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Dave Daveson

@davemayhem.bsky.social

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Makes science TV shows for a living and still cant believe it's a real job. Draws pinup, mixes cocktails and mucks about on bikes for fun. Significantly cooler thanks to AC. He/Him

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Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · May 9

It's finally live! I was lucky enough to get to work with an amazing team and help make this show a reality. Essentially the same team behind the award winning Horrible Histories (but with added me). Its the same mix of sketches, songs and more fart jokes you can sniff at but now with more science!

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Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 15h

I'm just finishing up the titration period on my meds this week so I'm kind of new to this whole ADHD treatment thing. Does feel weird being able to do normal stuff without any of the "SQUIRREL" moments.

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Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 1d

Paraphrasing The Importance of Being Ernest:
"To design one game, Ms Anne, may be regarded as a misfortune; to design more looks like habit forming."

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 1d

Your PFP is boss tho.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah Medi came first then all the rest popped up in quick succession. Got me playing with brushes and textures in a way I never really played with before.

For the longest time I was just a pencil and ink guy with a tiny bit of digit cleanup after the fact.

A stylised large headed pinup girl ran in pencil with ink lines. She's wearing a vintage style lingerie and stockings.

A 5o's pinup girl sat on a giant egg wearing bunny ears. Shes sat next to the easter bunny drawn in the style of Big Daddy Roth's Rafting Style. The image is done in pen and ink with some light pencil shading.

An in sketch of a goth girl dancing in a tight shiny black dress and lang gloves.

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Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 1d

The first 4 managed to somehow fit together as a single piece. Not something I planned but it worked really well. Jackie Lantern you've seen and there's also Morticia Dernier

Lilith, Betty, Medi and Cleo from the previous post combined together into a single picture. The girls are arranged in a single group shot.

A pinup style illustration of a rock chick girl in a skull mask in jeans, stiletto boots and a cropped biker jacket. She has black hair in with an asymmetric undercut and is wielding a giant fantasy style scythe.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 1d

I think the dress swish needs redoing and the bodice needs some details to really sell it.

She's part of a run of monster girls i did, Betty D'Ville, Cleo, Lilith and Medi. TBH they were all just and excuse to try digital painting in a more textured style.

A pinup style illustration of a red skinned devil girl named Betty D'Ville She's dressed in the style of a 80s hair metal rock chick. She has voluminously styled blue black long straight hair, a white torn cropped vest top with a purple bra underneath, a short black leather miniskirt and over kneed stripper boots.

A pinup style illustration of an Egyptian mummy named Cleo. She has a short blue black long bob haircut with a fringe and gold eye makeup. Shes dressed in loose bandages that she appears to be tying up across her chest and similarly loose bandages as a separate miniskirt. she's kneeling down sitting on her heels and wearing flat sandals . Next to her is a dark blue cat in a gold collar.

A pinup style illustration of a vampire girl named Lilith. Shes dressed as punk in summer wearing only a red bra with black lace trim on her top half with a pair of distressed skinny blue jeans with a torn right knee on her bottom half. She has a loosely slung studded belt around her waist and on her feet are a pair of oxblood dr martens.
She has bright blue hair in a betty paige vintage cut and little bat wings at her temples. shes carrying a yellow parasol over her shoulder in a coquettish manner.
A pinup style illustration of a vampire girl named Lilith. Shes dressed as punk in summer wearing only a red bra with black lace trim on her top half with a pair of distressed skinny blue jeans with a torn right knee on her bottom half. She has a loosely slung studded belt around her waist and on her feet are a pair of oxblood dr martens.
She has bright blue hair in a betty paige vintage cut and little bat wings at her temples. shes carrying a yellow parasol over her shoulder in a coquettish manner.

A pinup style illustration of a medusa named Medi. Shes dressed a a goth chick in a body con halter neck purple mini dress with a zip front and whit batwing collar detail. Theres a ringed collar around her neck, a silver chained belt around her waist with a pentagram detail and oneehich platform goth boots with multiple buckled straps. Shes looking at her reflection air an silver hand mirror whilst some of the snakes on her hand seem to be arguing or chatting to each other.

