In our Quackcast about Non-Linear storytelling this week, I had a tangent of a thought about the value of difficult or challenging fiction as opposed to stories that are easier to understand.
An unusual structure to a story can be challenging to understand, but if it's done well, the ...

Not Because it is Easy, but Because it is Hard
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 12, 2024Quackcast 717 - Stories out of order!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 10, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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Non-linear stories are a different way of telling a tale. There are many famous examples (Pulp fiction, Mulholland Drive etc), where the sequence of events isn't in strict chronological order. This style has gained a false ...
Quackcast 715 - Apocalypse
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 26, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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This is the third in our weapons trilogy and it's about what happens AFTER the ultimate weapons have done their work: Apocalypse! The end of all things… This term comes from the bible, with the Book ...
My Life As An American Hero by Agentny003 Makes a Debut; Drunk Duck Awards 2024 VOTING OPEN Until November 6th for Best Presenter Award!!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 4, 2024
Photo: “My Life As An American Hero 3 Cover”. My Life As An American Hero 3 created by Agentny003. (January 2024)
MY LIFE AS AN AMERICAN HERO 3 BEGINS
Agentny003 writes:
“Hey guys.
So after months of rest and relaxation, The girls and I are finally back. My Life as ...
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 ...
Panel By Panel: 'Phantom Force 3000' and Pushing the Craft
hpkomic at 3:11PM, Nov. 1, 2024
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck.
This week we're looking at another comic by user HawkAndFloAdventures, who has become one of the most prolific creators on the site, grinding out comic after comic. it's very admirable and ...
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 ...
So Many Paths
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 12, 2024
I was thinking about different filmmakers and how varied their processes can be. Stanley Kubrick was famous for doing multiple takes - sometimes dozens of takes and sometimes much more (!)
Meanwhile, Clint Eastwood will do one or two takes and that's it.
On the show Seinfeld, there were two takes ...
Quackcast 698 - the Haircast
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 30, 2024 LISTEN on our player!
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Hair is a weird thing isn't it? It's just a bunch of thin filaments that stand out and hang from the body, most visibly from the head. Everyone is bald as an egg underneath this ...
The Competition Plot
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, July 27, 2024
As I'm writing this I'm counting down the hours to the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games 2024 which are taking place in Paris. The Olympics are the king of all sports competition, and even being able to participate requires for athletes to have been rigorously through very ...