Quackcast 649 - Gendered clothing

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 22, 2023

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When you're drawing people in a webcomic one of the common ways to indicate gender is by outfits, but why are clothes gendered at all and is that a constant?

Gendered clothing clothing is influenced by ...




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Horror - The Morality Play

Banes at 12:00AM, July 27, 2023



The idea of “sin” is a prevalent one in horror stories. In terrifying tales, the monstrous against the human also explores good vs. evil.

There is often a “sin” perpetrated by horror Protagonists. The classic Psycho begins with Marion Crane stealing money from her job. Her intentions are understandable, maybe ...



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Quackcast 645 - AI-cast

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 25, 2023

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We're chatting about the current state of AI, it's use, abuse, and the moronic way it's typically being utalised by mid-level businesses to screw over creative people and save money in the short term ...


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Reimagining Stories

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, July 22, 2023




So lately there has been a repetitive sequence of events that seems to carry on until some kind of death- of the story, of the company, or of the genre for a few years or so:

1. Disney remakes a classic fairytale or animated feature (live action/3D/etc)
2 ...





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🐈 ANIMALZZzzzzz

lothar at 12:00AM, July 7, 2023






HELLO—
It's summer in the northern hemisphere! …. So hot

Here's some stories about anthropomorphic dudes

Here are the 3:

FIRST one here is a story from 2013 called Grim Dog by Saikiyo




Grim Dog
It's a short story about a couple of cat-like creatures living in a ...

















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The Adventures of Adventure Man

Banes at 12:00AM, June 29, 2023


This wasn't the official poster, but the teaser poster, for the Last Crusade. There was a giant
version of it in my local theater before the movie came out. Excitement unbound at the time!


My earliest clear memory of Indiana Jones - or one of his movies - was in a ...


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Quackcast 641 - Bodycast

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 27, 2023

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Injuries, especially to the head can be extremely bad but people are hit over the bonce and knocked out in popculture all the time. In violent sports ...



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Gatekeeping Art

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 24, 2023



So there are two sides to the art community. At least, as far as I've seen and as far as I've experienced- mostly online unfortunately.

One side is the AWESOME side. The side that's here on DD, and in many other niches like discord servers (like our ...



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Character Upbringing

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 17, 2023



In the whole “show don't tell” thing that is the holy grail of ‘good storytelling’ (yes but not always, this is for a newspost of another time) what they usually don't tell you is that behavioral patterns are your friend.

To show rather than tell, you need to ...



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Quackcast 639 - Nudity

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 13, 2023

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Today's topic is Nudity: Nudity in comics, censorship, self censoring, what you can get away with on DD, ratings, nudity on other platforms and how it ...



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