Luke Hebblethwaite @lukethehebble.bsky.social Video games / music / creative industries kinda guy.
Former Head of Games at BAFTA, prev. Insight Manger at Ukie
Runs UK Games Composers: https://gamescomposers.co.uk/
Here to fight the good fight for games.
Rip 'n tear until it is done.
Mike Diver @mikediver.bsky.social Mostly works in marketing. Mostly.
Author of gaming books including Aliens: The Video Games, the first complete history of Alien/s games, available now.
#saintsfc
Neil Young @raijimmaru.bsky.social 24th-billed in Radu Jude's DRACULA (2025).
now: Barbarian Days (Finnegan 2015), Cities of the Red Night (Burroughs 1981)
last: Heart of Darkness (Conrad 1899) (9)
FEX URBIS LEX ORBIS
Nu är min lycka bättre
Steven Sloss 🛸 @stevensloss.bsky.social Kaiju guy, writer, presenter, curator, and Austin Powers appreciator. Author of BFI Film Classics: Godzilla, coming from Bloomsbury in 2027 📖
Otaku Print Archive @otakuprintarchive.bsky.social Collecting, scanning & archiving otaku magazines and other print materials. https://archive.org/details/@nicole_turkowski
Nia Alavezos @aloofness.bsky.social Writer | Director | BAFTA Cymru-Nominated Producer 🎬✨ Ffilm Cymru Wales funded SPECTRE OF THE BEAR + PASSENGER on BBC iPlayer! BAFTA-longlisted BRAIN SPACE at festivals now! 💥 https://nalavezos.wixsite.com/niaalavezos
Rollin Bishop @rollinbishop.com us managing editor @ gamesradar+, 1/3 of http://reframenewsletter.online (reframenewsletter@gmail.com)
animation, games, chainsaw man, internet garbage
(he/him)
rollin.bishop@futurenet.com // rollinbishop.com
Mary Marshwiggle @marymarshwiggle.bsky.social She/her 🏳️🌈🏴Here for comics, art, pottery, nature, and photos of people’s pets. Autistic and loving it.
Basje Boer @basje.bsky.social A writer, baby
Rebecca Humphreys-Lamford (they/them) @rebeccahlamford.bsky.social Aroace PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham exploring representations of asexuality on television and their impacts on asexual communities 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
GLITCH @glitchprod.com Indie animation studio making fun, colorful shows with occasional violence and existential breakdowns :D | business@glitchprod.com
Andy Hanley @hanners.bsky.social Marketing Manager for Anime Limited, citizen of nowhere. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Duncan Fyfe @duncanfyfe.net freelance feature writer. video game writer. not duncan't fyfe. duncan fyfe.
duncanfyfe.net
Phillipe Bosher @pabosher.com A traveller from an antique land.
Baldur's Gate 3 | Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles | TR-49 | More.
Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/filmpairings
claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social “the glamorous node of glasgow” –grant morrison / writing about music + films @ the wire, the guardian, tribune, the quietus, little white lies, singles jukebox + / big opinions @ overinvested podcast / zines @ everywhere / https://clairebiddles.carrd.co/
Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
Mothership @mothership.blog Gaming coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
mothership.blog
Matt Braly @radrappy.bsky.social Director/Animator - created Amphibia
Michael Arias @michaelarias.net Award-winning filmmaker, director of “cult animé” TEKKONKINKREET 😬 映像ジャンルや国籍を超えてボーダレスに活躍し、映画『鉄コン筋クリート』で監督デビューを飾ったクリエイター😅 https://michaelarias.net
Cory Hazlehurst @coryhazlehurst.bsky.social 
Zoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com @mothership.blog co-founder/managing editor ✨ i like books, games, feminism, and my dog. DM or reply for email!
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
Ellie Groom @goggleknits.bsky.social Curator of Television for the BFI National Archive.
