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Storming the Ivory Tower
A blog of esoteric media criticism, laying siege to the Ivory Tower of academia from the gutters of pop culture
www.stormingtheivorytower.com
Happy Trans Day of Visibility! I'm Samantha, and I've been blogging about media for a decade now. I focus on demystifying criticism through pop culture, so if concepts like death of the author leave you scratching your head, or you're looking to broaden your artistic horizons, check me out #tdov
I can't fucking handle this shit man I've got someone grandstanding about porn in my mentions about how I tolerate porn because I don't think women are people, I go to her shitty blog-
IT'S ALL GIFSETS OF HER FAVORITE MEN FROM STARGATE AND SUPERNATURAL
FFFUUUUUCKING OOOOOOOOUUUUHHHHHH 😬 I'M MAD
IT'S ALL GIFSETS OF HER FAVORITE MEN FROM STARGATE AND SUPERNATURAL
FFFUUUUUCKING OOOOOOOOUUUUHHHHHH 😬 I'M MAD
November 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I can't fucking handle this shit man I've got someone grandstanding about porn in my mentions about how I tolerate porn because I don't think women are people, I go to her shitty blog-
IT'S ALL GIFSETS OF HER FAVORITE MEN FROM STARGATE AND SUPERNATURAL
FFFUUUUUCKING OOOOOOOOUUUUHHHHHH 😬 I'M MAD
IT'S ALL GIFSETS OF HER FAVORITE MEN FROM STARGATE AND SUPERNATURAL
FFFUUUUUCKING OOOOOOOOUUUUHHHHHH 😬 I'M MAD
you gotta at least consider this shit, because I've got a bunch of flat brained swerfs who hate porn but are indifferent to the epstein files blowing up my mentions, and I think everyone normal owes it to me to appreciate a pornographie in honor of my having to put up with this horseshit.
I haven't quite figured out how to talk about it without coming off like a crackpot cause I know how "this porn comic is as ambitious and should be as medium defining as The Invisibles or V for Vendetta" sounds
but you can get The Unsinkable Ship of Fools for just $10 today. and you should. #comics
but you can get The Unsinkable Ship of Fools for just $10 today. and you should. #comics
The Unsinkable Ship of Fools
Cum one, cum all! Jump aboard the Ship of Fools for your final ride. An ensorcelled train hurtles through the night, with no stops and no hope for its passengers; everyone is welcome, and no one can ...
store.ironcircus.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:52 AM
you gotta at least consider this shit, because I've got a bunch of flat brained swerfs who hate porn but are indifferent to the epstein files blowing up my mentions, and I think everyone normal owes it to me to appreciate a pornographie in honor of my having to put up with this horseshit.
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Artist and Chimera (1906) by Jacek Malczewsk
November 29, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Artist and Chimera (1906) by Jacek Malczewsk
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The effortless shift in discourse from people insisting that anything that isn't a white statue of a dead roman dude isn't art like 3 years ago to demanding that they be treated as visionary artists for typing" x-men mystique big boobs she's my girlfriend" into a prompt window
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The effortless shift in discourse from people insisting that anything that isn't a white statue of a dead roman dude isn't art like 3 years ago to demanding that they be treated as visionary artists for typing" x-men mystique big boobs she's my girlfriend" into a prompt window
I haven't quite figured out how to talk about it without coming off like a crackpot cause I know how "this porn comic is as ambitious and should be as medium defining as The Invisibles or V for Vendetta" sounds
but you can get The Unsinkable Ship of Fools for just $10 today. and you should. #comics
but you can get The Unsinkable Ship of Fools for just $10 today. and you should. #comics
The Unsinkable Ship of Fools
Cum one, cum all! Jump aboard the Ship of Fools for your final ride. An ensorcelled train hurtles through the night, with no stops and no hope for its passengers; everyone is welcome, and no one can ...
