Sometimes I feel like I'm struggling to keep my head above water, but more often it feels like I'm drowning.

I'm very tired of being tired 🫠

Sometimes you’ve got to do it scared

Ferbruary #oldknees

fish chips !! ✨

I regret learning how to recognize obvious AI writing, because now it's driving me absolutely insane how frequently I see it absolutely everywhere 🫠

Survivor 49 ain't it so far. It is not fun to keep watching one tribe get beat down like this season after season. I don't understand why they're sticking with this format. Hopefully this season is starting blah and gets better later. I'd take that over 48, which started strong and fizzled out.

What are you waiting for? Let’s get in the lake! 📷 @aruki.bsky.social #furry #fursuit #furryfandom

I've been working very, very hard these last few months pushing for real answers as to why I'm chronically ill. Turns out my body really, really, REALLY fucking hates yeast. Which I've been eating every day for decades. Woof. I'm happy to know now, but dude, actually AVOIDING yeast is a NIGHTMARE.

Hope everyone is ready for more bandana patterns! Going to be making some matching collar bandanas, bow ties, and straight ties. :D drip bandana material will be purchased next week.

Fitting In and Belonging are VERY different things. You can mold your personality to blend in, and in doing so, you Fit In. But you still don't feel you Belong. I've learned to be okay with standing out and being different. I don't Fit In anymore. Yet I'm more sure than ever that I Belong.

She wants one

I don't want to see NSFW content in my Bluesky feed so I'm glad that this platform has content filters! *scrolling feed* *sees filtered NSFW photo* *immediately clicks and unfilters it by reflex* ...why do I keep doing this? lol

hello sorry to keep posting this but we are in a bad rut, it's getting to the dangerous freeze part of year for Texans and pests are chewing through our ducts, making it hard to heat the house. please consider sharing, it's going to cost $4200 to replace our ducts with metal ones.

I'm going into 2025 knowing my new life's purpose: I want to reach people like me who feel "different", and help you find belonging & community. And I want you to see how fucking STRONG you are BECAUSE you're different. Y'all have SO MUCH POTENTIAL and it's HEARTBREAKING when you can't see it!!!

🧵 MY 2024 SUMMARIZED 2024 has been such a weird year. It just straight up sucked, to be totally blunt, but I was able to take most of that suck and turn it into something positive. I've learned so much about myself this year and I think I'm in a really good position to make 2025 excellent! (1/13)

gofund.me/129bd373 Tesla had her two week check up today! Her tumors were not cancerous! She won't need extra treatments. So the total is final now. We're a little over half way there! I am so incredibly grateful. Thank you to all who shares or donates. #corgi #surgery #tesla #vetbills

Queer dogs rock🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Poster artwork for carnivcreations ⭐️ #furry #art #furryart

Watching ChessBase India reacting to Gukesh's World Championship win is so incredibly wholesome, the energy and excitement in the room is unbelievable!! India has so much to be proud of 🥺🥺 youtu.be/_ersYsyJXN0?...

Sega really just released the best 3D Sonic game in a decade as an add-on to a rerelease of Sonic Generations Someone make this make sense 😭

...... Except Sonic Mania. Sonic Mania is excellent. bsky.app/profile/aruk...

That's it I'm a sonic fan again

YALL holy SHIT Shadow Generations is exactly what I wish basically every sonic game of the last ~10 years was 😱😱😭

Does anyone know of furry clothing vendors who sell femme clothes? I would love some new clothes but I don't feel great about how I look in unisex clothes and that's mostly all I can really find. Thank u ^^

I never post pictures that Aren't art these days... Here's some brunch I had with @aruki.bsky.social last month at a place called whiskey cake :3

This is one of the most insane chess games I've ever played and I should NOT have won 🤣🤣 www.chess.com/live/game/12...

Hi! I'm Aruki! 🐶💙 I'm a weird queer blue dog! I live in Austin, TX with my good girl Xia! I'm non-binary, transfemme, and asexual. I work as a video game engineer! I also run events for the Austin furry community over at @atxbluebark.bsky.social! Check us out! 🥰

Hi bluesky! I haven't been here in a while but I have almost stopped using Twitter at this point. I might try to be on here more often. In case you didn't hear, I'm organizing events here in Austin now! My event group is over at @atxbluebark.bsky.social! It's been such a blast so far!

