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 ...

So I'm exhausted.

A ton of things I'm juggling in real life plus emotional baggage plus stuff I'm doing online plus art = exhausted Tantz.

And because my brain refuses to focus on anything else, I thought I'd talk about how using exhaustion can be a cool ...

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Last week we had an overview of weapons throughout history and how it's a constant game of balance and oneupmanship. Now we're looking at future weapons and Scifi stuff! There's a lot of potential ...

Sometimes it may feel that the justice system protects the perpetrator a lot more than it does the victim:

There are many things an accused can use to mitigate their position, there are many reasons to shorted a sentence, they can get out on good behavior, they can generally serve ...

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Today we have onboard with us our resident theme maker, our classic composer and musical genius! He does all the DD comic inspired themes that regularly appear on the Quackcast and has done so for the last ...

My comic partner and I have already started work on our comic projects for next year. The beginning of the year is always crazy for us, so we’re using the small grace period we have now to try and front load our comic work as much as we can ...

The telling of stories, in a big way, is about working emotions. A major reason stories have the power they do is that the great ones wring emotions out of us, and take us through some kind of emotional journey.

In a movie or TV show, things are different than ...

Today’s character deep dive is on Robin Sinclair, the main catalyst of everything taking place in the supernatural comedy drama that is Blessed Days by Inky Moondrop!

Blessed Days is the story of a young woman that unexpectedly becomes a mom and must handle raising a child- that’s ...

Photo: “Acceptance Speech: Blessed Days”. Created by InkyMoondrop for the Drunk Duck Awards 2024. (October 2024)

InkyMoondrop has TWO big announcements this week.

InkyMoondrop writes:

“One is that Blessed Days will be completed on the 31st of October with only a few extra pages going up on the 1st of ...

Halloween is just around the corner, so what better thing to do than talk about monsters?

Specifically, what has motivated humanity to create them, talk about them, fear them and love them across time and across culture.

Monsters are generally linked with our sense of fear. Fear is an adaptive ...