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Emerald L King

@emeraldlking.bsky.social
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Japanese literature and cosplay studies scholar University of Tasmania Award winning 🇦🇺cosplayer she/zir 日本文学とコスプレの博士 (タスマニア大学) WCS Australia rep 2024

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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It felt good to flex my very rusty interpreter muscles-for an untrained amateur, I was not completely awful (申し訳ございませんでした). Thank you for putting up with my efforts ...
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's a wonderful event to attend and a beautiful, curious, interesting, and generous community(I promise to actually submit a paper for the next one!!)
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
(Sometimes I remember I have sns that's not just insta ...) Feeling pleasantly stimulated in the brain region after listening in to this year's Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium. @meganrose.bsky.social and @aurelievpetit.bsky.social have built something special
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Helen McCarthy @helenmccarthy51.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you love #anime and wonder how #fandom grew pre-Internet, here's the best interview you'll ever read about US fandom in all its diversity and passion. History is a debt we owe to those who went before. They did wonders: let them not be forgotten. animeherald.com/2024/02/16/l...
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Looking Back at Anime-Zine with Robert Fenelon
"Anime-Zine was North America's first professionally distributed anime magazine. There were C/FO newsletters and the C/FO National had a... I'm sure their print room was under 200 copies, but they wou...
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Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
4️⃣ MORE DAYS TO APPLY !! ✨✨✨ (how megan and I describe the symposium: "very much an underground, extremely gay extremely feminist event" 💅💅💅)
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This morning, I got to play at Children's University at the Peter Underwood Center. Students learnt about the history of European and East Asian armour before making their own vambraces and/or arm guards from cardboard and a hoard of shiny cosplay fabrics. @utas.edu.au
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Please join me at a public screening of THE MAKING OF A JAPANESE Monday August 3, Doors open 3pm Dechaineux Lecture Theatre, Centre for the Arts, Tasmania bookings and more details here: events.humanitix.com/utasfilmscre... @utas.edu.au
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Japanese Film Screening + Award Ceremony
Japanese Film Screening (Free Entry) Mon August 3rd. Event start 3.00pm Dechaineux Lecture Theatre, Centre for the Arts, 37 Hunter St, Hobart TAS 7000
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
(I'm making @ashleyremminga.bsky.social cut down on events from here on out - she told me that this one was a non-negotiable ♡)
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I love this and the community associated with it so much ♡♡♡ congratulations to @aurelievpetit.bsky.social and @meganrose.bsky.social (I should actually do a paper some time ... but also happy to chair or whatever else is useful)
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Dr. Aurélie Petit 👩🏻‍💻✨ @aurelievpetit.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
✨🎀 NEW CFP: The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium (supported by the University of Tokyo, Media, Gender, and Sexualities Study Group) is coming back for its third edition!!!✨🎀 📩 Send us your abstract by August 15 at popculturesjapan@gmail.com✨ Share widely!
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Call for Papers: Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures Symposium 2026
A platform for critical discussions about gender and Japanese animation, fashion, video games, literature and digital cultures
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Coming back to Bluesky for a hot minute to celebrate this wonderful panel on Border Crossing Romance from @utas.edu.au scholars, @sreepurnadatta.bsky.social and @ashleyremminga.bsky.social who presented from their cutting edge phd research #asaa #asaa2026 (I also said some things...)
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Fansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"There are currently only three fanfics on the Archive of Our Own written in Swahili." In our latest, @soila.bsky.social writes about the dominance of English in fandom and especially fic, including the perspectives of fellow fans in Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi. Read or listen to an audio version:
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The Elation and Anxiety of Reading Fic in Your Native Tongue
For fans in Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi, “uncringing” non-English fanfiction is an endeavor in decolonialism.
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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
link rot has slowly but surely dissolved away probably 70% to 80% of every cool piece of work i ever did, every interview about it, every blog, every audio recording, just boom gone and now the time magazine link to that thing i discovered in 2008 redirects to an article about jam
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... I worked behind the scenes with Iskandhar Razak on this one. As a talking head and giving him access to research and putting in contact with cosplayers, photographers, and events. It's not a bad look at cosplay in Australia
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'Cosplay is not consent': The rules of dressing up for conventions
Cosplayers say their hobby has had an astronomical rise in popularity over the past decade. While the subculture promotes "no limits" creativity, there are still strict rules.
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🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 13/04/2026
