Hagioptasia: Perception & Meaning @hagioptasiatheory.bsky.social Exploring the hidden force of perceived 'specialness' - a natural illusion shaping human belief, behaviour, & culture.
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Gemma Morris-Conway @gemma2.bsky.social Historical Novelist | Tudor & Plantagenet Researcher | Lead Campaigner for DNA Testing of the Princes in the Tower | Public Historian & Speaker Author, The Reflection in the Mirror and The Wolf of Whitehall, currently working on two new novels out in June.
Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social Writer, artist, editor, curator
Editor: recessed.space
Teaching: UCL Bartlett
Obviously, everything here is my opinion & not that of my employers, except when I am my employer
Probs won't chat to faceless/anon/troll profiles
Giles Paley-Phillips @eliistender10.bsky.social I write books, films and make podcasts.
Happily mediocre
Ahmed Almasry @ibrahem245.bsky.social 
Bookshelfie โญ๏ธ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker Web App): www.pscript.app
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SiyaMchunu @siyamchunu.bsky.social Freelance Writer/New Author
https://medium.com/@heelextension
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Art Spell @artspell.bsky.social Your morning brew of art world media.
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Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
katie kasperson @katiekasperson.bsky.social mayor of crazy town ๐ words in vfx voice, business insider, little white lies, observer etc / senior staff at definition ๐ชฉ katiekasperson @ icloud dot com
katiekasperson.com
TodaystheDay @mulattoanalbino.bsky.social Photographer Maurits Sillem
http://www.maurits-sillem.co.uk
See Rizzoliโs โAnti-Glossy: Fashion Photography Nowโ; ex-V&A, RCA; reads Don Delillo, Olga Tokarczuk, Clarice Lispector, Jean Genet; Arsenal silver; researching โCampo deโ Fioriโ.
recessed.space @recessedspace.bsky.social recessed.space is a platform for writing about art and architecture, and where the two intersect.
๐พ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐น ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ @mactingz.bsky.social Freelance magazine editor. Sometime writer. Bylines: BBC Culture, Empire, Fangoria, Little White Lies, The Quietus, Time Out, etc.
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@karamsameer776.bsky.social @karamsameer776.bsky.social I'm Karam Samir, I'm 19 years old from Gaza๐ต๐ธโค๏ธ
John Livesey @johnlivesey.bsky.social writer & director โจ PhD on James Baldwin at University College London
Words: https://muckrack.com/john-livesey-1
Sam Godfrey @skgodfrey.bsky.social Artist & practice-based PhD researcher
Exeter & Bath Spa (SWW DTP)
textiles/diy technology/kelp/trans studies
(they/them)
sarahkgodfrey.com
David O'Mullane @baevido.bsky.social Dr in Cruising, Queer Art/Theory and Spectral Politics
0.5 FTE Child of Prague Collector, 1 FTE Faggot
Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social NEW novel 'The Life Of Life' publishes March 2027 / โThe Good Immigrant - 10th Anniversary Edition' out this month, September 2026, Canongate Books
https://salenagodden.substack
https://www.salenagodden.co.uk
Alasdair Lane @alasdairlane.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Guardian, Economist, Politico, New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, Fortune, Atlantic, BBC, NBC, etc. I also run a journo / writer jobs newsletter โ writeathome.beehiiv.com
Shannon Walsh @shwalsh.bsky.social calm, cool, and collected
Hope Dickson Leach @hopedickle.bsky.social Filmmaker based in Edinburgh often found tending to my children and shouting about how hard it all is.
