June 8, 2019
Greetings, readers! Welcome to another week and (now another month!) at Speculative Chic. I hope things in your corner of the world are sunny, warm, and comfortable as the summer begins. In my neck of the woods, we have an extra season crammed inside summer called “tsuyu,” or, the rainy season, which has started early this year. Thank goodness I…
June 1, 2019
Welcome back, friends, to your favorite internet recap ever: Speculative Chic’s Weekly Roundup. Thanks for playing along! I’m your host, Kristina, and this week we have a slew of goodies in store for you. Join us this week for the game where every post is a prize and every reader wins!
May 25, 2019
This week marked a milestone: the end of HBO’s Game of Thrones! The finale ended Sunday in America and Wednesday for me in Japan. It was impossible to avoid the discussions online about how things went down, so I ended up knowing things before I got to sit down with the episode, but it didn’t really diminish the finale for…
May 19, 2019
I have returned!!! Many thanks to Shara and Casey for covering for me during a break that started awesomely (Golden Week! Yay!), then abruptly deteriorated (respiratory infection! Boo!). Two weeks of disconnection ended up feeling more like two months, and I’m all discombobulated from the passage of time. I’m sure there were lots of exciting things happening in the speculative…
May 11, 2019
Did you miss me? You know you did. Kristina has been doing a magnificent job covering the weekly roundups, but she’s not feeling well today. This means that your Auntie Casey is going to be taking you down memory lane this week, for old time’s sake. Get well soon, Kristina! And now, we begin.
May 4, 2019
Happy Star Wars Day, everyone, and May the 4th be with you! Did you know Star Wars Day is officially a holiday in California? It says so right here on the internet! You know what else is on the internet? Awesome Speculative Chic content, and since Kristina is celebrating the crowning of a new Emperor in Japan, your Editor-in-Chic is…
April 27, 2019
Hello once again! I’m writing to you from lovely Kumamoto as the Heisei era winds down to its final days, and the new emperor Naruhito will ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne. That sounds so majestic as I write it! And I think it’s exciting to be able to say I’m living through my third Japanese era (Showa to Heisei and now…
April 20, 2019
Hail and well-met, strangers! Welcome to the next leg of the journey to the speculative realms. I’ll be your guide as we embark on a perilous quest through the sixteenth week of the year. Choose your weapons. Mount your steed. Join the guild, and let’s go!
April 13, 2019
Greetings, gentle readers! It’s your friendly neighborhood otaku, Kristina! Today’s weekly roundup is coming to you live from Japan, where the cherry blossoms have fallen and given way to the fresh green leaves that herald the warm spring season. I won’t mourn the sakura for too long, though, because at end of this month and into early May, the wisteria…
March 23, 2019
To quote the philosopher B. Spears: Oops. I did it again. Real talk for just a minute: I get migraines. Sometimes they are bad. Occasionally they are wretched, and I deal with them for multiple days. This was the situation last weekend. The pain was so bad that I wasn’t even able to reach out to my excellent community of…