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Ekkochambers is the website of indie multimedia artist Ian/Iana Spencer. That's me! :P

And these are my sona characters:

My bat fursona Ekko (left) and my Seraphim voidsona (right). They are queer-patonic besties :3

I make weird, somewhat experimental art is mediums ranging from genre-abnostic music, indie video games, digital (raster) paintings and CG art.

I'm in my mid 20s rn and starting to form an authentic identity for the first time, so it's kind of hard to describe exactly who I "am" at this stage of life, but I'm non-binary (genderfluid for lack of a better term. I guess "demi-girl" is also a viable label but idk), "dark grey" aro-ace (romance/sex is neat in fiction but i wouldn't wanna partake in it in any real way) and (very) neurodivergent (ASD/ADHD). Other than that, in terms of idenity, artistic expression matters a lot to me, my politics are very progressive but less in a "moralistic" way and more in a materialist/humanist way (I think it's more important that we menaingfully stand up against intolerance and bigotry and that everyone's immdiate material needs are met, as opposed to fetishizing some vague idea of "accountablity" or virtue signal in a "performation shitlib" kind of way. I partook in that terminally online, Keyboard Warrior(TM) nonsense as a kid and I can tell you it's a waste of time, even when it's someone less braindead than Elongated Muskrat or the Sell Their Houses An Move guy doing it lol) I'm also kinda chubby (mainly because I take risperdole but I also do like food lol) which sounds like a small thing but I've learned to love my body so it's kinda become part of my identity. I don't think I'll ever rly like how I look w/ out makeup for gender dysphoria reasons, but I've come around that my fat lil belly is cute uwu

I would describe my artistic projects as mixing very heady, high-level themes (often philosophical concepts like the diacotemy bewteen the abject evil and the deranged, pathetic flacidness of fascism, the faustian nature of capitalism, the existentialism of losing - and having - bodily automony, the tyrannical hubris inherent to the Evangelical concept of God, the egotistically-identical but more unpredictable hubris of people playing god with technology and science, etc) with the aesthetics of things that are both "cringe" and/or terminally online (furry and anime-inspired art, webcore, creepypasta, emo and punk aesthetics, gothic/industrial aesthetics etc). I have a very eclectic mix of aesthetics that make up my unique style as an artist. A weird example: I had both a Rivethead goth phase and a seperate scenecore/emo phase as a kid, and then in early adulthood I got rly into Hyperpop and contemporary experimental stuff, so my music (both KILL KRYTPO! and my self titled project) is as influenced Crystal Castles and Combichrist as it is 100 Gecs and Silverstein lol

Some of my projects:

• Various indie games (Link to my itch.io)
• KILL KRYPTO!: My experimental cyberpunk "band" (Spotify link)
• My self-titled music project(Spotify link)

Mini-Blog

weird lil animation i did. kinda mundane but it's got a cool atmosphere

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hey y'all! You've likely already saw this on my sidebar to the right, but just in case you didn't, I have a new album out early on Bandcamp called bionicman

You can get it here!

if you look to your right (of the computer screen lol) there's instructions on how you can get it for free, if you can snatch up a Bandcamp code from the linked PDF ;3

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ekko portrait i painted today :3

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noir buny

and a sloppy warmup sketch lol

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I've been playing Psycho Patrol R recently. Great game, definately takes "no handholding" to a comical extreme, but if that's you're thing, i'd definately reccomend it!

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I feel a little better today. The world feels a little less hopeless today, weirdly enough.

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Ngl i've been feeling like shit lately, emotionally. I live in the US and it feels like there's this storm going on, and i don't know if i'll see the end of it. Been thinking a lot about death recently.

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UPDATE: Here's that "I'm Back" webzine

Hey Y'all! I'M BACK! >:3

I'll make a webzine soon to show what I've been doing artistically! uwu

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Issue two of my fiction webzine is out now: VOID: A Cosmic Dramedy #2

You might wanna read the first one first though!

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AN ACTUAL UPDATE REAL QUICK: pretty soon I will not be updating this website for about seven or so days, because im going on ANOTHER vaction w/ my family (i know, i just got home y'all) and this one will be at a cabin with no wifi and very little cell service. Tbh im not rly excited for this one but the whole family is going and it'll be a good excuse to work on my MTD and/or Hellcaster for a lil bit, since I'll have my computer w/out any wifi or cell service. Plus ive been to these cabin before and they are very cozy :P

don't worry though! I'll be back after that :3

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I've written a new webzine about not staying silent and speaking out for what you believe in. I think it's a rly important message rn, you can read it here or under the "WEBZINES" tab ;3

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ART DUMP TIME! :3

Hope y'all enjoy some of these :3

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Hey y'all: V5 of the Mixtape Delinquents Alpha-demo is out. It's the beginning of me solidifying the game design of MTD in practice! You can get it here!

For those who don't know, Mixtape Delinquents is a WIP indie immersive sim RPG set in a retrofuturistic dystopia ruled by a corpotocracy known as the Syndicate, who have taken over the US government and World Wide Web alike. It's very much a cyberpunk satire of the state of tech and politics, and is rich in both Deus Ex-and-Creulty Squad-inspired imsim gameplay and story rich dialogue. We see a bit more of the latter in the V5, particularly in the beginning of the (very unfinished) mall level with Lance

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I need to take gamedev less seriously, y'all. Work on smaller, sillier projects. Some of my best work in the medium of game design (like Netherpunk and Eyestrain D.Z.M.) has been when i was just goofing around and having fun, then the games were fun

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Holy crap yall! Thank you for 1000 visits! Im so glad this slice of the internet ive made for myself has been viewed by ppl 1000 times :3

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!!!EMERGENCY VACATION UPDATE!!!

hort.

resume regular activities

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If you have a sec, you should read this webzine in particular: VOID: A Cosmic Dramedy #1: it's the first in a series im doing, and its a story ive wanted to tell for a long time. It's a slice-of-slice dramedy of sort, it'll probably be release mostly in short snippets, like one scene at a time, but it'll be a bit serialized rather than episodic rly

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Update on the last post: Just wanted to let everyone know that there's an Ekko shrine now! You can get to it in the "Zines, Shrine and Blogs" Tab on the left side bar, or just click here

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idk if i ever mentioned this on this website, but my sona character's (this guy) name is Ekko, hence the name of this site. They're a very chaotic, aggresively non-binary vampire bat, but i'll save the details for a shrine webzine :3

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There's this cozy little loft where I (and my siblings) will be sleeping, although my poor kid brother is heartbroken and currently weeping over the fact that i'll be sleeping on a cushion rather than one of the beds. I was gonna sleep on this cushion anyway but the poor kid feels guilty becuz he thinks it's his "fault" :(

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My family and I are staying at a lil cabin. I don't get out of the house very often so this is a refreshing change of scenery ^^

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Going on vacation today! My parents's house is in need of repair, so they're going to Orlando and they invited me to tag along! *maybe* i'll give some updates on how it went :P

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Genuinely, everyone should go listen to Echo Alexander, and not just because we're mutuals on bsky lol. They're making some of the more interesting music ive seen in recent years, they have a distinct and unique style but they span styles. Hella underrated imo

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In this little area, im gonna post short lil blog posts like this one, about whatever: Random thoughts, updates, how life's been or even reccomendations. Just whatever comes to mind :p (By the way, the gallery is now it's own dedicated page :3