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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It is so precious. The number of small life inconveniences in the lyrics add a lot of warmth and care to the song. So lovely!

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And it's not only programming! I started writing music after watching Brackey's video on Bosca Ceoil 😅 I even still like some of the things I made back then. And I was having a ton of fun writing it

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Moreover, by experimenting with simple stuff you like you... actually freaking learn! Sure, in ten years you're gonna be a much better dev, but it doesn't mean you can't write code basically right out the gate. Even if it's shitty! Writing shitty code can actually be good for you

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's a teaser of the sequel where you need to speed up bots beyond 20Hz and write melodies that way :D

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The alt-text on the images helps connect them to the lore more easily. Thank you for including it!

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

*nods in complete agreement* I also find that digging into the component symbols can be fun on its own. It's very rewarding and it builds a personal relationship with a work of art And with the way my brain works, I sometimes don't understand how I feel about art if I don't explicitly examine it

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

With that in mind, I don't think "getting" a poem or a lyric is often the point. Sure, with a lot of pieces you can bolster your experience by knowing more about the context it's been written in. But sometimes letting it drown you in its impressions is enough. It's definitely not a failure to do so

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are some lines I'd written that I don't really "understand", yet when I read them I get an impression that sparks feelings inside of me. And these feelings connect me to the person I was while writing Over time, other lines "dissolve" from concrete meanings to similar impressions. It's wild

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When I get into the headspace for writing poetry, it feels a lot like throwing paint at a canvas. But I'm throwing words. Each one carries with it impressions and feelings. They can be weaved together to change or bolster one another. But in the end, it's still more about feeling than understanding

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can't say I have a very well-defined relationship with poetry. I started writing it on accident (I just needed lyrics for my songs) and I definitely need to read much more of it. But my small experience with writing changed the way I read it! I now think it's closer to music than prose

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Reference: Ythi, but after dragonheart therapy. You know Ythi :D

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A year ago I decided to use Stus' Self-Portrait With a Candle as placeholder lyrics. I can't stop thinking about it ever since In a way, I'm really saddened by the fact that I didn't "get" a lot of Ukrainian poetry we studied at school until 2022. Now, though I find so much timeless solace in it

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Also, Tamifull's panelling is one of my favorites!!! I screenshot the pages so often because of how much thought and care she puts into it! I also have a weakness to "held shot" panelling and she does it a ton 😁

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm already reading it because you reminded me about it a bit earlier 🫡 I've read the first volume like a year ago, but then paused because a part of my brain couldn't handle how real it was getting. Now, though, I'm halfway through and can't stop :D

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Beatles JRPG is absolutely brilliant 😂

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thank you for the kind words regarding my song! I started writing it very spontaneously as I tried to process a weird self-eating kind of anxiety that grew out of queer joy. I'm happy the strange tension of these feelings came across!

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think part of it is that music is just harder to share on social media? With drawings, for instance, it's easy to just quickly take a look at them, like/share, and scroll (not that it's the best way to experience them). Music, imo, has a higher floor for attention. And it needs the sound to be on)

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I only found you recently thanks to a repost and oh god! A lot of your artworks connect with a small dark place inside my heart. Makes me want to commission you for a cover art! But I first need to finish one of a couple of WIP pieces I have :D

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hi! I mainly write music, so I don't really do visual art, except for an occasional collage. Although I've been trying my hand at making MVs recently. They feel like a wild combination of all the skill I have, including programming (artwork in the video by a friend) www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDyf...

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BURN BRIGHT SHINE | Milk [OpenUTAU]

YouTube video by Cyliac Dragon

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

*super-excited for the possible future yap* Learning about Ukrainian artists as an adult definitely hits different 🙏

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is exactly the reason I was all in on intermittent fasting before cutting out gluten, lol. "My day gets ruined whenever I eat, so I should just minimize the number of times I eat" Happy she's feeling better now! Living is awesome when you're not constantly fatigued and in pain

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wow, it *is* a cool fucking tree! Amazing bark and lore

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Knowing the Meepo is alive and well fills me with so much happiness. He might be horrible at looking after dragons, but he's trying his best

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Is that a lesbian keyboard on the left? Amazing

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The devaluing of Luca as a person, treating romance as something one simply must do, dreading something one should be excited about... The anime communicates these in such a vivid way. It's like a constant flashback to my life back in the a-spec closet. Absolutely delightful. The misreads are wild

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is a bit uncanny, but oddly soothing. It makes me feel something close to what EMDR sounds feel to me? Amazing

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

She volunteered for freezer-guarding duty. Nothing can go wrong

A smol drawing of Izaria, following SPiNDLE's guide. It's on a whiteboard attached to a fridge

