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Azathoth165

@azathoth165.bsky.social

He/She/them, 30, ♒, 🏳️‍⚧️, 🔞. Artist, Voice actor, World builder, DND enthusiast, Vocaloid enjoyer, anime lover, and nerd extraordinaire.
@Darumaaku.bsky.social is my whole world

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Azathoth165 @azathoth165.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hi there!!, I'm Azathoth165, but you can call me Starrk or Randy
I'm a starting voice actor and am new to digital art (Long time traditional artist), huge DND nerd who loves worldbuilding and all things fantasy oriented, anime, and video games.

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DARUMAAKU | VA 🌈🎙🔞

@darumaaku.bsky.social

n o

February 9, 2026 at 11:48 PM

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Brian M

@legendofnerd.bsky.social

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults.

Hey folks –

I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news.

I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.

And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.)

Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence.

Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details.

And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!

February 10, 2026 at 1:43 AM

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DARUMAAKU | VA 🌈🎙🔞

@darumaaku.bsky.social

CW: Loud volume/threats/violence

I found an OLD audio of me attempting to voice an enemy Goliath from the Borderlands franchise for fun and it’s SENDING me

[ #DARUMAAKU | #borderlands | #borderlandsgoliath | #voiceactor | Biblically accurate art of me by @wonderwaffle93.bsky.social ]

January 28, 2026 at 8:24 PM

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Tater Turtle

@potatoturtle.bsky.social

comic accurate @darumaaku.bsky.social

January 28, 2026 at 10:32 PM

Azathoth165

@azathoth165.bsky.social

Really had fun working on this one
#Cheshire #CheshireSammy #InHeat #Arcade #Spoilers #Fanart

Cheshire Sammy jumping outta the screen to give you a hug and totally not trying to murder you :)

January 18, 2026 at 4:47 AM

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Abigail Larson

@abigaillarson.com

Wolf Moon 🌕

"The Moon" card from the Horror Tarot. The illustration depicts a werewolf howling at a full moon in a foggy wooded scene. Ink and watercolor, 2021

January 2, 2026 at 11:53 PM

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Melody @ DELTΔ PATROL

@taxisalad.bsky.social

May 9, 2025 at 3:54 AM

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king fable 👑 COMMS OPEN (2/4)

@lunehowls.bsky.social

the amazing admiral #TMA #themagnusarchives

December 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM

Azathoth165

@azathoth165.bsky.social

Happy Holidays everyone!!
#MerryChristmas #HappyHolidays #OC #Triza

My OC Triza holds a Christmas present for you while wearing a Santa outfit with reindeer antlers.

December 26, 2025 at 4:50 AM

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DARUMAAKU | VA 🌈🎙🔞

@darumaaku.bsky.social

happy thanksgiving, y'all

November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM

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DALAP

@dalap.newgrounds.com

I sketched the foolish fools by @ghostgribht.bsky.social
Love seeing them on the feed

November 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM

Azathoth165

@azathoth165.bsky.social

Darkness of the Abyss, the god of evil.
#Darkness #TheAbyss #DND #Tiamont #TalesOfTiamont #OC #WorldBuilding

An OC of mine that exists within mine and my partner's DND world.
He is THE big bad evil guy who caused an insane amount of pain and suffering and unfortunately thinks that everyone does not deserve free will, except him of course. He wishes to enslave all beings and make them do his will with the help of his fowl demons and tempts many with his deals and lies. Darkness was once an extremely beautiful, but he became corrupt after witnessing true chaos and began to believe that only through his new order that "peace" can truly be achieved.

November 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM

Azathoth165

@azathoth165.bsky.social

Queen Eta of Ecalpub 🔆🐱
#DND #OC #Tabaxi #Tiamont #TalesOfTiamont #WorldBuilding

My OC for mine and my partner's DND world Queen Eta who is Queen of the Tabaxi land called Ecalpub. Ecalpub is located in the center of a vast desert that drive many mad with mirages, sandstorms, and mysterious creatures, but the city of Ecalpub is actually very safe, beautiful, and bountiful. A safe haven from the harsh desert, it contains many lovely architecture, rivers, and monuments to their patron goddess Virgo.

November 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM

Azathoth165

@azathoth165.bsky.social

I honestly thought I posted this here but I didn't realize until a recent post, BUT here's another redo of one my pieces I did for the Cthulugirls series from my Deviantart days:
Itahqua the Wind-Walker #Ithaqua #ithaqua #Hplovecraft #HPLovecraft #Cthulumythos #CthuluMythos #gijinka #wendigo