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The DD Fashion Spotlight!
Number 27.
John Henry Hunter is a terrible dastardly villain in a very classic sense… he's handsome, has a great goatee, fierce eyebrows, a marvelous figure with a powerful chest, and most importantly for this article: he dresses with style and care. He ...
Mind Tricks 2 - The Phantom Life
Banes at 12:00AM, June 9, 2022
On the last “Mind Tricks” discussion, we talked about false memories, where a characters' true nature is hidden from them because of memory loss or artificial memories.
The Phantom Life is similar, certainly in the two examples that I thought of initially…but the stories play out
in a different ...
QUACKCAST 586 - Working with disability
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 7, 2022 LISTEN on our player
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How do you keep on with your creative output when something happens to you? When you lose function or are impaired in some way, how do you adapt ...
QUACKCAST 584 - Drawing gender
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 24, 2022 LISTEN on our player
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We start off with the idea of talking about art techniques, tips and tricks we've mastered and could help people with but the cast turned into a ...
Fantastic Bestiary 7: The Goblin
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, May 22, 2022
So it is Sunday again. Following up on the suggestion left by Kou the Mad in my last article, today’s Sunday’s Fantastic Bestiary post is gonna be about Goblins. We’re pretty much all familiar with goblins. Ever since Tolkien they’ve become a common stock creature in ...
QUACKCAST 583 - Why is it bad?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 17, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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Spoiler- we don't actually talk much about Yu-Gi-Oh! But I feel it's a good example of a pretty bad story- a so-bad-it's-good story, but ...
The Guy in the Hat Killed the Other Guy in the Hat
Banes at 12:00AM, May 12, 2022
Character Motivation
One thing I appreciate in well written stories is the hidden motivations of characters. Well written characters, just like real people, have contradictions to them. Desires and needs that are sometimes in conflict with each other.
Story structure tells us that a character has to WANT something. The ...
Fantastic Bestiary 5: Witches
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, April 24, 2022
As Easter has come by to melt away the final vestiges of a long, cold winter (at least up in these parts where I live) it feels like a good time to bring up the mythology of witches. Witches have a central role in the Easter that we celebrate here ...