Golden Age Explosions 💥 @comicexplosions.bsky.social Just explosions from old comic books 💥 Newer posts have sources in alt text 💥
bang/boom
Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social 3x nat'l award-winning writer, film critic, & historian @ http://FilmIntuition.com, Watch With Jen™ pod host, & author behind The Veronica Mars Book Kickstarter. Repped by Farley Chase.
Mags Visaggio - Writer and Writing Coach for Hire 🏳️⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com new york comics writer lady & musician. lambda literary 2025 nominee. GIRLMODE, KIM & KIM, ETERNITY GIRL, VAGRANT QUEEN. I make music as DAISY & JANE.
Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social Author of some books & more, professor, translator, artist+ 🏳️🌈 🖤💚❤️ 🏳️⚧️ (Avatar: c/o I.D. Mag/photo © Mario Sorrenti)
The Noir Collective @thenoircollective.bsky.social Hosting weekly watch parties of #FilmNoir – both beloved classics and forgotten gems – every Wednesday at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT. Check back each week for our upcoming schedule!
Gina Hinojosa @ginafortexas.bsky.social Texas State Rep, mom, attorney, and advocate, running for governor to fight back against the corruption that’s robbing working families of the Texas we deserve.
Texans first.
🔗 ginafortexas.com
Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social philosophy ph.d. student (philosophy of language primarily), amongst other things. He/him
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social Love 🎾 and ⚽️. Watch a lot of 📼. 💚 Green. Drink 🍻. 🏳️🌈. Born in 🇻🇮, but linked to 🇻🇬.🍕 is my religion. Schreib mir auf 🇩🇪. Michigan til I die.
📍Austin, TX
Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of English & Assoc. Director of First-Year Writing @BaruchCollege, @CUNY | teaching, rhetoric, quant | wooder ice (lemon) | #firstgen | he/him
Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social Asst Prof in Composition | All things WPA, FYC, Basic Writing (Previously K.S. Hall)
Aaron Kashtan @aaronkashtan.bsky.social "Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures." – Harvey Pekar
Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social Studies rhetoric & writing, autobiography, feminism & religion | AI eye-roller | Currently writing a book about Rachel Held Evans
UConn | Penn State | Newtown, CT | now in East TN
Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social independent scholar & political analyst. Author of “Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism” (Routledge, 2024) www.patreon.com/spencersunshine
Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social NYTimes Best-selling Author, Eisner Award-winning Storyteller, Creator, Comicbook Writer & Artist, Illustrator, Panel Whisperer. Not a Robot.
www.francescofrancavilla.com
Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social Scott Edelman is a Stoker Award-nominated writer and Hugo Award-nominated editor of science fiction, fantasy & horror, as well as the host of the Hugo Award-nominated Eating the Fantastic podcast! (He/Him)
Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Romance studies. Byron studies. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Writes queer little stories.
Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social Nebula, Aurora, WFA finalist, Ignyte Co Founder
"SKIN THIEF STORIES" Neon Hemlock. COUNTESS out now ECW Press. Goth, plant grower, music enthusiast. She/They, Queer, 🇹🇹 🇨🇦 rep by Michael Curry. Banner: Matt Griffin
suzanpalumbo.carrd.co
Eric Harvey @ericdharvey.com prof ∙ critic ∙ music and media ∙ award-losing author of WHO GOT THE CAMERA?, which Rolling Stone called "approachably erudite" ∙ ericdharvey.com
Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social Coffee enthusiast. Gothic & eco-horror, Biocultural archaeology (mummies), Nuclear & Cold War culture. Audio stuff. Probably knitting.
Header: a S central FL swamp. trees, reflections in water, mist
Also @excavatinghorror.com
Not weird at all
Greg Ward @gdub1972.bsky.social 
Leaving FilmStruck @leavingfilmstrk.bsky.social Movie watcher, novice crocheter. Don't high hat me!
Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social Writer and film history researcher focusing especially on the silent/pre-Code eras (and the overlooked faces within). I talk a lot about Jean Harlow.
linktr.ee/vitaphonezone
What's that, Hawaiian noises? @caseyabrams.bsky.social songwriter and musicologist, ghost story collector, amateur folklorist, music teacher.
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social Journalist & Author who celebrates horror, sci-fi & the artists who make the world of cinema so great.