I knit and watch TV. Knitstagram: @goggleknits
Design Room @designroom.site A new website dedicated to video game oral histories from @mattleone.bsky.social. Find us at designroom.site. Logo by asawallander.se.
Paul Thompson @jakethackrayfan.bsky.social Jake Thackray biographer. Performs with his guitar.
Produced Jake Thackray Project’s Lost Archives 1966-1996 CD: https://youtu.be/FRlGoNu4eRA?si=A8OYMs5KYBrKE8di
Latest book: Jake Thackray - The Unsung Writer
Writes songs.
www.paulthompsonmusic.co.uk
danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social Berklee College of Music game design lecturer, Volunteer EMT in NYC, BJJ Purple Belt 🤼♀️, hobbyist game dev and pixel artist, sometimes screenwriter, fitness dork. Post-bac science student with medical aspirations! She/her.
Maddy Myers 🏳️🌈 @midimyers.com Editor-In-Chief of @mothership.blog // email: team-at-mothership-dot-blog. Podcast co-host of Triple Click and The Mutant Ages. Formerly of Polygon, Kotaku, The Mary Sue, The Boston Phoenix. she/her.
Lucy Blundell 💜💚 Wishlist Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart on Steam! @kinmoku.bsky.social Independent Game Developer – Made One Night Stand and VIDEOVERSE, now working on Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart | IGF | Indie Cup | Previous EA Chillingo | Brit residing in Germany | Invisibly disabled | She/They 🖤🩶🤍💜
www.kinmoku.games
Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social Bride of Art. Presenter:Front Row, Newswatch, Art of Persia @SquareWindowPod.bsky.social. 20th Century Society Pres. BFI Film Classics Bk on A Hard Day's Night out now: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hard-days-night-9781839029394/
https://samiraahmed.blog/
priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social I write about cars, movies, & cars in movies.
words for Hagerty, Arrow Video, Empire Magazine, Polygon, StudioCanal UK, Second Sight, Southwest Review, Lionsgate Limited, etc.
https://linktr.ee/scillapage
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
Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social Historian of play | PhD | @ihr.bsky.social Fellowship | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer - Thousand Hells, Amberspire, Neurocracy & more | Currently working on a secret thing
Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit
she/her
Eteo Games @eteogames.bsky.social • Independent game studio from Gregorios Kythreotis (@eteogreg.bsky.social), creating worlds of mystery and mischief
• Sign up to the newsletter, Eteo Archetypes: https://www.eteogames.com/
Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com 3 x Eisner and Bram Stoker-winning Writer/Translator/Lecturer. Faculty at NYU. Noted Monster Scholar. Shigeru Mizuki stan. Sabre fencer. Seattle boy. Extra fancy
OVERWATCH-MIZUKI: FACING DEMONS, KAIBYO THE SUPERNATURAL CATS OF JAPAN
www.zackdavisson.com
Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
Matthew Turner @filmfan1971.bsky.social Film critic, podcaster @FatalAttractPod.bsky.social, compiler/co-author of What To Watch When, creator of #PreCodeApril. Hasn't missed an episode of EastEnders since 1998.
Wil Overton @wiloverton.bsky.social Drawer of some silly pictures. Ex of Rare and various other game devs. Helped make the UK's first anime magazine and games mags like Super Play and N64 in ye olden days.
Website - https://wiloverton.com
Shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/SuperKosmikatClub
Dan Jolin @danjolin.bsky.social Editor and co-founder of Senet magazine. Contributing editor to Empire magazine. Author of the Unofficial Guides to James Cameron, the Coen brothers, Christopher Nolan & Quentin Tarantino. Player of (board) games.
Jay Baylis @jaybaylis.bsky.social Game Director @ the BAFTA-Nominated Bytten Studio ► Working on Cassette Beasts 2002, prev: Cassette Beasts + more ► Game Design/Narrative Design/Art Stuff/Animation ► Brighton, UK
Bilge Ebiri @bilgeebiri.bsky.social "I don't expect you to be as depressed as I am, but I don't think your happiness is quite appropriate."
