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Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema

Nicole Veneto, Tyrell James, and Cole

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The world’s premier and only ’anti cinematic-universe’ podcast. We take a critical and vulgarly comedic look at the MCU, the DCU, and other ultra-commercial modern blockbusters and chart the decline of Hollywood and the diseased, dying culture that it represents. Hosted by Discourse Stu (@Discourse_Stu), Nicole Veneto (RIP @kuntsuragi) and Cole (@RaceplayShawty). Audio production by Miguel Tahni. Cover art by Zoe Woolley (@probablyademon). Banner by Heartworme (@barfoid). Discord: https://di ...
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The audio version of Tyrell James' Creators Conglomerate. Creators Conglomerate is a weekly short story written by Tyrell from ideas that are sent to him by other people. The concept is to take each idea and turn it into a story that connects with the previous idea.
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