Reminder that Shonen Jump is not synonymous with "manga." When people talk about manga artists and their insane schedules... no, those are Shonen Jump artists. Other manga artists (the remaining 90%) work no harder than American comic artists. And they are happy not to work themselves to death.
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
abc.net.au
'Cosplay is not consent': The rules of dressing up for conventions
Cosplayers say their hobby has had an astronomical rise in popularity over the past decade. While the subculture promotes "no limits" creativity, there are still strict rules.
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Patrick Andrews @patrickandrews.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
See www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202... for example
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Multilingual learners reap significant academic benefits and outpace monolingual peers
Research from Professor Roberto Filippi (IOE) shows that early multilingual exposure creates long-term academic benefits for multilingual students compared to their monolingual peers, and its cultural...
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Apropos of nothing, you can read about the connections made at a little competition called the World Cosplay Summit in my chapter "Cosplay Everywhere" - check if you have access via your library or institution www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Sometimes my job is okay - especially when I get to host tea ceremony on campus for a belated girls day celebration for highschool languages students. Thank you to Japan Studies Association of Australia, Japan Foundation Sydney, and the Student Engagement and Learning Abroad teams at @utas.edu.au
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
So, can I post? Or do I have to prove I was born in the 1980s by, I dunno, quoting Big Trouble in Little Chinatown or something?
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Excited to be working with @screentasmania.bsky.social at Level Up Game Showcase. Cosplay competition registrations now open. Cosplay display registrations now open. More information www.emeraldlking.com/levelupcosplay and www.screen.tas.gov.au/leveluptasma...
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Level Up Cosplay — Emerald L King
Dr Emerald L King presents the Level UP Cosplay Competition and Cosplay Costume Display.
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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The harm done by #GenAI to human creativity develops in ways we least expect as well as the obvious ones ... cheating has always been a factor in competitions for those who would rather win than grow, but it disrespects and damages the role of the judge as well as the skills of other competitors.
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 22/02/2026
Students are returning for the start of the academic year. They do so amid highly-charged debates around racism and antisemitism in Australia.
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How can unis balance academic freedom with the need to protect against antisemitism?
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
APROPOS OF NOTHING I WRITE ABOUT THE LINKS BETWEEN GENDER AND GAMERG4T3 AND COSPLAY IN THIS CHAPTER brill.com/edcollchap/b...
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
TAS大で私と働きませんか careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/50... Obvious downsides: - 60% teaching at A or B - the weather - working with me.....
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Current Vacancies
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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
If you studied the Humanities: Looking back, what do you wish you knew coming into your first year of an Arts degree?
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Aurelia Brandenburg @hekabeohnename.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
New CfP by @pachuki.bsky.social and me! We'll be editing a special issue at gamevironments and are looking for contributions focused on DIY print publications like fanzines, newsletters and even DIY aspects of commercial gaming magazines. #GameStudies journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...
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Calls for Papers | gamevironments
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Jocelyne Allen @brainvsbook.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Early career translators, get yourself a grant right here! #Translation
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Words Without Borders Announces Fourth Annual Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators - Words Without Borders
This grant aims to support early-career translators seeking to bring international work into the English-language marketplace.
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
If you would like to support this work but aren't gender-diverse or Australian, please consider sharing this with the anime and manga fans in your life. #genderbending #genderbend #universityoftasmania #transgender #transgenderaustralia
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
We are seeking Australian participants over the age of 18 who identify as gender-diverse to take part in online interviews. All data will be anonymised. This project has ethics approval - ethics code H40172 #genderbending #genderbend #universityoftasmania #transgender #transgenderaustralia
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Call for Participants: We are seeking members of the gender-diverse community (ie, anyone not cisgender) to participate in a study investigating how gender-bending anime and manga are viewed and engaged with by the gender-diverse community. More information and sign up via the QR code. >>>
On a purple glittery background a banner in bubble text reads "gender bending anime+manga survey"
Text that follows reads: are you a gender-diverse Australian? Do you enjoy anime and manga? Are you over the age of 18? Do you want to help platform gender-diverse voices in anime and manga studies? 
More information and sign up via the QR code.

A progress pride flag is the bottom left corner and a qr code is the bottom left.

