Emily Marlow
@emarlow.bsky.social
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🎮✍🏻📚 Curator, writer, researcher 🌈🏳️‍⚧️✌🏻 • BA, MA, PhD: Religion, sexuality & masculinity. Film, videogames, MVs, art. • Technical Director @ Intrapology: https://intrapology.com/ • Portfolio: https://www.emilymarlow.co.uk/
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Hey new folks! I'm Emily, a writer, curator & researcher - you may know me from video games, museums, academia, film or journalism. 👋

🎨 My portfolio is at: www.emilymarlow.co.uk
🚀 My current project is as Technical Director of Intrapology, you can check out our website at: www.intrapology.com
estelle, every time man
wait till you get to the taxidermized fox-in-drag singing about opulence-
oh no, I'd worried that'd be the case
Seeing this when it came out and I was uh *checks notes* 15...I feel like it definitely had some effect on the old brainpan. 🙃
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Very excited to share that on November 10 @discoxford.bsky.social are hosting a hybrid roundtable on Videogame preservation practices with @carrythezero.bsky.social, Alex Habgood, digital archivist at Rebellion studios, and @emarlow.bsky.social:

digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
Every now and then I see headlines about AI and I just think of you and @bvlsingler.bsky.social and sympathetically sigh.
So excited for this volume (& maybe for its successor 😉) It looks like its shaping up to be a really diverse and fascinating collection of texts on KPop & transmedia storytelling 🙏✨
Excited to share that *Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop* is now available for pre-order from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social! This collection brings together an international group of scholars explores how K-pop reimagines narrative across media. www.bloomsbury.com/us/critical-...
Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop
In Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop, contributors present a variety of compelling case studies to argue that K-pop has evolved beyond a m…
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I feel like this is an immensely important fact several of my mutuals need to be alerted to-
Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...
You have knitting & baking, I have-
the cleaner my house the closer the deadlines
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I'll be part of the panel on Videogames Preservation, Academia & Curation next month as part of Digital Scholarship @ Oxford, you can attend online or in-person, it's on Nov 10th. Looks to be a really interesting event 🙏🎮✨

digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
now this would be a video essay topic i could get behind (pun not entirely intended)
I'll be part of the panel on Videogames Preservation, Academia & Curation next month as part of Digital Scholarship @ Oxford, you can attend online or in-person, it's on Nov 10th. Looks to be a really interesting event 🙏🎮✨

digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
People in the comments section complaining about a Yakuza BL cause the Yakuza are committing crimes, SA etc… I dunno what to tell you guys but uh, Yakuza are… uhhhh…
Not Jojo being the only director whose characters smoke like the actor themselves actually smokes irl 🚬💅👏🏻 #ThatSummer
Wish me luck (just started on a 30k myself) 🙏
The absolute head-spin of reading about historic gay civil rights progresses from the 1980s (in 2016) to seeing the reality (read: destruction) of lgbtq+ rights (in 2025) is quite a thing.
Gotta tell you, being an academic studying American Masculinity & sexuality in media right now is a different kind of wild. When I started studying a decade ago we used to joke that these topics (religion, sex) used to be taboo, now they're just plain censored and in some cases outlawed. Insanity.
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Restricting the expression of sexuality through fiction and art made by adults, for adults – including those you find personally disturbing or offputting – is conservative censorship, full stop. When that censorship disproportionately affects subgroups, that's also discrimination. For shame.
The bad news keep coming

These go into effect Oct 15th