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Sola Balisane

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Yes the net.goth one.

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Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

Without downloading new pictures, describe your gender.

A cassowary, a large, ungainly, flightless bird, with black fur like feathers on its body, a naked, bright blue head and neck, orange wattles, and a hard mohawk crest, walks away from the viewer across a lake shore. It has long, powerful, and decidedly prehistoric legs. No one would find a cassowary beautiful, but they might find a a bloody end.

November 13, 2025 at 6:22 AM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

This is why I haven't read for anyone else in over a decade: my cards are mean as fuck. I know perfectly well to expect it by now, and yet am always left like D:

I was thinking about: what it would be like to be part of a family sometime in the future.

Two Rider Waite tarot cards: ten of pentacles to the left, and The Hermit to the right.

November 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

apnews.com/live/2025-el...
Mamdani addresses Trump in fiery victory speech

Mamdani addresses Trump in fiery victory speech
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE
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Mamdani spoke directly to Trump as he celebrated his win in the New York City mayoral race Tuesday night, telling the Republican, “To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”

“So Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up!,” Mamdani said.

Trump has threatened to withhold federal funding and take over the city if Mamdani won the race.

“New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, led by an immigrant,” Mamdani said.

November 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

25 feet.

August 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

Post a random picture or everything goes bad in August?

A man with long blonde hair and a Norse-looking tunic takes a selfie. In the sky over his shoulder is a green dragon. The caption talks "Fuck this stupid quest man. That thing's huge"

August 1, 2025 at 5:25 AM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

This happened in at least one of my small MMO groups also, heh.

Dr Scrimble:

Are all-male DND groups still that common? DnD gender demographics routinely say female-identifying players make up between 40-60% of the Player Base.

Mighty Bob The Mighty:

My current group was all male the first time we played. Now it's 50-50. There have been no changes in the roster.

Dr Scrimble:

"Teams have been auto-balanced."

July 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

For the edification of @rufuss.bsky.social a yan is a sheep enemy who looks like this

It is fluffy and adorable and only has to headbutt you one time for your journey to end

Illustration of a yan from Final Fantasy XIV. It is a sheep-like enemy with a tiny golden fleecy body, a gigantic brown bean-shaped head, big brown innocent eyes, and curly pinkish horns. It's cute! But deadly.

July 23, 2025 at 3:37 AM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

I can't ever post, follow, or have somebody follow me again

July 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

And just for posterity, their very crappy, "I'm sorry that my friends got the same blowback I did" non-apology for the whole thing.

Anybody who is genuinely trying to filter their experience would not be as shitty as they were to people just trying to understand why they got pulled in.

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thancredweek.etheirys.social 46 minutes ago...

lastly, i wasn't bullied off the platform. i actually had very minimal interaction with people on my main. i've deactivated while i take a break and ~reassess~ my relationship w fandom and how i handle content and curation.

thancredweek.etheirys.social 59 minutes ago

thancredweek.etheirys.social 82 minute...

i've seen some mutuals and oomfs defending me about the anti-thanryne moderation list and i just want to say: don't.

no matter my ~intentions~, through lack of foresight, common sense, and discretion, i've upset massive countless people for various reasons. you don't need to defend me; i fucked up.

thancredweek.etheirys.social 82 minutes ago...

ultimately, i am sorry for all the grief and harm this has caused everyone. i am sorry to the people who don't want to see this content and who are now exposed to it in the form of discourse, people that were unfairly added to the list, and people who experienced harassment due to my actions.

thancredweek.etheirys.social 82 minutes

ago... i have re-examining to do, especially if i want to do something more involved with a broader community. i'm disappointed with myself, to be honest. i have been immensely irresponsible while contributing to overly punitive internet culture and there's no undoing what i've done here.

thancredweek.etheirys.social 82 minutes ago...

i'll leave this account up for a while~ to have this thread up, but i'll likely deactivate or delete this account after a few weeks or so, as at this time i do not intend to host the prompt week and do not want to url hoard.

thancredweek.etheirys.social 82 minutes ago...

i, quite wrongly, thought a list would be a natural extension of basic dni criteria that are often listed in rules for prompt weeks. it isn't; it wouldn't be. when i first decided i wanted to host a non-ship-specific character prompt week, i wanted to handle it quite neutrally. i haven't done that.

thancredweek.etheirys…

July 18, 2025 at 3:11 AM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

Kiddo, implying "well if you weren't THIS kind of pedo, maybe you're ANOTHER kind of pedo" isn't winning you any friends.

rahelawaters.bsky.social

11 hours ago

So I (and the OP, having the full benefit of hindsight) do feel like just having Thancred Week have a rule that says "no romantic and/or sexual portrayals of thancred with ryne or minfilia please" would have been more painless for everyone involved

rahelawaters.bsky.social

11 hours ago

<<...