@davewheels.bsky.social @davewheels.bsky.social 
Games From The Black Hole @gamesblackhole.bsky.social A blog about old games. Written by Ashley Day
gamesfromtheblackhole.wordpress.com
Chris Scullion @scully1888.bsky.social Deputy Editor, VGC. Writer of video game encyclopedias. Professional games journalist for 20 years. Formerly of Official Nintendo Magazine and CVG. Tired Old Hack. Celtic supporter. Scottish. Dad joke aficionado. LGBTQ+ ally
Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social She/Her 🏳️⚧️
Anime Fan, Owner of a pretty big Sakura Wars collection, and EIC at Anime Herald and The Combat Revue Review
Physical media advocate
Opinions are my own
Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social Movies and mushrooms. Writer, film critic, Japanese film lover, amateur mycologist, co-director of CREEPING GARDEN and J-HORROR VIRUS and author of a few books. https://jaspersharp.squarespace.com
Sean Gilman @theendofcinema.bsky.social I live in Tacoma and I write about movies.
thechinesecinema.com
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Wakefield Libraries @wflibraries.bsky.social We are the library service for Wakefield and its surrounding towns and villages.
Follow us for news, reviews & events, plus oodles of free online resources, learning courses & historical photographs!
🔗 https://www.wakefield.gov.uk/libraries
Helen McCarthy @helenmccarthy51.bsky.social Writer, speaker, poet, scholar, booklover. Posts here on anime, manga, poetry, costume, writing, Japan. Also posts @glider.bsky.social for politics, history, rants, random records etc.
Website helenmccarthy.net
https://ko-fi.com/helenmccarthy51
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.
Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Film & TV Studies @ Warwick Uni / Forthcoming: The Dancing Girl in Contemporary Cinema 💃 (EUP, 2026) / Programming: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/trailblazers / Editor: Open Screens
🌳 Rambling through Epping Forest 🌳
Tom O @vgtomo.bsky.social My site: https://www.respec.net/
My newsletter: https://lowpolymess.com/
Former Editorial Director @eurogamer @vg247, USGamer managing editor, @vg247 Editor-in-chief, founder of VideoGamer.com. GOAT (He/him) tom dot orry at gmail dot com
Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com Book design danielgray.com
Blogging mwhile.com
Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social Writer, Curator, Cultural Omnivore | 1/3 of http://reframenewsletter.online/ | Author of Amnesia: Design Works @lostincult.co.uk // I mostly retweet games + art. Opinions are my own. He/Him | PFP: Kara Xu (Helium Raven) Header: Dima Goryainov
Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social Culture on computers, mostly | ✍ The Verge, FT, The Ringer, The Nation, ArtReview, Eurogamer, The Guardian, Vulture | ✉️ lewisjohngordon~at~gmail~dot~com | he/him
PT Klein @ptklein.com Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.
Dom @poliscijedi.bsky.social Political scientist by day, sci-fi nerd by night. @umich.edu PhD. Teach at @gwu1821.bsky.social. Edited books about #Dune, #StarWars, & #StudioGhibli. Also write about politics in #BladeRunner, #LOTR, & #StarTrek. More @ domnardireviews.wordpress.com
David Morrison @david-morrison.bsky.social Digital Production at BFI. Just as likely to post about other stuff. Film, architecture, art, design etc.
Neil Williams @neillyneil.bsky.social Digital and tech exec at the BFI. Previously GOV.UK, and a tough but edifying stint in local gov. Alcohol free. Fun facts: I can't form mental images and have no inner monologue (aphantasia) nor remember my own life (SDAM). https://neilojwilliams.net
Paul Lê @paulle.bsky.social i write about horror, film and tv: Bloody Disgusting, Arrow, Terror Vision, Second Sight · 🍅 approved · talesfromthepaulside.com · 🏳️🌈 · GALECA member · i also watch a lot of old anime and tokusatsu · a Pompompurin fan
Amber @ambercropp.bsky.social Bristol based. Love films and my two doofus rescue cats. Occasional automaticket operator at the Cube.
