J. Alfred Girlcock @Sophia_Zoe@shrike.club

the VE team needed a quick way to subject a bunch of text to Gaiaeon distortion, so I actually wrote the code that generated the noise in this upd8's opening ehehe :3

it wasn't a complex piece of code but I think I got the outputs tuned fairly nicely, which is really the trick with random generation imo
https://deconreconstruction.com/vasterror/1642

"Hello! Ma Baby" is perhaps the ultimate male manipulator music, associated of course with the ultimate gaslighting toxic male, Michigan J Frog

someone on superrare is literally just copying basquiat but making it about bitcoin lmao

I inked @Griever's piece for the art carousel thread on shrike club if someone wants to take the colors now! :O

went for a noir vibe hehe https://shrikeclub.boards.net/post/559/thread

industries being shitty to trans women gosh can't imagine that happening today 🙄

older queer terminology/experiences

the biography here is kinda garbage but the interview is absolutely fascinating. this is a transgender woman who was in Bowie and Warhol's circles back in the day, maybe inspired Rebel Rebel, and saw a lot of the development of queer culture in the period.
http://www.secondsmagazine.com/articles/24-county.php

this was for the dogecoin tipping app :)

doing Hauntology by exploring the graveyard of cryptocurrency's past which is also the specter of cryptocurrency's future

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?