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People in stories, especially bad guys in stories usually want to take over the world, but why? What's really to gain? Even in reality it's a complex question. That's what we're ...

Quackcast 737 - Why take over the world?
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 29, 2025The Return of the Drunk Duck Awards Season (2025 Edition)
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, April 28, 2025
The Drunk Duck Awards - 2025 Forum Discussion
https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/179956/
Niccea writes:
“First of all I am so sorry for getting started so late. I have made several attempts to get started, but found many different distractions.
“The Awards celebrate the comics, authors, and users that ...
Books in the News
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, April 24, 2025
Now, the good Professor always follows up his “Good News, Everyone” with decidedly bad news. But for this week, that can wait. And I was going to spend the first part of this newspost looking at some of the more depressing stories about books from around the world, but end ...
Quackcast 735 - Anime
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 15, 2025 LISTEN on our player!
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Welcome to another DD Quackcast! We were going to discuss Ad Hoc rationalisations and also “what happens AFTER you take over the world” but both topics were waaaay too trumpish and we didn't feel ...
Collective Lies about the Past
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, April 3, 2025
If you are setting a story in the past it can often be hard to get everything from the little things to the big picture right, especially if it's a period you haven't lived through yourself. Even then, your memory can play tricks on you.
It doesn't ...
Events, Ceremonies, and Gatherings
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, March 27, 2025
No matter what the characters in your story might be doing–fighting crime, resisting alien invasion, surviving in a harsh radioactive wasteland, or just working in an office–sometimes it's fun to remove them from their ‘regular’ activities and place them somewhere different and out of their social comfort ...
Quackcast 732 - Meet the Parodians
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 25, 2025 LISTEN on our player!
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Parody and satire are a certain kind of humour. They're VERY easy to do because you just base them off real, already existing things, then you twist it a bit to add humour and ...
Introducing Legacy of the Elementals by Anime Alpharie
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 24, 2025
Photo: “CH 1, Pg 11”. Legacy of the Elementals created by Anime Alpharie. (March 2025)
Anime Alpharie writes:
“Hi everyone!
My name is Alpharie, and I am sort of new! I had a comic on here years ago and I've since lost access to that account. Blighted, that's ...
Dungeons & Dragons as therapy
Gunwallace at 12:00AM, March 20, 2025
There was a recent article in the Guardian about how playing Dungeons and Dragons had helped siblings bond and cope with the death of their father. It got me thinking about the role that role-playing has played (now there's a phrase) in my own life.
For me role-playing began ...
The Tuesday Funnies
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 17, 2025
Photo: “A Page of the Tuesday Funnies Used to Wrap a Mason Jar at the Thrift Store”. The San Diego Union-Tribune. (February 2025)
Gleaning for vintage supplies at the local thrift store, I made out with an assortment of cream coloured typewriter papers weathered by age from card stock cotton ...