Social Issues in Fantasy (Part 2)

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Feb. 10, 2024



Last time I'd talked about rather superficial and/or inappropriate attempts to weave commentary on real world social issues into a fantasy or scifi world. The discussion in the comments was FANTASTIC! I urge everyone to have a look if you haven't already.

The general consensus was that ...



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Fictional Sports

Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Nov. 26, 2023



In case you’re asking, no, I did not draw this image you see here. It’s one of many drawings I found on this website I just stumbled upon this morning called Drawception.com where from what I understand reading the site’s info section is about playing these ...

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Quackcast 662 - Drunkduck tales

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 21, 2023

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Webcomic communities have different cultures, but why and where do they come from?
DD's culture is pretty chill, we're reasonably neutral and accepting of a wide range of ideas and perspectives, we're egalitarian to ...



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Beg Reaches Hundredth Page; My Life as an American Hero 2 Rockets to Eleventh Hundredth Page; The Origin Reader Awards are Back; Freddy Reno Went Missing Finishes Its Run

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Nov. 20, 2023


Photo: “Beg Banner”. Drawn by BettyTeaHorse. Digital ink. (November 2023)


Milestone Page for the Comic Beg

BettyTeaHorse has an announcement:

“Good evening!

I hope I'm doing this right. I'd like to bring some attention to the 100th milestone page recently uploaded for Beg.

Beg is a grimdark fantasy ...











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The KAMics Recognized by American Federation of Mineralogical Societies as First Place Award Recipient

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 9, 2023


Photo: “Chips”. The KAMics. Story and art by KAM. Digital line art and digital paint. (2022)

MILESTONE

A round of applause goes out to KAM, whose comic: “The KAMics”, will be celebrating its Birthday on The Duck this week. The KAMics has most recently received a comic award in a ...




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Quackcast 654 - tropes vs character growth

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 26, 2023

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Today we're chatting about characters who're mainly based on tropes VS those that grow. You see this difference quite clearly in a lot of British comedy VS American comedy where characters are set up in ...


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Top Five Tales of Bands

Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 21, 2023



Having a love of music, forming a band, struggling together, maybe rising to fame and fortune, then falling from those heights, and then figuring out what to do next…it's a version of the Hero's Journey that can be found in real life.

There've been plenty of ...



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At Them With Them

Banes at 12:00AM, Sept. 7, 2023



Redlettermedia, in an old review of Michael Bay's Pain and Gain, contrasted that movie to The Wolf of Wall Street, directed by Martin Scorsese.

In the Wolf of Wall Street, the RLM guys say, there's a subtext that we're ALL capable of the mistakes the main character ...



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Quackcast 649 - Gendered clothing

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 22, 2023

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When you're drawing people in a webcomic one of the common ways to indicate gender is by outfits, but why are clothes gendered at all and is that a constant?

Gendered clothing clothing is influenced by ...




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A Look at Books

Banes at 12:00AM, Aug. 17, 2023



I was thinking about the power of books in fiction - like, secret journals, diaries, and such.

In the show Supernatural, the brothers found a lot of information, help, and intrigue in their father's journal of his monster hunting exploits. I will say that it got harder to believe later ...



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