Zoe Thompson @zoethompson7070.bsky.social 
Maria K. Alberto, Ph.D (✍️🏼 book proposal!) @mariakalberto.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English, Richland Community College || she/her 🏳️🌈 || 📚 canon, genre, analog games, fan studies, platforms || currently ✍️🏼 sword&sorcery + TSR novels, fans + TTRPGs || header: galxrax (Unsplash)
UK's HowToEnjoy @howtoenjoycouk.bsky.social DISCOVER JOY in UK (England, NI, Scotland, Wales) events, biz, health, music, tourism, on linktr.ee/HowToEnjoyCoUk. Unleash fun nationally, from villages to cities and tourist hotspots. Embrace togetherness through the four home nations | HowToEnjoy.co.uk
𝙲𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚐 𝚅𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚎𝚕𝚝 @drcraigvanpelt.bsky.social Political Economy of AI | Dead Cognitive Labor | Critical AI Studies | Data Temporalities | Sociologist | No DM | Follow does not = endorsement | Views are mine, not my employer |
https://craigvanpelt.org
CJ Tucker @crackerjackalope.bsky.social Writer, game designer, welsh, queer
they/them
https://crackerjackalope-games.itch.io/
Rhys Jones @rhys.newydd.net By day: reasonably mild-mannered Swansea-based digital media lecturer. But by night: reasonably mild-mannered Swansea-based digital media lecturer. Siarad Cymraeg, all the way. He/him/fo a fe
https://swan.ac.uk/staff/rhys.jones/
https://analog.newydd.net/
Russell Shanks @soegamer.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Durham University.
"The Special Operations Executive, British Covert Action in the Second World War, and Digital Wargames"
Yes, I play videogames.
Richard Lemarchand @rich-lem.bsky.social Former Naughty Dog Lead Game Designer, now a professor in the USC Games program. Wrote 'A Playful Production Process' for the MIT Press. He/him.
Marc Saurette @saurette.bsky.social Medievalist, Cluny-phile, DH and Historical Game Studies dilettante. @Carleton University (Ottawa). Ex-Winnipeger. 
Wolf_Hoi @wolfhoi.bsky.social Game Studies || Psychology || Digital Play Enthusiast
Master's degree programme Game Studies and Engineering, Writer & Mental Health Advocate. Accessibility matters. "Retro can be fun!"
Clare Nisbet-Clossick @clare-nisbet66.bsky.social Visual artist, architect, PhD (Practice as Research) candidate at BCU Birmingham. Studying the material & social transformations of the post WII home 🏡
@stumblingphrases.bsky.social @stumblingphrases.bsky.social 
Sam Dubois @surveillancesam.bsky.social They/them. PhD researcher at Birmingham City University. Writes about the fun stuff: surveillance, torture, and depressingly 2000s horror films.
Mareike Jenner @mareikejenner.bsky.social She/her. Lieber Linker Spinner als Rechter Spinner.
Author: American TV Detective Dramas, Netflix and the Re-Invention of Television (ed 1 & 2), Action TV Reboots and Visibility Politics
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
WILL BUTLER @carrythezero.bsky.social PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | music maker at MachinesMachines | site here: https://killjoy.bearblog.dev/
Jordan Sorcery @jordansorcery.bsky.social Warhammer historian, content creator, and game designer
Richy Srirachanikorn @srirachanikorn.bsky.social 📟 Sociologist studying nostalgia to reimagine the future. Club Penguin, Frutiger Aero, and the "vision" & "value" of y2k-inspired thrift stores.
🌟 Co-founded @nostagain.bsky.social
🚀 https://richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home
Anja Gödl @anjalovescats.bsky.social phd-student @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social
books and games, space and gender
co-founder @ludobande.bsky.social
she/her
Jukka Särkijärvi @nitessine.bsky.social Reader, writer, translator, professional nerd, game scholar, larper, feminist.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Vampire: The Masquerade, Stalker RPG, Astraterra, Chernobyl Mon Amour
Photo by Chiara Cappiello.
jannon @jannste.bsky.social jannon at the old place
Simon Bacon @baconetti.bsky.social Author, film critic, and editor of all things Gothicky.
@patientvoicesuk.bsky.social @patientvoicesuk.bsky.social 
Tom Apperley @t0mm7.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @CoEGameCult | Docent in Media Studies @utu.fi | Secretary of DiGRA | #dnd #gamecultures #gender #misogyny #platforms #playboy #porn #righttoplay #ukgamescene (he/his).
Dr Ian Sturrock @sturrock.bsky.social Researcher into game studies, game histories, motivation for play, ethics of game design, creativity and world-building. Capoeirista, HEMA practitioner, larper, TTRPG designer/publisher. HE teacher and UCU activist but my views represent only me.
oliver @oliverbates.co.uk design researcher. he/him
researching through making games, zines and critical tea towels about climate futures, tech, and systems.
