Last year (har har har obligatory New Year's Joke done) I'd started talking about Found Family, one of my favorite tropes in pretty much any narrative work, from movies to novels to comics and webcomics. Found family is when a bunch of characters, usually unrelated and mismatched, end ...
Meet the Found Family
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 14, 2023What Would Happen If...
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 5, 2023
what if there was a creepy basement…
Barbarian was one of the new movies I enjoyed last year. As far as I know, it got good reviews, and a mostly-positive reception. Some people criticized it for making no sense. It's a fair point - although like I said, I enjoyed ...
Four Endings
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 29, 2022
As we approach the end of another year, I had a few ideas about topics related to endings.
If you've read my articles for awhile, you may remember discussions about wants and needs - the plot objective that is more ‘physical’ is the want, and the emotional or thematic pursuit ...
What you really, really want
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Dec. 11, 2022
This is gonna be yet another rambling kind of post and a long one at that–so be warned. In the recent month I’ve been doing some soul searching that ties into this personal Christmas shopping spree of sorts that I’ve had recently. To be more specific, I ...
Three Questions
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 8, 2022
It's been said by…someone that a character WANTS something. It's one of the ingredients that makes a compelling character. It's also something that makes a character relatable, even one who's very different from the reader/audience.
Most of us aren't centuries-old robots, but we ...
Last Call Sign-Ups to Participate in 2022 Secret Santa
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Dec. 5, 2022
Photo: (clockwise from upper left) nightmarelunatic’s gift for Andreas_Helixfinger; sleeping_gorilla’s for Tantz_Aerine; lothar’s gift for usedbooks; kawaiidaigakusei’s gift for davidxolukoga; and Tantz_Aerine’s gift for hushicho.
There are less than three weeks until the time of gift-giving. The planning for this year’s Secret Santa Gift ...
Quackcast 611 - Doppelgängers
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 29, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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Doppelgängers was the subject of our Quackcast today. What are they? Generally they're evil duplicates of people. Originally if you saw one it was supposed to ...
Secret Santa 2022 Sign-Ups!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 28, 2022
Photo: (clockwise from upper left) UndertheBlackHat’s gift for cdmalcolm1; usedbook’s gift for UndertheBlackHat; Hushicho’s gift for nightmarelunatic; cdmalcolm1’s gift for theRedDeath; Andreas_Helixfinger’s gift for lothar; and theRedDeath’s gift for sleeping_gorilla.
There are less than four weeks until the time of gift-giving. The time to ...
Vox Populi, Vox Dei
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 26, 2022
So this line has become famous lately since Elon Musk has been using it to reinstate banned Twitter accounts in the latest episode of the Birdsite Drama.
I'm not going to get into any opinion piece on what I think of this development but if you haven't joined ...