Last time I started talking about religion as a great umbrella term for a lot of facets of worldbuilding you can take into consideration when constructing the world of your story, be it webcomic, novel, series, or anything else.
This type of worldbuilding is especially prevalent in fantasy worlds, but ...
Religion (part 2)
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 30, 2023Friday Fashion Spotlight 14: Tonya and Adam
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 18, 2022
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The DD Fashion Spotlight!
Number 14.
Tonya Mills and Adam Winthrope are federal bounty-hunters from MrGranger's The Devilfish Project.
They both sport a range of tactical gear consisting of body armour, weapons, webbing, and pads. They're dressed for hardcore close range fighting.
It's a pretty ...
The World of the Dead
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 12, 2022
Not every story involves the underworld, or however the world of the dead is called in the setting. However, it still exists.
Every time the characters consider their own mortality in the story, the world of the dead looms in the backdrop. The way the characters think about death, life ...
Yin and Yang – Creation and Deluge: Archetypal Motifs part 3
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, May 6, 2017
Who hasn’t seen this ubiquitous symbol? It’s one of the most typical motifs signifying the balance between opposing forces in the world- but also the ever alternating phases of destruction and creation, of overwhelming overturning of the status quo so the new can be created.
And that is ...
Quackcast 311 - Myth and modernity
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 21, 2017 LISTEN!
Myths and legends are often recycled and reused, but why would you adapt them to the modern day? This idea came to us from Tantz Aerine and her great news posts on the last two Saturdays. Read those if you want a good perspective on the idea! Ptface, Tantz ...
Adapting Myth to Modernity (part 2)
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 18, 2017
So last week I’d started talking about the reincarnation upon reincarnation of myth and legend into modern sequential and narrative art- and got some pretty insightful comments on why it persists for millennia (it is said that Euripides adapted the legend of Medea himself in order to make it ...
Adapting Myth to Modernity (part 1)
Tantz_Aerine at 5:03AM, Feb. 11, 2017
In a chat where we were discussing our comics, Pit-Face told me that if Bones from Putrid Meat is Odysseus, then Blitzov from Epic of Blitzov is Gilgamesh. And that very solid analogy of the two characters’ function in her stories, got me thinking about how myth of all sorts ...