Or more precisely, lukefreed.xyz has NS records pointing to ns[1234].afraid.org, and the DNS servers for _afraid.org_ are subtly misconfigured (one of the six nameservers for afraid.org is evergreen.v6.afraid.org, and since you are trying to look up something in afraid.org but you already trying to resolve afraid.org, you'll need some extra “glue records” as part of the NS response, which is missing for that specific server).
https://dns.squish.net/traverses/de494a9fe3310415f30369a9cb1...
Or more precisely, lukefreed.xyz has NS records pointing to ns[1234].afraid.org, and the DNS servers for _afraid.org_ are subtly misconfigured (one of the six nameservers for afraid.org is evergreen.v6.afraid.org, and since you are trying to look up something in afraid.org but you already trying to resolve afraid.org, you'll need some extra “glue records” as part of the NS response, which is missing for that specific server).