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Drawing fight scenes is damn hard! One of the best ways to deal with this is to use references, but that's hard too because it's a pain to find the ones you need! So today ...

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 ...

Bryan, fresh out of college in Tara, is moving toward a path to become a full-fledged bard. The entire process to become a poet, minstrel, or chronicler takes a lengthy twelve years to complete. Bard lute in hand, Bryan journeys to a tiny shanty town in the North called Oi ...

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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Gatekeeping can be a pretty dickish practice… but not in every case.
Generally we see it as a social pop culture trend where older established fans of something will try and put down new people and ...

Foreno has been ordered by the King to recruit twelve individuals for a “boring” (aka Very Important) mission. His inner left wrist is scribbled with numbers and an incomprehensible language; the right wrist holds a countdown timer and when it gets to zero, everything known, loved, and hated will be ...

There are many areas where the “rule of three” comes into play. There are plenty of them in storytelling.

Fairy Tales and Fables are full of threes, of course, with Three Little Pigs, Three Bears, Three Wishes, and on and on - the first unit sets things up, the second reinforces ...

It never really occurred to me how many of our heroes are orphans.

Superman was the last survivor of a planet that perished. He was adopted by loving Earth parents, but he's one of the iconic orphans in fiction.

His counterpart Batman, of course, lost his parents at an ...

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What rights are people actually entitled to? That question is a lot bigger than you think!
The Quackcast today is sequel to last week's about entitled ...

Photo: “The Stinky Cheese Man and the Fox”. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. By Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith. (1992)

Any the book that was ever available at silent reading was always a book that the teacher read aloud to the class. The Stinky Cheese Man ...