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@cuddlepunk.bsky.social

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they / them supposedly in possession of pretty handwriting award winning toy maker ✦ digital humanist luddite

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demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · Nov 7

an introduction for new followers (since there's so many of you now!)

I’m a small-time game designer with a love for making smaller bespoke interface games

my games have been exhibited all over the world, and I’m currently in the middle of a doctorate in the digital humanities 🌻🌱✨

a photographic portrait of the author, reading a poem

a playfully-designed interface of an orange microphone, set before a bright sunflower yellow background

a photograph of idyll, a small social world designed around kinder forms of online conversation and connection. Wander around a gentle pastoral island, strike up small conversations with other passing players, and even toss out small letters into the wide open blue oceans of the internet.

The Library of Babble

an isometric interface inspired by older vector graphics; representing a brightly-toned geographical space, in which someone has written a love letter of sorts for others to stumble upon

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 1h

thinking about re-designing my interface from the ground up for a third time in as many weeks (derogatory)

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 1h

splish splashing across the tasman sea to give you a good birthday kicking right now

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 4h

“it’s dangerous to go alone, take this”

the goth lesbian gesturing me to reach down between her breasts for the lighter one night in an underground queer bar

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 20h

the romance section at bookstores should come with a little beaded curtain you have to get all tangled up in to pass through

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 21h

the church episode in consume me is so profoundly evocative

it’s been a real long time since a game has moved me so much

Jenny struggles under the weight of all her anxieties and expectations and obligations; the glass beginning to splinter beneath her toes

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 21h

I’m more of a user experience designer at heart, but I’m happy to talk anytime!

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is just what I needed to hear in this moment

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 1d

thank you ☺️

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 1d

one of the most notable characters in the discworld series doesn’t even use quotation marks when they speak and it’s SO POWERFUL

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 1d

city - episode 8

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 1d

aww you’re always simply the sweetest, I really hope we get coffee together someday too ☺️

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 1d

you’re simply the sweetest too and the same so goes for you, thank you 😚

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 1d

this is such a sweet and gentle thing to say, thank you ☺️💕

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 1d

I feel so blessed that I get make things with the kindest and most beloved and talented people I know 🥹🌸✨

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 1d

it’s frieren time ☺️☺️

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 1d

feeling a bit sad and small this week, and could so use some kind words if you have them 🙁💕

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 2d

needing an anime to watch on my lunch breaks, what’s something lovely you’ve all been watching of late?

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t wait to drift through this someday and mess about with all the colours myself

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 2d

So many!

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 2d

I’m in the middle of colour-grading my game too, and it really is such an unending journey with so many lovely discoveries along the way

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 2d

thank you sweetness 🌸✨

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 2d

we were but stardust
dusk-born darlings daughtered
to our only sun
in cosmos song adorned
before her coming dawn

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 2d

wunderbar

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 2d

for whom the doom scrolls

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · 2d

until the olive groves grow
wild holy and free