The Fae

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 22, 2022



Usually when we think about fairies, the mind goes to tiny beautiful girls with butterfly wings and a ton of sparkles. At their most threatening, we got the token fiesty Tinkerbell.



Or do we?

For me, the world of the fae and fairies is a fascinatingly surreal, dangerous, occult world ...







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Friday Fashion Spotlight 10: Eradin

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 21, 2022



Welcome to…
The DD Fashion Spotlight!
Number 10.


This fella looks a bit different. That's because he's an alien called a “Cee”. He lives in a forest with a group of others of his kind… He's a bit of an authority figure in his community, known as ...






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Psychic Powers

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 20, 2022



Psychic Powers

Comics and fiction in general has presented to us many fascinating concepts that has kept our imagination hungering for more. Whether it be time travel or magic or technology lightyears ahead of our current frame of comprehension. But one concept in particular that always gets me hungering for ...



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QUACKCAST 566 - feeling the vibe!

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 18, 2022

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Let's talk about total immersion… When consuming media rather than creating it, if you're lucky you become immersed: the struggles and fears of the character ...



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Ode to Bob Saget, SUCCUBUS Begins Today

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 17, 2022


Photo: Bob Saget (1956-2022)

Bob Saget revolutionized home videos years before they could be instantly uploaded, streamed online, and go viral. Yes, that is right, Sunday nights in the nineties meant a new episode of “America’s Funniest Home Videos”, a show where home movie enthusiasts would send recorded copies ...


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The Message in Stories

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 15, 2022



There is no story without a theme. Even when written without anything prepared in terms of a message, a story will always give people things to think about and messages drawn from how the story was set up and how it was resolved (if at all).

So I don't ...



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Everyman Heroes

Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 13, 2022



Critics, professional or not, identified a trend in many of the…lesser regarded manga and anime series.
It's the “everyman hero”.

This school of thought is that to make a lead character who is identifiable to everyone in the readership or audience. So the lead will be unremarkable, and ...




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QUACKCAST 565 - Lady Barbarian

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 11, 2022

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“The Girl Boss in the sausagefest”
Pitface and Tantz chat are here to chat with me about the subject or lady Barbarians: What they look like, where ...




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Horror within beauty

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 8, 2022



This trope might come in several different packages, but it always involves the same stages: a presence (a character, an apparition, an item, a painting, etc) appears to be perfect, gorgeous, stunningly beautiful, angelic in every way relevant. Then suddenly or gradually, this beauty dissolves into nightmarish horror: the character ...

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