Protagonists are always in need of antagonists.
Usually, those are visible, concrete, specific: the protagonists are up against someone or someones who are obstructing their way to attaining their goal. Some are even so powerfully clashing against each other that they are nemeses. Superman and Lex Luthor, Batman and the ...

The Unseen Enemy
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 12, 2021200 pages for Belle's Best: the films of Belinda Brandon.
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 24, 2021
That's right it's reached 200 pages as of this week!
Belle is a B-Movie actress. See where it all started with friends and family and watch a sampling of her sometimes awful but interesting exploitation movies full of gratuitous exploitation of everything. Drama, humor, adventure across different genres ...
Splinter the Rat’s Words of Wisdom
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 10, 2021
Photo: Splinter from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie (1990)
The year was nineteen ninety when a very life changing film was released into theaters—Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie. Assembled with the help of Jim Henson’s Creature Shop and MC Hammer in the soundtrack, this film brought ...
Interviewing Nic and Ben of Potato & Kraut
damehelsing at 12:00AM, May 9, 2021
Hi! I’m damehelsing from The Drunk Duck Community and for today’s Sunday article I will be interviewing the lovely duo, Nic and Ben!!
So, Nic and Ben! Give us a little introduction!
Ben: well, my name is Ben, I'm the artist of Potato and Kraut, hosted on ...
My Life as an American Hero 2 Reaches 600th Page Milestone
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 19, 2021
Photo: My Life as an American Hero 2 by agentny003
Nominated for best super hero comic, best action within a comic, most improved artwork, and the most dedicated creator at the 2020 Drunk Duck Awards, My Life as an American Hero 2 has reached its six-hundredth page milestone.
Link: https ...
Archetypes Through a Psych Lens: Social Cognitivism
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 3, 2021
So now we got Behaviorism down, we're ready to talk about the Social Cognitive perspective to how human personality develops!
This is one of the major approaches to Theories of Personality, and a perfect example of how psychology theorists build one off the other to develop perspectives and add ...
The dance of chemistry
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Feb. 12, 2021
When it comes to characters and their arcs, their relationships, or more specifically, their chemistry, has a large role to play in how they develop. From day to day we absorb and reflect the behaviours, views and values of those we interact with, be that at work or school or ...
The Most Marvelous DC Comics Character (I Only Learned About Recently): Zatanna Zatara
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 8, 2021
It is always a good time when I learn about a fully-fleshed out character with a history, family tree, team affiliation, famous love-interest, and storyline. It is almost more of a mystery when a new character is discovered so late in the game I have to question why their existence ...
The Duo
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 6, 2021
We've all been told how in story telling, showing is a lot better than telling.
Showing gets hard if your main character is a loner that interacts with nobody. Even harder if he/she is a stoic that emotes very little. The audience will have no way of knowing ...
Star Trek Economics
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 4, 2021
I just finished a rewatch of The Mandalorian series and one of the things I thought about was the vicious profiteering and scramble for money (or ‘credits’, or valuable metals or what have you) that indicates what kind of economy is at work in that show.
Granted, so far we ...