Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social Writer and composer on Friends at the Table - Side Story - Media Club Plus
Dr. Candice Allmark-Kent @callmarkkent.bsky.social Research: empathy and animals in literature, history, science, and games.
Author: "Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada."
(https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-40556-3)
https://www.twitch.tv/compassionatecanon
Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social Writer & presenter for Quinns Quest & People Make Games. quinnsquest.quintinsdomain@gmail.com
NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social NOTCHES is a collaborative and international history of sexuality blog that aims to get people inside and outside the academy thinking about histories of sex and sexualities in the past and in the present across regions, periods and themes.
Sarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social Research Director, Citizens and Technology Lab, Cornell University, r/AskHistorians moderator
I study how to make the internet freer and safer— and how to help the helpers on the ground making that possible. She/her
https://citizensandtech.org/
Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social editor/writer
in film, vulture, etc
mostly on ig
gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social im gita
they/them
cofounder of aftermath.site
Level Up For Romance! coming in 2027
gita@aftermath.site
Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy
Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social Writer, Game Designer. contact: hello@mcdmproductions.com
LycanthrEppy @epidiah.bsky.social Author & tabletop role-playing game designer, perhaps known for Dread, Swords Without Master, Vast & Starlit, or Wolfspell.
Suddenly, also a Clojure developer!
(he/him)
https://unwrittenearths.com
https://dig1000holes.com
💀
Amy H. Ahn @amyahn.bsky.social PhD @Univ. of St Andrews | English, Game Studies | Contemporary Literature, Affect, Video Games, Technology
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Tensori @tensori.fi Game studio behind POOLS http://poolsthegame.com
Wren Brier @wrenegade.bsky.social Creative Director of Unpacking📦, currently taking a break from game dev to enjoy other things life has to offer.
Spenser Starke @spenserstarke.bsky.social WGA Screenwriter | Senior Game Designer at Darrington Press | Rep: CAA & Navigation
Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social Director of video games. Currently Vampirium: 1997, previously Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular etc etc
Katherine Isbister @kcisbister.bsky.social HCI and Games researcher, author of How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design, and Playful Wearables (Jan 2024--https://tinyurl.com/4z9mjxrm) 
Tim Newman @mrtimnewman.bsky.social #DataScientist, #accountant, #TTRPG, #Improv. Loves cooking, I'm "Private chef" doing #GlutenFree for my lovely coeliac. Fairly left wing and thinks Nazis are rancid little pricks. Personal views here.
DanB in The Long Dark @danbtld.bsky.social Site support materials management (dock worker). Eat, sleep, work, repeat. Fighting the dumpster fire with AA, house rabbits, Star Wars: A New Hope, Stoicism, The Clash, The Long Dark, and (American) Zen. Be kind. Get outside. Resist.
EN World | D&D/TTRPG News & Reviews @enworldrpg.bsky.social Reporting the #Dnd and #TTRPG news over at enworld.org for 25 years and counting!- H Hillary Jones, PhD @hjones.bsky.social Editor, Instructional Designer, Academic Adviser | Feminist, Tech-savvy Luddite, COVID Aware | she/her
Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment
- Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries
- Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions
- PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea
- Editorial Board @ Multiplay
dani >:3 @handle.invalid she/they | 28 | queer gothic scholar | game designer
👩🏻🏫 game design lecturer @ UCSC
🎓 BA Art & Design: Games & Playable Media @ UCSC
🎓 MFA Digital Art & New Media: Experimental Play @ UCSC
🔗 scareoset.com
✉️ scareoset@gmail.com
🦭 @plagueprude.bsky.social muddling through pandemia in an N99
fledgling doctor of philosophy, sufferer of puppy fever, exhausted scientifically literate layperson
southern/central ME
Rowan Mysel Zeoli @rowanzeoli.bsky.social Co-Founder @rascal.news | Former @Polygon Writer | she/her
Aaron West @awest505.bsky.social Co-owner CineJourneys. Co-Host Criterion Now. Studied history/film. Proud husband, cat owner, 49ers fan, cinephile.
Author of The A24 New Wave
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aaronwest/the-a24-new-wave?ref=7xdg4e
Lucy Sante @luxante.bsky.social writer, artist, enigma
Sean Gilman @theendofcinema.bsky.social I live in Tacoma and I write about movies.
thechinesecinema.com
Stephanie Zacharek @szacharek.bsky.social Film critic at TIME. I never travel far without a little Big Star. https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social Film critic/journalist. Mexican 🇲🇽 DACA. Bylines LA Times, New York Times, IndieWire, RogerEbert, Backstage
Carrie Rickey @carrierickey.bsky.social Movie Geek. Museum Aficionado. Author of the forthcoming, "A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnes Varda" (Norton, 2024)
Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social Chief film critic, Variety. Beneath this glassy surface, a world of gliding monsters.- A Chris Fujiwara @amongtheliving.bsky.social writer and film critic
Pepped Abysmal @stunitedfruit.bsky.social Posting at least 3 times a year.
Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social Writer. I review films at Ebert. Essays at Criterion, monthly column at Liberties Journal. NYFCC / NSFC member. I’ve been blogging at sheilaomalley.com since 2002. I have a newsletter: https://sheilaomalley.substack.com/ I write a LOT about Elvis. TCB! ⚡
Jim DeRogatis @jimderogatis.bsky.social Co-host, "Sound Opinions"; author, critic, journalist; professor.
Graham Fuller @grahamfuller.bsky.social Film Editor at The Arts Desk. Editorial Associate at Cineaste. 
Craig D. Lindsey @unclecrizzle.bsky.social I write. A lot.
unclecrizzle@gmail.com
karen han @karenhan.bsky.social 🍒 screenwriter and culture writer
🍊 author of BONG JOON HO: DISSIDENT CINEMA
🍋 reps: lit entertainment/uta
🍐 krnyhan@gmail.com
🫐 https://www.karenhan.org
William Boyle @wmboyle4.bsky.social Writer. New novel, SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET, out now from Soho Crime. https://linktr.ee/wmboyle4
Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social NYT-bestselling author of EL DORADO DRIVE (out June 24, 2025), BEWARE THE WOMAN, THE TURNOUT, GIVE ME YOUR HAND, YOU WILL KNOW ME, THE FEVER, etc. Co-creator/showrunner: DARE ME on Netflix. www.meganabbott.com 
Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.social Critic and author and occasional cut-up. Just a soul whose intentions are good. Books include "The World is Yours: The Story of 'Scarface'" and "Made Men: The Story of 'Goodfellas'.”
Dave Kehr @davekehr.bsky.social Longtime film critic -- Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, New York Times -- now a curator in the Department of Film of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Opinions are my own. 
Nick James @filmnickjames.bsky.social Writer, former Editor of Sight and Sound magazine. A rock singer last century. A choir member now. 
Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social Aw, crap.
Irvine Welsh @irvinewelsh.bsky.social Radicalized by discotheque music.
Beatrice Loayza @bealoayza.bsky.social Film critic // New York Times, Criterion, Artforum, 4Columns, Film Comment, etc. 
kogonada @kogonada.bsky.social 
Michael Musto @michaelmusto.bsky.social Commentator, columnist, weirdo-about-town
Christina Newland @christinalefou.bsky.social ~old hollywood, crime films, boxing, italian cinema, glamour & beauty ~
Sky Arts talking head. Empire Mag contrib editor. Writing: i Newspaper, the Atlantic, Criterion, BBC, Rolling Stone.
'SOFIA COPPOLA: AN UNOFFICIAL GUIDE'Greenfinch/Quercus 2025.
Ashley Clark @ashcclark.bsky.social Don't look at the carpet, I drew something awful on it
https://linktr.ee/_Ash_Clark
Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social Author, critic, historian | 🖋 Guardian S&S BBC Criterion Empire | 📕 The Curse of Queen Kelly | 📕 The Red Shoes | 📕 Pandora’s Box | ✉️ Weekly Film Bulletin | 💻 silentlondon.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/PamHutch | she/her
Raquel Stecher @raquelstecher.bsky.social Film Historian and Critic. Writer for TCM. Quelle Movies, Out of the Past and #CineHistorians. Passionate about cinema.
www.raquelstecher.com
Nathan Lee @nathanlee.bsky.social Assistant Professor (allegedly). Defrocked film critic.
Unreconstructed gay Nietzschean.
Gene Seymour @geneseymour.bsky.social Writer, Jazz geek, Professional Spectator 
David Cairns @dcairns.bsky.social Film maker, film critic, film teacher, film lover, fool for film
Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com Crime Lady. NYT Crime & Mystery columnist. Latest Book: WITHOUT CONSENT. Author, SCOUNDREL, THE REAL LOLITA. Editor, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN.
http://www.linktr.ee/sarahweinman
Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social Film critic; NSFC, NYFCC. Bylines at Criterion, Sight & Sound, Noir City, my own Substack, and wherever fine film geeks are found.
https://selfstyledsiren.substack.com/
Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack. 
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social Let’s count the rings around my eyes
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Academic, Professional Dabbler
Oliver Wang @owang.bsky.social Arts & culture writer, sociology professor, disk junkie. Curator of the forthcoming "Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community."
Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social Aggregator of Black Culture. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Host of the Webby-nominated Left of Black. Author of several books, including forthcoming SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (on Black Fatherhood).
elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social film scholar + critic | books abt 60s sex films, global cinema, place | in '25: The Prop (Fordham); Wanda (BFI); toiling: Cinemas of Exhaustion | teach @ King's College London | post-soviet newyawker, ekphrastic perfume fiend | elenagorfinkel.com
Megan McGurk @meganmcgurk.bsky.social Queen of classic Hollywood woman's pictures.
