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Alex Thompson

@cuterefaction.bsky.social

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She/they; 30something illustrator of things. Lefty, autistic, aroace, connective tissue disease. Fond of lizards, frogs and fish.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · Jul 5

Whilst in many ways we live in the worst timeline, seeing an ace person lead London Pride has been a real highpoint of my year. Thankyou, @theyasminbenoit and everyone else who made that happen :) #pride #ace #asexual #ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike

Cartoon portrait of asexual rights activist Yasmin Benoit, wielding an ace flag whilst dressed like a fighting game character.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

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.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 6d

Feeling relatively blessed as a tyranid player over here 😅

Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 7d

I stand by what I said, Maria knows what’s up

Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 7d

Thankyou! :)))

Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 9d

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 · 10d

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 · 10d

Thankyouuuuu :D

Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 11d

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 · 15d

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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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 16d

I think it’s that he’s fantastic at barter but struggles with either economics or being an arsehole, because he’s a perfect angel.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 18d

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.