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Superpowers coming from magical abilities or fantastic technology are essential to many stories in the fantasy and science fiction genres. They can show up in other genres, too, like horror and of course, superhero stories (are they science fiction stories? Science-Fantasy? Heroic Fantasy? Whatever - most of those folks ...
Superpowers Magic and Technology
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 23, 2020QUACKCAST 462 - Jessica Schab, Studio animation, Guru, sceptic, leader
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 21, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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Today we have a special guest! Jessica Schab. Jessica works for Mainframe entertainment in Canada, one of THE premier digital animation companies! Before things like Pixar they ...
QUACKCAST 461 - Top Comic making 5 tips!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 14, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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Today Banes and I chat about our top tips for doing ...
On Writing Therapists 1
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 11, 2020
I've already written a bunch of articles on writing mental illness, so I figured I should write about writing therapists as well!
Oh, the woes for therapist representation in narrative works! All the stereotypes are there: from the shrink that is actually a little (or a lot) loopy and ...
Strangers and Strange Lands
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 12, 2019
Peter Quill is an earthling living and working in space
In an interview about SNL creatives, it was said that actors who write prefer Strange characters in a normal world. While writers will write pieces about Regular people in a bizarre world. I have no idea how true that is ...
Motivation, Ideology, Action 4: Your Thoughts
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 7, 2019
Having completed the (very quick) foray into the workings of motivations, ideologies and behaviors, the time has come for a look-see of all your amazing comments, from all three articles!
I haven't done this before so I'm not entirely sure how to present them. I'll wing it ...
Writing your hopes and fears
Banes at 12:00AM, Nov. 28, 2019
Do the things you draw come true?
At the end of Annie Hall, Woody Allen's character writes a play that recreates his breakup with Annie. But in the fictional version, they stay together and the romance continues. Narrating the movie, Woody apologizes to the movie's audience and says ...
So I Finally Saw the Joker...
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 23, 2019
It so happens that as I write these lines, I have a terrible headache. So I can't gather my thoughts enough for the third installment of my discussion of motivations and ideologies and actions, but I think I'm good to write what I'd promised- my review of ...