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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Still healing up from the arm injury, but had to mark the occasion at least a little :) Happy 60th, Star Trek, you delightful franchise you ❤️

A pencil sketch of Beckett Mariner from Star Trek: Lower Decks. She is playfighting with a toy Enterprise and a toy Romulan Warbird, making pew pew pew noises.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 08/09/2026

Happy 60th Anniversary to Star Trek! Live long and prosper! 🖖🏻

Science officer Spock holding a little black cat.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

No I didn’t just listen to HOMM soundtracks all the way to UKGE why do you ask

Pencil cartoon of Archibald from Heroes of Might and Magic. He is standing in front of a dragon and looking smug, as is his wont.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Coming out of burnout is a hell of a thing. I am spending this time responsibly, yes.

Cartoon of a frog in a lily bikini doing a sexy lady pose. She is sitting on a lilypad. The frog has a body built for possible sin but a face that implies little inclination to do so.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Also off the topic of drawing, but guess what season just started fuckers

A photograph of a bag of fresh garden pea pods lying on a shirt depicting fresh pea pods. It it pea season snd my heart is gladdened.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

From the same sketch set, Brett and Jonesy. Most of the rest of my pictures of the crew were too rubbish to share but I’m going to keep practicing them.

A chibi version of Brett from Alien, carrying Jonesy the cat under one arm and vaguely waving a cigarette.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Throwing some old and new sketches up over the next few weeks to get back in the habit of posting - starting with Lambert from Alien, a nerd who deserved better.

Sketch of Lambert from Alien leaning back in her navigator station

Chibi version of Lambert from Alien looking purposeful.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

So, not really been around for a while - Got sent into a horrifying physical burnout flare spiral at the end of last year that I'm only just starting to come out of now. BUT! Sketching again, feeling the joy of it again, now I just need the health part to perk up a bit so I can finish anything 😂

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Playing the new Heroes of Might and Magic game and what do you mean if I want treasure I have to beat up God's Most Perfect Angel? #HOMM

Screenshot from the new Heroes of Might and Magic Olden Era game, showing a troglodyte lounging on a velvet-upholstered throne. He is wearing an extremely fancy top hat and looks like a sleepy boy.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

When in artistic doubt, return to your comfort zone. Which for me is, apparently, skeletal creatures in rococo wear despite the fact that none of the stories I spend much time in actually include them 😅

A black and white pen and pencil picture of a highly stylised woman. She is elongated to the point of looking alien and is wearing a rococo gown. She is pointing a closed fan towards her face in a vaguely quizzical manner.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I should be posting the ACTUAL work I've been doing, but since some of it is secret and some of it is tiny paintings of abyssal fish, have some more of my downtime pictures with @bobvids.com experiencing Umineko for the first time.

A cartoon picture of gaming streamer Bobvids dressed as Beatrice from Ummineko no Naku Koro ni. He is laughing maniacally and yelling "This is some fucking fuh-reak shit!" in red text (in reference to a cohost's catchphrase in the Goosebumps podcast You Can't Scare Me). Thhe background is a mass of golden butterflies layered into orange and brown.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Realised that I never uploaded the final version of my Silent Hill F print (in fact, I have a huge backlog both of stuff to upload and WIPs to finish off, so that's nice). I was playing with different brushes than usual and I think they rather suited Hinako :)

Digital watercolour image of Hinako from Silent Hill F. She is looking tired and resigned, holding a pipe that is dripping flower-blood. Behind her, a little fox looks up affectionately.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Been in a drawing slump for far too long (health BS) but apparently not too much of one to draw a longtime favourite streamer as the objective best Umineko character - so glad you've started The Journey, @bobvids.com :)

Cartoon in the style of a VN sprite depicting the streamer Bobvids as Maria Ushiromiya from Umineko.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The two of us are about to spend a decent amount of the Christmas holiday around a relative who sells GenAI ‘work’. Managed to juuuust about avoid bloodshed last year, who knows this year 😓

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Watching @airbagged.bsky.social play Umineko and remembering anew my dislike of Erika Furudo.

