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alexsiple.bsky.social
alex siple 🏳️‍🌈
@alexsiple.bsky.social
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ARTIST. venezuelan-american, any pronouns

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guess who's having a 10% off sale this weekend. alexsiple.bigcartel.com please take all this stuff away from me so i can fill my home with pariging merch thanks
Photo of a tapestry inspired by Howl's Moving Castle. Photo of a red t-shirt with a Berserk inspired design printed on it. Photo of a printed Hunter x Hunter fancomic I made, named "I think where I come from is leaving" Photo of a beige t-shirt with a Persona 5 inspired design printed on it.
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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the YOU WHO SWALLOWED A FALLING STAR tapestry is here... open for preorder. alexsiple.bigcartel.com/product/fall...
A photo of a tapestry/blanket inspired by the Studio Ghibli movie, "Howl's Moving Castle". Sophie stands in an abstract doorway, facing away from the viewer and watching a young Howl embrace Calcifer, who is rendered as a huge fire. A photo of a tapestry/blanket inspired by the Studio Ghibli movie, "Howl's Moving Castle". Sophie stands in an abstract doorway, facing away from the viewer and watching a young Howl embrace Calcifer, who is rendered as a huge fire.
November 27, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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i have a few of these guys left over by the way alexsiple.bigcartel.com/product/sunr...
Photo of a Diisco Elysium inspired blanket.
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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(3/3)
Comic page 8. It depicts two blocks of color, one dark blue on the left and one yellow on the right. The text reads: E: People clap at me when I order coffee. E: People take pictures of me when I'm at the park. H blinks back and waits for E to remember the next part. H doesn't clap. E breaks down a bit. E's nervous, E's devastated. E never learned this one. E takes H's hand and the tears look fake but they're real, E takes H's hand and E shudders and then E drops it. E thinks of home. E: Home should feel like a bakery, or a holiday card, that's what people say. (Starting to mutter) Your hand is calloused and you suck at baking. Your posture's all wrong and your smile is crooked. You always say the wrong thing and- Comic page 9. It depicts wet brush strokes of color, the whole page suddenly yellow and dark pink. The vague idea of Haejoon presumably is hugging Eunyung. The text reads: You take my hand and we're just in your dorm, the two of us. You say, You're fucking stupid. Your hand is also sweaty. You blink at my longer hair and say, Come inside for a second. Comic page 9. It depicts a background of long strokes of color, kind of like tree trunks. In the foreground, two pink hands embrace each other. The text reads: I forget my next line again. No one applauds but I feel the curtains embrace me with the love of a mother.
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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(2/3)
Comic page 4. It depicts a yellow Eunyung holding happily holding a knife up by the tip of his finger. The text reads: But I'm a liar. That's the performance. I love you too, all the time. I love you in a way people aren't supposed to love ,right? I want to consume you all chartreuse. I want to have you in the palm of my hand and have you look up and say, Break a leg. You'd do it, too. You're so good. Comic page 5. It depicts an abstract looking Eunyung in chartreuse, hanging upside down. His expression is rendered like a drama mask. The text reads: I'm a liar. I hated when I made you cry but I loved it, too, because you'd remember it forever. A performance is something people remember forever, when it's done right. I wanted you to see me. I don't know why I wanted it, when all you've ever done is see me. It crawls over me in the dead of night, it makes me want to run off to somewhere dark, but I can't do that anymore. I live with ghosts, just like you. Comic page 6. It depicts the rough silhouettes of Haejoon and Eunyung, rendered as swathes of color. Haejoon is turquoise, Eunyung is yellow. The text reads: A year after you graduate, I tumble into your new dorm and tell you I missed you. I tell you I got into college. I don't know if I should even go. Sometimes I don't text you back because I don't know the lines. You're working with another script. Comic page 7. It depicts a long strokes of color that look like tree trunks, or spotlights. A small yellow silhouette emerges from what looks like a pink room. The text reads: Act II, Scene 2. It all comes out wrong here too. That's what I think at first-
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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ACT I SCENE 1, A NO HOME FANCOMIC (1/3)

