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.
Jam first (home), cream first (work)
An independent, reader-supported online film journal, offering a different lens on movies since 2013.
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Films, etc. | Critic, curator | Podcasts, books + screenings as Ghibliotheque
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words in @polyesterzine @bestfitmusic @gigwise etc.
Journaliste / axée cinéma, séries (et F1) / ex BFMTV.com, a écrit pour Franceinfo, MadmoiZelle, Vanity Fair, Urbania.
Film and fiction writing. ✍️ in New Critique, Engelsberg Ideas, DMovies, Penumbra Magazine, Valley Press, 10:10 Press, and more.
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Games, Movies, Music and Books 🍅-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.
Creative Producer • Artistic Director of Aslant Theatre @aslanttheatre.bsky.social • Marketing @ Barbican Centre • Creative Associate Jermyn Street Theatre • Views my own ✨
🏜 Ginger man, writer, whimsy professional
🦭Lifestyle & culture writer: Guardian, Mashable, Yahoo etc
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SVP, Strategy & Operations. Building products, growing audiences and driving revenue. Previously TIME and VICE News. Posting about media, technology and AI.
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sea swimmer | film curator & talent coordinator for festivals and events | Londoner in Toronto ✨
Publicity, consultancy and advocacy for culture and activism – let’s tell your story 📖
storytellingPR.com
Freelance Writer, Critic, and Programmer | Bylines in The List, Film Stories, The Film Magazine, and DMovies
features girl at british vogue and author of all the things she said
We believe the arts make life better, and everyone should have opportunities to experience and take part in them. 🎶💃🎭🎨✍️📸🎥🧵🏛️
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🏴 Ringo-nominated writer of comics + game history books. AI 🚫
Killtopia | BPM | Hello Darkness | Boom! Studios | Titan Comics | Bitmap Books | Agent: Watson Little
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a celebration of the forgotten and overlooked.
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Cartoonist
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Co-founder @cartoonist.coop
Works: The Hanging, Daystar,
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🐉 Multi-award-shortlisted, Eisner- & Ignatz-nominated indie comics publisher
📍 Edinburgh, run by @evegwood.com
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📢 Closing December 2026
The innovative digital comics fair debuting all-new comics from independent artists around the world. Annually, October 1-31st.
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your platform for thought-provoking cinema
The film podcast from The Skinny – every fortnight we take some kind of look at the wide world of The Movies. We're talking classic films, brand-new films, film festivals, the politics of film etc, etc
Comedy Editor at The Skinny (and other things). Probably doing something stupid. Suggestions for cool comedy things in Scotland are always welcome. She/her.📍Edinburgh
she/her - bylines atmos, dazed, guardian, lwlies, them, wallpaper etc
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digital editor @ Little White Lies magazine, future corpse. extremely online and incredibly anxious.
wrote SOFIA COPPOLA: FOREVER YOUNG, COLORS OF WES ANDERSON, YORGOS LANTHIMOS: THE MODERN PROMETHEUS out Oct 2026. 🤠
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Passionate about movies since 2005.
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Journalist on culture and news, author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, radio programme maker, public arts project leader. Ten Sunday Spells for you every week on juderogers.substack.com
CLASH Magazine. Adventures in music, fashion, film and more. Online, and in print | Our 'Mantra' Issue 132 is here: http://www.theclashshop.com
Author, filmmaker, book dealer. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
critic/screenwriter • ppa award finalist x2 • trans rights 🏳️⚧️ • ✍️ Flicks, Paste, Big Issue, Inverse, GQ, Vulture, BFI, AV Club • ✉️: roryjdoherty@aol.co.uk • roryjdoherty.com
🍃 An award-winning climate-positive indie publisher of classic & contemporary fiction, non-fiction, poetry & theatre. Also home to Hay Press.
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Journalist turned researcher, teacher, fact-checker.
📚 Affect, digital politics, violence, imaginations, & pervasive game cultures.
