Alex Holt

Alex Holt

@alexjholt.bsky.social

Birding and nature, Leftist, Feminist, RPGS and Comics, Genderqueer (they/he), Artist and Performer on Science & Sorcery ART COMMISSIONS OPEN

2,326 Followers 1,198 Following 2,720 Posts Joined Jul 2023
1 hour ago

Like, there's two entirely unrelated shows about "I got reincarnated as a skeleton man I played in an MMO" and thats just a wildly niche premise?

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1 hour ago

Looking for a new anime to watch and I must admit being fascinated with how multiple shows hang on wayyy narrower premises than Western TV would allow to get developed for fear of competition?

Isekai as a whole, but also + "I'm overpowered cos of a weird skill" or "but I got turned into a monster"

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1 hour ago
A screenshot of the painting process at a moment where, while snarling, Sabretooth's tanktop and raised claw kinda make it look like he's dancing at a club or rave.

I feel at this point in the painting he looks like he's "at da clurrb"?

He just needs some glowsticks maybe?

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3 hours ago

I kinda feel like Sabretooth should be a guy who is scary as fuck BEFORE you know he's a near unstoppable mutant serial killer? Just a guy who project threat the second he walks into any room, and the earlier parts of this video he looks too much like a lion guy which loses that?

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3 hours ago
Conceptual paintings of a Smilodon Fatalis by paleoartist Beth Zaiken, depicting it with saggy lips to sheath its sabres.

I was also trying to make his mouth more inhuman to fit the name Sabretooth, but that had similar issues - was trying to see if I could do something vaguely like this art by Beth Zaiken with big droopy sheaths for those teeth, but it just wasn't working on a human face.

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3 hours ago

I couldn't get the pose right so eventually just cropped into his face. I think the issue I was struggling with is that he's surprisingly hard to pose as human's don't tend to slash at people so it's not a natural looking pose unless you get it just right.

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Next #Xmen portrait, a little slower than before, is Wolverine's notorious nemesis #Sabretooth - honestly this one for some reason turned out to be way harder than it had any right to be?

There's a ton of design variations for him and they don't integrate that well?

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1 day ago

Sadly for branding sake, pretty sure thats a tawny

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2 days ago

I feel like the last few weeks the internet has for some reason decided to show me loads of people who don't seem to understand what a country is and just.... how do you manage to live a life that bypasses that rudimentary piece of information?

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4 days ago

Honestly that you can grow better facial hair than I have ever been able to thematically pleases me given our parralel timelines 😁

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4 days ago
A screencap of my phone notifications, with two of them as calander events labelled "Dad Death - Tomorrow".

Tomorrow it is five years since my Dad died and it's still odd to see it as just a calendar notification in my phone?

My relationship with him was awkward and complicated and even these years later still don't think I've resolved things entirely?

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4 days ago
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A second #Xmen portrait in one day? A bit more of a speed paint this time!

You know Nightcrawler, but possibly not Nocturne; a member of the Exiles who is from a dimension where Nightcrawler and Scarlet Witch had her as a kid. She briefly joined Excalibur in the main Marvel Universe.

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A second #Xmen portrait in one day? A bit more of a speed paint this time!

You know Nightcrawler, but possibly not Nocturne; a member of the Exiles who is from a dimension where Nightcrawler and Scarlet Witch had her as a kid. She briefly joined Excalibur in the main Marvel Universe.

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Decided I needed to start pushing my game more into more dyanmic action poses for my #Xmen portraits, and thus my next one is the Master of Magnetism himself: #Magneto

Despite his origin as a hammy silver age villain, he's developed into one of the most compelling characters in all comics.

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Decided I needed to start pushing my game more into more dyanmic action poses for my #Xmen portraits, and thus my next one is the Master of Magnetism himself: #Magneto

Despite his origin as a hammy silver age villain, he's developed into one of the most compelling characters in all comics.

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1 week ago
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Megan's Giving Page Thanks for visiting my fundraising page. I’m going to be taking on Walk All Over Cancer this March to help raise money for Cancer Research UK. Please show your support and help fund life-saving cancer...