Max C. @maxisherealso.bsky.social Movie goer, mask wearer, toon drawer, weight gainer, train hater, self humiliator | >1.3K active followers | mods @retiredmascots.bsky.social and the Hall of Advertising | 33 | AuDHD | bi aro | 🔞 | he/they | NoAI | https://maxthemovieguy.carrd.co
Nicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social Author
Hon FRSL
RLF Fellow
Sunday Times Children's Books
#NewIllustrationoftheDay
Blog, biog, gallery, books: on www.nicolettejones.com
Events: phil@showmetherabbit.com.
Art by John Jones: www.johnedwardjones.co.uk
Marc Ellerby @marcellerby.bsky.social UK based comic artist.
💻 http://marcellerby.com
✉️ marc@marcellerby.com
📸 http://instagram.com/marcellerby
Helen O'Hara @helenlohara.bsky.social Film journalist, author, podcaster, broadcaster, etc. Empire's Editor-at-Large. If you would like to give me work, have a look at helenohara.com
Adam Murray @admagnetic77.bsky.social All things Horror/Dystopian Fiction/Genre Cinema "A Cosmic Perspective"...
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com your horror nonna
dr / filmmaker / film critic / author of 10 books on cult, horror + exploitation cinema
in Venice award-winning doc CHAIN REACTIONS + Shudder's 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR based on my book
Naarm/Australia
she/her
https://horrornonna.com
@rosshami.bsky.social @rosshami.bsky.social 
Amanda Dobbins @akdobbins.bsky.social 
Charlie Brigden (they/them) 🏳️⚧️ @filmsonwax.bsky.social Hi, I’m Charlie Brigden! You may remember me from such film outlets as Roger Ebert and music outlets like The Quietus! You may have also seen my booklet essays on Blu-rays such as “Seven Samurai” and Excalibur!”
Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com Feckless freelance film critic and neurotic apanthrope.
The #Horror, the #Horror
Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival.
London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society.
ProjectedFigures.com
David Heredia (Int.) @animeitantei.bsky.social EN/ES/日本語OK・Translator, anime and manga researcher. Writing books with Diábolo Ediciones and mystery games on @1564studio.bsky.social. (Main account: @ounomachi.eurosky.social)
𝕶𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖊 🎀 @teletubbygirl.bsky.social Film programmer 📽️
Ken Russell and goth shit 🦇
she/her
📍Hastings, UK
https://boxd.it/1qR3z
https://www.instagram.com/movieposterparty
LostReelsUK @lostreelsuk.bsky.social Bringing forgotten, lost, or unavailable films back to UK cinemas, mostly in 35mm and 16mm. Founded and operated by Geoffrey M. Badger. Also found at lostreels.co.uk and on other social media sites at @lostreelsuk
Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social Analog illustrator, vintage collector, dark horse. Wife guy.
http://www.brianna-ashby.com/
https://ko-fi.com/briannaashby
Pauline Croquet @paulinecroquet.bsky.social ● Journaliste à @lemonde.fr | Service Culture
✒️ Manga, animation et pop cultures
● Autrice de «Naruto, les arcanes de Konoha» (Pix’n Love, 2024)
● Commissaire de l'expo «L'Atelier des Sorciers, la plume enchantée de K. Shirahama» | FIBD25
Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com Promoting and facilitating academic approaches to Japanese animation (anime) and comics (manga).
