Magen Cubed
@magencubed.net
Writer, essayist, and occasional critic. Jotaro Kujo's #1 shooter. Notorious Shinji Ikari apologist. Likes Tomie Kawakami a little too much.
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Magen Cubed
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Looking For Meaning In Other People's Houses
Let's talk about how important it is to share weird art with the people you love.
buttondown.com
In my latest essay, I discuss Unedited Footage of a Bear, This House Has People In It, sharing art with the people you love, and how that experience can give you permission to see art in new ways
You can read it now for free, along with my entire archive, at the link below
You can read it now for free, along with my entire archive, at the link below
It's very satisfying to explain something that happens in #AssassinFamilyWIP to Melissa and for her to go "Wow! That's deeply uncomfortable! We should explore that further!" 😌🫶
September 18, 2026 at 7:37 PM
It's very satisfying to explain something that happens in #AssassinFamilyWIP to Melissa and for her to go "Wow! That's deeply uncomfortable! We should explore that further!" 😌🫶
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I've set up this link so folks can support all the survival funds I host in one place. As we head steadily to zero, I’m distributing what you give to least-supported families. This brings help to everyone; if you make it recurring, you can sustains it. Simple yet powerful math.
tiny.cc/divyafunds
tiny.cc/divyafunds
September 18, 2026 at 11:01 AM
I've set up this link so folks can support all the survival funds I host in one place. As we head steadily to zero, I’m distributing what you give to least-supported families. This brings help to everyone; if you make it recurring, you can sustains it. Simple yet powerful math.
tiny.cc/divyafunds
tiny.cc/divyafunds
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Akram is carrying his whole family: four younger siblings and their widowed mom. Every ounce supports their basic survival, plus ongoing medical and educational needs. Make it recurring to sponsor LIFE.
Give / find the Abdelwahed family's link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Give / find the Abdelwahed family's link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...
September 18, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Akram is carrying his whole family: four younger siblings and their widowed mom. Every ounce supports their basic survival, plus ongoing medical and educational needs. Make it recurring to sponsor LIFE.
Give / find the Abdelwahed family's link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Give / find the Abdelwahed family's link here. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Please support Hammam and his family 💜 Help them survive in the ongoing siege against Palestinian life in Gaza. Their needs are real and urgent. Contribute and share 💜
September 18, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Please support Hammam and his family 💜 Help them survive in the ongoing siege against Palestinian life in Gaza. Their needs are real and urgent. Contribute and share 💜
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The second volume of this project will go out in a week or so. It's going to include photography, illustration, animation, sculptural work, avant-garde film, and music, covering all the works that I've been wanting to talk about in the latter half of the year
You can read the first volume now:
You can read the first volume now:
ENGAGING WITH ART EVERY DAY: VOL 1
In this month's newsletter, I discuss my current life project: taking the time to experience at least one new piece of art every single day. Good, bad, ugly, pretty, it doesn't matter. Here is some of what I've experienced so far and why I want to share it
In this month's newsletter, I discuss my current life project: taking the time to experience at least one new piece of art every single day. Good, bad, ugly, pretty, it doesn't matter. Here is some of what I've experienced so far and why I want to share it
Engaging With Art Every Day: Vol 1
I decided to engage with a piece of art every day. Here's what came of it.
buttondown.com
September 9, 2026 at 11:30 AM
The second volume of this project will go out in a week or so. It's going to include photography, illustration, animation, sculptural work, avant-garde film, and music, covering all the works that I've been wanting to talk about in the latter half of the year
You can read the first volume now:
You can read the first volume now:
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In my latest essay, I discuss Unedited Footage of a Bear, This House Has People In It, sharing art with the people you love, and how that experience can give you permission to see art in new ways
You can read it now for free, along with my entire archive, at the link below
You can read it now for free, along with my entire archive, at the link below
Looking For Meaning In Other People's Houses
Let's talk about how important it is to share weird art with the people you love.
buttondown.com
August 28, 2026 at 9:45 AM
In my latest essay, I discuss Unedited Footage of a Bear, This House Has People In It, sharing art with the people you love, and how that experience can give you permission to see art in new ways
You can read it now for free, along with my entire archive, at the link below
You can read it now for free, along with my entire archive, at the link below
There's a lot of "Dolls are for everyone!!!!" until someone who isn't a cis woman appears, and then it's "Well, dolls are *for* women and girls, and you can't force us out." Which is certainly a stance you can take in the face of gender diversity in your spaces
Watching people in the doll space struggle with gender essentialism and cisheteronormative patriarchy while trying to Do Feminism™️ through consumer choices, chucking softly, and closing the browser
September 18, 2026 at 12:11 PM
There's a lot of "Dolls are for everyone!!!!" until someone who isn't a cis woman appears, and then it's "Well, dolls are *for* women and girls, and you can't force us out." Which is certainly a stance you can take in the face of gender diversity in your spaces
Getting these ads over a year late, Instagram's cooked
September 18, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Getting these ads over a year late, Instagram's cooked
You're not wrong 😌
all i know is that at least one of your doll women is married to a they/them mothman doll and that is feminism, to me
September 17, 2026 at 10:40 PM
You're not wrong 😌
Watching people in the doll space struggle with gender essentialism and cisheteronormative patriarchy while trying to Do Feminism™️ through consumer choices, chucking softly, and closing the browser
September 17, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Watching people in the doll space struggle with gender essentialism and cisheteronormative patriarchy while trying to Do Feminism™️ through consumer choices, chucking softly, and closing the browser
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Missed an email from the bank job, still being considered but they have to go through more applicants & I won’t start till October if accepted
Need help getting through this month bad, hopefully the struggle ends soon though www.paypal.com/paypalme/hak...