I did take a look through the list and search through their posts for any mentions of Thancred or Ryne

And while some of them never mentioned that particular ship, I did find that a lot of them instead openly liked other incest ships (usually clive/joshua from 16)

rahelawaters.bsky.social

11 hours ago

publicly posting the blocklist was a bad idea (which the thancred week OP has acknowledged and apologized for)

but idk, i don't feel like it's puritanical or fancop-y for someone to take every possible step to avoid seeing any art/fanfic portraying their fave as a groomer/sex pest

July 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

The rest of their very charming DM, for the interest of the audience who is now reading their apology:

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thancred week 2026

@thancredweek.etheirys.social

Monday at 7:12 PM

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553 (fives)

@rkgk5...

5mo

Joined Oct '24

Crushed (Piano)

Slightly late birthday gift thats kind of a sequel to my last thanryne for @rinoa11.bsky .social heheh... thank u for the inspiration on these two :3c #xivart553

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this is the piece in question. while i can understand some folks might think liking a post isn't an explicit enough endorsement of content to warrant being put on a moderation list, i'm taking a firmer stance.

7:12 PM

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thancred week 2026

@thancredweek.etheirys.social

I don't even remember this and it may very well have been accidental.

I do not care for teenagers or even for adult women in general, so please remove me. I will gladly un-like this post.

If someone asks for removal, instead of scolding them, please consider giving them a chance to get off your list instead of assuming something about them that may very well be completely untrue.

7:53 PM

i'm not really sure what your irl interests have to do with this. "may very well have been accidental"... i would hope so. as i said in that thread, i would want compelling argument about interacting with that content. accidents happen,

thancred week 2026

@thancredweek.etheirys.social

7:53 PM

i'm not really sure what your irl interests have to do with this. "may very well have been accidental"... i would hope so. as i said in that thread, i would want compelling argument about interacting with that content. accidents happen, but i would hope you'd be sure about it.

since you removed the like, i'll remove you from the list, as you no longer fit the stated criteria. however, if your name crops up in the interactions of another post of similar content, i will be adding you again.

8:55 PM

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You are very very sure about your position: I'm telling you that I normally have no interest in interacting with adult content

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thancred week 2026

@thancredweek.etheirys.social

about it.

since you removed the like, i'll remove you from the list, as you no longer fit the stated criteria. however, if your name crops up in the interactions of another post of similar content, i will be adding you again.

8:55 PM

You are very very sure about your position: I'm telling you that I normally have no interest in interacting with adult content with women at all, so this is very obviously an accident.

Feel high and mighty if you like. I'm not part of XIV NSFW fandom at all under almost all circumstances, so you can see where this whole episode has been quite a shock to me.

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July 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

Part of the 27 grievances against King George by the founding fathers of the US. There is a reason why we have No Kings.

I didn’t write this but sharing because it’s pretty important, freedom isn’t free. You have to fight for it.

A sample of the 27 Grievances the Founding Fathers wrote in telling King George to fuck off:

*He has cut off our Trade with all parts of the world.

*He has quartered large bodies of armed troops among us.

*He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

*He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

*He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

*He has imposed taxes on us without our consent.

*He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

*He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

*He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

*He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

July 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

My weight tracking app thinks I am at -1.0 calories a day, and that therefore I will reach my goal on September 10th, 3227.

Pretty sure by that time I will be about 30 grams of bone dust, but okay!

A screenshot from the bottom of a weight tracking app with the body weight numbers obscured. it claims that the user is losing 0 pounds a week, is eating one calorie under their needs a day, and will therefore reach their goal of 129lb on September 10th, 3227.

July 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

Reposting with alt text.

"guys we're so cooked" "it's wraps" "the end is near" shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up. i say that with love because you are probably saying it out of distress and hopelessness, but for your own well-being and for everyone else's, please stop saying this shit. no we are not "cooked." and by saying that, by the way, you are giving more power to the neo-nazi oligarchy in charge. they want you to abandon all hope of a better life. they want you to believe "oh well, it's over, we might as well stop trying to fight back and just resign ourselves to despair forever." every time you get on tiktok and comment "guys we're so cooked haha it's over," you are feeding into the mindset of hopeless compliance. you are, unknowingly, spreading this infectious idea that just because we've lost one battle, we've lost the entire war. your words matter. i am saying this out of love and concern for our future, but please stop choosing words of defeat.

June 22, 2025 at 5:20 AM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

Man's been mobbed up and criming longer than most of us have been alive. Rank literally anybody else.

A Renaissance painting of a woman rolling her eyes to the heavens with the text "Bruh."

June 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

An anti-Mamdani postcard I got in NYC today. Lmao brethren: have you seen what the cops have been doing to unarmed citizens the last couple of days? "Defund the police" is not the ringing indictment you thought it was when you got these printed.

Zohran Mamdani

A risk we can't afford.

Un riesgo que no podemos permitir.

