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How the Horse Girl Became Our Most Enduring (and Queerest) Archetype of Girlhood

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Five Books With Characters Who Hate Everyone… Except You

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Two Is Better Than One: Mindmelding in Space

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Six Soap Opera Tropes in SFF

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Scream 2021
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Horror’s Ongoing Reckoning: The Final Girl Seizes Control of Her Story

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Writing Horses: Sketching “The Mind Horse”

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Humor

“90% of Space is Crap” and Other Mixed-Up SFF Aphorisms

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Shang-Chi

Shang-Chi: A Diasporic Love Letter to Asian Cinema

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Learning the Tropes

Learning the Tropes with Freya Marske: The Trees Want to Kill You

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Teen Horror Time Machine

Femme Fatales and Toxic Masculinity in Christopher Pike’s Die Softly and Master of Murder

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We Need to Talk About Bucky Barnes’ Awful Date in Falcon and the Winter Soldier

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Star Wars

Leia’s Bounty Hunter Disguise Brings My Favorite Fantasy Trope to a Galaxy Far, Far Away

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“We are all stardust and stories.”

Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

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