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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 18h

I assembled a list of short films you can watch right now for free this Halloween. Scary, strange, surreal, and sometimes funny, this list includes live action, stop motion, and animated films from around the world and from filmmakers you've never heard of before

Some Strange Things You Should Watch for Halloween

20 short weird, scary, funny, and surreal films you can watch right now.

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 1d

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

Adv Adham Madi 🍉🇵🇸 @mr-adham.bsky.social · 2d

From southern Gaza
I send you my heartfelt gratitude despite the pain we endure

After a long journey of suffering we were finally able to rent a simple place to shelter us and protect us from the cold and harshness of the open air

we still desperately need your support🙏🏼
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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 18h

I assembled a list of short films you can watch right now for free this Halloween. Scary, strange, surreal, and sometimes funny, this list includes live action, stop motion, and animated films from around the world and from filmmakers you've never heard of before

Some Strange Things You Should Watch for Halloween

20 short weird, scary, funny, and surreal films you can watch right now.

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 1d

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

Adv Adham Madi 🍉🇵🇸 @mr-adham.bsky.social · 2d

From southern Gaza
I send you my heartfelt gratitude despite the pain we endure

After a long journey of suffering we were finally able to rent a simple place to shelter us and protect us from the cold and harshness of the open air

we still desperately need your support🙏🏼
tinyurl.com/HelpAdhamsFa...

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 1d

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!

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 1d

That's what I told Melissa, lmao

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It's worse!

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 1d

It's real!

Video captures Drake wearing Chanel denim lederhosen at Germany's Oktoberfest

The Canadian rapper was seen walking with his crew and drinking beer at the popular festival in Munich on Saturday, Sept. 20.

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 1d

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!

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 3d

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 💜

Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 5d

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Because I don't know how much longer I can rely on social media to promote it, please consider subscribing so you can keep up with my work 💜

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Welcome to Nature's Corrupted, Magen Cubed's newsletter. This is a place to share writing, thoughts, observations, and personal stories at the intersection of art, fiction, and life.

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 11d

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

Mr. Samuel's Teatime Stories - Part I: Home

YouTube video by Yara Asmar

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 11d

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

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...

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · Jul 4

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

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...

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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...

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · Aug 15

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

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...

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · Aug 10

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

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...

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · Aug 10

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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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...

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · Aug 10

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

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...

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · Apr 22

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

You can read it here:

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...

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