Fantasy
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The Invisible Ones: The Speculative Fictions of Mental Health Discourse
I was at a meeting at the start of the 2013-2014 school year and we were at the portion of the day where we were…
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An Exhibit of Ice and Fire
Minor spoilers up to Season Three This May 14-18 the internationally touring Game of Thrones: The Exhibition returned to Toronto at the TIFF Bell…
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You’re Wearing That? — An Examination on Female Body Armour in Fantasy and Superhero Genres.
Somewhere on a fantastical battlefield, a woman has just fallen in combat. In life, she was a powerful force: fighting valiantly, leading her troops, denouncing…
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The Desolation of Ear Cartilage: Body Modification as Fantasy
If you’re anything like me, you came out of The Desolation of Smaug with an even deeper love of elves than you ever thought possible.…
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Desperate for more Desolation: A Film Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
When Smaug’s giant reptilian eye slowly slid open and his gravelly growl vibrate through the theatre in the final seconds of The Hobbit: An Unexpected…
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Submissions for the Journal
* Submissions for the journal are now closed and will reopen in September, 2016. Submissions for the blog however are ongoing – we are always…
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Liminality & SpecFic: Welcome to The Spectatorial
“I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am…
The Spectatorial 