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 ...



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Three Questions

Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 8, 2022



It's been said by…someone that a character WANTS something. It's one of the ingredients that makes a compelling character. It's also something that makes a character relatable, even one who's very different from the reader/audience.

Most of us aren't centuries-old robots, but we ...



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Last Call Sign-Ups to Participate in 2022 Secret Santa

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Dec. 5, 2022


Photo: (clockwise from upper left) nightmarelunatic’s gift for Andreas_Helixfinger; sleeping_gorilla’s for Tantz_Aerine; lothar’s gift for usedbooks; kawaiidaigakusei’s gift for davidxolukoga; and Tantz_Aerine’s gift for hushicho.

There are less than three weeks until the time of gift-giving. The planning for this year’s Secret Santa Gift ...


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Quackcast 610 - Beauty!

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 22, 2022

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Listen on Stitcher ​​- https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/drunkduck-quackcast
Or TuneinRadio - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Books–Literature/Drunkduck-Quackcast-p1150194/

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, so the saying goes but it's absolutely true. There is a layered subjectivity to it based on personal ...



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We Are on Mastodon! JOIN US

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 19, 2022




So it's pretty wild on Twitter lately, and people are abandoning ship. Or at least, they're making sure there's another boat to jump to in case the ship sinks.

And that is where Mastodon comes in. This open source social media network is gaining popularity by the ...




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Alternate Endings

Banes at 12:00AM, Nov. 3, 2022



Within the past couple years I finally saw the original ending of Little Shop of Horrors directed by Frank Oz. This movie made a big impact on the culture when it came out. It wasn't super important to me personally, so it was years after the release of the ...

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Horror and Technology

Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 27, 2022





I watched and enjoyed this year's horror movie “Barbarian” awhile back. It starts off as the first AirBnB horror movie - or the first one I've seen, anyway.

It occurred to me that back when cell phones grew into common usage I wondered how horror fiction would deal with ...





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Enjoying the work

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 22, 2022



So this might be a little tricky. We're webcomic artists. We make webcomics that are a ridiculously composite and tough undertaking, all on our own- and we like it. We really do because it rarely pays the hours and skill that goes in them, but we still do it ...

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The Visuals of Fear

Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 20, 2022


A creepy pov shot works very well if the camera is looking through a window, or trees, or some other barrier. So we the audience seem to be hiding from the characters on screen.

THE VISUALS OF FEAR

When the director Rob Reiner was going to direct the movie based ...




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DD update post 14th of October

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 14, 2022





Latest update news

This is the final version of the front page pretty much:
https://next.theduckwebcomics.com/


Alexey will now be working on the back-end stuff to make this all usable. There will be things like mouse-over or info tabs on the thumbnails so you can see comic descriptions ...









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