It’s time for another Character Deep Dive, this within the amazing political war thriller The Second Crimean War by the awesome and proliferate The Doodler!
The Second Crimean War is an alternate history webcomic, of a different 1995 where, after the collapse of the USSR, the emerging, independent Ukraine ...

Character Deep Dive: Vladimir Chekhov
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 28, 2024Poetry time 101: Caurcassus
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Dec. 22, 2024
Predicating Xerkes of Xanitorium
Sleeping forever within your crematorium
Allseeing in a vacuum watching
Blessmade by mindframed swatching
Your pets are dancing in the flying blaze of Babylon
Inside Caurcassus stands Mnemnon in a bloodied pantalon
Predicating respite of knowledge behind columns of moratorium
Predicating Xerxes of Xanitorium
Poetry Time 100: Exit
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Dec. 15, 2024
The final revelation is revealed.
Found by heart, fouled by tears
The worst fears come before the dawn
Past shadows, future days
A last erase of that collapsing embrace
The blood is beat, the sighs depart
Alas, my heart celebrates its way out
I got nothing.
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 14, 2024
It's been a very tough week (as per usual these past few weeks) and I've been sitting here staring at the blank screen of my computer trying to think of a topic to write about for the newspost.
And I got nothing. I keep drawing blanks. I have ...
Not Because it is Easy, but Because it is Hard
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 12, 2024
In our Quackcast about Non-Linear storytelling this week, I had a tangent of a thought about the value of difficult or challenging fiction as opposed to stories that are easier to understand.
An unusual structure to a story can be challenging to understand, but if it's done well, the ...
Poetry Time 99: Nine Lives
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Dec. 8, 2024
Nine. I see the light burning to darkness.
All so swiftly. All so blindly.
Eight. I hear the alarm screaming to deafness.
All so widely. All so loudly.
Seven. I taste the medicine spoiling to sickness.
All so queasily. All so badly.
Six. I sense the odour stinking to foulness ...
I'm Out of Order? You're Out of Order!
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 5, 2024
I'm Out of Order? You're Out of Order! - Nonlinear storytelling
I finally watched Strange Darling the other night. I think I saw part of a review at some point and dipped out before it could be spoiled.
And boy howdy, THAT'S the way to see Strange Darling ...
Poetry Time 98: Sunslit
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Dec. 1, 2024
Your shadow growing to blacken the sky
Unfilling the vaccum we rotate inside
Your shadow glowing to blacken the sky
Sealed by the heavenly ocean we´ve seen to forget
Your shadow flowing to blacken the sky
In your reflecton I´ll always reside
Your shadow throwing to blacken the ...
Infatuation
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 30, 2024
How do you make a clever character stupid?
You give them an infatuation. A fixation. Something that completely overrides their critical thinking and better judgment. Something that drives them nuts like a switch is thrown.
And when that happens, they're dumber than a bag of rocks. (And they're ...