🛠️ (Sensory) Ethnography, CDA-DHA, PAR
PhDing: Tampere Uni 🇫🇮
somabasu.com
Historian of modern India | Research nerd | Author & biographer | Archive hound | Full-time chai lover
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Anthropologist of War and Pictures. Conflict. Politics. Resistance. Visual Culture. International Development. Sri Lanka. http://citizensofphotography.org
feminist #abortion & reproductive (in)justice researcher, tennis fan, likes tea. co-runs @abortionbookclub.bsky.social. Lecturer in Global Health & Social Medicine @kings-sga.bsky.social. [don't DM me, i can't see it]
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Artist, author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being (2022). Free Palestine, Protect Trans Kids, for ever and ever. https://mastodon.social/@jamesbridle / jamesbridle.com
Journalist/lapsed mackem | Features/reviews/investigations. Mostly on culture. Currently reporter @theobserveruk.bsky.social (plus bits in @theguardian.com) | British Journalism Awards winner 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/rachael-healy
Filmmaker/writer. The Story of Film/Dear Orson Welles/A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Women Make Film/I am Belfast/My Name is Alfred Hitchcock/The Story of Looking/Atomic/Stockholm My Love/Life May Be/
Best info about me: https://markcousins.cargo.site/
I am a comedian and a writer. Free Palestine.
Think he’s gonnae be a comedian. UK & Ireland stand-up tour on sale now 🎫 🔗
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stand-up comedian / podcaster
dark prince of glasgow
https://linktr.ee/macarthurboyd
I do stand up and writing
what the hell sure
writer & yapper for hire british gq, teen vogue, time, netflix tudum, nme┆daily host @ magic at the musicals┆ex-senior celeb gal at bauer media
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Film/Television PhD Researcher @ UoN: arthouse, authorship, formalism in Twin Peaks: The Return. Here for the Garmonbozia. @ whalefromtv on Twitter/X, words for various.
Nickdavie.wordpress.com
UK-based critic and culture journalist. Bylines: BFI, Sight and Sound, Little White Lies, IndieWire and others. Member of the London Critics' Circle.
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Comedy booker to the stars
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writer and curator, ‘revolutionary desires: the political power of the sex scene’ forthcoming mar 2025!
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LAST aisle seat on the left.
Emphasis on the FIRST syllable.
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Oh god not again (📺🎬: ITG, 📚: Curtis Brown)
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Closing in summer 2026.
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Author of Flip the Script (404ink) and words sometimes in the Quietus, NME, Guardian, The Forty-Five etc.
Trustee @ Music Venue Trust & Scottish Music Centre
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Independent Cultural Journalism from Scotland. Free monthly magazine, website, podcasts, and more. DMs not monitored, send us an email.
theskinny.co.uk
The world's least buff film buff • film critic • arts journo • Film editor at The Skinny • co-host of The CineSkinny podcast • trying to be more upbeat
Arts journalist (comedy specialist), Times Scotland (Alba) and Metro mainly. Scotsman comedy reviews during Edinburgh Fringe. Wanging on about birds all year round.
North Berwick, near Edinburgh. She/her
Guardian theatre critic and presenter of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast https://www.xtclimelight.com/ All kinds of stuff here: https://linktr.ee/markffisher
Arts journalist usually covering live comedy. COYH 👒
The independent critical voice in contemporary art since 1949.
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THE CRACK is a music, art and culture listings magazine/website that resides in the North-East of England
Utter clown. BBC New Comedy Award Shortlist. SYTYF? Semi-Finalist. Host of Screen Time @ The Stand, Glasgow – next show December 5th! All links at fearghaskelly.com
Comic artist and illustrator
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literary translator and assistant managing editor @ asymptote journal. language enthusiast & lover of all things SFF 💫
current reads: House of the Beast - Michelle Wong
Can't spell verklempt without Kemp. Editorial Lead (UK & Europe) @letterboxd.social | Photographer & broadcaster everywhere else | She/her
film & tv writer for gq. gay in spirit and sex
Anthropologist of care 🌸
Lead MSP candidate, Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Greens 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🏴
q.manivannan@scottishgreens.org.uk 🌿
Promoted by Dave Owen on behalf of Q Manivannan, Scottish Green Party, both at 19b Graham Street, Edinburgh EH6 5QN
Bringing communities together to harness the transformative potential of film and storytelling for collective change, in Scotland and beyond.
Our 2025 film festivals across Scotland are now live for booking! takeoneaction.org.uk/events/
Director at @takeoneaction.bsky.social Founder and chair at @theferret.scot Former lead on community-led investigations at @tbij.bsky.social Playwright. Love games, play, stories. Scotland-based. She/her
Scotland's leading short film event | 19th edition: 18-22 March 2026 | #GSFF26
