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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
St. Trina keychain from @dovahcaine.bsky.social. She's just a sleepy girl. #eldenring
Car keys with a cute purple keychain of St. Trina from Elden Ring, sleeping and dreaming happily.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#my9games
My 9 games: Loom, Metal Gear Solid 2, Elden Ring, Disco Elysium, Minesweeper, What Remains of Edith Finch, Quarantine Circular, Final Fantasy VIII, and Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Gen. AI = 🙅🏽 Genly Ai = 🙆🏽
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. The protagonist is named Genly Ai.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I was introduced to Tim Curry in childhood staple The Hunt For Red October, in a role basically made for him: A hapless Soviet naval doctor who doesn't realize every single one of his fellow officers is defecting to the enemy, even after they leave the boat.
Tim Curry as Dr. Petrov in The Hunt For Red October
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
hello I'm the terrifying paradimensional space god monkey Nagilum
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Found this book by freak chance and it's absolutely dismantling my life.
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing From Complex Trauma, by Stephanie Foo
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Finished. This book truly loosened the sludge around my spirit.
Novel: Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette Polek
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
finished / started
Two novels: We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriel Cabezón Camara and Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette Polek
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Finished this morning. I treasure this collection for opening my eye.
Book: "Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From The Twenty-First Century" edited by Alice Wong
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
📚 finished/started
Books. I finished "A Man Without a Country" by Kurt Vonnegut and started "We Are Green and Trembling" by Gabriela Cabezón Camara.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Felt cute; will never delete; haters, eat glass.
MOSSLAX
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
That man is symptomatic of a fundamentally frail historical operating system that requires—spiritually, economically, organizationally, ontologically requires—a living other to subjugate and debase 

That man, like that system, cannot stand on its own. It cannot consider itself. It cannot love. It cannot express, let alone share, an experience of self. It is systematized survival fear run amok, and it useless to our species and all species on this Earth.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
"(Kilgore Trout) hypothecated an America in which almost all of the work was done by machines, and the only people who could get work had three or more Ph.D.'s"
Kurt Vonnegut's 1965 novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I don't like meme taxonomy debates, but also I don't like that we call this a ball.
A football is not a ball. It's a prolate spheroid, a burlap lemon.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
As the great @paperbackparadise.bsky.social says, the only way out is to read.
Three books I purchased today. 1. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Ibram X. Kendi). 2. Let the Record Show: A Political History of Act Up New York 1987–1993 (Sarah Schulman). 3. Dear Bi Men: A Black Man's Perspective on Power, Consent, Breaking Down Binaries, and Combating Erasure (J.R. Yussuf).
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
In Seattle I programmed my own little film studies degree by deep diving into things I found fascinating at my "campus library," @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social. I'm satisfied with how far I got, but it was fun to find this old list plotting my next adventures.
Handwritten list, descending order: Early Soviet Cinema, Tarkovsky, Welles, Parallel cinema, TW/HK new wave, Italian neorealism, Ozu, Rat, Oshima, Melies, Schrader, Leigh, Almereyda, Godard, Resnais
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Once every couple years I get an activity notification on Letterboxd that hits me right in my Personal Mythology brain.
A user named "when the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king what he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight and he'll win the whole thing 'fore he enters the ring there's no body to better when your mind is your might so when you solo, you hold your own hand and remember that depth is the greatest of heights and if you know where you stand, then you know where to land and if you fall it won't matter, 'cuz you'll know that you're right," which is the title of Fiona Apple's brilliant second album, has liked my Letterboxd review of Sleeping Beauty.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Love this game. 🐜
My Elden Ring character with ant sword and ant shield
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Kevin McAllister from the Home Alone films is doing "Home Alone Face" (i.e., he is agape and alarmed with his hands on his cheeks) on the cover of Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water. It looks like Simon and Garfunkel are about to eat him or something. They kind of remind me of the crooks in Home Alone, you see. That is the joke I am making here with this "meme" image. I hope it creates "humour" that translates into "social bonding capital" with you. Love and kisses, Marzie.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
sorry if someone made this joke in like 2010. it came unbidden, intrusive, and posting it is technically doing something. 🎄
"We are the future Charles, not them," Linus says to Charlie Brown beside the little Christmas tree.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Certified yapper. 👁️👄👁️
You were in the Top 1.29% for messages sent on Discord!
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Amazing doodles of me by @gbejnietbiss.bsky.social 🐮
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Goya unleashed the cosmic goatse when he painted Saturn eating his children—but his Judith beheading Holofernes is sorta phoned in? Thanks for throwing us ladies a bone, I guess! 🗡️🎨
Goya's painting of Judith beheading Holofernes
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Today we listened to great music, did some psychedelic free-pixeling before my trip this weekend, talked about leaving elitism behind in art communities, and celebrated our togetherness. I love creating occasions for togetherness.
