We have all talked of and considered character archetypes when designing and building characters.
There are many sets to pick from and it's not really a shocker that most of them, if not all, have their roots at psychology. (I'm looking at you, Carl Jung)
Far be it ...
QUACKCAST 516 - comics and your mental state
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Feb. 2, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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Pitface asked people how doing webcomics has helped to shore up your teetering mental state this past year. We got some responses to that and we also ...
QUACKCAST 515 - Mental Health
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 26, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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This Quackcast was inspired by Pitface, who is concerned out the mental health of her fellow webcomicers. She even started a thread about it in the forums ...
Everyday Joes and the Best of the Best
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 21, 2021
Everyday Joes and the Best of the Best
Star Wars and Star Trek are long-running siblings in science fiction pop culture. I don't know if there's really a “rivalry” between the two; SW has always been more popular I think, and the two are very different.
One big ...
QUACKCAST 514 - how fiction gets your job wrong
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 19, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
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When our jobs are shown in fiction they usually get it wrong. We talk about HOW they get it wrong here… Pit tells us all how she ...
The Empire Strikes Back is 40 - and More Baffling Silliness from Disney Lucasfilm?
Banes at 12:00AM, Dec. 31, 2020Spoilers for recent Star Wars, eg the Mandalorian.
It went unspoken in my year of Newsposts, but 2020 is the 40th Anniversary the release of The Empire Strikes Back.
that's not true! That's impossible!
No, man! Search your feelings! you know it's true! Forty damn years!
Though ...
Exploiting Death
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 19, 2020
When a character the story's cast and audience identify and are familiar with dies, the effect is, or should be, monumental.
Not only because that effectively ends that character's journey (and arc), but also because as an event it has immediate ramifications for all the surviving characters.
First ...
QUACKCAST 499 - Life's worth?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 6, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
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What is the worth of human life in your stories?
This isn't something people often consider, we just tend to have a fairly accurate guess based ...