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Happy New Year! If you’re anything like me then the start of 2020 has you filled with ideas and excitement. I’m working on putting together a new campaign for my Dungeons & Dragons group. Now, what is a campaign? A campaign is a longer-form game that lasts many sessions (sometimes going on for years!) and […]

One of the great things about Science Fiction and Fantasy is that they are entertaining while offering a new social or political perspective or commentary. We love these books, movies, and TV shows because they get so much right, they tell a great story, they make us think, and of course they entertain us. But […]

It’s officially 2020, and at Speculative Chic, we’ve spent the entire week celebrating! Since our usual Round-Up editor is still on vacation, I thought I’d tackle all the fun we’ve been having this week to share the love with all of you! So take a breather, sit back, and start reading: I don’t want you […]

We march into 2020 totally brave and bold with some of our most ambitious Resolution Projects yet! Whether it’s knocking through a catalog of 15 to 20 books, blazing through seasons upon seasons of series both old and newly beloved, or cracking open the cookbooks and assembling a smorgasbord of speculative treats, we’ve got something […]

Welcome back to Sound Off!, a semi-regular column where members of Speculative Chic gather together to chat about the latest BIG THING in entertainment. This time, join for the end of an era and discuss Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which premiered in the United States on Friday, December 20, 2019. Sound Off! is meant to […]

In the Western world, it’s Christmas Day, and whatever you celebrate, we’d like to wish you all a very wonderful holiday season! We’re taking the day off here at Speculative Chic, but we’re leaving you in good hands. I mean, seriously, how can you not be in good hands? I don’t know what Baby Yoda […]

Every year, we invite our contributors to challenge themselves with the Resolution Project — a special event where our writers sift through all things speculative and settle on something worthy of personal conquest. The sky’s the limit when it comes to choices, whether it’s knocking through a back catalog, revisiting a popular franchise, or embarking […]

Wonder Woman, Vol. 1: The Just War (2019) Written By: G. Willow Wilson Illustrated By: Cary Nord, Xermanico, Emanuela Lupacchino, Jesús Merino Genre: Superhero Pages: 192 pages (Trade Paperback) Publisher: DC Comics Why I Chose It: I’m a big fan of Wonder Woman, but haven’t really connected to her main comic in years. Fortunately, I […]

Twilight Editor’s Note: content warning for violence, abuse, and potentially triggering subject matter. What is seduction? Most people would define it as something pleasant. A series of actions and behaviors performed by someone they find attractive to make them even more alluring. However, if we examine the actual definition of seduction, it’s a bit more […]

Welcome back to the weekend, and congratulations on surviving the holidays! Sure, New Year’s is around the corner, but why worry about tomorrow when we can look to the past and see what amazing offerings Speculative Chic contributors gave us last week? Monday Mondays mean My Favorite Things, and for our last MFT column for […]

There are lots of exciting things slated for 2020 release: the new Wonder Woman movie; the next Ghostbusters film; the long-awaited Black Widow stand-alone; the debut of new series Locke and Key… lots of major premieres and new seasons of returning favorites. But may we also suggest for you some other goodies that might be flying […]

We got pumped; we ramped up; we were ready to go, and… well… then… Stuff happened. Or did not happen. Or did not happen how we wished them to. That’s the thing about disappointment — it’s our primary emotional response to expectations unmet — and boy, does it sting. What were we looking forward to that […]

The Twilight Zone, “Night of the Meek” Ah, the holidays! Time for the requisite Christmas episode — a staple of almost every television show produced in the United States. Most of these episodes are written as a variation of one of the holiday classics: A Christmas Carol, It’s a Wonderful Life, or How the Grinch […]

In March of 2019 I attended my first convention in Japan, and it was a whopper: Anime Japan in Tokyo! It was my hastily decided resolution for 2019 to do some ambitious cosplay because I felt like there was something special about Japan — cosplayers are pretty hardcore here, and I wanted to challenge myself […]