Photo: “2024 Finalists”. Drunk Duck Awards 2024 by Niccea. (July 2024)

Final votes are in and have been tabulated.

Niccea writes:

“Thank you for your patience over the past week with the delay. The ballots are closed the votes were actually counted up on time. As usual, please kindly let ...

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This isn't really a special episode! It's a Quackcast about them. Not PSA episodes though. Our topic was inspired by those weird special non-sequitur episodes in anime and manga like the famous bikini episode where ...

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Stakes are a part of a story. What does a character want? What means the most to the character? What are they after, what do they care about? Stakes can be really subjective like that and they ...

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What makes the “meat” of a story? What makes you fall in love with it, keep coming back for more watches or reads or whatever? I contend it has nothing to do with conflict or culminations or climaxes, those are merely generic structural plottings that are ...

In the depths of eternal darkness, a young man makes a sacrifice in exchange for his father but there is an even darker force in charge of his fate. His wish might have been granted, but it was accompanied by much dire consequences.

The story is set in a small ...

darkwaterfrey is having a sort of contest (more like a democratic competition?) with his comic Traume von Magpie:

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CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!!!!!
Hello! I'm having a little “contest” with one of my comics, in which the reading audience gets to determine the ending of my story via “Choose ...

Do you feel like something a little out of the ordinary? How about the wandering (and incredibly depressing) dream imagination of Traume Von Magpie? One after another, Traume keeps dreaming. Innocent jaunts end in frightening nightmares, most of them namelessly creepy. His surreal adventures are fittingly rendered in a sort ...

Have I got a bunch of news today! I don't even normally do news on Wednesday, but I figured there was so much that if I waited then I'd have even more…

Be sure not to miss the user interviews that have been posted this week - more are ...