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Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 1d

I can never get past hearing CZJ welsh accent in my head every I see her as Morticia. Pulls the Archness right out of the character. Not her fault, I admit, but Morticia will never be a Swansea girl...

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 1d

I love this, especially the little skull clip on her bra. Thats a great little touch.
I did a simple one of my own as a more Gil Elvgren inspired pinup last year, I'm still pretty happy with it. Can see some things i'd do differently now but I'm not sure If I should go back to a piece after so long.

A green pumpkin headed monster girl is standing with her legs crossed, one hand is on her hip and the other is raised slightly as if she's just been checking her fingernails.. Her head is a large pumpkin carved in a Jack'o'Lantern style and theres a warm yellow glow coming from within where holes have been carved for the eyes, nose and mouth. The leaves of the pumpkin are arranges almost as a bob style haircut. Her skin is green and she's wearing a short strapless orange skater style dress with a green bodice over the middle. Shes wearing matching orange stiletto pumps to finish the outfit.

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Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 1d

An address needlessly and yet permanently burned into my mind from 30 years ago.

Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 1d

And you can add to that:

2 Lock Keepers Cottages, Old Ford Lock, London, E3 2NN

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 1d

Even if she's been fully "head in the sand/living under a rock" levels of ignorance, which I very much doubt, there is no way here management wouldn't have brought it up. They will have known that the gig would had led to this exposure and would have been required to at least forewarn her.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 2d

Fish Finger Butty on a soft, or at least not too crusty, flowered bap with a nice sharp tartar sauce... That's premium Saturday pub lunch material right there.

The cheese slice is non standard for the beloved British staple I'll grant you, but I don't hate it.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 2d

we'll have none of that transphobia muck round here thank you.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 2d

cider/hard cider. In the uk there is no such distinction. All cider has alcahol.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 2d

To add extra confusion for Americans, I used a mix of cider and apple juice to braise the pork. So both hard and soft ciders. That and a small cinnamon stick, bay, some sage and a little ground cumin.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 2d

I have also been described as lightly braised in cider but that has nothing to do with politics. I just like cider, or at least what Americans call hard cider.

If it’s not fermented it’s just apple juice, saves a lot of confusion I think.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 2d

Lightly braised in cider, served with gratin potatoes, a spiced apple chutney and fresh greens.

Sorry that was just how I made pork tonight. Was lovely though.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

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Sheila Jenné @jennelikejennay.bsky.social · 2d

Buy this person a pup and earn PUP CONTENT FOREVER. Heck of a deal!

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 2d

If Bluesky bought me this pup, I would post pup content in exchange

That’s all I can offer?

But these times are BLEAK

It’s not the worst offer

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Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 2d

With the greatest respect, this is not the time or place where we talk about laser injuries let alone sidetrack with personal stories. Let the professional stop someone from advocating something incredibly stupid. It will be fun I promise.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 2d

You don’t even need that kind of power. Honestly it’s best we leave this to Phil.

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Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 2d

Cant land there mate.

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 2d

“I don’t know how to fly a helicopter, but I can tell something’s wrong if I see one in a tree”

A silver and orange helicopter has crashed into the side of a white, Spanish-style building lined with palm trees. The aircraft is tilted nose-down, wedged against the structure’s balcony area, with its tail and rotor blades bent around nearby trees. The scene is cordoned off by a chain-link fence, and the bright blue sky and sunlight give the setting an oddly calm contrast to the chaotic wreck.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 2d

What bit of what I wrote is saying he didn't purge religious groups? The point is he was an authoritarian and purged all powerful organised groups that could possible pose a threat.

Stalin even used the Orthodox church himself later on.

But go off I guess.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 3d

Like who the fuck thinks there are Christian motifs in any of Moores work?
It would almost be funny to sit the 2 of them down together to discuss watchmen. Moore would eat him alive.

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Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 3d

Seeing Christian stuff in Moores work is quite the stretch.

Dave Daveson @davemayhem.bsky.social · 3d

It’s very telling how he sees Ozymandias, a billionaire and self proclaimed smartest man alive, somehow painting him as an antihero. Ignoring the murder of millions of innocent people in the book because rich white guts aren’t the villains.

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