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Iron Spike
@Iron_Spike
Bestselling author. Cartoonist. Exec Prod, animation. Gifted & Talented. Runs @ironcircuscomix, Chicago's largest comix publisher. Shares plenty, owes nothing.
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Jun 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Looks like I found a new podcast to listen to It strikes me as extremely strange that Genndy Tartakovsky's Popeye movie didn't get made, especially after having seen the test animation.

This feels like a slam dunk.

Jun 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Yup.

I think we'd all be better off if we internalized the fact that

- Shitty, inflammatory takes are literally part of multiple peoples' business/promotion strategies, they RELY on those QT dunks for dissemination

- Bluechecks are literally monetizing fighting w/you. The simple fact is, hate, scare tactics, and outrage are quick clicks, and that's been utterly exploited by sociopaths that genuinely couldn't care less either way about ANY situation they're in, as long as they can stir the pot and make ppl mad for attention.
Jun 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
<Spongebob narrator voice> SIX. YEARS. LAY-TUH.

Hey, @breewolfstuff? You're (or rather, your SF/Fantasy rally racing GN, "Hex Americana") is on the front page of the New York Times. Image The interior article, for those curious.

We knew this review was coming, but we didn't know HA would get a front page cameo! Image
Jun 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Just some standard skulduggery shit.

-Marry Beorn to the sister of the lord of Wessex
-Assassinate every male member of that lord's family, who were all in line before her to inherit
-In the meantime, also keep assassinating whoever's king of England, to keep ppl distracted -Eventually, the sister is the only family member left to inherit, and any child she has will belong to Beorn's dynasty
-Oops, she only has a girl, whose claim will always be tenous
-And now Beorn's Infirm, which has a 30% fertility penalty, and his wife is Ill
-Shit
-Dammit
Jun 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Custom vassal of a king/emperor
18 years old
Traits: Intricate Webweaver, Deceitful, Arbitrary, Temperate
Congenital Trait: Fecund
5 Diplomacy
5 Martial
12 Stewardship
24 Intrigue
7 Learning
6 Prowess

That's 399 points, still qualifies you for achievements. Right out the gate, select a Skulduggery focus, fabricate a hook on your lord, and use it to change your vassal contract so that you always get a spot on his council and can never have your title revoked. Run down the skill tree to Schemer ASAP.
Jun 13, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
I've already emailed everyone associated with Iron Circus these screenshots. They're public knowledge.

Andrea Purcell quit. She was not fired. She is lying.

She provides no evidence because the evidence does not support her version of events. Image I couldn't see her posts, because she has me blocked. I was blocked shortly after this exchange. Image
May 30, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
For no reason in particular, been looking up the history of some of my favorite animation studios., and stumbled across a great channel.

Dave Lee Down Under does a lot of animation retrospectives and reviews.

youtube.com/@DaveLeeDownUn… My favorite work of his are these two vids:

A complete history of Betty Boop.


A complete history of Popeye.


Taken together, these two vids document the rise, zenith, and fall of Fleischer Studios in great detail.
May 26, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
OK, looks like Shaun King is back in the news because he's asking for donations for medical treatment.

Do not give this man a dime.

Tangentially-related screenshot I just took (lol bish I don't like you either), but below that: a thread on Shaun King. Image Here is Shaun King taking credit for the work of @arlenparsa, caught in HD.

I'm blocked by Shaun, BTW, because I told him the ol' blame-the-intern excuse for shit like this was bush league. See the tweet above the one now linked.

May 25, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The future we deserve I know not everyone is like me, lurking Qultist forums and "news sites." There's a LOT to laugh at, I share some of it here. But make no mistake: those people fantasize, EXTENSIVELY, about your death. They write multiple paragraphs of fanfic centering your actual annihilation.
May 24, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. The optics of a white professor demanding "Black art" from a Black student, then going on a few years later to be nominated for multiple awards for a "feral" brown boy story

"Cringe" ain't even the word
May 24, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Nuthin' they didn't earn. Diamond Distro was a joke for decades; the poster child for why monopolies suck. Nice to see then reaping what they've sown.
May 24, 2023 • 22 tweets • 11 min read
And now, for no reason, a thread of this morning's Sailwind journey.

Sailwind is a leisurely, chillout game (sort of, you can eff up and die and fail for sure) about sailing the seas as a merchant, by @rawlionworkshop. You can grab it here.

store.steampowered.com/app/1764530/Sa… Anyway, onward.

Started this morning's game at dawn, at the docks of Al'Nilem. It's a small, copper-mining island, always happy to buy wine and general goods for a nice price from me.

But never buy your water from them. It's in short supply, so a total rip-off. ImageImage
May 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Nah, they're still hella pissed I married a white guy. We don't talk; they're upset the marriage didn't fail and they never got to gloat. The difference between my husband's family & mine was like wow. Matt's INSISTED on getting us presents even tho we didn't ask for anything, & held a surprise reception in their hotel. My folks said "We'll get you something if you're still married in a year," then never did. 🤷
May 18, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
LMAO FUCK 'EM UP Mark my words, at least some of the motivations behind this? The actors/presenters see those little ratfuck algogen travesties making the rounds, too, and their negotiations will now be affected proportionately. Image
May 11, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
In my grandparents' free-roaming farm flock, they were quick to slaughter and cook any rooster who lost his status as king of the flock to a younger, stronger male.

It took me years to realize that was actually a mercy. Rosters run hard and flame out like nitrous-injected funnycars; they're actual physical wrecks after a year or three of being the dominant male.

If you don't eat them, the flock will. Just a lot more slowly.
Apr 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It was years ago, but I once found a Twitter by some random woman that just... copied my tweets. The most banal shit, the more personal, basic observations and declarations.

It was not a bot.

She described herself as a writer in her bio.

I @'ed her and it was blanked in hours. She wasn't masquerading as me, she was PLAGIARIZING me. And it was tweets about stuff I was watching on YouTube, and books I was reading, and meals I'd eaten. Copied word for word.
Apr 2, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
FUN FACT (fun now that I have some distance from it, anyway): I got mine because I had a period years back where someone decided their big move was gonna be to strongly imply THEY were the ones who decided what does and doesn't get published at ICC. A person I barely knew. And when I get a whiff of wild loon on the wind, experience has taught that my response can't be a half-measure. So it was around then two-factor got turned on for like... everything, and I applied for the checkmark.
Apr 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Three days, three million.

lmao what is even happening.
Apr 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
LMAO COHOST I mean

yeah, basically
Mar 22, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Srsly. I'm nearly a Minecraft ground-floorer—I got my copy by sending money direct to Notch's Paypal. And even back then, it was clear the "It's like LEGO, but your block supply is endless" aspect was huge.

It's not hard to let people be creative. But it's also not profitable. I sound like a loon talking about it, but I've been around awhile? And I remember when news blogs that covered convention cosplay slowly shifted away from "look at this incredible, high-effort, original creation" and towards "Spiderman onesie from Spirit Halloween."

Emblematic.
Mar 22, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
OFFICIAL @ironcircuscomix submission request: Someone submit a shounen-manga-vibes GN that's basically about a 19-year-old version of the star of "American Movie."

A "YOOOSHI! IKUZO!!!" type kid making a horror movie with a camera he bought with his college fund money, He did it without his mom knowing, and she bursts into tears when she find out what she'd managed to save is all gone, now, but kid don't care: he's making his MOVIE.

He can have the oddly-clueless vibe where he asks both the school's Cool Girls and Outcasts to be in the film.