Sexuality is very fluid and for the most part, there has been a societal shift towards a more “sex-positive” society. I digress because, as always, there is always a part of society that prefers to remain conservative. As a human female, basing my observations of other humans, it has dawned ...
Analyzing the Tantalizing Myth of the Madonna v. Whore Complex in Characters
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 18, 2020QUACKCAST 478 - Pity da fool!
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 12, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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Fools are an iconic character trope and I wanted to explore them. They're a lot more varied and interesting than is readily apparent. There's a ...
Hedonism and the Experience Machine
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 27, 2020
As a sector of the working world scrambles to see how they can move a typical work day to a computer screen, observing a population of people stumbling to transition to face-to-face video conferencing apps like Zoom has been like watching the first ten seconds of an infomercial—the transition ...
After Marriage
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 25, 2020
Usually in adventures, thrillers and other stories, when the main characters are romantically involved, the B plot (or even the A plot) is the ‘will they/won’t they' question: will they get together in the end, usually with a happy end scene of marriage, or some such thing. Romance ...
QUACKCAST 475 - Tropeagedden! overuse of fashionable tropes...
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 21, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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Certain tropes or stylistic ways of telling a story can get really, really popular and trendy very quickly and it seems like they're everywhere! Suddenly many ...
SquareEnix Life is Strange Review
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 6, 2020
With more time spent at home, I have been able to dive into some of my favorite past-times that I used to do when I was middle school aged. One of them being playing video games. Growing up, Squaresoft and the Final Fantasy video game series completely shaped my identity ...
The Garden-path
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 14, 2020
One could say that it is a very trendy thing in writing, be it for movies or for graphic novels, to subvert expectations. Often, unfairly, a plot that subverts expectations is equated with ‘good, quality writing’. Tons of essays and articles have been written to refute this association, including here ...
The Cartoons that Raised Us: Daria (1997-2002)
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 2, 2020
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 ...
QUACKCAST 466 - And then What
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 18, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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What happens to characters after the big action scene or climactic moment? This could be anywhere in the story but it's usually close to the end ...