Poetry Time 104: Silhouettes

Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Jan. 12, 2025



Forest branching silhouette
Like teaming black veins on a reddening sunset
Blizzard shedding winter haze
Like dreaming white reins on a deadening snow case
Desert breathing nomad storm
Like screaming brown banes on a withering lifeform
Ocean feeding vapor-skies
Like steaming green lanes on a bottoming sunrise

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The Break Into 2

Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 9, 2025


always someone breakinnn' into twooooo…

AN important part of a story is the good old “Break into Act 2”.

It's not the easiest story structure moment to recognize, but it's one of the early ones I thought about and tried to notice in movies I watched.

Many people ...






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And Now Let's Party Like It's 1994!

Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 26, 2024



Greetings! I hope you've all had an enjoyable holiday season so far, no matter what you're celebrating and regardless of actual ‘holidays’ are part of it for you.

The end of the year is still about a week away, but this will be my last regular Newspost of ...



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The Christmas Special

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 21, 2024



There's a difference between a Christmas Special and a Christmas Movie. While the Movie is written around Christmas (or Hannukah or any other Yule-season holiday), the Christmas Special forces the show to be written around Christmas whether it likes it or not.

The hilarity ensues when it falls in ...



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Infatuation

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 30, 2024



How do you make a clever character stupid?

You give them an infatuation. A fixation. Something that completely overrides their critical thinking and better judgment. Something that drives them nuts like a switch is thrown.

And when that happens, they're dumber than a bag of rocks. (And they're ...





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Character Deep Dive: Robin Sinclair

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 2, 2024




Today’s character deep dive is on Robin Sinclair, the main catalyst of everything taking place in the supernatural comedy drama that is Blessed Days by Inky Moondrop!

Blessed Days is the story of a young woman that unexpectedly becomes a mom and must handle raising a child- that’s ...




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Quackcast 711 - Lost Boys

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 29, 2024

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Halloween is on the way and we always do something different for it. This time we're doing a commentary for the 1987 vampire movie The Lost Boys! We even dressed in Lost Boys themed outfits for ...


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Love languages

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 19, 2024



Love is an evasive concept to pin down. Everyone acts like they know what it is, but few can discern whether they're actually experiencing it. A lot of fiction and movies are to blame for that, since they often label as love toxic relationships, stalking, or even outright abuse ...

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Revisiting Hayao Miyazaki’s Film, The Wind Rises, Ten Years Later

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 23, 2024


Photo: “End of Summer 2024”. Photograph taken by kawaiidaigakusei. (September 2024)

Ten years before Miyazaki’s latest animated film, The Boy and the Heron (2023), was released last year, The Wind Rises (2013/2014) was announced to be Miyazaki’s final film.

In a Drunk Duck forum post dated February ...




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Skills vs. Tools

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 21, 2024



Prowling around the forum today just in case I come across any spam to defenestrate (never stop PQing me if you find anyone), I came across this thread by Sosradio who makes SOS Radio which you should check out right now! Some good art to look at there, and an ...

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