Links to my stuff: https://oliverbates.co.uk
https://fractals.coop/ and research fellow @ lancaster uni
Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net Professor of Ethics and Games Technology, University of Staffordshire UK - she/her
Vice chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics, Co-EIC ACM Games
Content lead #EMFCamp
Ethics of games & emerging tech; AI & crypto critic
https://liedra.net 🩷💜💙
Robin L. Zingarelli @BDiGRA26 @robinzingarelli.bsky.social Doctoral researcher working on transgender representations in video games, game designer, London based coffee enthusiast.
Boomer @jasonboomer.bsky.social Director @ SideFest | PhD @IoCT_DMU @DMULeicester. #Gaming #Community #DigitalCulture.
HAMLET EU Project @hamleteuproject.bsky.social An EU-funded project bringing AI to the CCIs. Through HAMLET's Hub, artists, creative directors, writers, game developers, and AI experts co-create with tools for adaptive storytelling, dance analysis, 3D assets and more. https://hamlet-project.eu/
kayti burt @kaytiburt.bsky.social pop culture ✍🏼: @time-magazine.bsky.social @rollingstone.com @polygon.com @vulture.com @latimes.com @pastemagazine | transformative fandom fan | poor country kid | she/her | black lives matter |
@fspnwu.bsky.social | TCA member
llyfrbryf @llyfrbryf.bsky.social Mostly obsessing over fandoms. Sometimes whining about life.
Books, languages, Chinese tv series, BL, British theatre, travelling.
Crazy over Tan Jianci, UtS, and currently over JITD
@ratchetwrench.bsky.social @ratchetwrench.bsky.social I live in Portland, Oregon and I work in a grocery store. Lifelong biker 🚲 - I still haven't driven a car. header by www.yuumeiart.com
サラ 🍉 @sarathustraxo.bsky.social 📍Tokyo, She/Her.
Manchester shusshin, jovial nihilist, cdrama enthusiast, singer, philosophy graduate, fashionista, degu mother, girl ENTJ, actual radical leftist. 🌿🦄
Butterfly @transformercam.bsky.social 26 - He/Him - Bisexual - 🏳️⚧️
(Mermaidsinhell on TT)
I Love To Yap (YT- Cameron Butterfly)
I live in a daydream of Music & TV shows
Secretly trying to get everyone to listen to Enone & Big Ocean
Proud 小火柴 (Little Matches)
https://butterfliescorner.carrd.co
Melanie @moviemavengal.bsky.social (she/her) Member of Kdrama @daebakpodcast1, Indian Film Reviews on Pardesi Youtube Channel : http://youtube.com/@PardesiReviews
eryn @hotaruyy.bsky.social she/her, 🏳️🌈, hotaruyy on tumblr and ao3, eng & 中, mainly c-ent, pfp by tumblr: Keekry
check #wipdiary for my writing progress!
LeaSays🏳️🌈ImAButterfly @lealeaisuntamed.bsky.social #WangYibo, #ZhangYixing, reading, Lego, just don’t call him cute, okay? Queer. Partial to potato. Lives in China. Teaching changes lives!
https://www.tumblr.com/infjinthecity
Amy Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social I talk to teenagers about dead people.
42, AuDHD, Married & ATL. 🏳️🌈
BA History & MA in World History.
Currently Teaching:
- East Asia: 1368 to 1911.
- Women in Ancient Near East
- World History
http://Amy-Elizabeth.net/social
LadyEn @ladyen.ca Podficcer. #mdzs, #wangxian, #yizhan #Podic
Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social From Australia, have also spent time in Malaysia and Thailand.
Sociologist, educator, flaneur, SFF appreciator
Starting a new Linguistics research project in intercultural pragmatics
Interested in Asia things and languages. Also: Buddhism.
He/Him
masked-alias @masked-alias.bsky.social Here mostly for mdzs and wyb content. Fandom friends are the best friends.
The Other Paul @pwoodley.bsky.social Word nerd - still searching for my quiddity. Radio veteran (BBC Radio Bristol, Swansea Sound, LBC/IRN, Capital, 2WS, AP, NPR, Euronews TV), economic migrant (not an expat!), obsessive reader and occasional writer.
Katja @lukupossu.bsky.social Nonbinary bi ace artist. Powered by SFF & metal.
