You are invited to the 2018 Drunk Duck Awards Show! This year's theme is modeled after movie awards shows and several comic creators have assembled marvelous movie posters that look riveting and professional. This year's show is brought to you by our host, Niccea, along with the assistance ...

The Benefit of Trauma
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 22, 2018
Trauma is such a delicious thing in writing- it gives characters their backstories, their motivation, their special slant in a narrative wrok, from novels to webcomics.
However, it's usually considered in the context of how it has made a character ‘damaged goods’. Why they are grim, why they're ...
Justifying the Tragic Backstory
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Sept. 21, 2018
Throughout literature and modern media, many faults and drives for leads, damsels and villians have often been motivated by a tragic backstory so much so, that to employ one for your story may appear trite or cliche. There is, however, a way to use a tragic backstory effectively and can ...
Drawn to Brighter Colors
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 17, 2018
The other day while I was crocheting, I noticed that a lot of the yarn colors I had picked out over the years had a lot of grays, warm neutrals, and toned-down, muted shades of color. They were all lovely colors, but my eyes needed something more vibrant and stimulating ...
A Few Announcements and Heads Up!
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 15, 2018
Today I got a list of stuff I want to talk to you about and remind you!
First off- USED BOOKS NEEDS OUR HELP
She has a pretty high vet bill to pay for saving the lives of her awesome rats. So please help her out whichever way you can ...
Questioning Rumpelstiltskin's Motives
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 10, 2018
As children, we are more open and willing to believe the things that are presented to us as facts. We don't even question the validity of some statements, just take them as truths because that is the way it is.
One example of this was when I was sitting ...
Earning Your Twists
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 8, 2018
There's nothing more intense than subverting the audience's expectations: The righteous character that always says the truth says a lie. The character that values all life ends up murdering someone. The bad sort, the punk that's always terrible ends up saving the day or doing something decent ...
When you hate your characters!
Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Aug. 31, 2018
You’ve gone through the arduous process of fleshing out your world, the themes and the lore and you’re standing back looking at your shining new playground; but there is a blight standing right in the centre that you can no longer ignore. You hate your characters. Maybe it ...
DD Awards Wallpaper Call!
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Aug. 18, 2018
Listen up everyone!
The DD Awards are the Oscars of Drunk Duck! Time we treated them as such, at least with some memorabilia!
We plan to make two wallpapers with ALL the nominees for EVERY SINGLE Award! You know who you are! (If you don't already, go here)
So ...