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The Bigger Picture Podcast: Future Vision
Episode Three of Vex Mosaic's podcast The Bigger Picture: Future Vision was recorded live at Balticon 52. Find the link at the bottom of the post. Host Charlie Brown leads a discussion with multiple...
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Blood of the Panther: The Superhero as Philosopher-King
**Warning: This article contains major spoilers for A Nation Under Our Feet, a Black Panther story by Ta-Nehisi Coates** “…neither cities nor States nor individuals will ever attain perfection until...
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How did it get like this?
A human population approaching 8 billion can be maintained only if wild habitat is given over to human cultivation and habitation, if rain forests can be turned into green deserts, if genetic...
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Change Or Die
Change, or die: that’s the stark choice most protagonists face in literature, whether they recognize it or not. Change is constant, and stasis is only an illusion. What is true of people is also true...
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Finding Hope In Hopelessness
Fall is usually a time of celebration not reflection. Usually, winter means fires, books, and contemplation whereas fall is a festival, a harvest, a time to bury ourselves in pumpkin spice. Halloween...
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Vex Reports: Scum and Villainy Cantina
The newest bar open on Hollywood Blvd takes you to a galaxy far, far away. Scum and Villainy Cantina, formerly a pop-up and now with consistent bar hours, is the place to go when you need to indulge...
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The Bigger Picture: The Trouble With Iron Fist
Welcome to the next installment of The Bigger Picture, Vex Mosaic's podcast. Just in time for the release of Marvel's The Defenders on Netflix, we bring you "The Trouble With Iron Fist," a critical...
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Evil Empire: Why a Turncoat Captain America Is Just What This Nation Needs
**WARNING: This article contains spoilers for the Secret Empire storyline. Proceed at your own risk** Captain America, Marvel Comics’ stalwart sentinel of liberty, has been at the center of controversy...
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Introducing “The Bigger Picture,” the Vex Mosaic Podcast
[powerpress] In this premiere episode of The Bigger Picture podcast, Managing Editor, Charlie Brown, shares a travel log of his recent visit to Singapore, exploring the diverse cultural perspectives of...
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“Crazy Connection” contest at Balticon
Vex Mosaic announces its first live event: a contest of ideas, the weirder and more passionate the better! “Crazy Connections” will allow writers, weirdos, and other fans of speculative media to...
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Magical Love: Gender Roles in The Love Witch
Editor's Note: This article contains spoilers for the movie The Love Witch. Read at your own peril. Witches have been part of literature from the very beginning. Female connection to supernatural...
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H.P. Lovecraft’s Femme Fatales: Monstrosity, Race and Sexuality
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from the author's master's thesis. It has been edited for style and length. To read the full work, go here. At the beginning of “The Thing on the Doorstep,”...
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No More Magical Transformations: Trans Characters in Comics
"[Lord Fanny] made a huge impression on stupid, mopey me," Tara Marie states in "The Search for Trans Role Models in Comics" written for The Harlot. Her essay is a wonderful, yet critical examination...
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Madness, Mystique and Marching
March is upon us, the time when some in this country celebrate extremely high achievement in physical sport. College basketball, both for young men and women, concludes another season with one of the...
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Society’s Apocalyptic Premonitions
Modern culture, from literature to television to cinema, has become obsessed with the contemplation of our doom. More specifically, we are infatuated with the conceived idea that a monumental change...
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The Measuring Stick: Coming to Grips With Nerddom
banner image by Riley James Keith “There is no spoon,” a stoic little boy tells a tall man in a trench coat and sunglasses. This man doesn’t quite believe he is The One. He wants to believe, but his...
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Breaking Out of the Binary: Gender and the Non-Human
It's hard being human and dealing with gender issues, whether in your personal life or in media. And that's to say nothing for gender equality/representation. Look at the Bechdel test. There's a lot of...
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A New Year, A New You
Whether or not it will remain true under historical review, most people agree that 2016 was a lousy year. We’ve seen the deaths of many true geniuses, both artistic and otherwise, and those of us who...
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Internal Alchemy: Fear, Deadlines and the Creative Life
I’m a songwriter. I’m a performer. Those two things basically sum up my life’s work, and I’m very fortunate to be able to say so. It’s been twelve years since I made the leap to quit the 9 to 5 and...
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The Joke’s On Us: The Changing Cinematic Images of Batman’s Nemesis
DC Comics' The Joker is often considered the greatest comic book villain, and for good reason. Created in 1940 by Bob Kane, Bill Finger, and Jerry Robinson, the clown-themed maniac is best known as a...
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