EN/RU/FI/studying 日本語&中文
She/her
青山不改 绿水长流 后会有期
Don't repost my work ~
Murphy_Brown @murphybrown.bsky.social 27 🎂 Queer 🌈 Dog Lover 🐕 🩵MDZS❤️ Ao3 Aficionado 😌👌
anyrei 🇪🇺🌈 @anyrei.bsky.social artist, fanfic-writer, gamer, coffee-lover, they/them
Ao3: anyrei
Tumblr: anyreiart
DeviantArt: anyrei
Ko-fi: anyrei
Redbubble: uncaya
🙅♂️ no to Ai "art" 🙅♂️
kaylene @liuet.bsky.social Artist, educator, writer, nerd. 
foolserrandlist.bsky.social @foolserrandlist.bsky.social Media, languages, D&D.
Just getting started on BlueSky.
Clarissa C. S. Ryan @wintersweet.bsky.social I guess I'm here now? But also wandering.shop? Where are any of us, really?
🏳️🌈🚀 sff writer, artist/designer, former adjunct professor, fan of things, GW2/WWM player, VP20. Forever temporospatially disjointed. Southern Tier NY. She/her, ish. 中文 OK
Ashmead @ashmead.bsky.social Same ol' same ol'. Still love fandom. 
Feena @feena.bsky.social Writes a bit. Loves history, Doctor Who, MDZS and The Untamed. Lives in the Yizhan rabbit warren ❤️💚💛🐢🐰🦁
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social Writer/Poet. Editor & translator, The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing 2024). Clarion West '21. ace 🏳️🌈. linktr.ee/yilinw
@wirywords.bsky.social @wirywords.bsky.social UK based - lover of science fiction & fantasy - happy dabbler in art
Zintlion @zintlion.bsky.social Oh hey look, new void to yell into!
Late 30's
None gender, left queer
James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social Medieval Chinese Religions. McMaster Uni. Burning for the Buddha (Hawai'i 2007) pback 2016; Tea in China (Hawai'i, 2015), Chinese trans. 2019. Canadian, obvs.
毕佳宁 Jeanine Buford @jbuford.bsky.social Baltimore China Alabama Moldova
Taiwan NYC
Mt Holyoke Columbia
IT Poetry History Literature Economics
Anti fascist
Mesothelioma widow
Mom Sister 奶奶
Rome. By all means, Rome.
M Beattie, PhD @thanatos-kalos.bsky.social Media Studies academic in global precarity; in dire need of a job (media, comms, ESL). Aro/grey-ace/bi, neurodiverse, ask me about my current research at your own discretion. More commonly asked where in the world she is than Carmen Sandiego.
Natski @natskibb.bsky.social 40 something voracious reader, here for the cute dogs, fangirling on authors and watching the world burn in real time. She/Her
smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social Safety nerd, travel nerd, book nerd, love nerd. Not in that order. Does not in fact endorse smoking. They/them.
LightofErebus @lightoferebus.bsky.social 🔗 Twt @ErebusLight | Other @lightoferebus @Estelll
ℹ️ She/Her, 30+
💫 LSWW Enthusiast Headquarters
💖 Fantasy | Danmei: MDZS, LSWW, TBFYL, 2ha, SVSSS | Asian Dramas/Media: Historical/Wuxia/Xianxia, BL/GL/LGBTQ+ | Manga/Manhua | Games | DnD | Nerdy & Dirty
ECREA Media, Cities and Space Section @mediacity-ecrea.bsky.social ❤️ 'Building an Inclusive European Community in Communication'
🌍 ECREA Media, Cities and Space Section, focused on the intersections of media and communications with cities and spatiality.
🔗 https://mediacitytwg.wordpress.com
Debt Shop Boi @debtshopboi.bsky.social Toronto-based synthpop-industrial-darkwave-electropunk artist. Lover of black cats, hater of fascism. https://linktr.ee/debtshopboi
@amkustritz.bsky.social @amkustritz.bsky.social 
Dr Eve Benhamou @evebenhamou.bsky.social She/her. Senior Lecturer / Maitresse de conférences, Université Bordeaux Montaigne. Teaches & researches contemporary American cinema & anglophone animation. University of Bristol alumni
Book on Disney animation published by EUP (2022)
Eva Liu @evaliumedia.bsky.social 🇨🇳🇭🇰🇺🇸 ABD in Mass Communication @OhioU
CUHK Gender Studies alumna
Researching Chinese feminisms, popular cultures and fandoms.
