Alistar Kensington (& the Broadcasting System)

@otherbuttons.bsky.social

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A sentient broadcast between dissociation & dream. There’s no guide to television like this. 🖤 Illustrator, Actor, Writer - 🏳️‍⚧️ ♿️ { DID System, AuDHD } https://otherbuttons.co.uk

A retro midcentury comic style fanart of a man with short hair and glasses in a shirt and tie and holster suspenders. His eyes are closed. The speech bubble reads 'well I ain't just a pretty face, chief.' the whole thing is halftone coloured. The signature says Otherbuttons.
Retro illustration art of Miss Pauling from Valve's Team Fortress 2. She's a vintage woman with cats eye glasses and a small nose, and purple lips. She wears a lilac collared shirt. Her dark hair is in a bun. The background is light red and blu with a paper effect. The watermark in white says 'otherbuttons'
A retro midcentury illustration of an OC take on the Caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland. He's a caterpillar human that looks like some sort of scholar dad sort. He's segmented with little feet, that all lead up to a human torso with four arms, and a head with antennae, short-ish hair, glasses, and 14 eyes. He's reading Alice in Wonderland and looks very confused. He wears a long patchwork sewn together jacket. Little question marks surround him.
Acrylic charms of a post Moogle from Final Fantasy XIV ( & IX ). They’re in a retro style, and have gold foil. One side is the front, the other is the back. The back has a tiny butt. The text reads: ‘Pom clasp! Gold foil!’ ‘Pompom Post - Actylic Charms by Otherbuttons’
Retro sketch art of Augustus Sinclair from Bioshock 2, his canon game version on the left. His post-rapture AU version on the right. His post-game version is taller, and has many scars and lumps. The text reads ‘Rapture’ and ‘Post-Rapture’.
Retro stylised art of the character Chai-Nuzz from Final Fantasy XIV: A man with purple hair, facial hair, glasses, and cat ears, wears fancy attire and holds up a sin eater gun. He looks irritated. Dumpling climbs up at the screen, a fat cat (who is not-so-secretly a fae) with a cravat. They're framed by the golden diamond of Eulmore's crest. The background is floral.
A pen illustration of a Final Fantasy character, Innocence, an Angelic Sin Eater type being. He poses with one hand on a staff, another with two fingers up and thumb out. His wings are spread as he smiles content at the onlooker.
A photo of a sketchbook with retro UPA inspired artwork of the Crystal Exarch and Queen Sphene, from Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers & Dawntrail (respectively). The Exarch looks troubled from a side on view with his eyes blotted out under his hood. Sphene looks elegant, eyes closed, her hands clasped together.
A portrait of our own take on the West-End Musical version of Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factoy. Drawn in a simplified retro inspired style. He/she/it is a large person, with slicked back dark hair, makeup, and a top hat and suit, a golden W on her collar. He looks full of himself, but also quite... tired. Wrinkles sit on his face. The background is gold and sparkles.
A Sketchcard (ACEO) of the villain Emet-Selch from Final Fantasy XIV, in a retro UPA inspired style. He looks menacing, drawn in side profile in pen and gold ink. Behind him is a black background with the city of Amaurot behind him. Around the card is various pens, and a watermark for the artist Otherbuttons.
Retro illustration of Vocaloid, Miku Hatsune, in her American World Tour design. She's singing into a microphone. Her pigtails flow around to frame her as she sings, music notes and sparkles surrounding her.
'Deluxe Card Frames: Designed to display your ACEOs, Trading Cards, and printed photos of your fictional crush! Now available at [shop link]! *Frames have open tops; keep away from liquid.' is written next to a photo of a pile of acrylic card frames, designed by us. This includes an Ornate Frame, a Bioshock inspired frame, and an FFXIV inspired frame, as well as Reginald?!
