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Alex Thompson
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She/they; 30something illustrator of things. Lefty, autistic, aroace, connective tissue disease. Fond of lizards, frogs and fish. Etsy here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/cuterefaction :)
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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
November 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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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 :)
November 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Reporting for duty! :D
Cartoon image of Nog from Star Trek: DS9. He is dressed like a US navy sailor and pulling a little salute at the camera like the perfect boy he is.
November 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Hello! I'm Alex, a mixed traditional/digital disabled UK artist - I draw a lot of different things but have a big ol' soft spot for cats. I'll be opening commissions soon to make winter heating more viable here: www.instagram.com/cuterefaction/
Thankyou for helping struggling artists, CoY x
digital painting of an extremely haughty looking grey cat sitting on an embroidered cushion. The background is hazy oranges. Cartoon digital image of an anthropomorphic black cat in grey sports gear. She is grinning towards the camera from a sitting position. The background is an orange sunburst.
October 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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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.
October 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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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.
October 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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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.
October 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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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.
October 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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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!"
October 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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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.
October 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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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'.
October 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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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.
October 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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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.
October 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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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.
October 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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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.
October 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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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.
October 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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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.
October 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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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.
October 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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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!"
October 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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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.
October 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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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 :)
October 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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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!"
September 27, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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No regrets :)
September 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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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.
September 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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September 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM