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Emily Marlow

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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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Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · Nov 10

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

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Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 18h

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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Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social · 3d

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:

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Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches

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Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 4d

Every now and then I see headlines about AI and I just think of you and @bvlsingler.bsky.social and sympathetically sigh.

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Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 6d

second volume fam rise up!

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Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 6d

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 🙏✨

Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 6d

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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Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like this is an immensely important fact several of my mutuals need to be alerted to-

Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 7d

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?...

Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 7d

You have knitting & baking, I have-

Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 7d

the cleaner my house the closer the deadlines

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Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 8d

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 🙏🎮✨

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Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches

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Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 8d

now this would be a video essay topic i could get behind (pun not entirely intended)

Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 8d

Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches

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Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 20d

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Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 20d

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…

Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 22d

Its the little things

Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 22d

Not Jojo being the only director whose characters smoke like the actor themselves actually smokes irl 🚬💅👏🏻 #ThatSummer

Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 29d

There's watching BLs and then there is watching BLs made by gay men #ThatSummer 💅👏

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Jess Horror-ssette @decafjedi.com · Feb 1

Pixelated black-and-white image of the Transit Advisor from SimCity 2000, featuring a bespectacled, bearded man with a serious expression. To the right, bold text reads: "YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"

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Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 28d

Wish me luck (just started on a 30k myself) 🙏

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Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 29d

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.

Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 29d

Congrats!

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Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 29d

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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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 29d

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.

Muepin 🍂👻 @muepin.art · 29d

The bad news keep coming

These go into effect Oct 15th

D. Adult Content: We provide a safe space for consensual adult expression by requiring clear consent and stopping abuse.

i. We allow consensual adult sexual content, including fictional depictions, when appropriately labeled and subject to appropriate age restrictions.

ii. We do not allow sexual content involving non- consensual activity including synthetic, simulated, illustrated, or animated versions.

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Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 29d

bsky.app/profile/emar... We at 126 on the watchlist by the way...

Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · Dec 12

Just hit my 50th BL series completed this year, AMA 🙃

Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · 29d

There's watching BLs and then there is watching BLs made by gay men #ThatSummer 💅👏

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Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · Sep 16

When I worked at the museum I kept a copy of this on my desk so when people wanted to talk about games like Eureka, or ARGs in general I had it to hand. Its a childhood favourite.

Emily Marlow @emarlow.bsky.social · Sep 16

Mentally, I'm here

Animation frame from Japanese anime The Summer Hikaru Died in which (spoilers) Yoshiki is desperately trying to stick Hikaru's head back on, whilst his form fluctuates wildly across the room in psychedelic rainbow sprawls of ghostly liquid.