Cartoon image of Erika Furudo, asking her canned line of 'what do you think of that?' and being met by a shot of the entire Ushiromiya clan (and Ange's hand) looking back with a range of expressions ranging from polite disconcertment to amused disgust.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

www.etsy.com/shop/Cuteref... if you're panicking about Christmas and need some emergency prints, cartoon collections, stickers - or christmas cards to send with them, for those that still do that sort of thing!

Picture of three books titled 'Trektober', further labelled for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Photograph of a4 and a5 art prints of Hinako from Silent Hill F. She is swinging a rusty pipe framed by the words, 'Smash the Patriarchy'.

Photograph of two art prints of differently coloured axolotls saying, "huuuuuuug!"

Photograph of a set of stickers featuring characters from the manga/anime Berserk,

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Well, the imposter syndrome is still in full force but here I am! #thoughtbubble

Alex Thompson, seen here awkwardly gesturing at a convention table of awkwardly mismatched books and prints

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Ross Hopkins, Commissions Open @rasputinzero.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Come check out the exclusive debut of M.O.D.S. Issue Two at the WIP Comics table at Thought Bubble this weekend! Copies of this fun mystery adventure comic zine are also available via my website: rosshopkins.co.uk/product/m-o-...

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M.O.D.S. Issue Two

The adventure continues for our band of awkward young sleuths in this dramatic second issue of this mystery adventure comic!

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Anyone attending the Thought Bubble festival and in want of Star Trek, Alien, classic adventure game and cute frog art should defs come to the Cuterefaction stall in Bubbleboy Hall, H7b :)

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

And of course as soon as I get up to date on trektober I get sicker and fall behind again, why WOULDN'T that happen 😓

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

have tried the Mechanicus II demo and am torn between loving the sound design and new Necron mechanics, and absolute visceral loathing of hearing my queen Scaevola speaking full sentences in English rather than technalingua because it's making her sound very out of character.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

sketch for a piece of Silent Hill F fanart and I just know I'm going to like it more than the final version

simple sketch of Hinako from silent hill f. She looks tired and resigned and is holding a bent pipe. Around her ankles a fox snuggles up. They are surrounded by spider lilies.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

And with that, I am up to date on Trektober and can actually relax a bit!

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Belated Trektober, Day 14 - Ghost Ship. I WAS thinking of doing an Empok Nor 'are you SURE we cleared out all the lizard serial killer drugs?' gag but that felt a tad dark, so YARRRRRRRRRRR have the dread ghost pirate Captain Tendi and her crew of ne'er-do-well deadsigns instead :)

Cartoon of D'Vana Tendi from Star Trek: Lower Decks. she is dressed as a pirate, with a bicorn hat and ragged coat, and is smiliing whilst examining a glowing blue gem. Ghostly skeletons of Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford and T'Lyn express approval in the background on the deck of a tattered ship. The scene takes place on a darkened sea and is lit by a ghastly blue-green glow.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Belated Trektober, Day 13: Single Episode Character. Sylvia from Catspaw is so delightfully weird, bringing big 'we have Elvira at home' energy to a show that absolutely did not require a sexy shapeshifting cat/clanger puppet. So here's to one of sci fi's weirder dommy mommies ❤️

Cartoon of Sylvia, the shapeshifter from the Catspaw episode of Star Trek TOS. Her human form is lounging seductively whilst swinging her toy Enterprise for her cat form, ho is batting at it. Her weird-ass shellfish clanger puppet form is screaming in the background in front of a gothic castle silhouette framed by lightning. Bats and purple drapery abound.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Belated Trektober, Day 12: Synthehol. Guinan is handing it over just before calling you out on all the self sabotaging crap you've been pulling.