(this was for @querermezines.bsky.social; if you want a physical copy of this and more beautiful no home art, the whole project is opening aftersales tomorrow)
Title page. Reads: Act I, Scene 1. A No Home Fancomic By Alex Siple Comic page 1. It depicts a pink silhouette of Eunyung Baek with his jacket and chest split wide open in the middle. Broad strokes of blue and yellow peer at us from inside his chest. The text reads: People call a performance by many names: I call it Home. Comic page 2. It depicts a distant Haejoon Goh framed by an abstract doorway. The side profile of Eunyung is in the foreground, laughing, half of his face yellow and half of his face pink. A smaller Eunyung is below him, looking sad. The text reads: I hate you, all the time. I hate how you won't buy a ticket. I hate how you clap when I really ask for it but not when I don't. You see my desperation, my sweat, you see the practice behind what I give you and you love it. Why do you love it? I can see it. Comic page 3. It depicts a very rough portrait of Eunyung, his face a dark blue and his hair a neon pink. You can barely make out his face. The text reads: It disgusts me. You LOVE it. Like it's a fucking baby, left on the doorstep. I don't get it. I sure wouldn't fucking LOVE it.
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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do you want to read a fun sci-fi romance novel about two queer people who are weird as hell and are surrounded by a bunch of other people who are weird as hell. and also they're ice skaters. in space.
A painterly illustration depicting a woman looking at the viewer with her arm raised. Scratchy depictions of a body with ice skates line the left side of the painting. The text on the woman's body reads: "Nobody, nobody, nobody..." An illustration depicting a person with short hair laying on the ground, surrounded by legs donning ice skates. The colors are neon but the background is black.
November 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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here's another snippet from my book. it's about ice skaters in space and everyone is extremely gay and trans. i know it sounds awesome right casualblindness.itch.io/the-cutesy-l...
A section of prose. It reads: Valeria stepped aside so that they could enter the rink, the roar of the audience starting to rise to normal volume, the after-program cotton falling out of her ears. Hey, Lu mouthed to her, like they were strangers in a bar. They slipped off their Martian jacket to reveal their skating outfit, which in turn revealed massive amounts of golden brown skin. Valeria had set her features in stone already and would not give the cameras anything to feed on. She allowed Panqui to pat her shoulder as she made to leave the outer ring of the rink, but she was wrenched back by her outfit, so hard that she for a moment worried about the mesh tearing. She snarled at Lu, grabbing them by the wrist. “What the fuck do you think you’re doing?” “There you are,” they whispered, from the ice. Valeria felt ready to pounce, not in a sexy way, but they leaned over the barrier and pressed their lips to her ear. The crowd was screaming. “Watch me,” they murmured. Valeria felt their hot breath on her ear in steamy curlicues. “Please?” Valeria pulled back. Their eyes were a party, a cluster of glittering debris surrounding the planet of their pupils. “Fine,” she said slowly. She liked this party. She hadn’t wanted to be invited before. She’d forgotten what it had been like to not be invited. She let Lu tilt their head demurely down and let the whites of their teeth wink at her. “Go ahead, then. Show me what you’ve been working on.” Lu twirled away through a happy sigh, like they’d just torn off the last petal on a flower and been assured of romantic requital.
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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very random very unspoilery snippet. does this tantalize you. i don't know what people post for this sort of thing. you should read my book casualblindness.itch.io/the-cutesy-l...
A screenshot of text from a book. The text reads: “I don’t wear cologne,” said Lu testily, and then they glanced over at the couple. Valeria glanced over with them and saw that one person was on the other’s lap. She frowned apathetically. “Just ignore them.” “Not great for meditation here, right now,” sighed Lu, scratching at their nose. They were vibrating all over, like they were trying to generate heat. “And I’m not much of a voyeur, either.” “Oh?” said Valeria, surprised. “You seem like you’d be the type.” The train station doors flew open and closed again, interrupting her with a loud roar. Lu’s blushing in the dark made them look like they were being illuminated by a broken and faraway neon sign. “Why would you say that?” they said, their words running together, most likely because of the cold. Valeria shrugged. She was using their jacket as a sort of muff around her hands. “Those parties you go to,” she said, not meaning much by it. “You think those are all,” Lu stuttered, still uncharacteristically clumsy, “sex parties?” “Aren’t they?” said Valeria, turning to them and blinking. Lu’s hair rattled around their forehead like weightless wind chimes. “Not,” Lu swallowed, “all of them.”
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
alexsiple.bsky.social
hey so i wrote a sci-fi romance novel about horny ice skaters in space. obviously it's queer. obviously it's weird. AND YOU CAN READ IT RIGHT NOW casualblindness.itch.io/the-cutesy-l...
The cover, depicting part of a person's side profile as they lick the bottom of an ice skate. The text reads: "The cutesy lovey-dovey heart-shaped thing about knives. A novel. Alex Siple" An illustration depicting two characters, the taller one with the ponytail pushing the other one with short hair away slightly. They are both wearing ice skates and the border pattern is full of planets and stars and other space imagery. The text above the shorter character reads: "I've been feeling this familiar feeling-" An illustration depicting a person with short hair laying on the ground, surrounded by legs donning ice skates. The colors are neon. A painterly illustration depicting a woman looking at the viewer with her arm raised. Scratchy depictions of a body with ice skates line the left side of the painting. The text on the woman's body reads: "Nobody, nobody, nobody..."
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
alexsiple.bsky.social
The door
A digital painting depicting Sophie and Howl from the movie Howl's Moving Castle. The style is mix of medieval tapestry patterning and stained glass. Sophie is facing away from the viewer and is watching young Howl open his arms up to a falling star, which has been stylized to look perhaps like a big comet.
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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shop update! 🌈🪩💫

