My Own Private Central Valley

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 1, 2023


Photo: “Windmills through the Passenger Side Window”. Photo taken by me. (June 2022).

When June came
The grasses headed out
And turned brown,
And the hills turned brown
Which was not a brown
But a gold and saffron
And red—
An indescribable color.
And from then on until the next ...










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Back to the Mushroom 🍄 Planet

lothar at 12:00AM, April 28, 2023


HELLO—
I am LOTHAR

I would like to introduce you to the Bi-Monthly spotlight on some of the forgotten or abandoned comics we have lingering in the basement of Drunk Duck. Who knows why they stopped updating or what their authours are up to now. I think here on DD ...



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The Drawing Board

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 24, 2023


Photo: “Animator Desk Belonging to Frank Thomas”. Taken at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (by me). Los Angeles, California. (October 2021).

The mid-twentieth century animator studio has always held an aura of mystery to any mind that has ever wondered how hand-illustrated animation is created. Anyone who has drawn ...


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Writing Overpowered Characters

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 22, 2023




One of the most frequent ways to make characters stand out in fiction or myth is to give them a staggering, amazingly powerful ability. Something that mere talent doesn't give you. Something miraculous, larger than the largest life, unique and insurmountable:

Like a dude that can part an entire ...




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Space Pack Series Complete

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 17, 2023



Featured Comic (JUN-08-2022), Space Pack by Slingy, reached the end of its final chapter last Wednesday, April 12, 2023. The comic’s total run added up to 697 pages. It even includes an entire epilogue and plays out like a movie until the very end.

Space Pack Comic Summary written ...



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On Cruelty

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 15, 2023



So for us Orthodox Christians it's Good Friday today and it'll be Resurrection Day (Good Saturday) by the time you're reading this. In the neighborhood where I live, a new (boisterous and with many members) family has moved in, who brought a live rooster a few days ...

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Fake Media - Not the Kind You're Thinking

Banes at 12:00AM, April 13, 2023


my webcomic, Typical Strange, uses many fake films in its video store setting

A few years ago I spotted a book in the second hand store - one I'd read as a kid. I bought it and reread it. It was definitely more suited to the younger me - it was ...


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An Art Supply Shopping Spree

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 10, 2023


Photo: “Pile of Crayola Colors of the World Crayons and Coloured Pencils.” (April 2023)

An unplanned visit to the grocery store led me down the food-less office supply aisle where clearance stickers covered half the supplies hung on wired metal racks. A thought ran through my head to justify the ...


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Poetry Time 24: Veins of the machine

Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, March 19, 2023



Rush hour veins. Heaven or heathen?
Will the electric pulse ever find peace? Even for a moment.
Ongoing trains. Bettered or beaten?
Will the kinetic swing ever be pleased? Where’s the atonement?
Computer chains. Tether or treason?
Will the genetic soul ever have ease? Even for a moment.


NaaN ...









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Toxic Positivity, Toxic Acceptance (Part 2)

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 11, 2023




So last time, in Part 1 of this discussion of …sunnier villains or antagonists, we had left off talking about how toxic positivity is all about the toxic person's comfort. And that this need to impose a certain behavior, dogma, and/or approach to reality in their environment leads ...


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