I have a handful of hobbies that mean a lot to me - from an early age, reading, and music (drums at first), and drawing were all important pastimes.
The other day I found an old workbook dated from when I was eight years old. It was an A to Z ...
A Wayback Playback
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 7, 2023Poetry Time 52: Asylum
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Nov. 19, 2023
See me, I’m a curled up joint of broken reflections
Save me the medicine, I’m lookin’ at you.
Hear me, I’m a howling chorus breaking drums
Save me the medicine, I’m talking to you.
Feel me, I’m sore, bare and cold feeling everything
Save me ...
Quackcast 651 - Strong characters of any gender and DD awards stuff
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 5, 2023 LISTEN on our player!
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We're chatting about a couple of things today: the DD 2023 Awards which are in their completion faze now, and “strong” characters of any gender.
The DD awards are finding up now and presentations will be ...
Quackcast 642 - Gatekeeping
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 4, 2023 LISTEN on our new player!
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Gatekeeping can be a pretty dickish practice… but not in every case.
Generally we see it as a social pop culture trend where older established fans of something will try and put down new people and ...
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 ...
Altarland, or how I learned to stop tinkering and love the AU
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Jan. 29, 2023
So it is Sunday again and the first month of the new year is nearing its close. I still haven’t finished my work on the short story I’m making for the new DD Anthology, but I am coming back from my updating hiatus next week anyway. During my ...
Quackcast 608 - Lovers and other things
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 8, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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There are all kinds of relationships and they're great fodder for stories. The most typical is when two characters are getting INTO a relationship- all that ...
Quackcast 601 - /rant
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 20, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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If something affects or disturbs you so much that you want to respond to it through a story that you write, that can be a pretty powerful ...
Quackcast 597 - Revelations!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 23, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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Today we're talking about a technique in storytelling that we're calling the “revelation”. Inspired by Banes doing an article on the weird trope in movies ...
QUACKCAST 560 - When Fiction Meets Reality
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 7, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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We all know that fiction and reality are separate things, but fiction mirrors reality and we suspend disbelief to ignore the parts that are unrealistic so that ...