Character trait: Toxic Positivity, Toxic Acceptance (Part 1)

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 28, 2023



Usually, antagonists or villains are emo and gloomy, angry and aggressive, suave and sly, or any combination of that. They are not generally associated with positive traits in their personality, or at least positively-associated traits.

And that's a shame, because real life sure does have a lot of variety ...



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The AI Problem

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 21, 2023




The advent of AI has started to finally come into the field of art and expression. No longer is it there only to help us with the menial tasks, the repetitive stuff, the uninspired stuff so we, humans, can be freed up to engage in the intuitive expression of any ...


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Meet the Found Family

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 14, 2023



Last year (har har har obligatory New Year's Joke done) I'd started talking about Found Family, one of my favorite tropes in pretty much any narrative work, from movies to novels to comics and webcomics. Found family is when a bunch of characters, usually unrelated and mismatched, end ...

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Panel By Panel: ‘Lite Bites’ and Abstraction at Scale

hpkomic at 12:58AM, Jan. 13, 2023



Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week we're talking about the comic Lite Bites. Specifically, a story called “After; Fire Sale.” b]Lite Bites is an anthology series edited by Genejoke, and “Fire Sale” was written by ...

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Panel By Panel: ‘Withdrawn’ and Establishing Character in a Frame

hpkomic at 3:45PM, Dec. 16, 2022



Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. I am taking a break from submitted comics this time to spotlight a panel from a recent comic I stumbled upon. This week we're talking about the comic Withdrawn, created by Duck ...

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Your politics vs. Your characters' politics

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 10, 2022



Okay, this is a semi-rant and train of thought post, because I've had a couple whiskey and I'm Having Thoughts About Things. You have been warned.

There was one thing that always bothered me in villains that monologue in movies (I also see it in how social media ...



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DD update post 8th of December

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 9, 2022
tags: DD, post, update



Site redesign update, NEWS!
Emm came up with a design template for our news page, it's half paid for and Alexey is working on it now. :)

Now we're just working out how the Search bar works. The idea is to have a single search bar instead of two ...




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Vox Populi, Vox Dei

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 26, 2022



So this line has become famous lately since Elon Musk has been using it to reinstate banned Twitter accounts in the latest episode of the Birdsite Drama.

I'm not going to get into any opinion piece on what I think of this development but if you haven't joined ...



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A Post Fit for a Celebration

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 7, 2022


Photo: “Celebration of Dada’s 50th Anniversary”. Café Odéon, Zurich. (February 1966)

History was made the moment Hugo Ball stepped out in the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916. Dressed in, “a tight-fitting cylindrical pillar of shiny blue cardboard” that “looked like an obelisk”, along with, “a huge cardboard collar, scarlet inside ...


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FEATURED COMIC --> Blessed Days

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 2, 2022



Following a private party with Azaloth (actually Azzadath), Robin Sinclair finds herself expecting an unexpected bundle of demonic joy. Journey through a timeline that encompasses hundreds of years involving alchemy, olde-fashioned bicycles, and precious stones. Experience the early struggles of single-motherhood through a genuine, kind person who is honestly doing ...

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