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samkeeper.bsky.social
@samkeeper.bsky.social
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blogging and comics and queerness and communism

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samkeeper.bsky.social @samkeeper.bsky.social · Mar 31
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
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
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samkeeper.bsky.social
did basically all of these except the upcoming page 4 on the day of, but was too busy drawing and experiencing the events of the comics to do the whole "social media self promotion" part lol
#hourlycomicday #hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicsday2026 #furry
hourly comics day comic done in a sketchbook in graphite, in a cartoony furry style 1st vertical strip: 8:00 am, stylized depiction of waking up, figures of my girlfriends moving around a dim room 2nd strip: 9:00 am I have issues with my neck and back and hunching over to do hourly comics isn't helping 3rd strip: 10:00 am, Juniper (butterfly) returns with pastries, Sarah (goat) tries to wake up, and Zoe (porcupine angel) contemplates hentai. room is depicted in jumbled flat perspective. 4th panel group in bottom right: Juniper seduces me in order to get drawn in my hourlies. it works.
February 10, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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samkeeper.bsky.social
More hourlies, featuring the kid-coded multi-pigment colored pencils Sarah got me for Christmas, and a Keeper Typical Meltdown

#hourlycomicsday
hourly comic day page drawn in a sketchbook with graphite and colored pencil 1st vertical strip along the whole left side: Noon, panic sets in, I frantically try to balance household tasks and drawing. 2nd block on the right side: 1:00 deliberately childish drawings in multicolored pencil as I continue breaking down. Juniper and Sarah, drawn more correctly, sadly agree that I've lost it. 3rd block: 2:00 schematic diagram of steps to make hummus 4th block: 3:00 the woman-creatures on the bus
February 11, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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samkeeper.bsky.social
Hourlies Part 3: Superb Owl #hourlycomicsday #seahawks #superbowl
comic hourlies drawn on sketchbook paper with graphite first strip at top: 4:00 series of open ended panels where I use a sort of Rock & Rule human-furry approach to the uncanny valley attractive people they've got in ads for ai assistants. Sarah remarks that the huge number of ai assistant ads in the superbowl aren't *made with ai* themselves next two strips are a regular 2x4 panel grid riffing on the "draw the rest of the fucking owl" image meme, which starts as two circles. in some panels various silhouetted friends try to explain football to me, Lady Gaga shows up uncannily, there's food, a 9/0 score, and finally a drawing of a superb owl, labeled "draw the rest of the fucking owl", with "fucking" overlaid with semitransparent sticky tape reading "superb" final strip 7:00 some musing on the Woke side winning sports in the great national divorce
February 11, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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samkeeper.bsky.social
I ran out of steam early on this page--the complexity level of pages 3 and 4 kinda got to be too much lol. drew about half the middle section while watching Megalopolis, finished the rest yesterday.

this is the first time I've drawn so many pages in a single day! :D #hourlycomicsday #seahawks#furry
hourly comics on sketchbook paper with graphite and marker top strip jumps ahead to 11:00. the gang watches Megalopolis for some reason. middle section is a two strip comic about rowdy seahawks fans after the superbowl reacting to losing one of their party by accident and calling for the bus to be turned around for them final section is a small strip expressing my exhaustion, inset into a big splash panel of me, Juniper, and Sarah out observing the party downtown. we're in the foreground and in the background many fans have scaled the architecture in pioneer square
February 11, 2026 at 3:01 AM
samkeeper.bsky.social
oh it's crazy how good Odo/Quark is. unreal blackrom. they cannot stay away from each other, oh my *god*
February 11, 2026 at 5:37 AM
samkeeper.bsky.social
last year's hourly comics day page. obviously a lot less ambitious than the four pages of weird complicated paneling I did this year lol

color correction once again done by Gwyn: shadenexus.com #hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicsday2026 #comics
hourly comics done mostly in pen in a variety of styles, covering an entire day, mostly floating in the haze of finishing a long term project just a little prior
February 11, 2026 at 4:25 AM
samkeeper.bsky.social
forgot adding to a thread on this website has unbelievable diminishing returns ugh
February 11, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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samkeeper.bsky.social
post a banger that's not in english

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qjr...
February 10, 2026 at 10:35 PM
samkeeper.bsky.social
sure the TPUSA half time show this year was a bit of a bust but wait till next year when they have Lydia Tár conducting an orchestral tribute to the music of Harry Potter!
February 11, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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hmsnofun.bsky.social
What Would A Better YouTube Look Like?

An extended thought exercise about how to improve the platform, from multiple algorithms and video versioning to democratic platform control and municipal server capacity.

