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Knilly /// Caroline
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https://hey.knilly.me | artist + designer + ttrpg gm + performer + principal software engineer + gamer + creative | prev art dir for Unbreakable Pub, Uncaged contributor | she/they/siya | FilAm 🇵🇭 | 🟡⚪🟣⚫ femme
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Knilly /// Caroline @hey.knilly.me · Nov 11
obligatory about blurb!

- I'm Knilly (or Caroline) (she/they)
- by day a software eng & web dev
- gamer of the video & table-top & board variety
- artist, illustrator, graphic designer, game designer (+ gm), general creative

got some one-off projects in relevant spaces?
open to hearing out ideas
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momatoes.com
Surprise!

100 community copies are now available for ARC, Magus, Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri, and What Dust Remains! 🔥

Download these games for free—for a limited time only.

momatoes.itch.io/arc
momatoes.itch.io/the-magus-or...
momatoes.itch.io/inang-uri
momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re...
A collage of the covers of the 4 games, with a sticker in the middle saying "100 free copies".
December 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
hey.knilly.me
I haven't done this before, but I thought I didn't have enough finished pieces, and maybe I do, but some of these sketches. I realize I never shared some of these pieces and maybe I will. Either way, happy that I did more art than I thought this year (:

#artvsartist2025
A grid of 9 images. A photo of Knilly leaning on her arm in a white hoodie in the center. The 8 images surrounding are various drawings she's done over the past year. Clockwise starting from top-left: a sketch of a half-human/half-Carabao femme warrior; a colored illustration featuring three women - one with purple hair, another with blue, and the last with with white hair during golden hour; Reiwin (a pink-furred rabbit-folk/Final Fantasy Viera) and Lylix (purple haired, buff femme) upside down, face to face looking as if about to kiss; a blue dragon-demon with silver hair; Estre holding a flame, or bites by stars; FFXIV Au'ra Lylix as a Dark Knight; Reiwin and Lylix holding each other after an emotional moment;a close-up of starry-archer Estre.
December 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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vidityavoleti.bsky.social
Wanted a clean thread to continually share as needed but hey are you annoyed by orientalist and blatantly obtuse games and their white designers?

Throw money at an Asian designer and their games! You can find them so easily with the link below!

Did you buy Obojima? Feel bad? Buy another game!
vidityavoleti.bsky.social Viditya ✨PAXU✨ Voleti @vidityavoleti.bsky.social · 5d
Hey folks! Did you know that it's really easy to find games made by poc on itch.io?

Just use the "poc made" tag! There you'll find your next fav TTRPG & support some great designers, new and old!

If you're a designer, tag your games poc-made so they show up on the feed!
itch.io/physical-gam...
Top physical games tagged poc-made
Find physical games tagged poc-made like Alone Among the Stars, A Land Once Magic, Alone On A Journey, The Magus: Oracular Edition, Last Train to Bremen on itch.io, the indie game hosting marketplace
itch.io
December 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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byconniechang.bsky.social
How many times have I been told to give this racist game and its racist creators grace, and second chances? and empathy, and good faith, and and and?

Nah. This isn’t just a fundamental misunderstanding of Ghibli. It is colonialist fucking desecration.

@obojima.bsky.social Go fuck yourselves.
thedevteam.itch.io TheDevinTeam @thedevteam.itch.io · 6d
Full video, for those who don’t want to go to TikTok.
December 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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shaneanderson.bsky.social
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
hey.knilly.me
I'm usually pretty hard on my own art but getting better. I will say after starting up drawing again this year, it has been awesome and my style has evolved (only a small shift but a small enough shift that I'm starting to push again)
heyitsdora.com Dora B @heyitsdora.com · 10d
Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
A post by c.a.t.y.a.y that reads, "I wonder what my art could've been if I didn't quit". Iggy responds, "I wonder what it will be if you start again"
December 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
hey.knilly.me
quote with your starry art ✨💫

#heyknillyart #digitalart #illustration #oc
Estre with her Aasimar wings out and celestial radiant bow, a crown of stars floating above her head. She holds two arrows in one hand, the other arm outstretched with the bow, ready to nock an arrow and fire. Her wings are a sunset/twilight-like gradient, and she's posed against a dark nebula as the beads usually in her hair float around her.
December 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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vidityavoleti.bsky.social
🌄A LAND ONCE MAGIC IS OFFICIALLY OUT TODAY!✨

Order one of these beautiful physical books and/or a hand-stamped bag + notebook!

The PDF is also out on my itch page!
vidityavoleti.itch.io/a-land-once-...