berserk tapestries are back for a limited preorder and also my artbook is on there too! also, the disco tapestries have only a few days before i close preorders ;) thx for your support alexsiple.bigcartel.com
An image of a tapestry with a design inspired by Berserk's "Golden Age" arc An image of a tapestry with a design of Griffith from Berserk, inspired by medieval tapestries like "The Hunt of the Unicorn" A photo of my physical art book's cover, which reads "Somebody left my cake out in the rain..." An image of a tapestry inspired by the game Diisco Elysium
October 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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cloth brother wire brother #homestuck
A kind of abstract illustration of Dave Strider as a child, surrounded by different versions of his brother. Dave holds the hand of Bro Strider and has bandages on his arms and legs. Behind him, Lil Hal and Dirk hold Lil Cal in their hands. Arquiusprite is in between Bro and Lil Hal.
October 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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i'll be at lightbox expo next weekend at table 315! i'll have prints, zines, comics, and LOVE
An announcement image that reads "Come see me at Lightbox Expo 2025. October 24-26, 2025. www.lightboxexpo.com" The background art is Death Note fanart of L and Light in a yellow room, acting domestically.
October 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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she ain't never met no one who talk like that #homestuck
A digital painting of Dave Strider from Homestuck. He is depicted with blond dreadlocks and is Black. The text on the bottom reads "Rah tah tah tah!!!"
October 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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the cover!
A digital painting of a person looking to the side, streaks of paint everywhere. The style is abstract and textured and the colors are very saturated. The text on the top reads "Somebody left my cake out in the rain..." and the text on the bottom reads "An art book by Alex Siple"
October 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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my new art book i'll have at lightbox expo this year :-) stop by table 315 if you're there!
October 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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oh hey #PortfolioDay i do a lot of things. i could even do things for You
Digital painting inspired by the game Disco Elysiium Digital painting. A cover for a comic I created. The painting is intricate and textured like an illuminated manuscript. At the center, Griffith from Berserk is framed. The text above him reads: "When I was a child, I watched a man dismember a dove." A digital illustration of a person wearing ice skates lying on the floor. They are surrounded by many pairs of legs also donning ice skates. The colors are neon and the background is black. The person on the floor has their hand around an ankle and look up offscreen. A digital painting inspired by My Chemical Romance's song "Helena". The text at the bottom reads "So long and good night"
October 15, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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I COULD BE YOUR GIRLFRIEND FOR THE WEEKEND / YOU COULD BE MY BOYFRIEND FOR THE NIGHT #oc
Digital illustration of two ice skaters. The person with short hair leans into the other's space like they're saying something. The border depicts stars and planets. The text above them says "I've been feeling this familiar feeling-" Digital illustration of two ice skaters. The style is more rough and painterly than the previous one. The person with the ponytail grabs the other's face and has her ice skate in between the person's legs. The border also depicts planets and stars.
October 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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guess who's back for the month alexsiple.bigcartel.com/product/sunr...
Photo of a blanket inspired by Diisco Elysium
October 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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#homestuck
A digital painting of the Homestuck characters Vriska, Aradia, and Terezi, with text reading "Make her pay."
October 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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keep it real these bitches couldn't wipe my ass #homestuck
A digital painting of Vriska Serket. The texture is scratchy, like it was drawn in crayon. She looks at the viewer with her tongue out. She's wearing her white dress.
October 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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my berserk fancomic, "WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I WATCHED A MAN DISMEMBER A DOVE", is now available during all of october for shortbox comics fair!

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p...
The cover page, reading "When I was a child, I watched a man dismember a dove." It looks like an illuminated manuscript. An image of Griffith as a child is painted in the middle in an oval frame. He wears the Behelit. A page from the comic. A dove spreads its wings in the center. Below the text reads: "What I meant is that I [BLANK] you." The [BLANK] part is covered by paintings of flowers. Paint streaks across the entire piece. A page from the comic. The text reads "There are two ways this memory can go. I watched in silence, and learned. Or I screamed, cried, and did not." The colors are lavender, gold, and red. A page from the comic. Streaks of paint smear across the scene. A child reaches for something on the ground that could be a feather. The text reads: "What's the word?"
October 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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HEY SHOP UPDATE

shirts are $10 off for the next week! also i have leftover stock of the nausicaa and helena blankets (as well as dungeon meshi blankets). also also i have b-grade scuffed print grab bags up for sale. go check it out! alexsiple.bigcartel.com
An image of 4 t-shirts. Each has a graphic printed on it. The first is of Gon. The second is of a Persona 5 fanart piece of Joker on a street surrounded by umbrellas. The third is a tapestry-like illustration inspired by Berserk's Golden Age. The fourth is a P5 fanart piece of Joker in a bookstore. A photo of a physical tapestry inspired by My Chemical Romance's song "Helena". A photo of a physical tapestry inspired by the movie Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. A photo of four prints with scuffed corners.
September 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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venus, planet of love, was destroyed by global warming... #oc
A gestural digital painting of a woman raising her arm up and looking at the viewer, surrounded by impressions of ice skaters. There is text near her waist that reads "Nobody, nobody, nobody" but it eventually cuts off.
September 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM