Zadie is a precocious little monster of an eight year old girl! She's excitable and eager to prove herself, especially now that she's come into her special powers of destruction as a Shadowborn. It wasn't entirely unexpected, she grew up in the underworld with her ferocious mother ...

QUACKCAST 588 - Revisiting Old Ideas
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 21, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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Sometimes it's worth revisiting old ideas because you can do them better or explore them deeper. This could be in the form of a full reboot ...
Breaking Ground on the Promised Duck Webcomics Redesign; DD Awards Trophy Contest CLOSED, Ballot Submissions OPEN
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 20, 2022
Photo: “Future DD Redesign (Original concept and additional touches by Emma_Clare)”
Attention Citizens of The Duck:
Important Announcement
Years ago the Duck community showed interest in a new design from its current soft yellow-bright yellow-turquoise-lime green-dark green-cyan color scheme and site layout. Mobile device technology has grown exponentially since the ...
The Immortal Challenge
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 18, 2022
The idea that an individual (or many) have managed to escape death has always been alluring to creators. being able to live through history, being a constant in an ever-changing world, never having to die, can have its perks: you have innumerable chances to live the ‘good life’, you can ...
A Tale of Two Pebbles
Banes at 12:00AM, June 16, 2022
I don't know if you know this story already, but I just read it and loved it, so I'm sharing it here!
Many years ago in a small village, a farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to a village moneylender. The moneylender, who ...
Submit A Trophy Design!
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 11, 2022
The DD Awards pre-events are already happening!
Whether you want to participate in the Awards themselves or not, consider contributing by submitting a trophy design.
Each year the DD Awards Trophy has a different design created by a DDer and voted for by the community. Each year is a chance ...
Mind Tricks 2 - The Phantom Life
Banes at 12:00AM, June 9, 2022
On the last “Mind Tricks” discussion, we talked about false memories, where a characters' true nature is hidden from them because of memory loss or artificial memories.
The Phantom Life is similar, certainly in the two examples that I thought of initially…but the stories play out
in a different ...
QUACKCAST 586 - Working with disability
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 7, 2022 LISTEN on our player
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How do you keep on with your creative output when something happens to you? When you lose function or are impaired in some way, how do you adapt ...
The KAMics Voted Best Drawn Feature in the 2022 NFMS Bulletin Editor Awards; DD Awards Trophy Contest Extended One Week
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, June 6, 2022
Photo: 2022 NFMS Bulletin Editor Awards Winner of Best Drawn Feature, “Untitled Rockhounding 63”. The KAMics. 25 June 2021. Story and illustrations by KAM.
A round of applause goes out to Keith Alan Morgan, also known as KAM, whose submissions of The KAMics to the publication, The Tumbler, have not ...