Emily Marlow
@emarlow.bsky.social
📚🎨✍️ Curator, writer, salaryman 🌈🏳️⚧️✌🏻
• BA, MA, PhD: Religion, sexuality & masculinity. Film, videogames, MVs, art.
• Technical Director @ Intrapology: https://intrapology.com/
• Portfolio: https://www.emilymarlow.co.uk/
• 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
🎨 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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Kim caught up with @zoyander.cc and Studio Voltaire to chat about the challenges archiving our own trans history, and some of the tools we can use to do it. Check out the interview on our blog!
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Trans Digital Archiving with Dr Zoyander Street
Kim caught up with Zoyander and Studio Voltaire to chat about the challenges archiving our own trans history, and some of the tools we can use to do it.
gfsc.community
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Kim caught up with @zoyander.cc and Studio Voltaire to chat about the challenges archiving our own trans history, and some of the tools we can use to do it. Check out the interview on our blog!
gfsc.community/trans-digita...
gfsc.community/trans-digita...
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A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
Writing Game Histories
This book offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic intersection between history and games, and the flourishing discipline of Historical Game Studies. Fr…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
And the 2025 award for the most beautiful frame in BL cinematography category goes to
November 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
And the 2025 award for the most beautiful frame in BL cinematography category goes to
Just a reminder this Oxford-based roundtable on games preservation, archiving & exhibition is next week, and also is a hybrid event 🎮🌏👇
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-...
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Just a reminder this Oxford-based roundtable on games preservation, archiving & exhibition is next week, and also is a hybrid event 🎮🌏👇
The way that writing my silly little Godzilla fanfiction is one of the things keeping me going istg
⚡Happy Godzilla Day⚡In 1954, an enormous beast clawed its way out of the sea, destroying everything in its path—and changing movies forever. On the Criterion Channel, celebrate with all-day marathon of Godzilla films through the decades!
www.criterionchannel.com/godzilla-the...
www.criterionchannel.com/godzilla-the...
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The way that writing my silly little Godzilla fanfiction is one of the things keeping me going istg
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Hey Listen!
This December I'm running a videogame themed tour of the British Museum.
Join me for a whistlestop tour of some of the real stories behind your favourite videogames and see some of the incredible artefacts that inspired them!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-videog...
This December I'm running a videogame themed tour of the British Museum.
Join me for a whistlestop tour of some of the real stories behind your favourite videogames and see some of the incredible artefacts that inspired them!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-videog...
The Videogame Tour of The British Museum
This tour of the British Museum by writer and historian Sacha Coward will explore the ancient history behind your favourite videogames!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Hey Listen!
This December I'm running a videogame themed tour of the British Museum.
Join me for a whistlestop tour of some of the real stories behind your favourite videogames and see some of the incredible artefacts that inspired them!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-videog...
This December I'm running a videogame themed tour of the British Museum.
Join me for a whistlestop tour of some of the real stories behind your favourite videogames and see some of the incredible artefacts that inspired them!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-videog...
This is in a couple of weeks and I'm still building my talk for it, are there any specific topics or issues people are interested in - Specifically in and around videogames in museums and videogame preservation? 🤔🎮
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-...
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
October 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
This is in a couple of weeks and I'm still building my talk for it, are there any specific topics or issues people are interested in - Specifically in and around videogames in museums and videogame preservation? 🤔🎮
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can are video games art discourse be art
October 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
can are video games art discourse be art
The amount of times I'd find myself openly weeping as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn loaded up, istg. Truly one of the most epic opening sequences in gaming and the OST just kills it. 🔥 youtu.be/Ci5oORAvPTU?...
October 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The amount of times I'd find myself openly weeping as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn loaded up, istg. Truly one of the most epic opening sequences in gaming and the OST just kills it. 🔥 youtu.be/Ci5oORAvPTU?...
10 BLs to get to know me
October 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
10 BLs to get to know me
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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-...
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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-...
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
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…
www.bloomsbury.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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 🙏✨
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?...
October 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I feel like this is an immensely important fact several of my mutuals need to be alerted to-
You have knitting & baking, I have-
October 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
You have knitting & baking, I have-
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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-...
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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-...
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
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-...
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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-...
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
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…
September 29, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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
There's watching BLs and then there is watching BLs made by gay men #ThatSummer 💅👏
a doll wearing glasses and red lips is covering her ears with her hand .
ALT: a doll wearing glasses and red lips is covering her ears with her hand .
media.tenor.com
September 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Not Jojo being the only director whose characters smoke like the actor themselves actually smokes irl 🚬💅👏🏻 #ThatSummer
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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.
September 20, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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.
September 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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.
There's watching BLs and then there is watching BLs made by gay men #ThatSummer 💅👏
a doll wearing glasses and red lips is covering her ears with her hand .
ALT: a doll wearing glasses and red lips is covering her ears with her hand .
media.tenor.com
September 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
There's watching BLs and then there is watching BLs made by gay men #ThatSummer 💅👏
Mentally, I'm here
September 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Mentally, I'm here
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THEY’RE BURNING THE LABUBUS.
The Association is in session and we’re discussing the Labubu craze, the people crying demon, and the Gothic history of moral panics. Guest starring Lauren’s Labubus, obviously.
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/26fk...
The Association is in session and we’re discussing the Labubu craze, the people crying demon, and the Gothic history of moral panics. Guest starring Lauren’s Labubus, obviously.
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/26fk...
September 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
THEY’RE BURNING THE LABUBUS.
The Association is in session and we’re discussing the Labubu craze, the people crying demon, and the Gothic history of moral panics. Guest starring Lauren’s Labubus, obviously.
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/26fk...
The Association is in session and we’re discussing the Labubu craze, the people crying demon, and the Gothic history of moral panics. Guest starring Lauren’s Labubus, obviously.
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/26fk...