Follow my writing here: https://from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/
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Tommy Krasker @tommykrasker.bsky.social Husband to @philipchaffin.bsky.social. 🏳️🌈 Daddy to Gregory. 🐶 I run the record label PS Classics (@psclassics.bsky.social), co-host @thenoircollective.bsky.social and write about vintage film & TV. https://thatsallsiknow.blogspot.com
Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social Prof of Ed Psych & Learning Sciences at UNC-CH | Scholar, speaker, consultant studying how people learn in the digital world | APA & AERA Fellow | Journal & Handbook Editor | Book Author | Views are my own. https://linktr.ee/jeffgreene
Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social I’m deeply immersed in the intersections of neuroscience, ethnobotany, & pharmacological research, I thrive on leveraging science to enhance human well-being and longevity. After years of scientific writing I’m writing fiction and a cinematic memoir.
RachelJ @rjwcore.bsky.social Librarian | Stress eating through this
Scott Sandage @scottsandage.bsky.social History isn’t reality, it’s methodology.
Historian. Husband. Iowan. Pittsburgh 🏳️🌈🐕🪕⚾️ Wrote a book long ago. Writing another on the Métis Rez in Nebraska. Most useful thing I’ve done is probably https://commonplace.online/article/how-to-read-a-book/
Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social Representing the heart of Texas from East Austin to West San Antonio #TX35. Chair of @USProgressives.bsky.social. Labor organizer. Lover of migas and long runs, just not at the same time.
🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social Make horror gay AF, Stoker Award winner
out now: NO GODS FOR DROWNING
Sept 15: THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT
she/her; rep: Lane Heymont
haileypiper.com
Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social Constitutional law prof, historical political scientist, FRHistS studying:
The United States Supreme Court
American Political Development
Anglo-American Constitutionalism
📍ATL
Author, Rot and Revival:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/rot-and-revival/paper
Lights Camera Austin @lightscameraatx.bsky.social Robert Sims hosts KOOP at the Movies 3-4:30 pm CT Wednesdays on KOOP Radio 91.7 FM/https://koop.org. Lights Camera Austin-branded filmmaker interviews + reviews. Plus soundtrack sets. Member of Austin Film Critics Association + Critics Choice Association.
Eryn Young @tuftmama.bsky.social Rug maker, Fiber artist, owner of Tuft House L.A. and pissed off human being.
Fike Mowler @fikemowler.bsky.social Father of daughters. Husband ⭕ Phish/Dead 💀⚡AZ sports enjoyer 🌵 Sun Devil 🔱
Angelica Hankins @angelicahankins.bsky.social Writer and editor in Washington, DC. Bylines in Artforum, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Washington Post. AngelicaHankins.com
Stephen R Bissette @stephenrbissette.bsky.social Father, son, husband, artist, author, researcher, cinema & comics historian, and former instructor (retired), 
Dr Karen Smith🪴🕷🦇🐇🐈 💚🇮🇪🎶🎭📽️🎞💙😷💉🕯️🦋🌻 @karenapsmith.bsky.social Taught HE for over 25 years, Art School Dep Head/Film/Media scholar/programmer/cinemas/cult/horror/ gothic/folk horror/music/clubs/neighbourhoods/audiences/gentrification/Scala Cinema
UCL+KCL
Lived opposite Grenfell Tower over 20 years 💚 W10 to WKen London
Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social Historian @dhi-paris.fr, Dept. of African History
media|informal economies|infrastructures
friend of Ned
Je réservai ma dialectique pour le moment opportun, et je m’occupai du repas.
Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social Colorado Librarian & DH person. Embroider. D&D/TTRPG Nerd. Movie Guy (https://boxd.it/xUjP). Occasional Star Trek posting and pictures of baked goods. Moderately feral. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Opinions my own.
Gabriel Lonsberry @glonsber.bsky.social Shakespeare professor and theater historian into court masques. Experimental music obsessive. Atlanta.
@coolonlinecontent.bsky.social @coolonlinecontent.bsky.social 
A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social Associate Professor, History of Religion. Migrant. Bad at gender, worse at writing bios. I do stuff involving religion and literature and genocide, usually all at once. Posts mostly in English, ibland på svenska, ובעברית רק כדי לספר בדיחות
John W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social Retired Prof. of English, living in Wichita KS. PhD in 20c. Am. Lit. Proud husband, father. Inordinately fond of Mexico City. Surname rhymes w/ Louis.
