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Zahra Huselid, Freelance Owlbard

@zahra-the-bard

frequently cliche transgender menace • burnt out former academic • writer/musician/voice actress • giant robot enthusiast https://zahrathebard.neocities.org

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A pixel art nyancat over a blue background, but the rainbow trail is stripes of red and dark grey, the body has a daggerstar logo, and the lil guy has big sharp fangs cuz he's a scary Smoke Jaguar

A pixel art nyancat over a blue background, but the rainbow trail is stripes of red and dark grey, the body has a daggerstar logo, and the lil guy has big sharp fangs cuz he's a scary Smoke Jaguar

The album i had wanted to finish for today was an EP of tracks inspired by my favorite tabletop game, BattleTech - and while it's taking longer than expected, I do have some teaser art to share...

06.03.2026 20:35 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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the life and times of a gelatinous cube, by owlbard 5 track album

And my second, "the life and times of a gelatinous cube," is a concept piece following one of my favorite D&D monsters from birth to apotheosis

owlbard.bandcamp.com/album/the-li...

06.03.2026 20:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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owlbard, by owlbard 5 track album

My first album, the self-titled "owlbard," is my first foray into dungeon synth and weird synthesizer riffs

owlbard.bandcamp.com/album/owlbard

06.03.2026 20:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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owlbard owlbard is a PNW-based project. owlbard makes weird bleeps 'n blorps 'n beats. you should listen to owlbard, for she is both funky and wise.

Hey friends I'm still sick so I wasn't able to finish the new EP today, but it's still Bandcamp Friday and I would really appreciate a little support! If you like weird electronic shit please check out my project, Owlbard! owlbard.bandcamp.com

06.03.2026 20:22 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I couldn't decide - but if we're going by hours BT would definitely win, I think I've played over 1000 hours of that one?

06.03.2026 03:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm sick as hell so it was extremely difficult to fill this out but this feels about right for the nine games that make for at least a semi-decent picture of me.

06.03.2026 01:25 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

I have an MBA

05.03.2026 04:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"If you run out of arrows, make sure to loudly announce this to your enemies. Be sure they know you have run out of essential munitions. Be sure they are aware you are having severe logistical problems." - Sun Tzu

04.03.2026 13:41 👍 913 🔁 252 💬 10 📌 3

Every time someone says AI is punk I think we should kill a graphing calculator in the town square.

05.03.2026 00:22 👍 113 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
A grey squirrel sitting upright on an awning roof, beneath bare tree branches, holding a pizza crust as tall as it is.

A grey squirrel sitting upright on an awning roof, beneath bare tree branches, holding a pizza crust as tall as it is.

My cat and I have spent the past ten minutes watching this squirrel on my neighbor's roof contently munching on a pizza crust as tall as it is. This is not the first or even third time. Where do these squirrels keep finding all this pizza? Why won't they share?

05.03.2026 00:11 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A brown tabby cat shrimpin something fierce on a purple blanket in the lap of a pathetic, besnotted lady

A brown tabby cat shrimpin something fierce on a purple blanket in the lap of a pathetic, besnotted lady

Hoping I can at least get one track mastered tomorrow and just release it as a single. Don't want to let this derail me from my goal, but on the other hand congestion really throws off my ears when mixing.

At least my cat is happy about me being couch-bound 😓

04.03.2026 18:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wanted to release another EP on Friday for Bandcamp Friday but I have a cold or sinus infection or something and wearing headphones makes my face hurt 😭

04.03.2026 17:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)

04.03.2026 01:28 👍 2599 🔁 556 💬 51 📌 23

Sounds like hammerspace witchcraft to me 😂

04.03.2026 01:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wait, how big are your skirt pockets???

04.03.2026 00:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

if they didn't want their patriarchal hierarchy to be threatened by my existence then they shouldn't have built it out of cardboard and anger issues

27.04.2025 22:49 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

"If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood."

Henry David Thoreau

03.03.2026 21:27 👍 31 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

It's the truth. You gotta shame the botlickers!

18.02.2026 23:27 👍 375 🔁 130 💬 5 📌 2

Fun twist: it will be perfectly smooth. No wrinkles at all. Physicists will marvel at the discovery of a substance so frictionless that even thoughts can't stick to it.

02.03.2026 20:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That's a funny way to spell "Tutant Meenage Neetle Teetles"

02.03.2026 19:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a gummy worm on a leaf next to more nature

a gummy worm on a leaf next to more nature

nature is so beautiful

02.03.2026 17:51 👍 697 🔁 166 💬 16 📌 5

this is the sound of being alive in 2026 tbqh

02.03.2026 18:47 👍 227 🔁 58 💬 3 📌 0

That so many gags in Shakespeare are references to 16th C lost media is a sobering thought. Imagine being so popular the greatest playwrights of your day are memeing on you, then 500 years later the only surviving reference to your work is a dick joke in a play where an elf tries to fuck a donkey.

01.03.2026 20:24 👍 155 🔁 30 💬 1 📌 0

in the 90s, my high school teachers would say stuff like 'if u dont like your job, hit the bricks and get a new one'

even the conservative ones were sayin this (tho as an example for why unions aren't necessary 🙄)

getting a job was pretty easy until the 00s, holding one down less important

01.03.2026 19:52 👍 84 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 0

If you have not read Persepolis you should, it is an extremely powerful graphic novel thats available for free on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/pers... Though I would also highly reccomend supporting Marjane directly and purchasing it as well.

28.02.2026 21:14 👍 761 🔁 456 💬 4 📌 8
28.02.2026 21:39 👍 9110 🔁 2863 💬 17 📌 11

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”

28.02.2026 20:25 👍 1673 🔁 648 💬 19 📌 18

See, I was mostly thinking he'd be really hot with tusks... but yeah, you're right, he is Portland's most absolutely yoked elf.

28.02.2026 21:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In a better timeline, Trump had an embolism in 2014, COVID never became a pandemic, and we got a Shadowrun movie where Vin Diesel wears amazing ork makeup and calls everyone "chummer" and it was so popular everyone started using streetslang unironically.

But no. We got Bright instead.

28.02.2026 18:07 👍 57 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 1