Watch, comment, share with your friends, and try to imagine what feels impossible.
What Would A Better YouTube Look Like?
YouTube video by let's talk about stuff w/ sarah zedig
www.youtube.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:55 AM
samkeeper.bsky.social
hey look at this comic! Kill Six Billion Demons does some weird and wacky stuff with paneling. how does it get us to slow down and properly appreciate muscular women beating the everloving shit out of each other? #comics #webcomics
www.tumblr.com/sam-keeper/8...
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Hey Look At This Comic: K6BD Chapter 5 Page 162 · Kill Six Billion Demons! This is a pretty widely known webcomic so I won't go through too lengthy of an overview here. Over the to…
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February 11, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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hmsnofun.bsky.social
premiere starting in fifteen minutes!! get in here!!!
hmsnofun.bsky.social sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 16h
my new video essay, What Would A Better YouTube Look Like, an extended thought exercise about how to improve the platform from multiple algorithms and video versioning to democratic platform control and municipal server capacity,

premieres TODAY at 4pm pacific!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCZW...
What Would A Better YouTube Look Like?
YouTube video by let's talk about stuff w/ sarah zedig
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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bimbo.city
If you can help my friend get literally any job in Toronto I will stream any game of your choice and/or just say that you're really cool and/or explode for your amusement
ichor.plus ICHOR+ 🪞 @ichor.plus · 1d
GENERAL CALL FOR HELP: after two years job hunting in toronto things are getting pretty desperate. i am asking again for anyone with any connections to the toronto job market for *any job* to get in contact with me. if you know someone who knows someone, send them my way. boosts welcome
February 9, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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February 10, 2026 at 10:12 PM
samkeeper.bsky.social
did basically all of these except the upcoming page 4 on the day of, but was too busy drawing and experiencing the events of the comics to do the whole "social media self promotion" part lol
#hourlycomicday #hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicsday2026 #furry
hourly comics day comic done in a sketchbook in graphite, in a cartoony furry style 1st vertical strip: 8:00 am, stylized depiction of waking up, figures of my girlfriends moving around a dim room 2nd strip: 9:00 am I have issues with my neck and back and hunching over to do hourly comics isn't helping 3rd strip: 10:00 am, Juniper (butterfly) returns with pastries, Sarah (goat) tries to wake up, and Zoe (porcupine angel) contemplates hentai. room is depicted in jumbled flat perspective. 4th panel group in bottom right: Juniper seduces me in order to get drawn in my hourlies. it works.
February 10, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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amagire.bsky.social
a children's book about a puppy with two dads? that's porn. ad for light beer? porn. the superbowl half-time show? that's literally pornography. a woman being disrespectful to me on the internet? well you're not gonna believe this, but: it's porn
February 10, 2026 at 9:46 PM
samkeeper.bsky.social
the way this site handles image uploading is so stupid and obnoxious
February 10, 2026 at 10:36 PM
samkeeper.bsky.social
post a banger that's not in english

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qjr...
February 10, 2026 at 10:35 PM
samkeeper.bsky.social
well thank goodness the same sweeps will be kinder and more rational now
February 10, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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hmsnofun.bsky.social
my new video essay, What Would A Better YouTube Look Like, an extended thought exercise about how to improve the platform from multiple algorithms and video versioning to democratic platform control and municipal server capacity,

premieres TODAY at 4pm pacific!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCZW...
What Would A Better YouTube Look Like?
YouTube video by let's talk about stuff w/ sarah zedig
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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itsnero.com
TIME... SHOW ME THE FUTURE

#hourlycomicsday #hcd
hourly comics day comic. row one: we unfortunately watch megalopolis. row two: wind down the day! yay.
February 10, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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jayeatonart.bsky.social
Having now done two back-to-back viewings of Francis Ford Coppola's epic masterpiece Megalopolis, I can now confidently classify it as: so bad it's bad. #HourlyComicDay2026
February 9, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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cattlegoth.bsky.social
Pulsatile Tinnitus
A poem by Rose Waters titled Pulsatile Tinnitus i pray on a coin from a sheik that the sirens fall mute in the night eye circled by shaky thumb every pass a hope for peace i dream about a house down the shore warped and half flooded with voices i dream about noise as a tidal wave my own blood back to haunt me there is an ocean that never ebbs a crash against the silent jetty robbing the room of quiet i claw against my ears i pray on a crystalized tarot deck shuffling my nerves between salt and cardboard hands dried and cracking from tidal ash future muddied by careless waters i tried praying on unsalted peanuts in vain hope crows might carry them closer to a god but they nest from the stillcold air i walk outside as shells worry to dust in my pocket
February 9, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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seepingooze.bsky.social
Goth Bimbo Heathcliff inevitably meets the Garbage Ape
February 9, 2026 at 9:52 PM
samkeeper.bsky.social
HOW BOUT A VACCINE TO PREVENT BUREAUCRACY
HOW BOUT A CURE FOR THE ADDICTIVE PERSONALITY
#goth

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb4n...
H4Y
YouTube video by Sunshine Blind - Topic
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:38 PM