Collection: AKA Grunk

Founder/Alchemist

My work is a critique of the commodification of queer and neurodivergent identities by capitalist systems. Only allowing us to exist in the margins if we help big business turn a profit. In our world everything must be packaged and marketed for consumption even your misery and pain. 

Orc.Style was my lifeline to agency and authenticity when I was losing the battle against mental illness. Being a queer with AuADHD, I have always felt like an outsider looking in. A monster at the fringes of society. I have been told my whole life that I am too much, too loud, and too queer.  The world kept trying to make me less when I knew I was more.

At Orc.Style we embrace our flaws and love the little monsters inside of us until they aren't there to terrify and terrorize us anymore. The Sparkle Orc Universe its characters, lore, and underlying systems are all about queer radical self love in a world that is actively trying to destroy us. I have been working on this story and these ideas in some way/shape/form since I was in high school and now I am unleashing them to do good in the world. I have been joined on this adventure with some amazing friends and collaborators who have shared art and characters for us to play with. 

I grew up loving action figures He-Man, Transformers, X-Men, Toxic Crusaders, Ninja Turtles, Spawn and Bucky O'Hare. I envisioned Orc.Style as a way to create my own fantasy toy line featuring characters inspired by my real life queer heroes, to create a world where the queer person isn't an afterthought but the default main character.  

Everything you see in the site is built within an elaborate universe called the Spiral and all the lore runs on an internal tabletop role-play gaming system Powered By Sparkles that is under active development. We will be sharing more details about these places and systems in the years to come. I hope to share with you stories of queer heroes battling to survive in a world that is rapidly falling to fascism and fear.

AKA Grunk