J. Alfred Girlcock @Sophia_Zoe@shrike.club

After the flood, what ideal endures? An empty one with potential to someday be filled again.

Part [0/3] of 2
An epilogue written a year before the main text. Major spoilers for Homestuck and Kentucky Route Zero, Gothic Marxism.
https://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2021/01/03-house.html

Blaseball 2.22: You Can (Not) Homerun

there were a bunch of things--reflected lighting, the rendering of the ruff, the background--that I wasn't satisfied with, so I updated Junebug

this is like, the angriest thing ive ever written probably lol

When a reactionary tide floods the world, can the critic or artist salvage anything before being sucked down?

Part 2 of 2

Content warning: TERFs, dunking on bad art takes, systemic doomerism
https://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2021/01/2-flood.html

What is criticism good for at the end of 2020? At most, letting us pretend we can drown out the noise the coming storm.

Part 1 of 2

content warning: systematic doomerism.
https://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2020/12/1-storm.html

I know what I'm using next time I have to make a get well soon card

Classic anime like Revolutionary Girl Utena could get a new lease on life if released serially in the present day... but Netflix and its many competitors aren't in the business of preserving or selling art. What do we lose when our media history becomes #Content?
https://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2020/12/culture-kept-in-its-coffin-how-netflix.html

PROCJAM GAME SUBMITTED

[dies]
https://samkeeper.itch.io/signal-garden-demo

I didn't expect painting a series of illustrations for Sarah Zedig's Homestuck novel Godfeels would involve so much deconstruction of my identity and how I make art! Here's what I learned from the experience.
https://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2020/11/what-i-learned-painting-2047500-pixels.html

wait here's a spikable link to the Godfeels chapter I worked on, with the first image attached below, which I absolutely melted my neurons working on
https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/67807726?

theres this anecdote I love about jim steranko and stan lee. steranko wanted to do a spread in Nick Fury that was a full four pages in length and stan apparently went ballistic at him, told him there was no way, absolutely not, ridiculous concept

till jim pointed out to him that if anyone wanted to view the full spread they'd have to buy two copies of the comic. and folks, stan let him do it.

Author of "manufacturing consent" hatsune miku,

GOOD MORNING Worm, your honor!

The crrrrown will plainly show
the prisoner who now SSSTANDS before you
was caught red-handed
posting HOT-TAKES

posting hot takes of an almost DIRTBAG nature!

this will not do!

Annihilation: The Ending Explained!!!

happy halloween everyone
https://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2020/10/galaxy-brained-annihilation-and-queer.html

here's junebug's costume!! she's cute! she's cute!

🦋 !!!

happy birthday to @junebug !!!

the people love a cute bug

junebug!!

working on this for my gf's bday :3

🦋 🦋 🦋 🦋 🦋 🦋

The Magnus Archives made a name for itself as inclusive horror. But when even a schlocky tale of giant spiders takes on resonances with transgender oppression and sexual exploitation, can the show's listeners evade the webs of trauma?

(lol forgot to make this stabbable lol sorry)

https://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2020/10/webworks-magnus-archives-and-powerful.html