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Jonaya Riley @ Moment of Balance

@jonayariley.bsky.social

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Writer, director, and dev. Senior software dev in corpo land, Creative director for Studio June Games (on hiatus). Performer and social media gal for @momentofbalance.bardrockcafe.com‬ @studiojunegames.com Demi lesbian, she/her

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Jonaya Riley @ Moment of Balance @jonayariley.bsky.social · 5d

New pinned post!

I'm most active as a performer for @momentofbalance.bardrockcafe.com, an actual play of the Avatar Legends system, featuring myself, my wife (our DM), and two of our friends!

Check out our current campaign: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKhd...

#LegendofKorra #ActualPlay #TTRPG

Book 1: Platinum - Episode 1: Cabbages

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Jonaya Riley @ Moment of Balance @jonayariley.bsky.social · 7h

It's a thunderbolt port

Jonaya Riley @ Moment of Balance @jonayariley.bsky.social · 7h

Saaaaame

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Dicefunctional | TTRPG Nerds, Actual Plays, and Streamers | 🦀 @dicefunctional.bsky.social · 10h

Becca speaking: Reminder that we do our own thumbnails when we upload our sessions to youtube! Here are some of my recent faves ☺️
#ttrpgart #dndart

Cartoonist drawing of three TTRPG characters peeking out from behind a partially closed wooden door. One is a storm genasi with purple hair and an eager expression. One is an albino drow with a confused expression. One is a regular drow with white hair and a similarly eager expression. They are stacked in top of each other.

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 15h

My hot take is that you should just title your smut like you’d title any other book, cause I once saw Slutcraft: Heart of the Sperm and I was like that’s simply too much

Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 16h

i think we lost our way as a species when we stopped coming up with fun, pun-riddled porn titles like Lord Of The Cock Rings instead of SEO-focused shit like Fucked In The Laundromat By My Second Cousin Twice Removed or whatever

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Jonaya Riley @ Moment of Balance @jonayariley.bsky.social · 11h

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Studio Élan @vnstudioelan.com · 12h

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LESBIANS 🎉🎉🎉

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Jonaya Riley @ Moment of Balance @jonayariley.bsky.social · 12h

Well, if we're including Discord under the general social media umbrella...

-I met my wife
-Met most of my best friends
-Started a kickass actual play podcast
-Found an accepting queer community

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Jonaya Riley @ Moment of Balance @jonayariley.bsky.social · 12h

If we're counting discord in the "social media" umbrella - fuckin' same! @acmusic.bsky.social knows what I'm talking about (because she's my wife)!

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JD-VirusHunter @jdvirushunter.bsky.social · 13h

Double Olivia art for y'all today. She loves to ramble on about movies and sleep at work.

#OliviaMidnight

Olivia rambling on to a customer about the movie Robocop. The customer is not listening and just thinking about how pretty she is.

Olivia sleeping at work with her arms behind her head.

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Jonaya Riley @ Moment of Balance @jonayariley.bsky.social · 12h

It's international lesbian day so you're required to be nice to me and listen to @momentofbalance.bardrockcafe.com which also has lesbians in it and I play one of the lesbians and the lesbian looked at me and-

Wait what were we talking about again?

Oh right, lesbians! Which I am!

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Katie @vimtotime.bsky.social · 17h

Get yourself an autistic girl that will love you until she dies and will also love you after she is dead and will probably haunt you so you don’t feel lonely

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 16h

Who could say no to this face when he wants treats?

A black and white cat sits on the floor, staring up with big round eyes as if begging for treats.

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Jonaya Riley @ Moment of Balance @jonayariley.bsky.social · 14h

I've been making tuna salad sandwiches for lunch the last couple days and every time I make one this fuckass cat sits there craning his neck towards the counter like... dude, I'm not giving you any you had tuna for dinner last night!

Jonaya Riley @ Moment of Balance @jonayariley.bsky.social · 14h

Self-evidently, I must say!

Jonaya Riley @ Moment of Balance @jonayariley.bsky.social · 15h

Dolly Parton gonna go fuck up some union-busting assholes

Clayton Ashley @claytonashley.bsky.social · 16h

tumblr post by barackinaroundthechristmastree which reads:
please. stop praying for my grandpa!!!! you are making him too strong. he broke out of the hosptial and the cops cant get him. he's too powerful

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Jonaya Riley @ Moment of Balance @jonayariley.bsky.social · 15h

This is a really cool solution to the issue of screen shake just seeming like too much a lot of the time!

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Moment of Balance Podcast @momentofbalance.bardrockcafe.com · 15h

Interesting #TTRPG topic that came out of a comment in a server: Different systems prioritize different things, and the PbtA systems definitely emphasize social solutions in a way that DnD tends not to - hence why we have three episodes where no one gets into a fight!

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Jonaya Riley @ Moment of Balance @jonayariley.bsky.social · 15h

It can take a minute to get your head around what your individual "deal" is sometimes, especially since there's a specific template for what people in general are supposed to be about

Fortunately queer spaces are better about aspec inclusion than they once were

Jonaya Riley @ Moment of Balance @jonayariley.bsky.social · 17h

Yay, trauma!

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Aeryn Nyx @aerynnyx.bsky.social · 17h

#OC_Tober Day 8:
For OC_Tober, I like to draw other people's OCs. Today's belongs to @qara-ocs.bsky.social!
🎨

Illustration of a magazine cover entitled OC_Tober featuring the "Daily Icon" OC Sarnaibileg, a pale-skinned, short-haired aura with deep indigo scales and glowing magenta eyes. They are wearing a leather outfit in black and violet and a small hat with a violet band and pink and white flowers. The magazine cover, OC_Tober Illustrated, has lettering for "Navigating Abundant Love" and "Classic style to be your best," nods to Sarnaibileg's lore.

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Jonaya Riley @ Moment of Balance @jonayariley.bsky.social · 18h

One of the best decisions Elden Ring made was to finally just can the whole durability mechanic - it was never anything more than an irritation

Jonaya Riley @ Moment of Balance @jonayariley.bsky.social · 18h

I'll get the killer for you until they inevitably return for between 4 and 12 sequels

Jonaya Riley @ Moment of Balance @jonayariley.bsky.social · 18h

But yeah, it can be weird to navigate sometimes, and I don't even think I'd have context for it if not for being in spaces that have other aspec folks around

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Jonaya Riley @ Moment of Balance @jonayariley.bsky.social · 18h

It also gets weird when you're conceptually into the idea of sex but don't really wanna *do* it, because people hear ace and think you're grossed out by even the idea of it, or that you don't feel anything at all - this is why I call myself a lesbian first, demi second

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Jonaya Riley @ Moment of Balance @jonayariley.bsky.social · 18h

I had a complex journey through this myself - being demi and very much "eh" on sex but more enthusiastic about the romantic and intimacy part. My wife's similarly aligned.

I try to include demi characters (including my current ttrpg character) in my writing because we ain't get shit

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