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25. she/they/it. plural. Level Designer. Meandering through life. 🇭🇰🏳️‍⚧️
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remaking minecraft skin again, followed a shading tutorial this time and referenced the eyes and wings from somewhere else
front side picture of a minecraft avatar skin that looks like a dragon back side of the same minecraft avatar skin
September 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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a win screen for the game Balatro, showing stats of winning after 8 antes and having some of the following stats: Best Hand: 164268 (New Record) Most Played Hand: Flush (8 Times) Seed: 7YMI5Q5S
June 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Finished cooking them
A plastic tub containing cooked wontons A bowl containing egg noodles and wonton
June 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Wrapped wontons, ready to be cooked
A plastic tub filled with wrapped but uncooked wontons
June 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Thinking about again how fundamental these lines from twin fantasy are to me with understanding media. Everything is a snapshot of a version of something that may or may not have happened, and is a record that you can always come back to. I relate to this in how I melancholily feel about memory
song lyrics from the song Twin Fantasy (Those Boys) by the indie rock band Car Seat Headrest, it reads: This is the end of the song, and it is just a song. This is a version of me and you that can exist outside of everything else, and if it is just a fantasy, then anything can happen from here. The contract is up. The names have been changed. So pour one out, whoever you are. These are only lyrics now and a repeating refrain of: When I come back you'll still be here//(When you come back I'll still be here)
June 24, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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the line "You can love again if you try again" has stuck with me since the lead single for the new csh album came out, about how it's the love for life in general. It could be romance, it could be platonic, it could be moving on from grief or trauma. You could love life again, if you try
song lyrics from genius depicting the refrain "You can love again if you try again" from the new Car Seat Headrest album, "The Scholars"
May 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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messed around with setting up pngtuber stuff this evening
April 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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I feel so seen by this
a image collage with various elements, most prominently and relevant is pictures of night fury and dragonite (there's also a pic of goodra and zoroark's hair in there)
April 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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I have Thoughts about the new BCNR album but there's no way it's fitting on to here in a single post so here's a screenshot with alt text. Overall I think the album is a lot more folk-influenced than I'd like from a rock record (and really backloaded) but it's still beautifully constructed.
Been sitting on the new Black Country, New Road album for a bit now and I think it’s good. It’s really back loaded though. There’s nothing in the front half of the album that really grabs me besides from the first single Besties and Two Horses. Don’t get me wrong, the arrangement is lush and immaculate and up to what I feel like the band could do but I feel like I’m falling asleep to a firepit side jamboree. Once the tracklist hits the second single Happy Birthday though the album Really picks up, Nancy Tries to Take The Night Really injected so much life and energy to it and Forever Howlong’s eclectic lyrics really hits the point of what the band has done before in For The First Time and Ants From Up Here, just the lines (I shall boil some beans/ I should get my vitamin B/ The last video I watched told me the pH of my gut microbiome was certainly causing my blues/ So I fill myself up with fiber as dusk begins to set) Really stands out in a weird but charming way. I think I’ve excepted that since the live album and the former lead vocalist’s departure that BCNR is just Going to be Different but I’m still glad they’re making really great music, even if not everything hits to what I’d like personally.
April 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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"Gordon Freeman in the piss... or rather, the wet suit"
an in-editor model stand-in for the player entity in the Hammer editor, placed inside what appears to be a toilet cubicle , facing the bowl of the toilet
March 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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for the record, I'm posting this from the desktop that this is showing up on

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screenshot of windows settings and network connections showing "no Internet access" while the computer is still Very Much Connected to the Internet
March 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Hi there, in short, we need financial help again. We need help with paying for visa fees this coming June to continue staying in the UK after July of this year. I'd be grateful if you can share this post, even if you are not in a position to help. ko-fi.com/ashley_cervi... paypal.me/ashleycervidae
I was hoping to never have to write anything like this again, every single last time we’ve had to write one of these, or that it wouldn’t have come to this but here we are again. In order to stay in the United Kingdom, £2767.50 has to be paid in June to extend the visa, an amount that we have nowhere near in savings. I’m asking for financial support from people who can spare a few. I understand this is a Lot to ask for and I do recognize a lot of people are also hurting from what the world has hurled at them, but after consideration I don’t have many other options. For the last year, I’ve been trying hard to find any sort of employment so that I can save towards this, while my dad is strained on what he could be providing to support us living alone in a different country far away from where he is. I’ve been only able to scrape by as a result, often with almost nothing left in the bank save for next month’s rent at the end of the month. While we managed one successful interview, the result was the company ended up failing the right to work check, not giving us any shifts at all, telling us to either reapply for the job or find another one and then ghosting us. It didn’t help that the houseshare I’m currently renting a room from has its rent increased by £80 (from £425 to £505) while the situation was shifting to the point where I’m the only one paying for the outgoing topped-up electric and gas costs (everything else is paid for with the rent, at least). We’re (as in just me and everyone else in this body) basically alone in this houseshare right now with no other tenants in it. With broken windows that have been there for years and a generally unresponsive landlord there was a need to move a long time ago. The original plan was to find somewhere else to move to as soon the visa savings situation as resolved but that’s something for another time. Which brings us to here, I need help with raising money to stay in the UK as much as possible for. If you have any extra funds to spare, please, consider sending it to our ko-fi or paypal-ing us directly. Our visa expires in July, and we need to make the application by June, so we don’t really have much time here for the understandably large amount I’m asking here (from the time of writing this, about 3 months away). If we somehow go over the goal it will go towards helping with saving for the move to some other accommodation.