store.ironcircus.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I haven't quite figured out how to talk about it without coming off like a crackpot cause I know how "this porn comic is as ambitious and should be as medium defining as The Invisibles or V for Vendetta" sounds
but you can get The Unsinkable Ship of Fools for just $10 today. and you should. #comics
but you can get The Unsinkable Ship of Fools for just $10 today. and you should. #comics
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Reminder! From now until Dec 6th, everything in my shop is 25% OFF with code "BIGDEALSWOW", including comic books, pins, patches, stickers, and even my new "HOARD SET" of every QVP piece of merch currently in stock! If you're gonna shop today, buy some cool indie comic stuff. http://shop.irisjay.net
November 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Reminder! From now until Dec 6th, everything in my shop is 25% OFF with code "BIGDEALSWOW", including comic books, pins, patches, stickers, and even my new "HOARD SET" of every QVP piece of merch currently in stock! If you're gonna shop today, buy some cool indie comic stuff. http://shop.irisjay.net
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ALSOOOO if you're looking for more cool stuff to spend your money on, mayhaps thou hast perused Sickos Selection #3? https://itch.io/b/3393/sickos-selection-3 25 creators, 25 bucks, over 1,200 pages of smut... and we're well on our way to unlocking our second stretch goal! Art by Taylor Titmouse!
November 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
ALSOOOO if you're looking for more cool stuff to spend your money on, mayhaps thou hast perused Sickos Selection #3? https://itch.io/b/3393/sickos-selection-3 25 creators, 25 bucks, over 1,200 pages of smut... and we're well on our way to unlocking our second stretch goal! Art by Taylor Titmouse!
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June Egbert Big Stoagie Schwarzenegger Moments
November 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
June Egbert Big Stoagie Schwarzenegger Moments
my actual greatest frustration at this time of year is that Alien Sex Fiend's seminal classic "Stuff The Turkey" is a christmas song so inappropriate for the day most americans have turkey
I will still shriek STUFF THE TURKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY given the opportunity though
I will still shriek STUFF THE TURKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY given the opportunity though
November 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
my actual greatest frustration at this time of year is that Alien Sex Fiend's seminal classic "Stuff The Turkey" is a christmas song so inappropriate for the day most americans have turkey
I will still shriek STUFF THE TURKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY given the opportunity though
I will still shriek STUFF THE TURKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY given the opportunity though
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Let's try this again... Glad tidings we bring to you and your quim! We are fundraising this festive period. Earlier this year, the future looked bleak for the Vagina Museum. But we're still here, and there's many reasons for you to become a vital part of our future... www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
November 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Let's try this again... Glad tidings we bring to you and your quim! We are fundraising this festive period. Earlier this year, the future looked bleak for the Vagina Museum. But we're still here, and there's many reasons for you to become a vital part of our future... www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
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I am a (not at all wealthy) golfer who loves Seattle’s municipal courses, the only way the sport is accessible to me. Broadmoor and other private urban golf clubs are an affront to our city and must either pay their fair share or go.
Paul has been talking about the tax loophole that Seattle country clubs have been enjoying for a while now but WOW I did not know how big
This is Broadmoor Golf Club. It's a gated right-wing enclave for the rich in Seattle. The golf course is 7 parcels, 122.2 acres. It's assessed at just $76k/ACRE!
This is Broadmoor Golf Club. It's a gated right-wing enclave for the rich in Seattle. The golf course is 7 parcels, 122.2 acres. It's assessed at just $76k/ACRE!
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I am a (not at all wealthy) golfer who loves Seattle’s municipal courses, the only way the sport is accessible to me. Broadmoor and other private urban golf clubs are an affront to our city and must either pay their fair share or go.
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A good rule of thumb is that every 2 holes of a "full size" golf course (18-hole, par-72) is about as big as Cal Anderson. The whole golf course is usually 9 Cal Andersons in size.
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
A good rule of thumb is that every 2 holes of a "full size" golf course (18-hole, par-72) is about as big as Cal Anderson. The whole golf course is usually 9 Cal Andersons in size.
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And at Capitol Hill density (which is not very dense! only half the density of U District), each hole of an 18-hole golf course takes up as much area as housing for 1500 people.
November 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
And at Capitol Hill density (which is not very dense! only half the density of U District), each hole of an 18-hole golf course takes up as much area as housing for 1500 people.
