Magen Cubed

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Love you, too 💜🫂 Please take care and stay safe. I'm praying for you and your loved ones

Please donate and share 🙏 It's been two years of genocide. Help Adham and his family survive and begin again after displacement

Okay, one more thing while I'm on

I think Taylor Swift works for the CIA and her new album feels like even more proof

Alright, bye!

That's what I told Melissa, lmao

It's worse!

It's real!

Breaking my silence to hate on Drake, the way Kendrick taught us 🙏

I know I said I wouldn't be around anymore, but I need people to know this

A friend of Melissa's went on a big group trip to Germany for Oktoberfest, and they saw Drake there at the bar in lederhosen, and dude was so embarrassing they got away

Okay, bye!

I don't think I'm going to be sticking around on Bluesky. I'm not deleting since I still need to promote my writing, but I can't really justify spending time here anymore

If you want to stay in touch, I'm on Instagram. If you want to read my work as it comes out, subscribe to Nature's Corrupted 💜

YouTube video by Yara Asmar Mr. Samuel's Teatime Stories - Part I: Home

You can watch Mr. Samuel's Teatime Stories for Good Kids and Confused Adults here. If you enjoy surreal independent art, the entire series is online

Where We Go When We Go The middle of the year snuck up on me in a way that I didn't expect. That's on me. One moment, it was March and I was just beginning to warm up after a...

An essay I wrote last summer about Yara Asmar's surreal puppet video series, Mr. Samuel's Teatime Stories for Good Kids and Confused Adults. This is an essay about time, grief, and memory, written after the death of Mr. Samuel's performer, Dr. Michael Dennison, which felt very appropriate

Androids Dreaming at the Bottom of the World Pinocchio and The Fairy With Turquoise Hair Then there appeared at the door a beautiful Baby with blue hair and a white face, like a waxen image, with her...

In this month's newsletter, I discuss the 2001 "animated play" Malice@Doll, a dystopic fable about machines who dream, dolls who become real girls, the terrors of the flesh, and the radical potential for transformation and divinity

Barbed Wire, Sharp Teeth, and David Lynch's Rabbits When I was twenty-four, maybe twenty-five, I was standing in the shower and washing my hair one day. This would have been 2010 or 2011. I don't remember...

In my latest essay, I talk about the death of artists, learning how to be a better writer, and how good art can restore our capacity to feel if we give it the chance to

Three Books About Destroying a Body UFO Mushroom Invasion by Shirakawa Marina In the final pages of Shirakawa Marina's 1976 manga UFO Mushroom Invasion, humanity's domination of the natural...

In this month's essay, I talk about 60s and 70s horror manga, my relationship to violent images, navigating real life atrocities through screens, and making sense of my love of bodily destruction

The Boy Was Never Really There There's a scene from this movie that kind of lives rent-free in my brain. A boy, fair and slim, wanders the rainy street at night. The city breathes around...

In this essay, I discuss the 2002 OVA, Galerians: Rion, which uses the sequel's shiny new engine to adapt the first game across three episodes. It's a mess, but it's a beautiful mess with a lot to say and deserves to be experienced for what it gets right

I Grieve in Stereo I grieve in stereoThe stereo sounds strangeYou know that if it hidesIt doesn't go awayWhen I get out of bedYou’ll see me standingAll alone, horrifiedOn the...

I Grieve in Stereo is the sequel essay that discusses 2002's PS2 pariah, Galerians: ASH. It's a story about the apocalypse's nasty children all grown up, love, sacrifice, and how broken adults can do better for the children who come after us

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Drowning in Halcyon Galerians concept artwork by Shou Tajima There is a boy waking in a hospital, a girl hiding in a hotel, and a goddess reigning from her tower. These are...

Maybe it's the horrible vibes, but I feel like dusting off my trilogy of essays discussing the Galerians psychic survival horror series

Here's Drowning in Halcyon, about the 1999 PlayStation game, Y2K, failed parents, dead gods, and children left at the end of the world

Tomie Kawakami and Her Cordycep Children The more time I spend with Tomie by Junji Ito, the more I think she's my favorite monster. Perhaps, upon completing my recent reread of the dense collection...

In this month's newsletter, I return to Junji Ito's Tomie to talk through the familiar intersections of monstrosity, gender, identity, and the body that I find in the story

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Same to you 💜

Do you like early 2000s CGI animation? Do you like weird dystopic anime? Do you like Pinocchio references? I have the perfect essay for you!

I'm also on Discord, but am legitimately bad about checking it, lol

If we've known each other a while and don't want to lose contact, my email is magencubed@gmail.com 💜

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I don't think I'm going to be sticking around on Bluesky. I'm not deleting since I still need to promote my writing, but I can't really justify spending time here anymore

If you want to stay in touch, I'm on Instagram. If you want to read my work as it comes out, subscribe to Nature's Corrupted 💜

Like, yes, I like talking to my friends and sharing stuff. But I should probably find somewhere else to make text posts since the people who actually own and manage the thing I do that on have no interest in maintaining a safe or healthy community