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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 1d

Wow I'm glad I saw a random YouTube video that I can just opt in for windows 10 security updates for free for another full year (anyone in the UK and EU can do this btw, it's in your settings). I was about to actually install Linux in desperation! 🤣

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 2d

There is something to be said for tired brain not overthinking and having infinite patience for tedious application of drybrushing 😆

Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 3d

Lousy goddamn Skaven with their bloody excellent fine detail, varied textures and opportunities for interesting weathering, grr...

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 3d

When you paint a random spare Skaven for the "rattober" meme and to test a red paint while you have a cold and it comes out as one of the best minis you ever painted. 😠

One Skaven clanrat champion from Warhammer Age of Sigmar, painted to annoyingly high standard.

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 16d

Oh yeah that's a tough fight. You need to dodge-strike a lot and focus down the minotaur before lowering theseus to 50% hp. Get upgrades that will help damage output, like the ones that increase damage on targets with casts in, and also targets stuff status effects, and also hitting from behind.

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 16d

It's Hades 2 day! Aaaa! Can't wait for 5pm! I've been loving the prerelease and I'm so excited to see all the plot stuff slotted in!

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Hannah Lee Stockdale (LOOKING 4 WORK) @hanoodles.bsky.social · 17d

I really tried to avoid this, but I'm in need of help. I'm a year and a half out of full time work, and my retail gig alone can't keep me afloat. My October expenses are going to be much higher than normal.

I'm offering sketch comms over on my ko-fi for donations. thank you
ko-fi.com/hanoodles

sketchy drawing of myself at a cash register, gesturing tiredly.

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 17d

The Mel and Frinos one is legit one of my favourite sticker designs I've drawn. Loved playing the prerelease and drawing Jen Zee's amazing character designs! So hype for tomorrow!!!

Chibi style stickers of Hades 2 characters,Hecate, Melinoë, Eris, Moros, Icarus and Nemesis.

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 18d

The new J Draper vid is a must watch for UK peeps.
youtu.be/XeHviTKEqSo?...

How We Beat The Fascists Last Time: The London History Show

YouTube video by J. Draper

youtu.be

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 22d

Some work in progress pics...

Mache chest with foam clay being applied around foil shape for the tongue.

Interior painted and with gems added, and fimo teeth stuck on.

Googly eyes added and cardboard jaw holders to keep the mimic's mouth open.

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 22d

I needed some way to protect the dice on our Redbrick Market stall from occasional ceiling drips. A mache chest from hobbycraft, some bohs foam clay, acrylic paint, fimo, adhesive "gems" and varnish later...

A box crafted to look like a mimic monster, filled with packs of dice.

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you!

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 25d

Slowly getting through the Nighthaunt Spearhead. Spirit Hosts are horrible to build, but they look cool!

Three Nighthaunt Spirit Hosts from Warhammer Age of Sigmar, painted in pastel colours and with snowy bases.

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 25d

What they actually want is to force American values on us! Macho, hyper-competitive, weird hangups about pantomime dames, controlling women etc. It pisses me off!

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 25d

The fact is, traditional English culture isn't macho or cool at all. It's gentle, understated and pleasantly boring. That's why they can never name exactly what parts of it they're protecting; because they don't actually engage with it.

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 25d

Like sure, they have an excuse to hate me now I'm a pink haired lesbian with a complicated relationship with the church and a NB PoC partner, but they were never nice to me when I was the perfect little Alice in Wonderland looking Christian girl. They weren't my friends!

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 25d

They have nothing but contempt for the traditional English Christian way of life they say they're protecting, or the young women who follow it who apparently they're also protecting (yeah, right). They made my life miserable as a teen for being exactly what they claim to stand for.

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 25d

These guys were never at the remembrance day service! They never sold scones at the coffee mornings! They never sang carols in the freezing cold at the Christmas market! They sure as hell never did a litter picking or a pond cleaning!

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 25d

In fact they would tease and heckle the CU kids, call us "Bible Bashers", touch us up because they thought it was funny and subversive to do that to the girls who didn't present or act in a sexy way.
Now they're wearing crosses and saying they're "PROTECTING ARE CULTURE"? give me a break!

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 25d

Something that really bothers me about these UK right wing blokes... is that I knew who they were in school.
I was in the Christian Union, a church choir girl at the local church, a girl guide, always taking part in local events... and they were the kids who did none of that.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 26d

News orgs HAVE to stop calling these porn bans. Yes, #HB4938, does also criminalize porn — also terrible — it goes far beyond that.

LGBTQ+ sites, social media sites, community forums, Shakespeare, drag, a review of Mrs. Doubtfire, all punishable by jail $500K fine and twenty years in jail.

(XII) Any other pornographic material.
(B) Is a depiction, description, or simulation, whether real, animated, digitally generated, written, or auditory, that includes a disconnection between biology and gender by an individual of 1 biological sex imitating, depicting, or representing himself or herself to be of the other biological sex by means of a combination of attire, cosmetology, or prosthetics, or as having a reproductive

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 27d

I moved to another part of the country recently, and there's a fucking Ice cream van that even plays the Match of the Day theme here too, so you'll be happy to hear that I still use that line myself on a regular basis 😆

Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 28d

I'll still be in Let's Read Homestuck for all the people whose dream Kanaya is incredibly anxious and in a battle against her secret Cumbrian accent 😂♍️

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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 29d

Having been playing the early access since it came out, I'm so excited for this. I love Hades 2 even more than the original, and can't wait to see the full story content!

Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 29d

Omg yessss full release date! The new trailer is so hype!
youtu.be/U8lJRcUeEMs?...

Hades II – v1.0 Launch Trailer (Coming Sep. 25!)

YouTube video by Supergiant Games

youtu.be

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