Having a love of music, forming a band, struggling together, maybe rising to fame and fortune, then falling from those heights, and then figuring out what to do next…it's a version of the Hero's Journey that can be found in real life.
There've been plenty of ...
Top Five Tales of Bands
Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 21, 2023Quackcast 653 - Star Treken
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 19, 2023 LISTEN on our player!
Or TuneinRadio - https://tunein.com/podcasts/Books–Literature/Drunkduck-Quackcast-p1150194/
Today we're talking about STAR TREK! Star Trek is a pretty influential piece of pop-culture. Most interesting to me is that it's a future that is NOT a dystopia. It's a large scale vision ...
Falling Into the Canvas at the Mr. Brainwash Museum
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 18, 2023
Photo: Life-Sized, Modern Sculpture Adaptation based on the Oil Painting “Yellow Hat Woman” by Edward Hopper. Created by Mr. Brainwash. Mr. Brainwash Museum. Beverly Hills, California. (August 2023)
Nestled in a non-descript corner where Santa Monica Boulevard and Beverly Boulevard intersect, steps away from Rodeo Drive in the city of ...
Leading the New Generation
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 11, 2023
Photo: “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” Paul Gauguin. Oil on Canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (1897-98)
A somber recollection carries me back twenty-two years ago on this day when I walked into a class where an inconsolable history teacher delivered a line ...
J_Scarbrough’s Vampire Girl Goes Out with a Boomsday, Right Before Labor Day!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 4, 2023
Photo: “Which Levana Do You Feel Like Today?”. Vampire Girl. Story and art by J_Scarbrough. (January 2021-August 2023)
Vampire Girl by the Duck’s resident, puppeteer-webcomic creator, J_Scarbrough (not to be confused with the Jonathan Richman song with the same title) reached its conclusion on Wednesday, August 30, 2023.
Synopsis ...
Now it's SEPTEMBER
lothar at 12:00AM, Sept. 1, 2023Hi everybody
Today I have found a good one for you all.
It's a community project from Drunk Duck creators for wayyyy back in 2007.
I really do appreciate how this site has such a long history. a rarity on the internet nowdays.I think DD is perhaps the ...
Writing Strong Characters of Any Gender
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Aug. 26, 2023
Last time I'd written about gender toxicity and what a trap it can be for creators seeking to write powerful characters. It is not something that only plagues the “strong female character” attempt, but also the “strong male character” and definitely the “strong LGBTQ+ character”.
Too many of these ...
They Make You Believe
Banes at 12:00AM, Aug. 24, 2023
A long time ago I read something, I think an interview with a respected screenwriter or something, where he brought up the movie “Rain Man”.
If you haven't seen it, it's about a struggling wheeler-dealer type guy, played by Tom Cruise, who goes on a road trip with ...
Crisis Post: Xade needs your help!
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Aug. 20, 2023
Hey everyone!
This will be the first installment of what I call Crisis Post. Desperate situations, like facing eviction, is becoming a pressing reality for more people - which should come as no surprise in the economic situation we are all facing today - and when that happens you naturally reach out ...
Gender Toxicity
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Aug. 19, 2023
The debate on what constitutes a “strong female character”, whether having “strong female leads” or “feminism” is tanking “woke” films these past few years, is ongoing. There's accusations of toxicity on both sides. Misogyny, misandry, wokeness and brokeness, all of these terms and hot takes are fired and take ...