In the late nineties, mTV answered the call for the need of a high school student that was not centered around the cheerleading squad or the football jocks with Daria. Luckily, I was in junior high, living in the Southern California suburbs around the debut of the series, which meant ...
The Cartoons that Raised Us: Daria (1997-2002)
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 2, 2020Believing the Unbelievable
Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 13, 2020The suspension of disbelief happens automatically in readers and audiences if a story does its job.
Audiences WANT to believe in a story when they start reading or watching it.
I mean, you can' t count on everyone. I remember going to see the Benjamin Button movie and my friend ...
QUACKCAST 465 - Planning Vs pantsing!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 11, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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There are a couple of approaches when it comes to making a big creative project: planing it all out or working things out as you go ie ...
The Challenge of Obeying The Rules
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 8, 2020
Rules are meant to be bent, or broken.
Of course they are- if it's a one time thing. If it happens all the time, the stakes collapse, the story comes apart, and the experience is ruined. I'm talking about stories, of course…
As we've talked about time ...
QUACKCAST 460 - Enough trope to hang yourself with
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 7, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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Happy 2020 all you lovely people who listen to us!
What we're talking about today are tropes in fiction that bother us because they don't ...
Sexposition (Do NOT Google That)
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 21, 2019
The word for ‘porn’ in Greek is unsurprisingly ‘porn’. But its vernacular synonym is a word that in reality means ‘tack-on’ or ‘added scrap’. It signifies the common (or at least until recently common) assumption that scenes with explicit sexual activity were there to pad the runtime for a movie ...
So I Finally Saw the Joker...
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 23, 2019
It so happens that as I write these lines, I have a terrible headache. So I can't gather my thoughts enough for the third installment of my discussion of motivations and ideologies and actions, but I think I'm good to write what I'd promised- my review of ...
Motivation, Ideology, Action 2
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 16, 2019
Last time we talked about motivation in people, and its relationship to behavior. And I must say you all had great comments I feel deserve to be addressed, so instead of a four-part tour to the world of what makes people tick, I will add a fifth part where I ...