Photo: “Complimentary Paint Chips Extracted from the Hardware Store”. Photographed by kawaiidaigakusei. (September 2023)
The fastest and easiest way to uplift a lackluster mood is to seek out the paint aisle at a local home improvement store; scan through and collect all the paint chips that appear “calming”, “vibrant”, or ...
Apricots, Hibiscus, and Amaryllis
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 25, 2023🔥 ZOMIBIES 🔥
lothar at 12:03AM, Aug. 4, 2023
ZOMBIES !!!!!
As The long hot summer progresses a boys thoughts are naturally drawn to the zombie apocalypse, one of the better types of apocalypse.
The ZOMBIE / 2009 / byronrempel
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APOCALYPSE JACK / 2009 / Pigz2010
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Amazering Zomby Fighturs / 2009 / TheTJ
So … what do you think about zombies and do you know of any ...
Folktale Parodies
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 27, 2023
Photo: “The Stinky Cheese Man and the Fox”. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. By Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith. (1992)
Any the book that was ever available at silent reading was always a book that the teacher read aloud to the class. The Stinky Cheese Man ...
Your politics vs. Your characters' politics
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 10, 2022
Okay, this is a semi-rant and train of thought post, because I've had a couple whiskey and I'm Having Thoughts About Things. You have been warned.
There was one thing that always bothered me in villains that monologue in movies (I also see it in how social media ...
A Post Fit for a Celebration
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 7, 2022
Photo: “Celebration of Dada’s 50th Anniversary”. Café Odéon, Zurich. (February 1966)
History was made the moment Hugo Ball stepped out in the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916. Dressed in, “a tight-fitting cylindrical pillar of shiny blue cardboard” that “looked like an obelisk”, along with, “a huge cardboard collar, scarlet inside ...
When the Hero Is the Villain
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, June 4, 2022
A mustache-twirling villain is awesome fun! Someone who basks in their villainy and enjoys every bit of popping the toddler's balloon and kicking the occasional puppy while hatching evil plans.
These villains are the flamboyant main antagonist that makes the story interesting and fun, because we love to see ...
When Work Becomes Overwhelming
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, March 26, 2022
So you may not have noticed but I have missed an update on WM.
I sorely feel that as a loss, because I've been so proud of not breaking my streak of regular updates for three years now.
It was hard telling myself not to pull a double all-nighter ...
Growing Up with Louie (1953-2022)
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 24, 2022
Photo: Young Louie Anderson in “Life with Louie” TV Series. (1994-1998)
In another round of shocking events, the comedy world lost another great last Friday, with comic Louie Anderson.
As part of the target demographic for Saturday morning cartoons in the mid-nineties, my introduction to Louie’s humor was through ...
Color Theory as a Rewind Machine (Revisited): Community Contributions
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, July 26, 2021
The 31 May 2021 article related to “Color Theory as a Rewind Machine” mentioned how colors could be used intentionally as a way to transport the reader to different time periods. At the end, I posed the question whether anyone had ever used a specific decade’s color palette in ...
QUACKCAST 514 - how fiction gets your job wrong
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 19, 2021 LISTEN on our new player!
Listen on Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/adarunkduck-quackcast
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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 ...