Nadir @nadjunct.bsky.social part-time linguist (he/him)
Ariel Fisher @arielfisher.com Freelance writer for hire
Formerly news editor at /Film, editor of Shudder's The Bite, and managing editor at FANGORIA mag. Bylines Nerdist, Rue Morgue, CBC Comedy, et al
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ON games journal @ongamesjournal.bsky.social The ultimate celebration of gaming's past, present and future - on.games
Billie @billierwalker.bsky.social she/her - bylines atmos, dazed, guardian, lwlies, them, wallpaper etc
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DMovies @dmovies.bsky.social your platform for thought-provoking cinema
Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social ๐ธ Photographer | capturing life's candid moments with my camera ๐ธ
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Barney Nuttall @barnnuttall.bsky.social Freelance Journalist slamming film-related words on keyboards (typewriter a distant aspiration) | Previous DEIC of Holmesโ own STRAND Magazine | Hardhat and high-vis at the ready, hire me: https://barneynuttallportfolio.carrd.co/
Micah @micah1.bsky.social Curator, Bicyclist, Boston Terrier lover (they/them). All views my own.
Slasher Film | Horror Movie @slasherfilm2024.bsky.social WATCH THE TEASER TRAILER NOW on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/ebbrwb6f (Warning: 18+)
Movie coming soon. Calling all #HORROR fans.
#horrorcommunity
Ottawa, ON, Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social Writer. Author. Bond Fan.
CATCHING BULLETS - MEMOIRS OF A BOND FAN
WATCHING SKIES - STAR WARS SPIELBERG & US
BOND, QUEER BOND - THE FABULOUS OTHER HISTORY OF A SPY
Rep'd by Vivienne Clore
#JamesBond #WatchingSkies #BondQueerBond
www.markoconnell.co.uk
Dr Rhys Steven Jones @rhysteven.bsky.social asst prof film, media & culture @UvA_Amsterdam | historical materialism - critical theory - horror cinema - pop culture | he/him
Emily Chudy @emilychudy.bsky.social โจ Journalist covering the LGBTQIA+ community
โ๏ธ Big Issue, The Independent, Slate, Glamour Magazine, Byline Times, Cosmopolitan, LGBTQ+ Nation etc
๐ Repped by @blakefriedmann.bsky.social
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Cyrus Cohen @cycoh.bsky.social queer & trans critic & festival worker. they/them. https://letterboxd.com/film_fag/
fey @forestfeyry.bsky.social nonsense fey 
Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk digital editor @ Little White Lies. extremely online and incredibly anxious.
author of books on sofia coppola + wes anderson, MODERN PROMETHEUS: THE FILMS OF YORGOS LANTHIMOS out Nov 2026, Jackass book Oct 2027!
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That Woman @angryfemalepoet.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ A fractious midult of unpredictable temperament with strong feminist leanings and an uncontrollable poetry habit. I share what Iโm reading.
Day job is science and medicine. Cis-bi, she/her
Blake Simons @blakethinks.bsky.social ๐ฅ interview evangelist, 2026 Daiwa Scholar
โ romance, japan, animation, queer at BFI, IndieWire, Variety, The Japan Times, and more
Contact: blakesimons97(at)gmail(dot)com
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Phuong Le @phuonghhle.com Editorial @ mubi || Words @ Guardian, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, BBC, Indicator, Arrow Films, and others.
๐London, UK ๐ฉ phuonghhle@gmail.com
Tash @tashajagger.bsky.social film journalist | words: @LWLies @digitalspy @NME @moviemarker @GlamourMagUK @thefacemagazine
Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social trying! jeannethornton.com, patreon.com/jwthornton
Tilly Pearce @tillyontelly.bsky.social Professional TV Watcher and Netflix Oracle (Iโm a journalist that tells you what to watch/what Iโve watched)
Caroline Bird @carolinebirduk.bsky.social Poet & playwright. 7th poetry collection, Ambush at Still Lake, out from Carcanet: https://shorturl.at/JXYCR. Winner of Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020
www.carolinebird.co.uk
Alistair Ryder @yesitsalistair.bsky.social I interview the great and good of film and TV for Zavvi. I then criticise their work as a freelance critic for The Film Stage, AwardsWatch and more
Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social asst. professor of film, media, & culture at University of Amsterdam | author of ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ช๐ด๐ฆ๐น๐ถ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ (Duke U.P.) | bisexual saboteur | he/his
https://linktr.ee/jacob.engelberg
Matthew Olson-Roy @molsonroy.bsky.social Now posting from W Social, a human-verified, EU-based social media account.(@matthewolsonroy.wsocial.eu)
Follow me there!
