About the Club

The Speakeasy at Bardic Perspiration is a close-knit community of misfits, rogues, and activists who all share a desire to make this and every world a better place. We're mostly friendly, sometimes salty, and more often than not inappropriate as hells because what fun is life if we're all going around being proper all of the time? Above all, though, we're here to relax between fighting evil and not bothering to take its names.

If you're trying to categorize us then you have your work cut out for you! We're witches and druids, gamers, writers, and artists. We're explorers and revolutionaries. And above all, we're adventurers!

The instance and website are both hosted in the EU.

Why a Speakeasy?

Speakeasies were places that laughed in the face of those who sought to control others people's lives and bodies. As misfits, the idea of am invite only home for like-minded people resonated with us. We wanted a place where we could speak our minds, share our truths, and plot the (obviously entirely legal and nonviolent) overthrow of tyranny and authoritarianism everywhere. And now, we have one!

So this is a free speech instance?

Absolutely not. The point of being exclusive is that we know we can trust each other. We don't need a ton of rules because the people here are awesome. But to be welcome here, you need to understand that we do not welcome bigots, racists, and all of those gross things people end up being when they're too ignorant or too small-minded to be better.

Short answer, no. You can check our rules to see the sorts of things we do not welcome.

Registrations

Oh hi, we are now accepting new members! See the Sign-Up! page for the details, and then... if you vibe with us... send us an application! 😈

Stuff for Nerds

You can see our instance uptime since we started at The Fediverse Observer. Last time we looked, we were running at 99.98 percent. Our lowest uptime ever was in Nov 2025; we were "only" up for 99.85% of the time.