February 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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sure :3
blonde haired purple dragon wearing a cardigan with black shirt
February 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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bungie: fuck it, we're making a wheel gun.
a new exotic weapon in the game destiny 2 that's shaped like a wheel
January 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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unsure why we spent time on this brushwork, oh well it cool
hammer screenshot of a curved torus made from brushwork
December 28, 2024 at 6:24 AM
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love pulling unearned kills off
December 19, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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guess we were afking a lot longer than I thought jesus, good thing we were doing it solo
text stating, "mission time: 1:20:55", at a post mission screen in deep rock galactic
December 18, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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had to afk a bit in deep rock and managed to, continue digging a hole straight down, all the way to bedrock?
screenshot of deep rock galactic where there's a scanned map showing the player location and the apparent hole they dug, completely vertically, to bedrock
December 18, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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took an all-nighter but finished up a payload map for @tf2maps.net's annual 72 hour TF2 Jam. Loosely inspired by a previous level that started life as an attempted jam entry design. 5 years later, finally got a similar idea out and within time limits tf2maps.net/downloads/pe...
top down view of point A in a crowded gameplay space a cart path pass by a waterfall in a cave to point B A screenshot of point B with the overhanging structure sitting above a cave exit for the cart path the beach approach for point C featuring a lighthouse as the local landmark
December 16, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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hammer please.
December 15, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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hammer what the FUCK do you mean you want to render point connections between path tracks like this now
December 15, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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Fuck it, posting a relevant rambling that was made at 5 am a few weeks ago even though the format is deeply unsuited for fucking microblogging. It's not any novel observation. It just is.
Before everything else, I want to preface that this isn't a novel observation, plenty of people who's actually more qualified than me can ramble much better on about social dynamics and how social medias are intertwining in it. Writing this at 5 am isn't helping either. I think a great part of me is actually terrified of the idea of bluesky growing even an 16th as close to the size of what twitter is. There is some feeling I have that within any social group, once the size of it reaches a certain threshold it must adapt otherwise it risks splintering, and with that adaptation comes in a lot of ways, diluting, in order to find a minimal agreeable ground that dynamics can continue to function. In the context of social media, that is, just the number of active users. And with how twitter evolved, that adaption meant increasing hostility because of the thin common ground it ends up being. With social groups in this context, it means niche interests. It means people who can bond over weird shit that a selective few enjoys because they understand the group enough to know how to introduce positive interactions between each other. If you're part of groups that share small niche interest that just so happen to reside on large platform vessels, having that bubble membrane be weakened is only going to erode away what makes that niche interest weird, to those selective few people. It feels counterintuitive but the more a thing gets popular the less I would want to engage with discussing it, not because I'm trying to be snobby of it's cool to hate on the new thing that's popular, it's more that when you talk to someone you don't know that share that seeming interest of yours, you're only ever going to reach the most shallow talking points if it's only just for a brief conversation, which in most cases of social media interaction, it would be that. Never to dig any deeper. This kills any deep discussions of any real meaning. This can come off as me defending the idea of gatekeeping but I think that is the wrong approach to what I'm talking here. No one shouldn't be discouraged to dig deep into weird niches on their own, in fact you should! It's fun! This is more on the idea of discussing it with others and how it can be counterproductive especially when you're not talking to a group of friends that you know that knows about your interests that can spar with you back, that you are talking to strangers that you don't know other than they vaguely know what you're trying to talk about. Now what does any of this have to do with bluesky as it is right now? Bluesky right now is a lot like early twitter, a bunch of niche communities trying to find voice in a small vessel. Communities in this instance can mean existing friend circles or interests groups. As bluesky grows, like any other social media and other social group dynamic goes, we would all eventually face the thing of adapting to the new common ground, or splintering off to even more niche corners of the Internet. I'd argue that it is actually much healthier for the latter to happen because of what has been discussed. Back to personal feelings though, I'm scared because that Internet interactions, in social terms, have become the third place for me, much like many others. Now imagine a mall that grows infinitely wide and tall and there's more people rushing in, random trying to join in on a friend's in-joke. That's what social media is and that's not, healthy. Infinite growth is not possible. It's malformed. Left to its accord it ends up being a festering puss. A wound to barely survive in. Bluesky is at the inflection point of growth and while it has been comfy so far, I'm scared that it won't be for long.
December 13, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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tf2 players questionable object permanence moment
December 12, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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we pushed updates to both Sierras and Agate today!
Sierras is the more major one, with more cover overall added throughout the map: tf2maps.net/downloads/si...
December 9, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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In today's episode of jank setups that Surely won't backfire quickly
A mechanical hard drive resting on a plastic cover lid inside a pc case's 3.5 inch bay
December 3, 2024 at 6:06 PM