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

kit is so awesome that with their art they added yet another layer for when I will RP these characters (I'm so happy that none of my players follow me on here, heh)

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thank you for sharing this collection of fluffy joy 💜

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'd argue that with books you also have word count which can be more effective. And when you're reading electronic books, there are predictions of how many hours you have left But those are still different from audiobook and VN hours

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It's harder and harder to comprehend the series of yes-ands this anime is jumping through. Every week feels like we get a take on what this show is from a more and more distorted different universe But somehow every time I still want to watch the next episode 😭

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Let's freaking goooo! After the section where you mixed mock blood for a Tetris background, I'm looking forward to every photo in your future videos :D

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Just wait until Acerola's evil twin starts making videos

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I grew up on post-grunge, so it felt really weird but right when a friend of mine recommended Fantastic Planet to me a few years ago. It topped almost every album I grew up with and I'm only slightly salty about it)

The cover art for the Fantastic Planet album by Failure

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I didn't expect how difficult it would be to record and process spoken word doubles in two different languages. I'm tired-happy with the result though #sounddesign

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I learned my five words in Japanese just to be able to understand this masterpiece 😭🤣💜

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I also want to add that combat abilities operate on a pretty strict "no null results" rule, so even if you roll a tier 1, you still do something! Also! You can check out MCDM's Developing the Game series where they delve into why they made certain choices for Draw Steel youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Designing The Game - YouTube

The story of MCDM creating its own RPG

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The mechanic is the same, the interpretation is different. In combat, the tier you get changes the efficacy of your action (pic 1 as an example). Out of combat, the GM assigns the difficulty of the roll and then consults the outcomes table (pic 2)

A screenshot of the "Back Blasphemer!", an ability of the censor class in the Draw Steel TTRPG. It requires a Power Roll (2d10) with Presence attribute added. If you roll a tier 1 (<= 11), the target takes 2 holy damage and gets pushed 1 square, if you roll a tier 2 (12-16), the target takes 4 holy damage and gets pushed 2 squares, if you roll a tier 3 (17+), the target takes 4 holy damage and gets pushed 3 squares

A screenshot of the "Test Difficulty Outcomes" table from the Draw Steel TTRPG

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It is a crunchy and tactical heroic fantasy game, yes. Its combat is tuned to let most of your turns be if not battlefield-changing then at least impactful. Out of combat, it is more loose, with its PbtA-inspired three-tiered dice system giving some basic "success/failure (& consequence)" flair

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I still love playing Draw Steel though, where the mechanics of combat generate fictional positioning. It feels powerful sprinting 12 squares and jumping over an enemy to be just in a position to heal a dying party member. It feels very much like engaging with hard magic systems

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Yes and no. Honestly, OSR brought me to fiction-first games with its "the problem exists in the world and you interact with the world, not your character sheet, to solve it." This approach engages my brain in a way I like a lot

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I am still trying to figure that out! I have an (unhealthy) habit of picking up a new game every time I run, but I'm leaning closer to fiction-first things. Overall, I had the most fun with Mothership and now with CAIN. Still need to train my mean muscles though

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I found that the more I prep to railroad players through this "good story" I made, the less fun I actually have at the table. It has no surprises for me. The more I explicitly give players narrative control, the more my brain needs to think and adjust on the fly, which *is* fun for me

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Moose-Oriented Programming is the best paradigm, although it can be hard to implement it in practice. I've seen workspaces just inheriting from a moose and calling it MOP! Unsettling

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I remember when I made a list of free VSTs I was using for a community I was a part of. It was back in 2018? It had like 100 plugins in total and it was already overwhelming back then. I gave up on keeping up with the new ones ever since and was happier for it

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Another quest completed, another dragon saved from a ravenous princess. I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out! youtu.be/GDyf87E_HVM

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BURN BRIGHT SHINE | Milk [OpenUTAU]

YouTube video by Cyliac Dragon

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

To me lit classes felt far removed from art analysis. But it kinda clicked for me one time when I had to talk about an aspect of a story and my brain automatically structured it like it was a video essay. "Ah, so it's the same thing. Weird. This version is still boring af, though"

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

...and then being able to propel yourself just a bit further feels awesome. It's a tactical choice, you made it, and you won thanks to it. It's one of the reasons your big battlemaps feel so good! They allow for more tactical choices to shine! ...and that's why they also feel Fire-Emblem-esque (:

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Cylia 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @cyliacdragon.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

And even beyond high-speed classes, being able to swap your Main Action for a Move Action can have a huge impact. Reading the Heroes book it felt like a feels-bad choice. Main Actions are cool! So not using one is bad! Right? That is until the objective is just out of reach...

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