The used left behind. What is the news to come ahead.
What is the flesh to succeed distress when questions fades to mesmerize.
They come all announced. What slums remains unshed.
Which nerve secretes success when secrets fades to realize.
That ill they suppress. That illumination still creaks.
Who’s ...

Poetry Time 15: Black Candle
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Dec. 18, 2022What you really, really want
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Dec. 11, 2022
This is gonna be yet another rambling kind of post and a long one at that–so be warned. In the recent month I’ve been doing some soul searching that ties into this personal Christmas shopping spree of sorts that I’ve had recently. To be more specific, I ...
Your politics vs. Your characters' politics
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 10, 2022
Okay, this is a semi-rant and train of thought post, because I've had a couple whiskey and I'm Having Thoughts About Things. You have been warned.
There was one thing that always bothered me in villains that monologue in movies (I also see it in how social media ...
A Dash of Whimsy
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Dec. 4, 2022
I had a solo game of Neuroshima Hex this Saturday morning where I discovered something peculiar. I was playing army Borgo against army Dancer and I was quite mesmerized by the aesthetic and playing mechanic of army Dancer. Usually an army in Neuroshima Hex consists of over a dozen playing ...
Panel By Panel:’Fluffy 500’ and Unusual Angles
hpkomic at 2:06PM, Dec. 2, 2022
Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. I am working on another comic submission from a couple of posts ago. This week our volunteer is the creator of Fluffy 500, IronHorseComics, who shared some pages. Today I want to look ...
The Right Jazz
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Nov. 27, 2022
Been dragging my feet writing this Sunday article - among many other things - as I’ve been hit by this latest compulsive obsession of mine to keep rearranging my Youtube library to perfectly push out the distracting vestiges of my past internet media consumption, in order to become more focused in ...
Vox Populi, Vox Dei
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 26, 2022
So this line has become famous lately since Elon Musk has been using it to reinstate banned Twitter accounts in the latest episode of the Birdsite Drama.
I'm not going to get into any opinion piece on what I think of this development but if you haven't joined ...
Pretentious?
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Nov. 20, 2022
This is an article I’m writing after midnight while being drunk on mixed drinks of brännvin and julmust. It’s November. I need booze to cope with the Scandinavian winter gloom that hits your soul like a hammer this time of the year (It’s a thing up here ...
Panel By Panel: 'Phineus: Magician for Hire' and Visual Pacing
hpkomic at 4:31PM, Nov. 18, 2022
Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. I am working on another comic submission from a couple of posts ago. This week our volunteer is the creator of Phineus: Magician for Hire, Phinmagic. Specifically, he sent in page four of ...
Poetry Time 14: Deep’s Locker
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Nov. 13, 2022
Poem Nr. 14: Deep’s Locker
Let no unheard muses call their stages.
Sink them into soundlessness down below.
Take no unsung makers to their pages.
Sink them into uselessness down below.
Grant no untouched prophets for their sages.
Sink them into soulessness down below.
Have no undrawn breathers hale ...