Dave
@daveb23.bsky.social
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Aussie/He/him/Cis/Het ♋ Single dad 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally I draw, I write. AuDHD, PTSD survivor. Anti-capitalist. I like sci-fi and fantasy and comics. I used to draw every day, but that was decades ago. Trying to rediscover that. 🚫AI 🚫NFT 🚫 crypto
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Intro post. I'm a single dad, I live on a pension and I'm struggling. I don't care how worthy your cause is, I won't be giving $ to anything, so don't ask. I need to feed my kid.

Any account following me with no posts or no info will be blocked.

Anyone posting AI "art" will be blocked.

Fuck AI.
A Doctor Who Last Supper.

This is my tribute to season 13 of classic DW in particular, and the Hinchcliffe era (seasons 12 to 14) generally.
Illustration of vharacters and monsters from vlassic Doctor Who seasons 12, 13 and 14. Top row L to R Skarasen, Antimatter monster, Sutekh, Styggron, Morbius, Krynoid. 2nd row Zygon, Dalek, Cyberman, Wirrn, Sontaran, Android, Cyberman, Sontaran, Davros, K1 Robot. 3rd row Forgill, Sorensen, Scarman, Harry, Brigadier, Sarah, 4th Doctor, Lawrence Scarman, Warlock, Benton, Solon, Crayford, Chase. 4th row Voc mask, Time Lord helm, Hand of Fear, Mr Sin, Mandragora Mask, K-9, skull. Centre all the faces of other actors to play the Doctor: Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee, Davison, Colin Baker, McCoy, McGann, Eccleston, Tennant. TARDIS outline implied behind Doctor faces, whole thing enveloped by Krynoid tentacles.
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Zorya Sisters are done! Here is the first color version. I wanted to focus on playing with the Primary colors
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Yes, and, because I am a resentful creature, I would also like to add:

'You're not a bad artist. You're just on social media.'
You're not a bad artist, you just need practice.
You're not a bad artist, you just need practice.
You're not a bad artist, you just need practice.
You're not a bad artist, you just need practice.
You're not a bad artist, you just need practice.
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new apparel dropping tomorrow :') so excited to be doing new stuff for the store!!!!!
a demon girl with silver accessories. a mouth with teeth splits her head down the middle. a demon girl with silver accessories. a mouth with teeth splits her head down the middle.
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Or -- hear me out -- or, get yourself drawn WITH (as?) THE DOCTOR (of your choice)! I've done that more than a few times.

Get yourself drawn with the Doctor comic book style by the guy that drew a bunch of official #DoctorWho comics!

I should bring that up more often. I did that.

#ComicsSky
Okay, this one was a gift, but subject with the Thirteenth Doctor and TARDIS. Also borrowing a scarf. Digital drawing. Commissioner's daughter with the Tenth Doctor, and a few baddies and the TARDIS. Digital drawing. Commissioner's wife with the Twelfth Doctor and TARDIS. Digital drawing. Signed custom prints starting at $200!
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✨️Artist! Quote with long hair art✨️
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🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A fluffy black and white cat runs out of the garden of a narrow blue fairy-tale-like cottage, meowing a greeting at his two humans at the end of a work day.
Tail held high, he leads them inside, updating them on all his feline news. (1)
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"For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it."

-Jacques-Yves Cousteau
trees on the side of a hill with clouds filling the sky and faint mountains in the background.
Sarah, but it's close, and an unfortunate pairing. Zoe was stunning.
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Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.
Good research, and an interesting thread.
We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵
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I don't have my own library, so I painted one. medium: Procreate, Photoshop
a digital painting of a woman standing in a library with a big window
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weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!
He regenerated. 3 was more dead after Planet of the Spidere than 7 in the Movie.

I mean get his head cut off or something like that. Or incinerated. Something that, presumably, would stop him coming back.
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Think of the POSSIBILITIES that Jim Henson would have had if AI existed when he was alive. He could of made a really shitty boring ugly movie without meaning but much cheaper too.
Before materialising anywhere, the TARDIS scans all possible outcomes and mateialises at the exact right time for the Doctor to become involved in events and not actually get killed.

The TARDIS also really didn't like Adric...
Bringing Tennant back as the 14th Doctor was the biggest mistake made in the new era of DW.

I'd liken it to the production team, when faced with replacing Colin Baker, deciding to invite Tom back for another go.

As much as I loved Tom in the role, that would've been a huge mistake. DT more so.
How often do you think high-masking autistic people get "diagnosed" as having narcissistic personality disorder by people with no qualifications to make such diagnoses?