(You stay in BlueSky.)
David Opie @davidopie.bsky.social Subscribe to my weekly newsletter Cruising Cinema for queer film/TV recs (pinned)
Writing gay/geeky stuff at Indiewire, GamesRadar, DigitalSpy, RadioTimes, Empire Magazine, Paste, iNews | Yahoo UK columnist | RT approved | davidopie7@gmail.com
ilana kaplan @lanikaps.bsky.social USA Today Best-Selling Author & writer/music editor @ people magazine โจformer senior editor @ alternative press โ๏ธ @ rolling stone, new york times, gq, npr, vanity fair, etc. โจ my book nora ephron at the movies is out now via abrams!
Maxwell โSwellโ Haddad @cinemaxwell.bsky.social Storyteller. Tony Winner. TV, film, and theater enthusiast. Mets/Rangers/Knicks. Liberal. 37.
I think Iโve seen this film beforeโฆ and I didnโt like the ending. โจ
Joseph Osmundson @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social scientist, writer, activist. VIROLOGY (Norton, 2022) "dazzling... love essays" -NYTimes Book Review, NBCC & Lambda Literary Finalist in Nonfiction
joshua gutterman tranen @jdgtranen.bsky.social writer. hormones and abortion on demand. Palestine will be free.
joshuaguttermantranen.com
Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social UK-based film critic and culture journalist. Bylines: BFI, Sight and Sound, IndieWire, Little White Lies and others. Member of the London Critics' Circle.
linktr.ee/jslaterwilliams
Miggy Angel @miggyangel.bsky.social Poetry Is Fuckeries
5publishedbooksofpoetry/editorofburninghousepress/
Graffiti On A Burning House forthcoming from Salo Press 2026
~~~
filmphotography:
StreetPoetryIsMyEveryday
>@nottinghamburgers<
~ANTI-SEMANTICS~
https://linktr.ee/miggyangel
Barry Levitt @barrylevitt.bsky.social Film/TV Writer โ The Daily Beast, Vulture, Time, Empire, LA Times, Rolling Stone & more
Cat dad, Viking fanatic, relatively entertaining Canadian
Steph Green @steph-green.bsky.social day โ working in travel content โข night โ writing about film at indiewire, bfi, the guardian, bbc culture, empire + elsewhere ๐
@amahrose.bsky.social @amahrose.bsky.social 
Rae Fooks @raefooks.bsky.social i teach yoga and lie down a lot. wife guy when sheโs being nice to me
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
Jessi D @gothydellamorte.bsky.social 30s, UK, queer, disabled stereotype. Pixel artist + writer. I love old & unusual games, films, books, horror and folklore. Expect bullshit, good opinions, facetiousness, blood, damp fabric and nudity.
No AI/NFTs.
https://gothydellamorte.carrd.co
patrick @patricksproull.bsky.social critic + culture writer (british GQ, dazed, i-D, the cut, w magazine, PAPER) (they/them)
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press ๐ THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social ๐ณ Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
Chris Connor @chrisco96.bsky.social Games, Movies, Music and Books ๐
-approved, coffee and whisky-driven culture wordsmith. Words in IGN, NME, Radio Times, DIY, Clash, Metro, Yahoo and others. Member of the UK Film Critics Association.
Laura Venning @lauravenning.bsky.social Film critic, author, queer, Jane Campion champion, words for Sight and Sound, BFI, Curzon, Little White Lies, Empire, BBC Culture.
โ๏ธ venninglaura@gmail.com
โ๏ธ lauravenning.com / https://lauravenning.substack.com / https://lnk.to/GretaGerwig
alasdair @alasdair2.bsky.social 
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
Vishal Misra | เคตเคฟเคถเคพเคฒ เคฎเคฟเคถเฅเคฐเคพ @viziervish.bsky.social Criminal barrister at Great James Street Chambers. Lover of literature, nature, canines, corvids, poetry, purple things and Chelsea FC. Views my own. Interaction โ endorsement.