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This is when the writer leads you to think something big has happened in the story, like a character dying or falling in love or winning a ...

Photo: “Venus: Love and Beauty”. National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe by Roy A. Gallant. (1980)

Love is the center of discussion in “The Speech of Pausanias” from Plato’s Symposium. Pausanias brings up the existence of two goddesses that both embodied love: an older deity, Urania, known as ...

Time.

It does not come in an even lap.
It comes wearing the everfacing mask.
Dead light searching, seeking that hope.
It is gone graving the everfading mote.
Can you see the black fog before the red freeze?
They are neither free from the primordial bead…

…Time…

…now, always and ...

So last time, in Part 1 of this discussion of …sunnier villains or antagonists, we had left off talking about how toxic positivity is all about the toxic person's comfort. And that this need to impose a certain behavior, dogma, and/or approach to reality in their environment leads ...

Hello everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. This week's topic is special, covering an ending to a popular comic on The Duck. It is also unique, as I will not show the page for spoiler reasons. I'll be ...

Shmuck Bait is the name, I think coined by one of the Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul writers, where a cliffhanger or shocking ending leads the audience to believe something major has changed. For example, the appearance that a major character has died. But when the next episode/issue/book ...

There is a plane on a runway ready to take off at fifteen hundred hours. Emily Stedman, a university student identified as a genius protege by her professor, is introduced to Major Blue, an Air Force liaison, interested in her cognitive abilities. A bit clumsy at times, Stedman is able ...

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Toxic positivity can take all sorts of forms, but I think it's most easily recognised by someone telling you to be happy about something when you ...

Photo: “Origin #72: “Maybe I Can Change Your Mind”. (February 2023)

Davidxolukoga would like to announce the current crossover happening on the comic Origin that started at the beginning of this week:

“Don't miss the ORIGIN/THRUD crossover. Read the latest issue of ORIGIN to jump right in.”

Origin ...

Hi, everyone!

Gonna be away this weekend, so I thought I’d just post something quick from my own personal life. My wooden snake staff. The same one that you see on this pic from a photo I took just this morning. Me and my dad carved it together back ...