Zohran Mamdani's Radical Promises:

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Put the homeless into our subway stations rather than above ground to get the help they need.¹

Promises to defund the police and called for the NYPD to be dismantled.2

Self-professed socialist who wants to raise taxes and fees.³

Check the facts: 1. NY Post, 5/4/25. 2. @ZohranKMamdani X Post, 12/7/20. 3. X.com/ZohranKMamdani; WMHT Interview, 9/9/20; NYS Bill A07978, 8/18/23.

REJECT MAMDANI: RADICALLY WRONG

Paid for by Fix the City, Inc. COO Meaghan Brown. Top three donors: Michael Bloomberg, DoorDash and William Ackman. Not expressly or otherwise authorized requested by any candidate or the candidate's committee or agent. More information at nyc.gov/followTheMoney. Political contributions are not tax deductibe

June 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

Two sections that are an interesting point and example:

Greene says he's also been shocked by the social media output that targets young men. Like Richard Reeves, he's noticed that the most insidious accounts will challenge boys to open "edgy" conversations with their parents or peers, or to approach women in public with declarations about being a “high-value man". When those efforts inevitably lead to rejection or conflict, such influencers will tell boys that they've now proven how society is weighted against them, "so they very sneakily and intentionally draw them toward the far-right".

https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/health-and-families/toxic-masculinity-raising-boys-vs-girls-b2770944.html

One of Reeves' own sons once sent him a YouTube video about how the gender pay gap is a "myth". Reeves watched it, and discussed it with him later. As he explained to his son, "it's not a myth, it's math"

in other words, the gender pay gap is more structural than direct these days, now that it's illegal in most places to pay a woman a different salary for doing the exact same job as a man.

It was an in-depth conversation. It involved pulling statistics and talking about history.

"But I could have said: Oh, how dare you. Do you not know that your mom gets paid less? And did you not see that lawsuit? And like, what kind of monster am I raising here?" he says.

https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/health-and-families/toxic-masculinity-raising-boys-vs-girls-b2770944.html

June 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

This truly magnificent specimen from when I was waiting for raid on Primal. What a lad. I should have said hello.

Screenshot from FFXIV showing a male Au Ra named Daspien Bladedancer. He is wearing a truly magnificent costume of bright yellow gold armor with matching banana yellow cape, and a gold straw hat covered with flowers. The horns and very serious expression only make it better.

June 4, 2025 at 3:09 AM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

Today's found playing cards. They say, "Yeah, that work situation sucked. GTFO and get your head together, there is better out there for you."

A fan of battered playing cards found on the street, held in one hand. The King of Diamonds is in the front, and behind him is the ten of spades, nine of spades, eight of hearts, five of diamonds, and three of diamonds.

April 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

Reposting with alt text.

Max Dubler @maxdubler-2/8/25

That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse.

Max Dubler @maxdubler

True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer dance parties.

Posted in reply to:

Jason C @jasonc_nc. 2/8/25

I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist.

April 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

I'm not usually an awful-character fan, but. I fully understand the appeal, heh.

Screenshot from Tumblr:

jessiesjaded:

Ship dynamics are always like Sunshine and Sunshine protector~ Cinnamon roll and their grumpy one Well what about 2 cunts. They're both cunts and that's the dynamic. cunt4cunt.

teaboot:

Photo of Waldorf and Statler from The Muppet Show. The puppets resemble two elderly fair-skinned men, one tall and slim, the other short and portly with a mustache. Both are balding, wearing high waisted trousers, light colored dress shirts, and '80s style jean jackets and colorful neckties. They are posing as if in a casual fashion shoot.

Screenshot of various jokes from Reddit about Waldorf and Statler as related to fanfiction in fandom.

ImpactBilby:
"Ship dynamics? I wish they'd ship us out of this show! DOH ОН ОН ОН!"

Altslial:

"Head cannon? I'd want to stick my head in a cannon after that performance too. DOH OH OH!"

ChrdeMcDnnis:

"Fandom Wars? This fandom couldn't get any wars than it already is! DOH OН ОН ОН!"

ComicGaming:

"Slash fiction?" Yeah, they should slash this fiction so we can all go home. DOH OH OH OH!

ItsOnlyRocketScience:

Stand up comedy? Yeah, that comedy made me want to stand up and leave! DOH HO HO HO!

SmartAlec105:

Toxic ships? Cant be any worse than sitting through this act! DOH HO HO НО!

Notte_di_nerezza:

One True Pairing? When can we do the One True PARTING? DOH HO НО НО!

msa491:

"Alternate Universe?" I hope it's a universe where I don't have to sit through this! DOH HO HO HO!

March 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM

Sola Balisane

@balisane.bsky.social

In my experience: cis men will not date you seriously. They may say they're in love, they're happy with the relationship, etc etc, but they always have an eye out for someone more attractive, and leave the relationship as soon as they find them.

Or they only want FWB, refuse to date, and ghost.