Hi everyone - a quick moment of your time

My girlfriend Meg is currently doing a "Walk all over Cancer" challenge to help raise money toward research. If you can spare even a little, or just share this post it would be hugely appreciated!

fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/megans-...

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When Gus the Theatre Cat enacts a nefarious scheme with his allies Alexis Meade, Ajax and Darth Maul, his former friend Jean Luc Picard sends in a team of Catwoman, Sonic's Cop Friend, Xenia Onatopp, P. T. Barnum and Jane Eyre to stop him.

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Megan's Giving Page Thanks for visiting my fundraising page. I’m going to be taking on Walk All Over Cancer this March to help raise money for Cancer Research UK. Please show your support and help fund life-saving cancer...

Hi everyone - a quick moment of your time

My girlfriend Meg is currently doing a "Walk all over Cancer" challenge to help raise money toward research. If you can spare even a little, or just share this post it would be hugely appreciated!

fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/megans-...

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Today's X-men Portrait: Rachel Grey - the daughter of Cyclops and Jean from a dark future timeline and avatar of the Phoenix Force.

I decided to create my own design here as being a design snob, a lot of her designs really don't fit her themes, so I synthesised bits and pieces I liked.

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A montage of 14 costumes Rachel Grey has word in the comics which range from bondagey to kinda weirdly preppy. Most have phoenix motifs.

A few of her comics costumes are pictured below, and imo a lot of them fail the important test of reading "this isn't Jean Grey" and "this person has a shit ton of baggage".

Also she started off with a really queer haircut and that got lost over time so I thought that element needed reinstating.

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Today's X-men Portrait: Rachel Grey - the daughter of Cyclops and Jean from a dark future timeline and avatar of the Phoenix Force.

I decided to create my own design here as being a design snob, a lot of her designs really don't fit her themes, so I synthesised bits and pieces I liked.

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Green-and-Black Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates auratus) A photographic quest for wild bird species and other wildlife.

# 7- Green-and-Black Poison Dart Frog - They actually get their extremely potent poisons from consuming tons of toxic ants which they utilise the toxins of to become really fricking poisonous.

bird-dex.blogspot.com/2000/03/gree...

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Cane Toad (Rhinella marina) A photographic quest for wild bird species and other wildlife.

#6 - Cane Toad - infamous invasive species of Australia, here in it's native range where it gaied its name from eating pests in sugar cane plantations.

bird-dex.blogspot.com/2000/03/cane...

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Fitzinger's Robber Frog (Craugastor fitzingeri) A photographic quest for wild bird species and other wildlife.

#5 - Fitzinger's Robber Frog - a small inhabitant of leaf litter from Honduras to Colombia!

bird-dex.blogspot.com/2000/03/fitz...

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Slim-fingered Rain Frog (Craugastor crassidigitus) A photographic quest for wild bird species and other wildlife.

#4 - Slim-fingered Rain Frog - a small species that calls from the tops of dead logs!

bird-dex.blogspot.com/2000/03/slim...

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Sabinal Frog (Leptodactylus melanonotus) A photographic quest for wild bird species and other wildlife.

#3 - Sabinal Frog - a species that nests by making foam filled burrows which will get flooded later to release the tadpoles!

bird-dex.blogspot.com/2000/03/sabi...

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Savage's Thin-toed Frog (Leptodactylus savagei) A photographic quest for wild bird species and other wildlife.

#2 - Savage's Thing Toed Frog - a species in which the males develop massive swole arms during the breeding season!

bird-dex.blogspot.com/2000/03/sava...

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1 week ago
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Forrer's Grass Frog (Lithobates forreri) A photographic quest for wild bird species and other wildlife.

Just finished uploading my collection of amphibian sightings from Costa Rica so, here they are:

#1 - Forrer's Grass Frog - a relative of bullfrogs and leopard frogs!

bird-dex.blogspot.com/2000/03/forr...

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Today's #Xmen painting is a villain!

Stryfe is a clone of Cable, raised by Apocalypse, super evil, massive tryhard edgelord, presumably struggles walking through doors?

His design is fun to paint even if he's a massive tool whose horrific powers are kinda offset by him being extremely cringe?

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AI Translations Are Adding β€˜Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

Can we just stop pretending that AI does anything well

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