yeah it's not a value judgment, it's just class analysis that pharoahs are petite bourgeois because they ahhhhhhhhhh put the means of production in the scarmophogoghs
November 27, 2025 at 5:20 AM
yeah it's not a value judgment, it's just class analysis that pharoahs are petite bourgeois because they ahhhhhhhhhh put the means of production in the scarmophogoghs
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coming down to my final month of rent and i still have not gotten any job offers: any amount you can spare is still appreciated greatly, honest to god
August 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
coming down to my final month of rent and i still have not gotten any job offers: any amount you can spare is still appreciated greatly, honest to god
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i'm going to offer my ko-fi as an alternative method of payment for the forseeable future. if a direct line is preferable, this is the way. anything and everything is appreciated. ko-fi.com/ichorplus
Support iris
Support iris
ko-fi.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
i'm going to offer my ko-fi as an alternative method of payment for the forseeable future. if a direct line is preferable, this is the way. anything and everything is appreciated. ko-fi.com/ichorplus
idk dog I'd love to have a nuanced discussion of whether intellectual property as a policy is actually getting the outcomes we want and how piracy fits into that but it's like talking to NIMBYs, it's all sentiment, all "if you build a duplex it will kill whales, you like dead whales?" type shit
November 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
idk dog I'd love to have a nuanced discussion of whether intellectual property as a policy is actually getting the outcomes we want and how piracy fits into that but it's like talking to NIMBYs, it's all sentiment, all "if you build a duplex it will kill whales, you like dead whales?" type shit
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If you are part of any sort of cool project, for the love of god ask yourself "hey wait does One Dude have sole access to levers that can explode this entire thing?"
And if so, it does not matter how much you like him or trust him, you GOTTA take those levers away from him. Otherwise you're doomed
And if so, it does not matter how much you like him or trust him, you GOTTA take those levers away from him. Otherwise you're doomed
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
If you are part of any sort of cool project, for the love of god ask yourself "hey wait does One Dude have sole access to levers that can explode this entire thing?"
And if so, it does not matter how much you like him or trust him, you GOTTA take those levers away from him. Otherwise you're doomed
And if so, it does not matter how much you like him or trust him, you GOTTA take those levers away from him. Otherwise you're doomed
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if only someone had written an essay on the kind of tyranny that keeps emerging from structurelessness. oh well guess we just gotta keep building our systems and social assumptions in ways that make this keep happen forever!
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
if only someone had written an essay on the kind of tyranny that keeps emerging from structurelessness. oh well guess we just gotta keep building our systems and social assumptions in ways that make this keep happen forever!
I can have pretty nuanced takes at this point about piracy, but you know what I take a firm stance on? shoplifting.
you can't possibly steal more from a supermarket chain than the managers steal in time, profit, and physical well being from their own workers, so fuck it. snag that spice jar.
you can't possibly steal more from a supermarket chain than the managers steal in time, profit, and physical well being from their own workers, so fuck it. snag that spice jar.
November 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I can have pretty nuanced takes at this point about piracy, but you know what I take a firm stance on? shoplifting.
you can't possibly steal more from a supermarket chain than the managers steal in time, profit, and physical well being from their own workers, so fuck it. snag that spice jar.
you can't possibly steal more from a supermarket chain than the managers steal in time, profit, and physical well being from their own workers, so fuck it. snag that spice jar.
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imagine if all this anti-piracy energy was spent yelling about public funding for the arts instead
that would actually benefit the majority of working artists, though, and not the loudest winners of the marketized arts scene.
that would actually benefit the majority of working artists, though, and not the loudest winners of the marketized arts scene.
November 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
imagine if all this anti-piracy energy was spent yelling about public funding for the arts instead
that would actually benefit the majority of working artists, though, and not the loudest winners of the marketized arts scene.
that would actually benefit the majority of working artists, though, and not the loudest winners of the marketized arts scene.
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only perverts can agree
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
only perverts can agree
reeling once again from seeing a "pony play is normalizing zoophiliac sadomasochism" take from a *fucking furry who's into bondage*
forget self awareness, people are out here struggling with basic self preservation
forget self awareness, people are out here struggling with basic self preservation
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
reeling once again from seeing a "pony play is normalizing zoophiliac sadomasochism" take from a *fucking furry who's into bondage*
forget self awareness, people are out here struggling with basic self preservation
forget self awareness, people are out here struggling with basic self preservation
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this is a completely fucked move by steam for a game being developed by an award winning team of queer devs. Fucking christ
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
this is a completely fucked move by steam for a game being developed by an award winning team of queer devs. Fucking christ
I like the horror movie ranking list and the hater's guide to anime cause they provide this framework for me to talk about more obscure bullshit in a more accessible context, but I don't have a good framework yet for my other great loves--obscure sci fi and fantasy, and weird animation/puppetry...
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I like the horror movie ranking list and the hater's guide to anime cause they provide this framework for me to talk about more obscure bullshit in a more accessible context, but I don't have a good framework yet for my other great loves--obscure sci fi and fantasy, and weird animation/puppetry...