Qr code goes to this link https://surveys2.utas.edu.au/index.php/151748?lang=en

In the top right corner is the logo for University of Tasmania and the ethics code for this project
 Ethics code H40172
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Ashley Remminga @ashleyremminga.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Call For Participants: We are seeking members of the gender-diverse community (ie. anyone not cisgender) to participate in a study that investigates how gender-bending anime and manga are viewed and engaged with by the gender-diverse community. surveys2.utas.edu.au/index.php/15...
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Makes notes for 2027
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Sometimes Living in Australia is just yelling at the wildlife sleeping in your back yard to make sure the animals are asleep and not dead, so you don't have to try to get the council to come and deal with kangaroo and/or wallaby corpses on the second day of the year ....
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I heard 🦋 like cats. A merry whatsit and a very much better than this year 2026 from Daphne Elizabeth.
Daphne Elizabeth is a chocolate brown British shorthair cat with bright orange eyes. She is sprawled happily under a black Christmas tree decorated with fake berries,mushrooms, and pine cones, joyously biting into a giant brown leather mouse toy. Here she holds it in too long claws and bites down with a snarl.Daphne Elizabeth is a chocolate brown British shorthair cat with bright orange eyes. She is sprawled happily under a black Christmas tree decorated with fake berries,mushrooms, and pine cones. Her eyes are filled with menace as she eyes off her giant brown leather mouse toyDaphne Elizabeth is a chocolate brown British shorthair cat with bright orange eyes. She is sprawled happily under a black Christmas tree decorated with fake berries,mushrooms, and pine cones. Final image - she is done with the fake mouse toy and with photos. Her eyes are lit with contempt for the whole thing, possibly the entire season.
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
media.tenor.com
mike and sully from monsters inc are standing next to each other with the caption put that thing back where it came from or so help me
Alt: mike and sully from monsters inc are standing next to each other with the caption put that thing back where it came from or so help me
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Steven J Phipps @stevenjphipps.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The Australia-Japan Society of Tasmania held a reception at Government House last night to celebrate its 55th anniversary. Our members and friends gathered together to celebrate not only our long and extraordinary history, but also the strength of the relationship between Tasmania and Japan.
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
UNHINGED COSPLAY MASHUPS Lü Bu bu
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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
We already pay as much rent as mainlanders, food is more expensive and wages are lower. Going to big events isn’t possible for most. We’re becoming one of those tourism destinations where the locals can’t afford to do anything. The stadium will massively accelerate that process. #politas #auspol
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Reposting so I can find this for my translation theory course next year ....
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
1999 - passed JLPT 3 while on exchange in Tokyo 2004 - passed JLPT 2 after a year in Nagoya 2009 - ABSOLUTELY and spectacularly failed the first mid year offering of JLPT N1 while at Ochnomizu U. I don't think I even studied?
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Obsolete Sony @obsoletesony.com · 18/11/2025
MiniDisc deserved better
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Last day of teaching today. Off to Canberra on Friday for the Canberra Nara Candle Festival 🕯 to host the cosplay competition with Sam from Gateway to Anime... Sign ups still open! See you in our nation's capital
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Well done!
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Saturday 7.30 Cosplay Theatre Join @illustrismodels.bsky.social @thegemcosplay.bsky.social @rembrandtrijn.bsky.social DaniellaMakesThings&I for the CAREERS IN COSPLAY panel. There's a broad range of experiences here, and I'm hoping this should be a good time. #paxaus #paxaus2025 #paxpanel2025
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Saturday 3.00 @lumins_workshop workshop space I'm crashing at @emmycosplayss, and @nix_cosplay 's ask a maker q and a session. Come and chat with us and throw your tricky maker questions at them!
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Saturday 1.30 @lumins_workshop workshop space LITTLE GUYS! Saturday is little guy day, and we'll chat about planning a Little Guy, mental health, and you'll start making your own pocket Hornet from HOLLOW KNIGHT:SILKSONG.
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Friday 4.30 @lumins_workshop workshop space Friday afternoon, I'll be running an INTRO TO SCULPTING WITH FOAM CLAY WORKSHOP where we'll make some roses and talk about sculpting.
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Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
PAX AUS PANELS Friday 10.30 Kookaburra Theatre Join @soylentcosplay.bsky.social, Sam from Gateway to Anime ASH for the FANDOM UNIVERSITY panel. We'll be talking about how to make your degree about the things you love and how to carry that further into higher research.
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