Writing Overpowered Characters

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, April 22, 2023




One of the most frequent ways to make characters stand out in fiction or myth is to give them a staggering, amazingly powerful ability. Something that mere talent doesn't give you. Something miraculous, larger than the largest life, unique and insurmountable:

Like a dude that can part an entire ...




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Quackcast 631 - Entitlements

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 18, 2023

LISTEN on our new player!
Listen on Stitcher ​​- https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/drunkduck-quackcast
Or TuneinRadio - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Books–Literature/Drunkduck-Quackcast-p1150194/

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 ...




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An Art Supply Shopping Spree

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 10, 2023


Photo: “Pile of Crayola Colors of the World Crayons and Coloured Pencils.” (April 2023)

An unplanned visit to the grocery store led me down the food-less office supply aisle where clearance stickers covered half the supplies hung on wired metal racks. A thought ran through my head to justify the ...


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Folktale Parodies

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 27, 2023


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 ...


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The New Duck Webcomics Anthology Project

Banes at 12:00AM, Feb. 2, 2023




Hello everyone, Genejoke here to talk about the second drunkduck anthology.
Things have been ticking away slowly in the background and we have four complete stories and a number in the works, however things have gone a little quiet since the holidays so it's time to get things moving ...



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Your politics vs. Your characters' politics

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 10, 2022



Okay, this is a semi-rant and train of thought post, because I've had a couple whiskey and I'm Having Thoughts About Things. You have been warned.

There was one thing that always bothered me in villains that monologue in movies (I also see it in how social media ...



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DD update post 8th of December

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Dec. 9, 2022
tags: DD, post, update



Site redesign update, NEWS!
Emm came up with a design template for our news page, it's half paid for and Alexey is working on it now. :)

Now we're just working out how the Search bar works. The idea is to have a single search bar instead of two ...




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Silences Echo by Hykarige Makes Maiden Milestone

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 14, 2022


Photo: “Prologue_3” drawn by Hykarige. Silences Echo. (November 2022)

Milestone Announcement for “Silences Echo” by Hykarige (2022)

This week, we have a special welcome to Hykarige who has joined The Duck within the last month and has already surpassed the twenty-five page milestone.

“Hello, I'm Hykarige and recently began ...






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A Post Fit for a Celebration

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 7, 2022


Photo: “Celebration of Dada’s 50th Anniversary”. Café Odéon, Zurich. (February 1966)

History was made the moment Hugo Ball stepped out in the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916. Dressed in, “a tight-fitting cylindrical pillar of shiny blue cardboard” that “looked like an obelisk”, along with, “a huge cardboard collar, scarlet inside ...


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The Drunk Duck Awards 2022 Continues//The KAMics Celebrates Its 18th Anniversary on The Duck

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 10, 2022


Photo: “High Zolvant Iag of the Illumid Pulzelium presenting the Best Community Project Award at the 2022 Drunk Duck Awards”. Drawn by Andreas_Helixfinger. (October 2022)

2022 DRUNK DUCK AWARDS

https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Drunk_Duck_Awards_2022/

Drunk Duck Awards Update:

Best Adventure Comic presented by davidxolukoga
https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Drunk_Duck_Awards_2022/5721487 ...









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