Photo: “A Mutant Trying to Read”. The Uncanny X-Men by Marvel Comics. Animal Farm by George Orwell. Photographed by kawaiidaigakusei. (October 2023)
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Rogue: I figured you read this one already. But the cover looked pretty good.
Beast: Thomas Wolfe. An old favorite. I thank you.
Gambit: Beastie is easy to ...
Just Looking at the Pictures
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 2, 2023Religion (part 2)
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 30, 2023
Last time I started talking about religion as a great umbrella term for a lot of facets of worldbuilding you can take into consideration when constructing the world of your story, be it webcomic, novel, series, or anything else.
This type of worldbuilding is especially prevalent in fantasy worlds, but ...
Religion
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 23, 2023
No, no. I promise this is not a post that will go like this:
Nor like this:
Also nothing I say here, is to be religiously followed. (I got that out of my chest, cringing is allowed)
This post is entirely on the issue of worldbuilding religion into your webcomic ...
Gender Toxicity
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Aug. 19, 2023
The debate on what constitutes a “strong female character”, whether having “strong female leads” or “feminism” is tanking “woke” films these past few years, is ongoing. There's accusations of toxicity on both sides. Misogyny, misandry, wokeness and brokeness, all of these terms and hot takes are fired and take ...
Quackcast 647 - characters screwed over by adapters
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 8, 2023 LISTEN on our player!
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We're having a chat about characters that differ from the source material and turn out crap because of it. Characters where the people adapting them didn't care, understand, or even take time to read the ...
Poetry Time 41: Arts of Defiance
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Aug. 6, 2023
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Drawing my own pics for these now. It feels better that way^^
Sever the frenzy of easy appliance
Who are the sinners of the craft to the abusers of the lever
Never assembly a line of compliance
Who are the living of the reap to the dead ...
Don't forget to have fun
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, June 3, 2023
Recently I’ve been struggling with finding the motivation to draw. In part, it’s because I have had to deal with covid once again. However, the drive to work on our comics was diminishing prior to coming down with covid again. As the focus has shifted from having hobbies ...
Quackcast 635 - Warcast
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 16, 2023 LISTEN on our new player!
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Art: Paolo Uccello, The Battle of San Romano
We're talking about WAR here! Trying to leave out politics, though that's really hard with war because ...
Quackcast 634 - Boomer-myth
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 9, 2023 LISTEN on our new player!
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Generational tensions are a cultural constant. It's popular to pick on the young and say they're lazy, irresponsible, stupid, changing things in silly ways etc ...