Tough love is so cool, eh? It's going to magic the “whining” right out of you, won't it? You just need to stick out through the harshness, and then when you reap the benefits, you'll realize your tough loving benefactor had the right idea. You'll be ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Can you believe we've been going THIS long and we're STILL around? It still surprises me. Things have tried to kill us but nothing's worked yet. We predate all the current social medial. We saw MySpace come and go, we saw Facebook rise from nothing, we saw ...

Let a super creepy cannibal Tom Waits take you on a surreal journey into the dark, twisty backwoods… see cryptids emerge from the blackness, obscure gods and angels going about their business in this weird world of North American strangeness. This is a surreal, slightly comical series of creepy stories ...

Iki considers herself a “bottom-dweller”, living and working in the lower levels to make a living. A serendipitous encounter and luck are about to intersect in the forgotten remains of a junkyard after a routine trash-diving detour leads to a luxurious discovery. Introducing Mister Dumpy, aka crocoboy27, or Mr D ...

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Adventure is a fun genre! Not as many things get made for it these days but it used to be hugely popular in the past. It's ...

Site redesign update, NEWS!

This is our first progress update on 2023!
There's not a lot to report at the moment. Alexey has fixed up the news page display so you can go through all the news updates and even listen to the latest Quackcast when you get t ...

It's customary during the final days of a year to do resolutions for the next one or overviews of what happened in the one that's ending.

Even if we buck the system, we kinda do think back and ahead, especially during New Year's Eve, don't we ...

Site redesign update, NEWS!
ThrisbyDude is working on a version of a new logo for the site! The idea will be to rotate through a bunch of logos by different people and use them to celebrate special days or publicise events. I really love what he's come up with ...