This raven is holding a glowing star as it is placing it in the night sky.

#art #painting #raven #birds

A flying raven in the starry night sky holding a glowing orb in his beak.

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Rakeela Windrider @rakeela.bsky.social · 22h

Noooo COVID go away. Don't hurt my favorite author...

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Sephie @sephie.bsky.social · Apr 3

New ref just dropped!
Thank you so much Nam! <3
I always wanted a ref sheet and now here we are! And I grew new feathers for the occasion!

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Rakeela Windrider @rakeela.bsky.social · 22h

I also have trouble going a paragraph without flubbing a word, so I'm recording paragraph by paragraph. It's going to be audibly uneven, tch.

Rakeela Windrider @rakeela.bsky.social · 22h

I don't have the voice for podcasting. I'm going to do it anyways, because that's how I roll, but the inspiration that drives me forward in writing (to make the books I want to read) is a lot weaker here. I like my writing better than I like my voice.

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Rakeela Windrider @rakeela.bsky.social · 1d

There. That's five essays on religion. They're not too samey, but they do establish some patterns for the channel. I need to pick an order to present them in, and then I need to record two more of them. When I have three recorded, I can start my youtube channel.

Rakeela Windrider @rakeela.bsky.social · 1d

I think the political right in America formed a broad alliance of people who think they have the right to kill people. Antivaxxers, bigots, imperialists, billionaires. All the groups of people who think they have the right to see their supposed inferiors die are united in one structure.