News, announcements, links, commentary, questions, thoughts.
www.animemangastudies.com
- featuring the Anime and Manga Studies Database
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
🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social ✍️ RogerEbert, Indiewire, Letterboxd, etc. | 📧 maryag7@gmail.com | CFCA | creator #Noirvember #AYearWithWomen | Programmer, Must-Watch Indies @ FACETS Chicago | buy my book CINEMA HER WAY out now from Rizzoli | Free 🇵🇸| https://maryaegates.com/cinemaherway/
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
MZS.Press @mzspress.bsky.social The official account of MZS.press, online store and publishing imprint. Created by author, critic, journalist and filmmaker Matt Zoller Seitz. Business + account are run by Judith St. Germain. We're biblio-cinephiles who ❤️ the arts & artists.
Leila Latif @leilalatif.bsky.social Professional haver of takes
Gemma Cooper @xgemgem.bsky.social Gaming Director @ DDA PR 🎮
Ex Media Molecule, Bandai Namco, Creative Assembly, Warner Bros.
SCP 100 | MCV 30u30 | GIBiz 100 |
Travel, Disney, F1 and LFC fangirl ♥️✨
Signe Baumane @signebaumane.com Filmmaker | Animator | Writer | Artist | MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE | ROCKS IN MY POCKETS | KARMIC KNOT
MyLoveAffairWithMarriage.com
KarmicKnotMovie.com
louis @louiscammell.bsky.social ✍️the skinny, creative review, snack mag, the crack & more | gsff 🎬 | writing about print and visual culture on substack (3mm bleed)
Sean Fennessey @seanfennessey.bsky.social Host, The Big Picture • Watch and Listen: https://tinyurl.com/2f3tkx89 • Writer, Projections • Subscribe: https://tinyurl.com/4xexb4wt • See you at the movies
20th Century Flicks @20thcflicks.bsky.social Your friendly local video store. We have over 20,000 films and 2 small cinemas. Find us on Christmas Steps, Bristol!
www.20thcenturyflicks.co.uk
Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
Ranjit S. Ruprai @ranjitsruprai.bsky.social Curator supakino.com / Founder @the-cloud-door.bsky.social / Former Chair riocinema.org.uk
autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com 🧑💻 freelance culture writer, copy editor
💼 https://autumn-wright.com
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✉️ autumnwright at protonmail.com
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Leigh Singer @leighsinger.bsky.social Film Journalist, Video Essayist/Editor, Festival Programmer
Sight & Sound, LWLies, BFI, NFTS, LFF, RSIFF & more
https://vimeo.com/user11355665
“Seemed that he was busy doing something close to nothing but different than the day before." His dad, via Prince
Second Sight @secondsightfilms.bsky.social Founded and run by Chris Holden, distributing classic and cult films in premium collectors editions and celebrating our 30th anniversary.
Sophia Satchell-Baeza @sophiasb.bsky.social senior managing editor at MUBI | writing for Sight & Sound, ArtReview, MUBI Notebook | website: https://sophiasatchellbaeza.co.uk | let's see how long I last on here
Greg Walker @thatsnogreg.bsky.social Northern dude 🤙🏻 Cinema Manager & Programme Lead at CULTPLEX Cinema in Manchester 🎞️ 
Deaf Crocodile @deafcrocodile.bsky.social Deaf Crocodile is a boutique Distribution + Restoration + Post-Production company focused on new, independent, lost/unseen and world cinema.
Elle Haywood @ellekit.bsky.social sea swimmer | film curator & talent coordinator for festivals and events | Londoner in Toronto ✨
Ben Travis @benstravis.bsky.social Deputy Online Editor at Empire Magazine. One half of the Disniversity Podcast. Clean and rad and powerful.
Ewan Wilson @ewanwilson4.bsky.social Senior Project & Biz Dev Manager @lostincult.co.uk | Author of Sable: Design Works & Citizen Sleeper: Design Works 📖 | Buy "Heterotopias" & "How A Game Lives" 📕 | Old bylines @ Eurogamer, RPS, Polygon, The Verge, WIRED, The Face, NME, Edge, GamesRadar etc.