Books read in 2026: https://bsky.app/profile/johnwbuaas.bsky.social/post/3md76bbw2qk25
fester's quest @nmohlmann.bsky.social English prof (autobiography, the paranormal, colonial Virginia) & south coast vaporwave
Currently writing a book on autobiography in Forteana
David Rotenstein, Curator, Shrouded in Secrecy Archives @davidrotenstein.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Folklorist. | History is my hustle. Opinions here are my own.
allegra @allegramk.bsky.social religion and media and tech cultures ✨ eurovision 🌀 crosswords 🌱 probably other things too - i contain multitudes 🧅 she/her
Random Nature Podcast @writingtwobooks.bsky.social Folks talk about environmental humanities; ecocritism; biodiversity issues| posts and reposts by Christy Hyman PhD, Lots of bird photos and Fingerlakes NY stuff| views are my own ✨
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social Professor, Teacher, Writer
Post-45 US Lit & Mass Media
Ideas are my own and not necessarily those of my employer
Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com Trans, non-binary, Minnesotan. Working to make the DFL more trans-inclusive because being a trans refuge state does not mean we are actually doing the work. South Minneapolis, Stonewall DFL, and Constitution, Bylaws, and Rules.
linktr.ee/dexanderson
Candi Bolden @candibolden.bsky.social Social Media Manager at The Barbed Wire. Lover of crafts
Leslie Rangel @iamleslierangel.bsky.social ✍🏽Sr. Editor of Investigations
📰 @TheBarbedWire.bsky.social
🎥 Emmy Nominated + UN Recognized Journalist
🧠 Emotional Health Coach + Yoga/Meditation Teacher
🐶Rescue Pug Mom
🇲🇽🇬🇹Daughter of Immigrants
Brian Gaar @briangaar.bsky.social Not a fan of free speech. linktr.ee/briangaar
Austin, TX
Cara Kelly @carakelly.bsky.social investigative journalist. style section alum. texas media adoptee.
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social Professor of Law at a regional midwest public law school. Political theory, corps & admin. 🧶👽👾🧙🏽♀️🦅🎮 My views are my own and reposts are not endorsements.
SSRN author page
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3568227
David at FOIAball @foiaball.com FOIAball digs through public records to break college football's weirdest, wildest, and biggest secrets.
Give it a read today!
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Abolish ICE @milpool.bsky.social Abolish ICE
Chad Perman @chadperman.bsky.social writer | editor | therapist* | human | founder/eic @brightwalldarkroom.com | curious about everything | 🏀 ⚽️
*posts ≠ professional advice
ICE must be destroyed 🏳️⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social Host of It Could Happen Here (and sometimes Behind the Bastards) for Cool Zone Media. Proud iHeart Podcast Union member Ending every post(?) with Moreover, ICE must be destroyed She/Her
Jennifer—em Dash—Graham @jgriffingraham.bsky.social Author of the VERONICA MARS books and the upcoming YA thriller THE FALL OF IRIS HENLEY. She/her.
Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social Your least favorite account’s favorite account. She/her.
Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com I help run @flaminghydra.com and the Brick House Cooperative.
Freedom of expression, digital ownership rights, libraries, and fun are some things I love.
maria | at | flaminghydra | dot | com
mariabustillos.com | flaminghydra.com
Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social gallows humorist
Tom Orsborn @tomorsborn.bsky.social In my 40th year as a reporter with the San Antonio Express-News and my 11th consecutive season as one of the E-N’s Spurs beat writers. Also do occasional stories on food insecurity issues. Proud San Antonio College alumnus. 🏳️🌈ally
Ben Schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social Writer: 84th Oscars, Letterman, The Nation, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Baffler, Air Mail, Emmy nominee, NEH Public Scholar, and author of way too many posts. rep: WME #WGAW letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1lq09
CT Million @ctmillion.bsky.social Emmy-winning Cameraman, Filmmaker, Musician, Writer, Dog Valet. Student of history, language, film, trivia, and film trivia. Curator of #NoirChecklist on #NoirAlley, #TheNoirCollective, #TCMParty. Your dog will probably like me.
@karinalongworth.bsky.social @karinalongworth.bsky.social 
Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social writer, historian, appetite!
https://benwurgaft.org/
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social 1x winner of the "oh i'm pretty sure that's just jerry spreading misinformation" award 🥇🏆
"a merchant, selling microdoses of pleasant fictions" - tyler
• Goodfeeds @goodfeeds.co
• Sky․app @getsky.app
thanked by darth july 20, 2023
📍Austin, TX
Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social EM British & Atlantic history. Competing Visions of Empire (Yale, 2015). Now: Britain's Financial Revolution & Moral Crisis. She/her. New Englander. Views my own. Latest article: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.74
Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social Professor of English at Idaho State University. Modernism, comics, popular forms. Author: The New Old Style (U Nebraska P), Violent Minds (Cambridge UP). Co-Editor: Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. You can call me Matt.
matthewlevay.com
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com Contributing editor @newrepublic.com Co-host of Space the Nation (sci-fi meets politics) + @pastduepodcast.com (gig economy, culture, survival). I lead The Third Story Workshop, helping writers tell the(ir) truth. Matthew 25:35 voter.
anamariecox.com
Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social Maker of fine comics products, incessant scribbler, former garbageman, aging punk rocker.
Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social Professor of multiethnic US lit; au of Dedication (2011), Anti-Imperialist Modernism (2016), Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism & the Cultures of the US Jewish Left (2025). He/him. 🕎🌹😷🇵🇸Chicago 🐢
https://iusb.academia.edu/BenjaminBalthaser
Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social Comedy doer, improv coach, basketball enjoyer, film watcher, dog owner, mayor of fujo city. Sometimes writer.
Matthew Jackson @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social One time I sat in the Munster Koach. Horror Books Guy at Bloody Disgusting. Pop Culture Raconteur and Critic at Pop Heist. Host of @scaresshapedus.bsky.social. Austin Film Critics member. 🍅-approved. Always Writing and counting the days until Christmas.
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social https://www.johnconnorlikeintheterminator.com
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USC Cinema & Media Studies
but opinions my own
Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
Kristen Lopez @kristenklopez.bsky.social Journalist for hire. EIC The Film Maven. Bylines @latimes @goldenglobes @variety Author BUT HAVE YOU READ THE BOOK ROMANCE EDITION. Upcoming: WELCOME BOILS AND GHOULS (2027). ♿️ Repped by Falkin Literary.
Subscribe to my site: http://www.thefilmmaven.com
Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org A national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, & strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the U.S. #FreeThemAll #AbolishDetention
Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social Writer at Crunchyroll, Polygon, WIRED, Vulture, GamesRadar, Inverse, Pokemon, Paste Magazine and other places / Rep'd by Aevitas Creative / Author of MONSTER KIDS ('22), I AM THE NIGHT ('26) and LIFE FINDS A WAY ('28) / Picked Charmander
Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social Abortion access correspondent at The Nation and author of Killers of Roe, a whodunnit on the history of the anti-abortion movement, out now wherever books are sold https://www.amylittlefield.com/killersofroe/
Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev Gemini. ADHD. 8th Generation Texan. Dog lover. World-class napper. Accidental Swiftie. Hamilfan af.
Soms probeer ik Nederlands te spreken.
Former Outreach Director: UniteWomen Texas
Views are my own.
Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social Here to inspire ✨️
Art + Music + Design + Positivity
Scary FrankenLarry @frankenlawrence.bsky.social Still watching until the end. Movies (horror, SF, fantasy, noir, silents, exploitation, grindhouse, psychotronic) some vid-games, TV, bronze-age comics, animals, history, science
David Griscom @davidgriscom.bsky.social Co-host Left Reckoning - videos and articles at Jacobin - The Michael Brooks Show forever. Always Honky Tonkin'
Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social Ed #Supersex for @utexaspress.bsky.social. Ed Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. Words @comicsxf.com @sequentialscholars.bsky.social + lots more. Host of @GoshGollyWow.bsky.social. Kurt Wagner's (unofficial) PR Manager. she/her
Eddie Muller @eddiemuller.bsky.social Writer. Film Historian. Bartender.
Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social Honorary Ziegfeld Girl
Honorary IATSE Local 1
banner 📸Christopher Calkins
portrait 📸Tom Bloom
Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social Husband to nine
father to a beautiful Christian marine
son to a wife
father (all that matters)
marine to a beautiful son
🪬Lina-Maria Murillo @drlmmurillo.bsky.social Historian. Feminist. RJ and Care.
Fearless Free Speech Encouraged. Associate Prof UT Austin. Opinions and posts are solely my own.
Daniel A. Olivas @danielolivas.bsky.social Writer. Recent books: CHICANO FRANKENSTEIN; WAITING FOR GODÍNEZ. Agent: Kim Carson Bodie of the Schulman Literary Agency. Website: https://danielolivas.com
Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social Apparently I’m doing this now. 
Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social Prof/Author/Speaker (academic freedom, free speech, democracy)
*Author _Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education_ (Oxford UP)
*Op-eds: TIME, Washington Post, The Chronicle, Inside Higher Ed, Philadelphia Inquirer