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Socials Post and Cover Designer): www.pscript.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
dr clementine v-a @clemmie.bsky.social witty catchphrase, you know what I mean?
visiting postdoc research fellow @ University of Leeds | film studies + media | makeover movies, horror, feminism, and beauty culture | culture + screenwriting | schemingthirdwife.substack.com
Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social History of language politics in China & Sinophone Asia -- literary feminism and translation history -- Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (& 🏊🏻♀️🚴🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️) -- She/her
Jane Simon @janesimon.bsky.social Researcher/writer/maker
Photography, film, photobooks, domestic, home, photographic theory and history, visual studies. https://www.routledge.com/The-Domestic-Interior-and-the-Self-in-Contemporary-Photography/Simon/p/book/9780367543402
Christine Thoër @christhoer.bsky.social Professeure, faculté de communication UQAM (Quebec) Canada
Audience studies, feminist reception studies, identity construction
BCULandLR.bsky.social @bculandlr.bsky.social Hello! We're the friendly Librarians at BCU Library and Learning Resources. Come and talk to us about books, journals and eResources! 🔎📚
Llinos Cathryn Thomas @llincathryn.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏴♾️🥄 Book recs, writing chat, occasional opinions. (she/her)
Maicool (@Scolopendragon) @maicool.bsky.social FR/ES🦉Filosofía 🎮 Videojuegos 🌸 Anime y Manga 🛠️ Otaku y proletario.
"No me pongan Temerarios, que lloro"
Enamorado y enarbolado.
Chelsea @chelseamayha.bsky.social Queer PhD student researching Bisexuality and the Supernatural in television and film at Birmingham City Univeristy (all views my own). Also a fan of books in general, D&D and cross stitch
Alicia Kozma @johnnyrico.bsky.social I love the idea of shutting up but it’s just not for me / profesional movie theater ghost; prof on movies, movie theaters, gender, and labor. Director + programmer of @iucinema. Author THE CINEMA OF STEPHANIE ROTHMAN.
www.aliciakozma.com | views my own
🦕🏵️Mary Anne @laargonauta.bsky.social Español ll English
🔸Ella/She
📌Chile
🎓Antropóloga Sociocultural /Anthropologist
🎮Phd student BCU
🦖Investigo #TRPG en Chile, #GameStudies y Patrimonio Cultural
🤖 Red Latinoamericana de Antropología Digital
👾Consedcity
maryanneargochavez.wordpress.com- F Farrah Freibert @ffreibert.bsky.social She/Her. LGBTQ+ Film & Media Historian. Media Studies Assistant Professor. PhD in Visual Studies. Research Areas: Film Studies & Film History; Media Industries; Bisexual, Trans, Gay, & Queer History; Distribution & Exhibition; Archives; Horror Studies.
Dr Amy Hondsmerk @awildhistorian.bsky.social Works to upskill the heritage sector. Researches videogames as museum interpretation. Lover of games, singing, sci-fi, and cats. She/her.
Tupur Chatterjee @tupur.bsky.social Asst Prof | Dept of Communication | Tulane University. Media Industries/Feminist Media Studies/Architecture + Design/Material Cultures. Book Review Editor, JCMS. Author: Projecting Desire https://tinyurl.com/mrx58k https://www.tupurchatterjee.com/
Mikey Donald @mikeydbrum.bsky.social Brummie. BCFC 🔵⚪️ Saints ⚜️. Book reader and Film lover. 🧠 Neurodivergent
Victor Navarro-Remesal @vthewanderer.bsky.social Media Studies, Games scholar, Humanities human
Lecturer at TecnoCampus, UPF (Barcelona)
Founding member of @DIGRASpain
Director de la colección Ludografías.
Co-president of the History of Games conference.
I also do my own stunts.
www.vnavarro.eu
Joe Yizhou Xu @joexu.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Old Dominion University | Former journalist/documentarian | Researching China's mobile tech/game industry. #gamestudies #mediaindustries 
Doni @doni.bsky.social Games and History, History and Games, History Games, Games History, Games for Change, Games with Purpose, (ex) Games Industry, Game Design, Game Production, Game Quality.
Sherwood Smith @sherwood.bsky.social Writer, reader, crone
New Approaches to Sound, Music and Media @soundmusicmedia.bsky.social Official account for Bloomsbury’s New Approaches to Sound, Music and Media book series.
Amélie Doche @ladoche.bsky.social PhD'ing: Discourses of Value in Contemporary Book Culture at Birmingham City University | Beaujolaise at heart 🍇
Dr Daniel Sheppard @danieljsheppard.bsky.social Visiting Lecturer in Film, Birmingham City University | Assoc. Editor, Quarterly Review of Film and Video | Assoc. Director, Cine-Excess | Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/fzcH | Your Local Gay™ 🌈 | He/Him
Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social Film/Media/Comm/Sound
MAKING STEREO FIT
www.ucpress.edu/books/making-stereo-fit/
Lover of Kiarostami, Rivette, Sondheim, Philip Roth, The Dark Tower, Twin Peaks, Pale Fire, Calvino, and Taylor Swift.
"The cinema has not yet been invented!" - Spinoza
Anna Lou Walker @annalouwalker.bsky.social Senior Arts + Culture Editor at The Conversation UK | Host of Jane Austen's Paper Trail | Author | Runs Gallery_Gals: instagram.com/gallery_gals
🏳️🌈 she/her
https://linktr.ee/AnnaLouWalker