Thank you so much for the overwhelming support for our statement! What a warm welcome to Bluesky 🥰 The fear and uncertainty in the air right now only reinforces how important community is, and we're more determined than ever to keep building our community and bringing events to ATX. Stay tuned 💙🐶

Finally, I want to share a personal note about the election, and what Blue Bark's politics are. I hate to end our first batch of posts on a downer, but this is important to say. I want to be very clear about who we are and why we do what we do. Love you all. 🐶💙 - @aruki.bsky.social

We're currently on a short break from hosting events, but pretty soon, we'll be back at it again! The Boat Bash has unfortunately ended for the season... but watch for it making a comeback next summer! The Barkade will be returning soon! And hopefully, we'll have some cool NEW events soon too 🥰

Finally, most recently, we had our final Boat Bash of the year on 10/6/24! Then we had a special Halloween-themed Blue Barkade just a week ago, on 11/1/24, featuring our first ever costume contest!! We'll share more photos from these events sometime soon!! 📸 @maylamutt.bsky.social, Cursey

There were a LOT of great pictures from that Barkade, so have a few more! :3 📸 Smudge, @aruki.bsky.social, Luxa

The Barkade returned on 9/27/24!! 60 people turned out for this one!! 📸 @aruki.bsky.social, Latex

Our third Boat Bash happened on 9/8/24!! This one ended up being the most attended Boat Bash ever, with 42 people!! We were getting very close to packing the boat full to its max capacity of 50! 📸 Diablo, @maylamutt.bsky.social

We also had a bit of a hiccup at the Boat Bash on 8/4, which threatened to ruin the event... but it luckily only ended up lasting an hour, and let's be real, the rain didn't only NOT ruin the event, but it was a VIBE.

Blue Bark Boat Bash returned on 8/4/24! Our attendance grew to 38 this go around. 📸 @ikonowl.bsky.social, Diablo, @xxbongdawgxx.bsky.social, @aruki.bsky.social

Next, we held Blue Barkade on 7/19/24!! We ended up with a whopping 64 PEOPLE, which is an absolutely BONKERS number for us to hit on our second event ever!!! 📸 @ikonowl.bsky.social, Cursey

Photos from our very first event, Blue Bark Boat Bash on 6/23/24!! We rented a party boat and packed it full of 36 furries and had a blast!! It was so much fun that we booked the second one IMMEDIATELY afterwards!! 📸 @ikonowl.bsky.social, @aruki.bsky.social

HELLO BLUESKY! We're Blue Bark Events! We're a furry group based in Austin, TX run by @aruki.bsky.social ! We're all about providing a safe, inclusive queer space, and having hella fun together! In the past, we've done boat parties and arcade furmeets! We hope to see you at an event sometime! 💙🐶

@aruki.bsky.social & PULSE poolside @ LVFC2024

Overall, LVFC was a mixed bag, had some great times and some awful ones, but, at least there were fun times :) W/ @aruki.bsky.social

It's @blazionite.bsky.social & @aruki.bsky.social at LVFC2024!

Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark

Once my therapist called me "anxious puppy, ears folded back, do I want pets or do I not want pets?" and I've never been so called out in my LIFE

Merry Christmas! I got u a dog :3 how do you react?? 🖌️: @toughpuppyx on Twitter

Happy #FursuitFriday from #MFF2023 with @aruki.bsky.social and @rougewolf.bsky.social

I had such a blast fursuiting at ACFI this year! It was my first time getting to fullsuit at a con, and I got these adorable pictures @wotokay.bsky.social got of me to remember the experience 🥰 (this is my third time trying to post this and it hasn't been going through... third time's the charm?)

Care to join me for a drink? 💙🐶🥰 #FursuitFriday

I'm now at the point where my bluesky invites are piling up and I can't find anyone to give them to