Sandra, Sandra, Sandra! Sandra is an anthro woman based on a cat. She has Asperger's and that affects the way she interacts with people and her daily routine. Fortunately she lives with her best friend, who's there to help her cope when things get to be too much ...
Quackcast 653 - Star Treken
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 19, 2023 LISTEN on our player!
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Today we're talking about STAR TREK! Star Trek is a pretty influential piece of pop-culture. Most interesting to me is that it's a future that is NOT a dystopia. It's a large scale vision ...
Quackcast 618 - The grass is always Greener
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 17, 2023 LISTEN on our new player!
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The Saying goes that The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side of the Fence. Envy and jealously are destructive, negative feelings that either lead to ...
A Short Expedition into Sweet Exposition
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 1, 2022
I know we've talked about exposition before, but a couple examples popped into my head recently…even though the examples are not recent.
When I was a youngster I loved the Hulk character. Today I remembered a specific issue of that comic, from way back, where the Hulk was ...
Quackcast 602 - It's my turn now bitches!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 27, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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What happens when the victim becomes the victor? Most of the time it's like the classic line from The Who “Meet the New Boss, Same as ...
Wonder
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, June 19, 2022
Gonna take another pause from the fantastic bestiary on this Sunday’s article and instead talk about wonder in fiction. First off, what is wonder? If you put the word wonder into google translate it is described as ”a feeling of amazement and admiration, caused by something beutiful, remarkable or ...
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 ...
Archetypes Through a Psych Lens: Psychodynamics
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 20, 2021
When talking about personality, one must mention Freud.
pictured here with a small cigar.
Yes, even me. (Anyone who knows me knows I'm not a fan)
Despite my personal thoughts about his theory, mad props and respect has to be given to Sigmund Freud for being one of the ...