Writes essays and vintage radio plays. Host of Sass Mouth Dames podcast and film club. Wrote and directed the short film Sex Pirates of 1931.
Girish Shambu @girishshambu.bsky.social I live in Buffalo and write about film culture. Book: “The New Cinephilia”.
Elena Lazic @elazic.bsky.social Founder and editor of @animusmagazine.bsky.social | Production Manager @filmsradiance.bsky.social | Film writer, journalist, copy editor and translator | French | In London, UK
Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com Associate Editor at RogerEbert • Contributor: The New York Times • Screen Daily • Reverse Shot • Letterboxd • https://www.robertdaniels.me/
Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social I'm a writer. I don't believe in voices for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness instead.
Books include The Sympathizer, The Committed, A Man of Two Faces, The Refugees, and To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.
Kim Morgan @kimmorgan.bsky.social Writer, Screenwriter Nightmare Alley -- Sunset Gun: https://thesunsetgun.com/
Nathan Heller @nathanheller.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer, hapless itinerant, reader.
My concise and infrequent newsletter announces significant new publications, public appearances, and nothing else: nathanheller.substack.com/about
Alexander Stille @astille.bsky.social Columbia Journalism Professor, writes a lot on Italy. Author of The Sullivanians and other books
Alexandra Hidalgo @the-alex-hidalgo.bsky.social I'm a writer, filmmaker, memoirist, editor, mom, and associate professor and Crow Chair of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
https://linktr.ee/alexandra_hidalgo
Jeff Chang @zentronix.bsky.social Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America (Mariner) - watermirrorecho.net
Notes from the Edge + Edge of Reason
Can't Stop Won't Stop • Who We Be • We Gon' Be Alright
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
Ed Halter @edhalter.bsky.social Writer on film and other things, half of Light Industry, Brooklyn
@lightindustry.bsky.social
linktr.ee/edhalter
Chloé Germaine @illmare.bsky.social UK-based game-maker, writer, university researcher and Green Party member.
manchestergamecentre.org
Tabletop Games, LARP, TTRPG, Horror, Gothic, Weird, Fantastika, Environmental Philosophy.
Find stuff at frankandalex.itch.io and over at academia.edu.- E ella taylor @ellat.bsky.social Film and book critic; Teaches at USC School of Cinema
April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social Bette Davis eyes. Make movies. Comb cats. Michigandery. WGA.
Book: BURY ME IN VEGAN LEATHER (Soho Press) May 2027
Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social Film/TV writer. Co-host: The Next Picture Show podcast. Author of The Reveal newsletter (thereveal.film) with Keith Phipps. I got a houseboat docked at the Himbo Dome.
Eric Hynes @eshynes.bsky.social Writer, Film Curator 
Linda Ruth Williams @lindaruthwilliams.bsky.social Jam first (home), cream first (work)
Kier-La Janisse @kierlajanisse.bsky.social Author, House of Psychotic Women / Cockfight
Writer/Director/Producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched / The Haunted Season
Acquisitions/Producer @severinfilms.bsky.social
Owner @spectacularoptical.bsky.social
https://www.kier-lajanisse.com
Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social Former Writer for David Letterman, Robert Klein, Dick Van Dyke and The Disney Channel All New Mickey Mouse Club. Writer of film essays for The Criterion Collection 
Michael Brooke @marbleicehook.bsky.social Freelance writer, editor and DVD/Blu-ray producer/commentator specialising in British and central/eastern European cinema. Indexes to my regular posts celebrating the latter (9am daily, 9pm most days) can be found at http://www.michaelbrooke.com/bluesky
James Robison @blacktree46.bsky.social https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Robison_(author)
Pasquale Iannone @pasqualeiannone.bsky.social Lecturer in Film Studies (University of Edinburgh)
Writer / Broadcaster (BFI, BBC Radio, Sight & Sound)
Podcast Producer / Host (Edinburgh Film Podcast)
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/piannone
Robert Greene @prewarcinema.bsky.social PAVEMENTS, THE FEATHERWEIGHT, PROCESSION, BISBEE ‘17, KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE, ACTRESS, etc + Murray Center for Documentary Journalism
Geoff Andrew @geoff-andrew.bsky.social Film critic, lecturer, programmer. Mainly about music, movies, art, politics. Views my own. Writes at greater length at geoffandrew.com
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social writer / artist
Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social Novelist and Critic. https://johnnyalucard.com/
Robert K. Brigham @robertkbrigham.bsky.social Historian of US foreign relations, particularly the Vietnam War. Author most recently of - Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam- (PublicAffairs, 2018) and -This is a True War Story: My Improbable History with Vietnam- (Chicago, 2026).
nico baumbach @nicobaumbach.bsky.social