Make infinite worlds, never stop telling stories, create art with others!
December 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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stefscribbles.bsky.social
oops it's her again
a drawing of a cute cat making a statement about ai (it sucks)
December 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
hey.knilly.me
Hi friends, I'm gonna setup more official art things for the coming year, but let me do your ttrpg covers 🙇💜
December 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
hey.knilly.me
QRP something with horns
A stylized card (Queen of Diamonds (stylized as Stars)) depicting an woman that is half-transformed has a decaying astral dragon holding hands on the rotated version of her normal astral druid angel form
December 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
hey.knilly.me
why use genAI for ref when you can send an out-of-context photo of your own arm for a drawing to your partner

bonus: you get to transfer your tattoo to the drawing because the character has similar tattoos
A screenshot of a Discord message from Knilly <Hey> 12:31 PM: "Putting this here for me". Attached is a photo of her arm in a drawing glove holding squared wooden pole, reference focused on the hand and wrist. On her wrist is a traditional Filipino tattoo. There is a reaction to the post [from her partner] that is a Snorlax (Pokemon) holding a heart.
December 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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josh-foreman.bsky.social
Tumblr user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
hey.knilly.me
what are you favorite ways to follow artists?
December 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
hey.knilly.me
Gang at #PAXUnplugged while I was checking out at @manyworldstavern.bsky.social said "Oh is that from Hades II?" when I pulled my phone out to pay, but I said no it's my own D&D character art and they thought she was so cool. Honestly, so flattered to even be compared 😭 💜
hey.knilly.me Knilly /// Caroline @hey.knilly.me · Nov 12
Never posted when I finished it back in Aug b/c I kept thinking I'd tweak the colors/shading further. If I ever do get back to it, then I will repost, but for now... I wanna finally share her.

Estre's Starry Archer form with her Aasimar wings out

#heyknillyart #illustration #ocart #characterart
Estre with her Aasimar wings out and celestial radiant bow, a crown of stars floating above her head. She holds two arrows in one hand, the other arm outstretched with the bow, ready to nock an arrow and fire. Her wings are a sunset/twilight-like gradient, and she's posed against a dark nebula as the beads usually in her hair float around her.
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
hey.knilly.me
Gosh darn all my friends in the TTRPG space are so cool and seeing everyone's work at #PAXU just fills me with joy
November 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
hey.knilly.me
Finally, after all my time in NYC I have finally personally witnessed a pigeon just casually walking into the train, let alone across from me. They have been in the train car with us on the J since Halsey. We're almost at Queens at this point. I wonder if they'll get off at Jamaica with me.
A pigeon casually on the subway train
November 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
hey.knilly.me
I hate the brain gremlins that say I did a bad job when my friends say I did a good job but I feel bad and now I just wanna sleep but I brain gremlins
November 19, 2025 at 6:36 AM
hey.knilly.me
CloudFlare is experiencing outages globally.

They provide a lot of services to a lot of websites, hosting being one of them.

If your site/app isn't working this morn, probably that.

Can check status here: www.cloudflarestatus.com
Cloudflare Status
Welcome to Cloudflare's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.
www.cloudflarestatus.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
hey.knilly.me
Never posted when I finished it back in Aug b/c I kept thinking I'd tweak the colors/shading further. If I ever do get back to it, then I will repost, but for now... I wanna finally share her.

Estre's Starry Archer form with her Aasimar wings out

#heyknillyart #illustration #ocart #characterart
Estre with her Aasimar wings out and celestial radiant bow, a crown of stars floating above her head. She holds two arrows in one hand, the other arm outstretched with the bow, ready to nock an arrow and fire. Her wings are a sunset/twilight-like gradient, and she's posed against a dark nebula as the beads usually in her hair float around her.
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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index.www.explorersdesign.com.ap.brid.gy
Affinity Studio First Impressions
Is Affinity Studio the right software for tabletop rpg designers?
www.explorersdesign.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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nerdmysteries.bsky.social
Some may say that dancing that cannot start a revolution but they never stepped foot inside an arcade to be blasted by Eurobeats and Initial D music this week is a special episode as it was one picked by one of our max fun supporters; Dance Dance Revolution!

maximumfun.org/episodes/sec...
a video game that says perfect and battle on the bottom
ALT: a video game that says perfect and battle on the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
hey.knilly.me
Quite with your strong woman art 💪

Lylix B'Wan, my Warrior of Light from FF14 as a Dark Knight.

#heyknillyart #sketchbook #drawing #illustration #digitalart #ffxiv
A buff-yet-lean Au'ra femme from FF14. Tan skin, dark blue scaling-markings, and maroon hair. Holding an idle pose with her hand on her hip in a crop top and low-rise pants, fingerless gloves. Her blue draconic tail curls around her, and a large greatsword is on her back. A slightly sketchier style with simple coloring
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
hey.knilly.me
Hi, I am going to PAX U this year, so if you wanna say heeyyyyy (or listen to me rant and rave about Fabula Ultima) and/or play a boardgame and/or play a Commander game with me, I'm just sayin. (:
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
hey.knilly.me
FABULA ULTIMA RAAHHHH

Both my main parties respectively defeated some big bad Fox Demon Twins of a fallen animal-face court due to the annexation by Evil RPG Empire, but the Fox Demons resorted to potentially trying to ressurect the even more powerful and Evil Fire Dragon Deity.
Sigh Of Relief GIF
Alt: SpongeBob Squarepants grimacing into a sigh and then wiping the "sweat" off his brow in a "phew" motion, finally letting a sigh of relief
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM