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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
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NEW ON MY SECOND CHANNEL: do you give a damn about sports? well, you should. especially if you're a leftist. here are a few reasons why.
You Should Care About Sports
YouTube video by Sarah Zedig
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
NEW ON MY SECOND CHANNEL: do you give a damn about sports? well, you should. especially if you're a leftist. here are a few reasons why.
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Feels like it should be bigger news that a journalist known for being loud about her investigations into banks/payment processors appears to be getting financially stonewalled by the entire industry unaminously right now.
The full count as of today:
YouTube suspended
Twitch banned 3x
Patreon suspended (temporary)
Patreon 3x audio flags (one false posi)
Ko-fi suspended (indefinite?)
Buy Me a Coffee suspended
Vice reporting censored
Pornhub censored 3x times
Fansly censored 1x
YouTube suspended
Twitch banned 3x
Patreon suspended (temporary)
Patreon 3x audio flags (one false posi)
Ko-fi suspended (indefinite?)
Buy Me a Coffee suspended
Vice reporting censored
Pornhub censored 3x times
Fansly censored 1x
Is it really a conspiracy to say Ana is being explicitly flagged by finance bros when she's now been banned (or censored) from Twitch, Patreon, Buy Me A Coffee, Ko-Fi, and *PornHub*??
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Feels like it should be bigger news that a journalist known for being loud about her investigations into banks/payment processors appears to be getting financially stonewalled by the entire industry unaminously right now.
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When you ask voters to choose between corporate profits and protecting our neighbors – it’s not even close. This year, Seattle voters chose the tax corporations to fund social housing (63%) and to pass the Seattle Shield Initiative to protect our neighbors (71%). Let’s keep it going!
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
When you ask voters to choose between corporate profits and protecting our neighbors – it’s not even close. This year, Seattle voters chose the tax corporations to fund social housing (63%) and to pass the Seattle Shield Initiative to protect our neighbors (71%). Let’s keep it going!
watching Lost is a curse because you start to realize how many shows just straight up rip whole characters and plots from Lost.
like you can't fool me, For All Mankind, that's a Desmond! tip to toe that's a god damn Desmond I don't care what communist country he happens to be from!
like you can't fool me, For All Mankind, that's a Desmond! tip to toe that's a god damn Desmond I don't care what communist country he happens to be from!
November 16, 2025 at 7:36 AM
watching Lost is a curse because you start to realize how many shows just straight up rip whole characters and plots from Lost.
like you can't fool me, For All Mankind, that's a Desmond! tip to toe that's a god damn Desmond I don't care what communist country he happens to be from!
like you can't fool me, For All Mankind, that's a Desmond! tip to toe that's a god damn Desmond I don't care what communist country he happens to be from!
looking up info on the protests in mexico and getting reminded again that bluesky libs are insanely devoted to casual racism, and to looking at jan 6 type events globally and going "wow we could learn a lot about resisting DRUMPF from these brave freedom fighters!"
November 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
looking up info on the protests in mexico and getting reminded again that bluesky libs are insanely devoted to casual racism, and to looking at jan 6 type events globally and going "wow we could learn a lot about resisting DRUMPF from these brave freedom fighters!"
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Power has gotten incredibly expensive, along with everything else, and we could really use help. We recently housed a third trans person, along with ourselves.
I start my job on the 27th!! That means I STILL can't pay rent this month! Anything you can chip in, trying to keep my eyes forward.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Power has gotten incredibly expensive, along with everything else, and we could really use help. We recently housed a third trans person, along with ourselves.
from this American Socialist issue charmingly dubbed the Dubb Edition www.marxists.org/history/usa/...
shoutout to Katie Wilson and Zohran Mamdani, the candidates who could provide the best administration
shoutout to Katie Wilson and Zohran Mamdani, the candidates who could provide the best administration
November 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
from this American Socialist issue charmingly dubbed the Dubb Edition www.marxists.org/history/usa/...
shoutout to Katie Wilson and Zohran Mamdani, the candidates who could provide the best administration
shoutout to Katie Wilson and Zohran Mamdani, the candidates who could provide the best administration
I can feel a connection here begging to be teased out, between this sentiment and the idea that some kinds of content up to and including just "sex scenes" generally are this imposition on an audience but I'm not quite sure how to articulate it
"can we please make the game on the assumption that whoever is playing has decided to so" has always got me blank stares at work unforch
it's certainly been frustrating to see devs say more and more "sorry guys but we need to make our games shout out every thing and handhold every last point so that someone who doesn't give a fuck about it can sleepwalk through it"
like why pander to people who, essentially, do not like your work?
like why pander to people who, essentially, do not like your work?
November 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I can feel a connection here begging to be teased out, between this sentiment and the idea that some kinds of content up to and including just "sex scenes" generally are this imposition on an audience but I'm not quite sure how to articulate it
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bitches will be like "excited to make new friends in renaissancetwt ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡" and then their bio will say "dni: mountebanks, quacks, charlatans, cretins, rakes, roaring girls, molls, volpone yumes, mosca kins, alceste kins, commedia dell'artetwt." smdh these puriteens
July 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
bitches will be like "excited to make new friends in renaissancetwt ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡" and then their bio will say "dni: mountebanks, quacks, charlatans, cretins, rakes, roaring girls, molls, volpone yumes, mosca kins, alceste kins, commedia dell'artetwt." smdh these puriteens
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I just wrote a whole followup for my subscribers breaking down the best and the worst of everything in Young Magazine that WASN'T about being really into plush toys! Featuring me dishing on a couple of comics almost certain to win the actual poll. Check it out for just $2:
#comics
#manga
#comics
#manga
Hey Look At This Comic: The Young Magazine Sampler | Sam Keeper and Storming the Ivory Tower
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November 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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とても丁寧な感想を書いてくださいました🐇💌
ありがとです❤️🩹
Thank you for enjoying my work🧸🌙🐇💌❤️🩹
You can read Young Magazine USA for FREE on kindle or official website.
🐇kindle
amzn.asia/d/jk1d9OY
🐇Official website of the Young Magazine USA
young-magazine-usa.com
#IsMyLoveStrange #youngmagazine
ありがとです❤️🩹
Thank you for enjoying my work🧸🌙🐇💌❤️🩹
You can read Young Magazine USA for FREE on kindle or official website.
🐇kindle
amzn.asia/d/jk1d9OY
🐇Official website of the Young Magazine USA
young-magazine-usa.com
#IsMyLoveStrange #youngmagazine
Young Magazine, a venerable seinen manga publisher, tried to break into the American market this year with a phone book sized free pitch collection of scifi, fantasy, and horror.
Naturally, I instead got obsessed with the story of a girl attracted to plush toys.
my review of Is My Love Strange:
Naturally, I instead got obsessed with the story of a girl attracted to plush toys.
my review of Is My Love Strange:
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · Hey Look At This Comic: "Is My Love Strange?" · Set the scene like this: giant phone books full of manga, piled on tables and cardboard stands outside our local Kinokuniya import s…
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November 15, 2025 at 6:27 AM
とても丁寧な感想を書いてくださいました🐇💌
ありがとです❤️🩹
Thank you for enjoying my work🧸🌙🐇💌❤️🩹
You can read Young Magazine USA for FREE on kindle or official website.
🐇kindle
amzn.asia/d/jk1d9OY
🐇Official website of the Young Magazine USA
young-magazine-usa.com
#IsMyLoveStrange #youngmagazine
ありがとです❤️🩹
Thank you for enjoying my work🧸🌙🐇💌❤️🩹
You can read Young Magazine USA for FREE on kindle or official website.
🐇kindle
amzn.asia/d/jk1d9OY
🐇Official website of the Young Magazine USA
young-magazine-usa.com
#IsMyLoveStrange #youngmagazine
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IT'S LIVE! The third SICKOS SELECTION erotica bundle is available NOW! Featuring over 1,200 pages of comics, art and prose from 25 superstar smut crafters, including SYBIL #1 by yours truly! At just $25 USD, this is a LOT of spice for one low price~ ❤️💦
https://itch.io/b/3393/sickos-selection-3
https://itch.io/b/3393/sickos-selection-3
November 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
IT'S LIVE! The third SICKOS SELECTION erotica bundle is available NOW! Featuring over 1,200 pages of comics, art and prose from 25 superstar smut crafters, including SYBIL #1 by yours truly! At just $25 USD, this is a LOT of spice for one low price~ ❤️💦
https://itch.io/b/3393/sickos-selection-3
https://itch.io/b/3393/sickos-selection-3
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a lot of this stuff is genuinely irreplacable, please reach out if you have any info. this suuucks.
KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out.
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
GAME OVER: $25k+ of tech stolen from Kent arcade
Tens of thousands of dollars worth of vintage video game equipment was stolen from a Kent arcade this week.
www.kiro7.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:34 AM
a lot of this stuff is genuinely irreplacable, please reach out if you have any info. this suuucks.
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short on rent again! still no job offers! it's hell out here but made easier by all of you. thank you bsky.app/profile/icho...
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
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November 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
short on rent again! still no job offers! it's hell out here but made easier by all of you. thank you bsky.app/profile/icho...
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「この恋は変ですか？」''Is My Love Strange?''
ーいいえ。あなただけが’’変’’だなんて そんなことはありません。
恋をしたら、誰でも ’’変’’になっちゃうのです。
ただ、自分が’’変’’だと 認めたくない人がいる。たくさん。
だから正直な人たちを 笑うのです。
自分には、そんな勇気がないから。
Thank you for enjoying my work❤️🩹
Free download until 2025/12/31
negotozzz.booth.pm/items/7643448
#youngmagazine #IsMyloveStrange
ーいいえ。あなただけが’’変’’だなんて そんなことはありません。
恋をしたら、誰でも ’’変’’になっちゃうのです。
ただ、自分が’’変’’だと 認めたくない人がいる。たくさん。
だから正直な人たちを 笑うのです。
自分には、そんな勇気がないから。
Thank you for enjoying my work❤️🩹
Free download until 2025/12/31
negotozzz.booth.pm/items/7643448
#youngmagazine #IsMyloveStrange
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 AM
「この恋は変ですか？」''Is My Love Strange?''
ーいいえ。あなただけが’’変’’だなんて そんなことはありません。
恋をしたら、誰でも ’’変’’になっちゃうのです。
ただ、自分が’’変’’だと 認めたくない人がいる。たくさん。
だから正直な人たちを 笑うのです。
自分には、そんな勇気がないから。
Thank you for enjoying my work❤️🩹
Free download until 2025/12/31
negotozzz.booth.pm/items/7643448
#youngmagazine #IsMyloveStrange
ーいいえ。あなただけが’’変’’だなんて そんなことはありません。
恋をしたら、誰でも ’’変’’になっちゃうのです。
ただ、自分が’’変’’だと 認めたくない人がいる。たくさん。
だから正直な人たちを 笑うのです。
自分には、そんな勇気がないから。
Thank you for enjoying my work❤️🩹
Free download until 2025/12/31
negotozzz.booth.pm/items/7643448
#youngmagazine #IsMyloveStrange
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We've got all these pervert trans girls out here wanting to be prey or predator in some sort of horny wild animal scenario, but who's filling in the rest of the ecosystem? Where's the herbivores?? Where's the decomposers and scavengers?? You may be having hot sex but your biosphere is FUCKED girl
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 AM
We've got all these pervert trans girls out here wanting to be prey or predator in some sort of horny wild animal scenario, but who's filling in the rest of the ecosystem? Where's the herbivores?? Where's the decomposers and scavengers?? You may be having hot sex but your biosphere is FUCKED girl
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Still trying to keep the power on while I still have yet to be paid!!
I start my job on the 27th!! That means I STILL can't pay rent this month! Anything you can chip in, trying to keep my eyes forward.
paypal: www.paypal.me/InternetDrag...
ko-fi: ko-fi.com/gaydragongirl
venmo: account.venmo.com/u/GayDragonG...
#BegPost #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #transcrowdfund
paypal: www.paypal.me/InternetDrag...
ko-fi: ko-fi.com/gaydragongirl
venmo: account.venmo.com/u/GayDragonG...
#BegPost #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #transcrowdfund
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November 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Still trying to keep the power on while I still have yet to be paid!!
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Harrell throwing doubt on the validity of the election on the way out the door. ever classy behavior from Bruce!
November 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Harrell throwing doubt on the validity of the election on the way out the door. ever classy behavior from Bruce!
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Hanging onto every bit of good news
The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.
This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.
lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...
The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.
This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.
lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...
One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife
lostcoastoutpost.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Hanging onto every bit of good news
The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.
This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.
lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...
The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.
This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.
lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...
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CERTIFIED aeria gloris moment!!!! <3 <3
(also yo i've got process shots of this piece up in THE VAULT on my Patreon and Subscribestar, psst patreon.com/irisjay subscribestar.adult/irisjay)
(also yo i've got process shots of this piece up in THE VAULT on my Patreon and Subscribestar, psst patreon.com/irisjay subscribestar.adult/irisjay)
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
CERTIFIED aeria gloris moment!!!! <3 <3
(also yo i've got process shots of this piece up in THE VAULT on my Patreon and Subscribestar, psst patreon.com/irisjay subscribestar.adult/irisjay)
(also yo i've got process shots of this piece up in THE VAULT on my Patreon and Subscribestar, psst patreon.com/irisjay subscribestar.adult/irisjay)
casts «curse of too much energy to lie still but too little energy to get up and do things» on you
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
casts «curse of too much energy to lie still but too little energy to get up and do things» on you
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What an election for Puget Sound.
-Full sweep for progressives in Seattle, Burien, Redmond
-New progressive mayors in Tacoma, Lynnwood
-GOP CM Conrad Lee replaced in Bellevue
-3/4 progressives winning in Kirkland
-Full sweep of special legislative races
-Gains or holds in many other cities
-Full sweep for progressives in Seattle, Burien, Redmond
-New progressive mayors in Tacoma, Lynnwood
-GOP CM Conrad Lee replaced in Bellevue
-3/4 progressives winning in Kirkland
-Full sweep of special legislative races
-Gains or holds in many other cities
November 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
What an election for Puget Sound.
-Full sweep for progressives in Seattle, Burien, Redmond
-New progressive mayors in Tacoma, Lynnwood
-GOP CM Conrad Lee replaced in Bellevue
-3/4 progressives winning in Kirkland
-Full sweep of special legislative races
-Gains or holds in many other cities
-Full sweep for progressives in Seattle, Burien, Redmond
-New progressive mayors in Tacoma, Lynnwood
-GOP CM Conrad Lee replaced in Bellevue
-3/4 progressives winning in Kirkland
-Full sweep of special legislative races
-Gains or holds in many other cities
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So my partner made some beautiful pixel-art alt arts of #Netrunner cards to sell at worlds this year, but unfortunately fedex fucked us and we did not get them in time
So they're online now!! check them out, and maybe pick some up! they're awesome!!
www.makeplayingcards.com/sell/marketp...
So they're online now!! check them out, and maybe pick some up! they're awesome!!
www.makeplayingcards.com/sell/marketp...
Cardgame Hacking AN - Autumn Set Cards
Full playets (x3) of three Netrunner Alt Arts I drew in the autumn in honour of the game. Includes:: Muse - Next Big Thing - Scrounge.
Inspiration
www.makeplayingcards.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
So my partner made some beautiful pixel-art alt arts of #Netrunner cards to sell at worlds this year, but unfortunately fedex fucked us and we did not get them in time
So they're online now!! check them out, and maybe pick some up! they're awesome!!
www.makeplayingcards.com/sell/marketp...
So they're online now!! check them out, and maybe pick some up! they're awesome!!
www.makeplayingcards.com/sell/marketp...
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The protagonists of anime My Dress Up Darling occupy a kinder world, more free to explore their identities and passions. Our world has more dangers, but have we given up on treating causes of harm when kids have latitude to express themselves, in favor of treating the symptoms with crude amputation?
My Dress Up Darling Is The World I Want To Live In
A blog of esoteric media criticism, laying siege to the Ivory Tower of academia from the gutters of pop culture
www.stormingtheivorytower.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The protagonists of anime My Dress Up Darling occupy a kinder world, more free to explore their identities and passions. Our world has more dangers, but have we given up on treating causes of harm when kids have latitude to express themselves, in favor of treating the symptoms with crude amputation?