Need help getting through this month bad, hopefully the struggle ends soon though www.paypal.com/paypalme/hak...
Pay Ian Patterson using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/HakethKOTB and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
www.paypal.com
September 13, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Missed an email from the bank job, still being considered but they have to go through more applicants & I won’t start till October if accepted
Need help getting through this month bad, hopefully the struggle ends soon though www.paypal.com/paypalme/hak...
Need help getting through this month bad, hopefully the struggle ends soon though www.paypal.com/paypalme/hak...
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Any help getting this some visibility is appreciated 👏🏾
Missed an email from the bank job, still being considered but they have to go through more applicants & I won’t start till October if accepted
Need help getting through this month bad, hopefully the struggle ends soon though www.paypal.com/paypalme/hak...
Need help getting through this month bad, hopefully the struggle ends soon though www.paypal.com/paypalme/hak...
Pay Ian Patterson using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/HakethKOTB and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
www.paypal.com
September 17, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Any help getting this some visibility is appreciated 👏🏾
Adding new material to my research pile for a project I said I wasn't working on
September 17, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Adding new material to my research pile for a project I said I wasn't working on
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What's up gamers, are we ready prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good?
September 17, 2026 at 4:38 PM
What's up gamers, are we ready prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good?
20 year old me was annoying, I don't want to hear from her
Would 20 y/o you be impressed or disappointed by you today?
September 17, 2026 at 5:45 PM
20 year old me was annoying, I don't want to hear from her
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Hammam and his family are living in a tent, unable to access food and life-saving medical care, while Hammam works tirelessly as a nurse to treat the sick and wounded
Please support their survival 💜 Donate and share
Please support their survival 💜 Donate and share
September 17, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Hammam and his family are living in a tent, unable to access food and life-saving medical care, while Hammam works tirelessly as a nurse to treat the sick and wounded
Please support their survival 💜 Donate and share
Please support their survival 💜 Donate and share
What's up gamers, are we ready prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good?
September 17, 2026 at 4:38 PM
What's up gamers, are we ready prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good?
Hammam and his family are living in a tent, unable to access food and life-saving medical care, while Hammam works tirelessly as a nurse to treat the sick and wounded
Please support their survival 💜 Donate and share
Please support their survival 💜 Donate and share
September 17, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Hammam and his family are living in a tent, unable to access food and life-saving medical care, while Hammam works tirelessly as a nurse to treat the sick and wounded
Please support their survival 💜 Donate and share
Please support their survival 💜 Donate and share
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The show itself was...incredible
It was a ballet. It was an opera. It was a cabaret show. It was a play. It was a confessional. It was an ass-shaking pop concert. It was a communal celebration of art, joy, love, grief, and the divine
Idk man this was a life-changing kind of art experience
It was a ballet. It was an opera. It was a cabaret show. It was a play. It was a confessional. It was an ass-shaking pop concert. It was a communal celebration of art, joy, love, grief, and the divine
Idk man this was a life-changing kind of art experience
September 17, 2026 at 2:08 PM
The show itself was...incredible
It was a ballet. It was an opera. It was a cabaret show. It was a play. It was a confessional. It was an ass-shaking pop concert. It was a communal celebration of art, joy, love, grief, and the divine
Idk man this was a life-changing kind of art experience
It was a ballet. It was an opera. It was a cabaret show. It was a play. It was a confessional. It was an ass-shaking pop concert. It was a communal celebration of art, joy, love, grief, and the divine
Idk man this was a life-changing kind of art experience
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Still thinking about last night's show. It was the very last performance of the Lux tour. Rosalía was very emotional and candid with the audience about everything that went into it, ready to say goodbye to the album and move on to something new. Seeing that candor in a packed stadium was a blessing
September 17, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Still thinking about last night's show. It was the very last performance of the Lux tour. Rosalía was very emotional and candid with the audience about everything that went into it, ready to say goodbye to the album and move on to something new. Seeing that candor in a packed stadium was a blessing
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Well
That was an unforgettable performance. Probably the greatest concert I've ever been to, but even to call it a concert feels insufficient
That was an unforgettable performance. Probably the greatest concert I've ever been to, but even to call it a concert feels insufficient
Brb, me and @melissadominic.bsky.social are going to Miami to see Rosalía
September 17, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Well
That was an unforgettable performance. Probably the greatest concert I've ever been to, but even to call it a concert feels insufficient
That was an unforgettable performance. Probably the greatest concert I've ever been to, but even to call it a concert feels insufficient
Brother you ever have an experience with art in public so profoundly beautiful and sincere that it reaffirms your will to live and make art for yourself?
September 17, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Brother you ever have an experience with art in public so profoundly beautiful and sincere that it reaffirms your will to live and make art for yourself?
Well
That was an unforgettable performance. Probably the greatest concert I've ever been to, but even to call it a concert feels insufficient
That was an unforgettable performance. Probably the greatest concert I've ever been to, but even to call it a concert feels insufficient
Brb, me and @melissadominic.bsky.social are going to Miami to see Rosalía
September 17, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Well
That was an unforgettable performance. Probably the greatest concert I've ever been to, but even to call it a concert feels insufficient
That was an unforgettable performance. Probably the greatest concert I've ever been to, but even to call it a concert feels insufficient
Good news, everyone is dressed as a nun!
Brb, me and @melissadominic.bsky.social are going to Miami to see Rosalía
September 17, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Good news, everyone is dressed as a nun!
Brb, me and @melissadominic.bsky.social are going to Miami to see Rosalía
September 17, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Brb, me and @melissadominic.bsky.social are going to Miami to see Rosalía