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Cygnus

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

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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 15/07/2026
Sounds interesting, I'd like to know more 👀
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 09/07/2026
I see it
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they made gooseworx @gooseworx.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Jax if she wasn't a huge piece of shit.
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 03/06/2026
I wish the map listings were viewable to people who don’t have a subscription. A lot of people don’t even know that they’re offered, and it’d be very nice to be able to see what you’re getting access to before you actually pay for it.
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Modrinth @modrinth.com · 31/05/2026
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Working together to make a difference! To support our LGBTQIA+ community around the world, we will be fundraising for Rainbow Railroad this Pride Month! We'll be giving away badges, skins, and Modrinth+ to donors, as well as donation matching. modrinth.com/pride
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Tiltify - Made for Fundraisers
We give you the tools to engage with your donors and raise more for your charity
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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:
And he said, "If everyone likes it, it means it's mainstream. It means it's conventional. It means it's already pre-digested for people to like it. And I don't want that. I want people to end up liking things they didn't like when they first encountered it, because that's where you really end up loving something."
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🌙 @awawawa.world · 04/05/2026
everybody gets so mad because i’ve recently oriented my life around what i call the dracula method where i stay up all night and sleep during the day and act really fucked up and just kind of have a bad time
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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
One small task
Field Comic

Panel 1

A determined Field has slammed their hands on the desk and is determined to do the things that need to be done.

Field: OKAY! I just have one small task to do.

Panel 2

A stressed Field is staring blankly at a blank screen.

Narration Box: -Stares at nothing for two hours instead-
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🌙 @awawawa.world · 27/02/2026
i wrote a bit about each song on "it's fine to dream" and what it means to me. awawawa.world/blog/posts/2...
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Blog Post
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 14/01/2026
she has a gift for you (i fucking love hytale btw these custom content tools are amazing)
A Hytale character holding a block with the word "Test" drawn on it
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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 28/11/2025
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters”

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.
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meyo 🌸 @meyoco.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
beyond the veil 🌙
Digital artwork of a witch wearing long white dress and starry veiled witch hat
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sarah @alt.burssty.com · 18/11/2025
DESPOTISM EPISODE 2 IS PREMIERING IN 15 MINUTES!! youtu.be/MNinqHuPxWE
youtu.be
DESPOTISM Ep2 - GENESIS
YouTube video by Burssty
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 10/11/2025
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Crimson @crimsontentacles.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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.
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.)
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 05/10/2025
That was a really nice surprise—tbh I don’t know how RobTop even found it lol
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 05/10/2025
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
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🌙 @awawawa.world · 13/09/2025
i might be gay
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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 08/09/2025
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Team Cherry @teamcherry.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The hunt is on! Hollow Knight: Silksong is available now on all platforms, including day one on Xbox Game Pass!
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fireb0rn @fireb0rn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
wait lemme add one more to this list - Hollow Knight: Silksong
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Team Cherry @teamcherry.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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 ¥2300
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 23/08/2025
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
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 27/07/2025
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 24/07/2025
Don't ask about Swordless
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 24/07/2025
Updated my resource packs and data packs to the latest version, most of them support 1.21.5 through 1.21.8 now :)
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"
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 23/07/2025
I love Geometry Dash discourse
A grid of Geometry Dash opinions making up a political compass
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Lanostry @lanostry.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Just a water bird 🌊 #Minecraft #Blockbench #Gamedev #gamedevelopment #lowpoly #minecraftskin #skin #pixelart #voxelart #forge #modding
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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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,
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 29/06/2025
they really are
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 29/06/2025
a little bit of pixel doodling
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 29/06/2025
Alphabets
Six pixel-art renditions of the alphabet and Arabic numerals
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violet! 🐝 @vippori.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I made a music video for Hatsune Miku ! ✨ Please check it out 💜💙
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UNDERTALE/DELTARUNE @undertale.com · 04/06/2025
HOW LONG IT HAS BEEN.
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 24/01/2025
💙 #minecraft #blockbench
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.
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 29/05/2025
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...
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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...
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GalacticCharlie @galacticcharlie.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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!! 😊🦐💕
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 17/05/2025
Yeah, advanced entity stuff like that is definitely a ways off yet, but Mojang is getting there little by little.
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 17/05/2025
Nope, just a resource pack and nothing else. Vanilla resource packs have been getting some great additions lately
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 17/05/2025
Yeah, I love that mods aren’t required for that feature anymore—component-based models enable a whole lot of other cool stuff too!
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kuraine @lena.fyi · 28/04/2025
not that i take fault in people pursuing realism in digital media, but as realism becomes more real & infallible (speaking globally: computer graphics, sampled instruments, voice synthesis, "intelligence"), it's the impressionistic and blatantly artificial that speaks more to me as an artist
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 26/04/2025
this looks so so cool omfg
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 18/04/2025
Updated my pride flag totem resource pack to 1.21.5, now fully vanilla--no mods required! :) modrinth.com/resourcepack...
Twelve pride flag models on a white background.
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 15/04/2025
Now multi-axis rotation please? 🥺 👉👈
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 15/04/2025
Latest snapshot has one of the biggest resource pack changes ever, being able to rotate cuboids in block models in increments finer than 22.5 degrees is so huge--the fact that this was quietly added with no fanfare is crazy
Minecraft screenshot. Top down view of dark reddish bricks on brownish-red sand. The bricks are slightly askew.
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 13/04/2025
yeah I'm a 3d artist
Low-poly model of a woman with brown hair wearing a blue shirt. Her face is drawn very crudely.
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 11/04/2025
Yeah, I can understand that. There is a subtle difference, though, in that the copper golem was never actually added, so the people talking about it were mostly the people who liked the idea a lot. With the new ghast, everybody is seeing/talking about it, so the more negative people are included.
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 11/04/2025
I don't think crafting is the problem, it's just that a living creature existing as a block is kinda weird. Not really for or against it myself, but I get it.
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Cygnus @cygnus.gay · 26/03/2025
I'll publish to PMC/Modrinth ASAP of course, but latest stuff is always gonna be on my GitHub: github.com/CygnusGD?tab...
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CygnusGD - Repositories
CygnusGD has 6 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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