Illustration of Guinan from Star Trek: The Next Generation. She is in her yellow outfit and gently flicking the side of a drinking glass with one finger whilst smiling enigmatically. The background is a pattern of purples.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Belated Trektober, Day 11: Frenemies. Spock and Bones' relationship is the most adorable thing in Star Trek and I will never tire of it 🥰

Little cartoon of Spock and McCoy from Star Trek. Spock is calmly saying, "Despite the combative nature of his locution, I find Doctor McCoy's company preferable to solitude." and Bones is irritably replying, "That's called being BEST FUCKING FRIENDS, you emotionless devil-eared drone!"

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Bonus pic of the PMA from my little collection of Star Trek / Revolutionary Girl Utena redraws, featuring a cunty little cocktail, delavian chocolate, and live gagh.

Cartoon of Quark, Garak and Kaga from Star Trek DS9, drawn in the style of the anime Utena. They are looming in a very cute way and having snacks.

Screenshot from Utena of Keiko, Yuko and Aiko eating pocky whilst looking vaguely threatening.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Belated Trektober, Day 10 - Promenade. If we have to have established character spinoffs, my vote is for a Quark-led one about the Promenade Merchants' Association that is just petty wrangling about rents, rates and leases whilst galaxy-spanning crises occur constantly just offscreen.

Little cartoon of Quark, Garak and Kaga from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. They are trying their best to look approachable and respectable. Above them is written, 'Come Join the Promenade Merchant's Association'. A sign to one side says, '0 days since our last conspiracy'.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Belated Trektober, Day 09 - Animals. To go with Yeoman Rand, we have Yeoman Lawton, who was turned into an iguana in one of the very first episodes of TOS and I was heartbroken when they said everything got turned back to normal in the end because IGUANA IN STARFLEET.

Cartoon of Yeoman Lawton from Star Trek TOS. She has been transformed into an iguana by a shithead psychic teenager but is still going her job, holding a too-big tricorder in her little lizard fingies.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Trektober, Day 8 - Underrated Character. Rand isn't some damsel, she's the PA for one of the most dangerous men in the quadrant. She has to ask the captain to intervene in conflicts because of how bad she might hurt THEM. She paints, she does botany, Rand is awesome, no arguments taken.

Cartoon of Yeoman Janice Rand from Star Trek. She looking extremely badass and is holding a tricorder in one hand whilst firing a phaser with the other. In the background is a pink-and-black colour scheme with the words 'Janice FRICKEN' Rand' writ large. It was going to be 'Janice FUCKMOTHERING Rand' but I chickened out.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Belated Trektober 2025, Day 7: Fanfic AU. Spock, Kirk and McCoy are Kpop Demon Hunters and I can't bring myself to be sorry.

Cartoon of Spock, Kirk and Bones from Star Trek dressed as the K-Pop Demon Hunters. They are in the costumes and setting for the single promo for 'Golden' and, somehow, pulling it off. Spock is Rumi, Kirk is Zoey and Bones is Mira, which feels appropriate. Kirk has ripped Zoey's top because of course he has.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Belated Trektober 2025, Day 6: Holodeck Costume. I am a little sad that we never got the scenes of Jadzia or Julian ordering the stupidest last-minute costumes from Garak and then showing him screenshots from 400 year old movies or scans of medieval tapestries or whatever for reference.

Cartoon of Kira, Dax and Garak from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Kira and Dax are wearing their Arthurian Romance gear, and Garak is adjusting one of Kira's sleeves. Kira is complaining that she feels stupid, and Garak is lamenting that the reference material he was given was trash. Dax is assering that she and Kira are hot enough to pull off even the stupidest getups, and she is 100% correct so everything is okay.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Belated Trektober 2025, Day 5 - Worlds Collide. I imagine most recruits like Nog join starfleet for the glitz and glamour of being a space hero and then have to face the reality that you might just get your leg blown off by stormtrooper dinosaurs in a dirty cave in the middle of nowhere instead.

