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- Technical artist for Quillmark - Minecraft mapmaker - Motion graphics artist - A little bit of everything else https://cygnus.gay

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i wrote a bit about each song on "it's fine to dream" and what it means to me.
awawawa.world/blog/posts/2...

27.02.2026 02:05 πŸ‘ 155 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0
A Hytale character holding a block with the word "Test" drawn on it

A Hytale character holding a block with the word "Test" drawn on it

she has a gift for you (i fucking love hytale btw these custom content tools are amazing)

14.01.2026 08:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
screenshot of a tumblr post from user β€œwildmansters”

The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist.

But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building.

I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

screenshot of a tumblr post from user β€œwildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

28.11.2025 03:27 πŸ‘ 22303 πŸ” 7571 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 0
Digital artwork of a witch wearing long white dress and starry veiled witch hat

Digital artwork of a witch wearing long white dress and starry veiled witch hat

beyond the veil πŸŒ™

27.11.2025 14:20 πŸ‘ 2758 πŸ” 807 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1
DESPOTISM Ep2 - GENESIS
DESPOTISM Ep2 - GENESIS YouTube video by Burssty

DESPOTISM EPISODE 2 IS PREMIERING IN 15 MINUTES!!
youtu.be/MNinqHuPxWE

18.11.2025 17:45 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

10.11.2025 17:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Tweet by @night margin "digital artist woes" image of the same color gradient on various screen (monitor 1 appears very grey purple, phone appear VERY pink, monitor 2 appears a more saturated purple, laptop appears brownish red, family's phone appears much darker and bluer etc.)

Tweet by @night margin "digital artist woes" image of the same color gradient on various screen (monitor 1 appears very grey purple, phone appear VERY pink, monitor 2 appears a more saturated purple, laptop appears brownish red, family's phone appears much darker and bluer etc.)

Listen to me. Listen. If you're making images that will only be displayed on screens, YOU HAVE TO LET GO. You can calibrate your screens perfectly, but then 25k people will see it on their shitty $50 monitors or cracked phone and its out of your hands. Don't think of it. Achieve enlightenment.

20.10.2025 08:54 πŸ‘ 5707 πŸ” 2034 πŸ’¬ 83 πŸ“Œ 156

That was a really nice surpriseβ€”tbh I don’t know how RobTop even found it lol

05.10.2025 22:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I randomly check my profile after a few weeks of not playing GD and notice I have 3 creator points out of nowhere--apparently a level I made two weeks after 2.2 came out got featured! :0

05.10.2025 19:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i might be gay

13.09.2025 05:39 πŸ‘ 114 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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08.09.2025 01:55 πŸ‘ 34941 πŸ” 6051 πŸ’¬ 417 πŸ“Œ 134
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The hunt is on! Hollow Knight: Silksong is available now on all platforms, including day one on Xbox Game Pass!

04.09.2025 14:05 πŸ‘ 8708 πŸ” 2366 πŸ’¬ 295 πŸ“Œ 266

wait lemme add one more to this list

- Hollow Knight: Silksong

04.09.2025 01:44 πŸ‘ 133 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Four days until release! Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available on 4th September.

Release times:
7AM PT | 10AM ET | 4PM CEST | 11PM JST

Game price:
USD $19.99 | EUR €19.99 | JPY Β₯2300

01.09.2025 01:44 πŸ‘ 8828 πŸ” 2606 πŸ’¬ 220 πŸ“Œ 639

The idea that 'AI can speed up dev cycles' would require a premise that dev cycles are long because people are taking forever to make assets (so you could replace them with shoddy slop and it'd go faster), which you could only believe is true if you've never actually tried to make a video game

23.08.2025 15:47 πŸ‘ 1042 πŸ” 324 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 7
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27.07.2025 03:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Don't ask about Swordless

23.07.2025 23:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A list of data packs and resource packs on Modrinth's website. The entries are "Ultimate Accurate Hitbox Pack", "Cygnus's Pride Flag Totems", "Simple Sitting", "Swordless", and "Scalable Mobs"

A list of data packs and resource packs on Modrinth's website. The entries are "Ultimate Accurate Hitbox Pack", "Cygnus's Pride Flag Totems", "Simple Sitting", "Swordless", and "Scalable Mobs"

Updated my resource packs and data packs to the latest version, most of them support 1.21.5 through 1.21.8 now :)

23.07.2025 23:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I love Geometry Dash discourse

23.07.2025 21:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just a water bird 🌊
#Minecraft #Blockbench #Gamedev #gamedevelopment #lowpoly #minecraftskin #skin #pixelart #voxelart #forge #modding

14.07.2025 16:54 πŸ‘ 104 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I hope all these blows to the social safety net and stabilizing government services in general dont lead to predictable negative societal outcomes that will require more and more desperate scapegoating of select people groups to explain it.
Oh no,

03.07.2025 13:43 πŸ‘ 482 πŸ” 68 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

they really are

29.06.2025 16:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

a little bit of pixel doodling

29.06.2025 04:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Six pixel-art renditions of the alphabet and Arabic numerals

Six pixel-art renditions of the alphabet and Arabic numerals

Alphabets

29.06.2025 04:12 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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I made a music video for Hatsune Miku ! ✨
Please check it out πŸ’œπŸ’™

11.06.2025 01:23 πŸ‘ 4661 πŸ” 1282 πŸ’¬ 64 πŸ“Œ 9

HOW LONG

IT HAS BEEN.

04.06.2025 14:36 πŸ‘ 7593 πŸ” 1828 πŸ’¬ 537 πŸ“Œ 197
A Minecraft skin depicting a girl with pink hair, a white and orange shirt, jean shorts, black socks, colorful shoes, and an aqua headband. She's floating in an abstract space with a purple background and blurry floating pink, white, and blue dots, and she's holding a heart with a transgender pride flag on it. A white, slightly transparent ribbon-like shape encircles her, with the text "Existence is Resistance" written on it in a script font.

A Minecraft skin depicting a girl with pink hair, a white and orange shirt, jean shorts, black socks, colorful shoes, and an aqua headband. She's floating in an abstract space with a purple background and blurry floating pink, white, and blue dots, and she's holding a heart with a transgender pride flag on it. A white, slightly transparent ribbon-like shape encircles her, with the text "Existence is Resistance" written on it in a script font.

πŸ’™ #minecraft #blockbench

24.01.2025 00:56 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Desolate Desert | 1.21.5 Survival Games Minecraft Map Desolate Desert awaits! The desert used to be a calm and peaceful place, where Pharaohs and their followers would gather and worship the ancient god...

The map I've been working on with Quillmark for the better part of a year, Desolate Desert, is finally out!

I'm very proud of the art I made for it, so I'm glad that others can finally enjoy it too. Get some friends together and check it out! :) www.planetminecraft.com/project/deso...

29.05.2025 19:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey if you didn’t know, a few cool people are in the Java Creators MapJam until Monday at 9PM so head over to shrimple.gay for some really inspiring sneak peaks at our map jamming so far!! πŸ˜ŠπŸ¦πŸ’•

23.05.2025 07:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, advanced entity stuff like that is definitely a ways off yet, but Mojang is getting there little by little.

17.05.2025 21:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0