QUACKCAST 576 - Retro Adventure heroes

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 29, 2022

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Retro adventure heroes are an interesting and unique sort of hero. The trope was revived and crystallised by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg with Indiana Jones, but ...



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Fantastic Bestiary 1: The Jinn

Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, March 27, 2022



Well, look! It’s Sunday again! And for this here Sunday, Sunday, Sunday article I thought I’d start this new little series of articles that the awesome Quackcast 575 inspired me to do. I shall call it the Fantastic Bestiary series, which will be a series of articles where ...

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When Work Becomes Overwhelming

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 26, 2022



So you may not have noticed but I have missed an update on WM.

I sorely feel that as a loss, because I've been so proud of not breaking my streak of regular updates for three years now.

It was hard telling myself not to pull a double all-nighter ...





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Friday Fashion Spotlight 19: Anesthesia and Wicked Woman

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 25, 2022




Welcome to…
The DD Fashion Spotlight!
Number 19.



Anesthesia and Wicked Woman are both characters from the webcomic Generation bad. They're not the main protagonists but I picked them because I think they look cool! Anesthesia is the heroic type, dressed in a really cool style. I love that ...








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Tropes I love: The Bargain

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 19, 2022



So it's fun to rant about tropes I hate but I actually prefer to gush about tropes I love.

And one of them is what I call “the bargain”: it's really a game of wits between a (usually lawful) villain and a hero (or protagonist/antagonist, take your ...



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Friday Fashion Spotlight 18: The Doctor

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 18, 2022




Welcome to…
The DD Fashion Spotlight!
Number 18.



The Doctor is a pirate, working with the famed Pirate Balthazar and his crew of fellow swashbucklers! I don't actually know his name, only that he works as the ship's doctor and that's how they all refer to him ...








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On Censorship

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 12, 2022



So I'm exhausted today, at the end of a very eventful week and a lot of work piled on work.

Which means I can't discipline my brain to write something more artsy or tropey. Though censorship is a trope, right?

When do we have censorship appear in stories ...





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Friday Fashion Spotlight 17: Savina

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 11, 2022




Welcome to…
The DD Fashion Spotlight!
Number 17.



Savina is a demonic looking lady. I mean check out that red skin and her curly horns! Well she sort of IS a demon in a manner of speaking but not as we'd think of them traditionally. She's more of ...








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WARCRIES!!!

Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, March 6, 2022



Like the pic I found for this post? I personally LOVE what I see on this pic. Credits go to brazilian illustrator Marcelo Braga. He has a website where you can see this pic up-close in all of its glory, as well as more of his work HERE.

I mean ...



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When You Have to Tone it Down

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 5, 2022



I've talked at times about how, as I make Without Moonlight, I have to constantly make choices on what to include and what not to from …reality.

By that I mean that true, documented (and even photographed) events from the nazi occupation of Athens during WWII are so grotesquely ...



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