Grace Benfell (@grace

Grace Benfell

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Grace Benfell

@grace_machine

Writer and critic. Editor at The Imaginary Engine Review. Co-host @PodcastSafeRoom.

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Joined March 2012

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Grace Benfell
@grace_machine
Jul 18, 2024
I'm looking for work! I’m a sharp writer and a keen editor. I’ve written for Vice, Bulletpoints, GameSpot, The A.V. Club, Paste, among many others! I've also edited in marketing, written grants for non-profits, and ran a successful kickstarter.
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Contact
Please send any freelance requests, tips, etc to contact [at] graceinthemachine [dot] com. You can support Grace on Ko-fi, her podcasts on Patreon, keep with her work on her newsletter, and check o…
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Grace Benfell
@grace_machine
Jun 9, 2022
Replying to @capybaroness
The way he says Black Adam makes you hear the TM afterwords.
Grace Benfell
@grace_machine
Jun 12, 2020
This morning, I’m thinking a lot about Pathologic 2. A game that is unflinchingly harrowing, but also grounded in a compassionate politics of care.
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Reading the Lines: Essays on Pathologic 2
Healing requires an open wound.
Grace Benfell
@grace_machine
Jun 18, 2020
It should not have taken a Twitter thread for me to find out about this. Mad that nobody I read on LoU2 even briefly mentioned this.
Grace Benfell
@grace_machine
Apr 9, 2020
It's wild that both these pieces came out today, but I also wrote about Final Fantasy 7, environmentalism, and cinematography for @waypoint.
Dated Visuals Made the Environmentalism of 'Final Fantasy VII' Come Alive
From vice.com
Grace Benfell
@grace_machine
Sep 22, 2021
I really loved Sable and tried to talk about why.
Paste Magazine
@PasteMagazine
Sep 22, 2021
The beautiful new game Sable gives one choice in one girl's life the scale most games lend only to heroes and gods. Read our review. bit.ly/3AyyaRn
Grace Benfell
@grace_machine
Apr 19, 2020
Pathologic 2 has me constantly yelling "Damn Video Games can be like this?!" which means it rules.
Grace Benfell
@grace_machine
Feb 14, 2022
BYU’s increasingly obvious, institutional surveillance IS evidence that protests ARE working. You hold so much power and they are scared of you.
Grace Benfell
@grace_machine
Oct 13, 2019
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Grace Benfell
@grace_machine
Jan 12, 2020
I wrote about 2019, Dark Souls 2, Twin Peaks, Is This The Life We Really Want, Anodyne 2, and Final Fantasy VII, but really it's just about living in American Capitalism.
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Living Among the Dying—2019 in Review
How can I be in the world without being?
Grace Benfell
@grace_machine
Jan 26, 2022
She's on HRT leave her alone.
Grace Benfell
@grace_machine
Jul 12, 2022
I wrote about Ico as a game of artful, simple gestures, which the games it influenced strip out in favor of something far flatter and less meaningful.
Paste Magazine
@PasteMagazine
Jul 12, 2022
Ico quietly influenced so many major game franchises, including God of War and The Last of Us, and yet some of its most important lessons have been ignored. bit.ly/3O0muwP
Grace Benfell
@grace_machine
May 20, 2020
Replying to @grace_machine
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor: God is in alleyways, trenches, and sewers. Gods are in street corners, hovering over your shoulder, creeping around your feet. Poverty cannot rid you of your magic.
Grace Benfell
@grace_machine
Apr 26, 2022
We simply do not have to have pleasant podcast chats with known grifters and bigots.