Illustration of Nog from Star Trek: DS9. He is in patient pajamas and is leaning heavily on a crutch. His leg is missing. He is gazing up at a 'join Starfleet today!' plaque and is surrounded by posters saying things like 'be a hero!' and 'save the universe!'. The colours are soft and muted. Poor baby.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Trektober 2025, Day 15 - Era Swap. Dr T'Ana may like getting her paws out in the holodeck but given that she seems to have trouble fully retracting her claws the ship floors would probably feel pretty vile.

Cartoon of Lt M'ress from Star Trek: TAS and Dr T'Ana from Star Trek: Lower Decks. They have swapped uniforms. M'ress is quietly commenting that the tightness at the elbows ruffles her fur a bit and T'Ana is yelling over the top of her "WHERE ARE MY SHOES?!" A tiny Shaxs is very enamoured.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Been pretty sick of late so been quietly catching up on trektober - expect a flood of posts 😅

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Trektober 2025, Day 4: Caves. I felt in season 7 that Kira and Garak were being WAY less prickly than usual when working with the liberation front and I suspect it's because the way Cardassians flirt would make everything they said sound like the beginning of a porno if they just talked normally.

Cartoon image of Damar, Kira and Garak from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. They are hiding from the Dominion in a dark cave to plan for the liberation of Cardassia. Damar is writing in his diary that his colleagues are scary and hot. Kira and Garak are grousing completely normally in the background, but Damar's Cardassian interpretation of bitching has created little sexy ghosts of them to berate him. No wonder he drinks.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Trektober 2025, Day 3: Orb Encounter. I think it's interesting that the only romantic relationship Kira had with even the remotest amount of chemistry was the one with a being that only identified as male as a matter of convenience. Just throwing that out there.

Cartoon image of Kira Nerys from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She is cowering away from a sacred bajoran Orb. Through beams of light, the Orb is asking the question, "Wouldn't it be nice to see Vedek Bareil naked?" and Kira is shielding herself and screaming, "Nooooo! Get your compulsory heterosexuality away from me!"

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Trektober 2025, Day 2: Uniform. I always thought the insistence on a member of a historically oppressed people having to remove symbols of their culture to be kind of gross and BS to be honest. Rare Riker L.

Cartoon image of Will Riker and Ro Laren from Star Trek: TNG. Riker is starting to tell Ro to remove her Bajoran earring and she is smugly replying that she gets a cultural exemption whilst giving him the middle finger.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Trektober 2025, Day 1: Final Frontier. I bet baby Mariner was the BIGGEST TOS nerd and learned the Final Frontier speech before she could walk properly.

Cartoon image of a very young Beckett Mariner from Star Trek: Lower Decks. She is playing with a toy Enterprise and reciting the TOS opening speech. Off-camera, her father can be heard being excited that his kid is passionate about space :)

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

So Silent Hill F is definitely A Time :D

Screenshot of a horrifying room from Silent Hill F with the corpses of Kimiyoshi, Oryou and Satoko from Higurashi When They Cry drawn in to various points of it. Mion is drawn into a cage screaming, and a cartoon of Shion is drawn into the room proclaiming to Hinako, "This baby can fit so many Hinamizawans into it!"

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 24/09/2025

The thing about being neurodivergent is that I Like It. What I don’t like is that the world imposes numerous taxes on me for being like this. I don’t view it as a Me problem.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Little picture of Shion from Higurashi, might clean up properly later :)

Cartoon image of Shion Sonozaki from Higurashi: When They Cry. She is sitting down and doing a happy ojou-sama laugh. Shion is framed by text saying "I support women's wrongs". She can have a little murder, as a treat.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

In a sane world, Fox host Brian Kilmeade would be fired and shunned for his depraved comments that homeless people should be euthanized. That’s sick (and deeply ignorant), but sicker still is that it’s tolerated.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned. And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized. I refuse to sanitize him.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Happy Star Trek - aversary, everyone! Have a Ziyal, as a treat x

Cartoon of Tora Ziyal from Star Trek: DS9. She is running joyously whilst waving a paint pallette and a series of brushes. The background swirly aand indistinct.

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