Psychedelic pixel art sketch, bright neon colours, non-representational.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Scrabblemancy.
A rack of Scrabble tiles reads "I AAAGED"
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I'm reading "Scattered All Over the Earth" by Yoko Tawada, who plays effortlessly with language and linguistics in a way that I can't get enough of—this particular aside reminded me of some of your writing on here.
Photo of printed page from "Scattered All Over the Earth" by Yoko Tawada. It discusses an imaginary country called Math that newborns awaken to with some intuitive understanding of its architectural language.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Happy October. 🍂 Here's a pumpkin who grew up rectangular because he had a bad childhood. Don't worry, he's on his healing journey now.
Pixel art of a tall, box-shaped jack-o-lantern that says "P" on the side.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
You won't go gently into that good night when you're on the
AGATHA CHRISTIE... Hype Train Level 2
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This review from the spring feels oddly prophetic. I was a babe in the woods then and had not played Factorio. But come fall, o, my gears did turn. ⚙️
Screenshot of a Letterboxd review of the 1906 short film "A Visit to Peek Frean and Co.'s Biscuit Works" in which I allude to early factory cinema as having the same visual hook as games like Factorio and Satisfactory.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Resonating today is this newer work of Yoko Tawada's, about invented languages that slip into the negative space between lost countries and elapsed epochs. 📚
Book: Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Take a boat to England, baby. Maybe to Spain.
Image of Robert Redford on the poster of The Old Man & The Gun
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Breakfast buffet.
Oh deer (it's three deer in front of a house)
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Proverbs progress (proverbially)
Steam achievement called "horse droppings are not figs" from the game Proverbs
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I haven't served up any follow-up morsels about Venba after devouring it on stream last week—it's just one of those self-contained, tiffin-perfect experiences that shows up with immense zest and leaves it all on the table. 🌾
PlayStation Store image of Venba, an indie cooking and story game about a Tamil family and their struggles after emigrating to Canada.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
It's definitely not the latter but not sure if it qualifies as the former. It's something I haven't seen much, a pretty sturdy cardboard that opens like a book and has a nice plastic enclosure for the disc.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The stars of July.
Ripe blackberries on a thorny bush.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I don't often go for 100% achievements but Coteries of New York was compelling and short enough that I thought why not.
Steam screenshot showing 100% achievement completion of Vampire: The Masquerade—Coteries of New York, along with the "New York Trilogy" achievement for completing the game with all three characters.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I'm really enjoying Vampire: The Masquerade—Coteries of New York. The character art tells you so much about each character. This is a double-edged sword, since I can't play the Brujah player character without asking myself: "What would Goth Hoobastank do?"
The Brujah player character from Vampire: The Masquerade—Coteries of New York.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Really nice eBay find—G.V. Iyer's wandering spiritual epic, the first feature film shot entirely in spoken Sanskrit. My interest in Shankara and Advaita led me to this film. 📽️
NFDC Cinemas of India DVD release of G.V. Iyer's 1983 epic Adi Shankaracharya.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Picked up The Drifter, a mesmeric pixel point-and-click with a novel point of view. Big recommend.
Steam banner image for The Drifter, a new pixel art point and click adventure from Powerhoof Games
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Finished a lovely short game called Many Nights a Whisper. Big rec if you love thoughtful games like Journey.
Steam banner image for the indie game Many Nights a Whisper, by Deconstructeam and Selkie Harbour
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The way I wanted to be this guy when I was 12
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
This is Filbert. I'm going to try very softly to watch him live forever.
A very small potted succulent.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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The soul is greater than the hum of its parts, reads a pull quote from Douglas Hofstadter in the margins of Anodea Judith's "Eastern Body, Western Mind."
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
does this blurb from an LB mutual bump it up your list at all
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Monkey Man (2024). 📽️
A doctored frame of Achewood. Whiskey bottle in hand, Lyle declares: "GAH! Man, DEV PATEL'S DESTROYIN'! I'm so pumped I could play a trumpet with my cock!"
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
We all deal with Mondays differently. 📽️
Crop from my Letterboxd film diary for today. I watched Pink Flamingos, then Paddington in Peru.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Overnight a massive web sprung up outside my window—the visible strands are just the foundation of a much larger network. Last night I also saw, for the first time ever, a bat fluttering around under my eaves. That may explain why the web is empty now.
Photo from my bedroom window showing prominent strands of spider silk.
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Magic Marzipan @magicmarzipan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I finished this bad mama-jama! and find myself satisfied and nourished by cinema's rich roots. 📽️
Kino Video: THE MOVIES BEGIN box set, a treasury of early cinema 1894-1913 with 133 complete motion pictures in a five-volume boxed set.Cutaway view of the five volumes: The Great Train Robbery and Other Primary Works; The European Pioneers; Experimentation and Discovery; The Magic of Méliès; and Comedy, Spectacle, and New Horizons.
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