An illustration of a lucid dream. A large glowing orb- an alter in our dissociative identity disorder system, Psyche- floats in a mass of Void, ruined slabs of walls surrounded it. Another looks up at the mass; she is in awe. ‘We sought it out in lucid dream. What we found was a monolith in its image. I cannot describe to you quite how it felt, darling. I have never felt so small.’
A painting drawn years back, with new text- poetry?- overlayed in varying degrees of visible. It speaks of the new meaning to the subject of the original piece: our dissociative identity disorder system. Labelled: 27th January 2020 Ink & Water. Barely visible: ‘Heart held captive by the chest, bones, brains, body. The Void drips with ink and-‘ Visible enough: ‘- silence and fighting and protest and screaming and- No fortitude in the forgiveness of our Warden Father he who art to be never more forever less. The Void claims its place in our soul, our sight, our semblance, as soon We embrace its PERFECT IMPERFECTIONS. For now we understand its true meaning. For now we begin anew. For now we begin as Us.’
An artistic selfie taken by an alter in a DID System (Dissociative Identity Disorder), depicting a silver haired trans man with glasses, covering his left eye with a hand, a black-purple pen drawing of an eye on his palm. He wears a black coat. The text is a stream of consciousness poem: What if We? What if Why? What if? What if. There is no tomorrow. Only today. Only now. Forever. What if?
A cute retro vintage style art piece drawn of a large older agender person, Chronos, who is an alter in our DID system (dissociative identity disorder). It has pastel blue, purple, & gold fluffy hair, gold eyes, and a blue clock-hand mustache. It wears a pastel blue suit, a multicoloured ascot, and a little watch with a single hand. The background is dark blue with doodles of various clocks.
Morris from Stardew Valley. A large man in a blue suit and red bow tie and little glasses. He looks disgusted, ‘What a despicable gift! Do I look POOR to you?’
A half-body illustration of a beautiful large bunny anthro with big lop ears and a vintage aesthetic. She wears pearls and a gorgeous green dress, and a belt with a bunny symbol on it.
A mix of vintage and abstract illustration. A cartoon of a large person with flowy short hair, wearing a pastel magenta shirt and white waistcoat. They have a pastel static halo and black wings, the same pastel visible on the white iris. This is Atticus, the old host of our dissociative identity disorder system.
A vintage retro art piece of an original character, Mrs. Joy, holding a Christmas meat. We advise you not to assume it a turkey, no matter how it looks. She is gorgeous and fancy and wears pearls and oven mitts.
Two sketchcard / ACEOs surrounded by colourful pens on a black static background. One features Coraline Jones holding up the hand of the Beldam. The other features the Other Mother pointing out a smile, the Pink Palace in the background. Both are in a midcentury retro upa style.
Two sketchcards in trading card size, surrounded by marker pens on a black static background. The left one is a character called 'Mr Joy', the Personification of Taste; he's a slim plain-faced ice cream man in a striped suit and bowtie. The right is Chronos, Personification of Time, a portly older person holding up a pocketwatch. Both are smiling in their own ways.
Three sketchcards in marker pen & posca, each depicting a character from the cartoon network series 'over the garden wall' in a retro style. First is Wirt, looking worried. Followed is Greg excited in the middle, then Beatrice the bird judgemental. Around the cards is a black static background and colourful marker pens.
A retro illustration poster for an upcoming burlesque immersion night in Plymouth, England. Its theme inspired by the Rocky Horror Picture Show for Halloween; A silhouette of a middle-aged person who is Definitely Not Frank for Legal Purposes stands in the doorway of an old Probably English Castle But Not That Castle For Legal Purposes, whilst a pair of Very Generic Lips That Everyone Has sits atop it. Text reads: TAKE IT OFF! BURLESQUE & CABARET PRESENT CREATURES OF THE NIGHT. IMMERSIVE ROCKY HORROR CLUB NIGHT. BURLSEQUE! CABARET! PHOTO BOOTH! DRESS UP! -- Saturday 26th OCT, 8PM, £15 Entry. Leadworks, Rendle Street, PL11TP. And then a white box because the QR code was wrong and we had to cover it up.