Quackcast 743 - Lore vs reality

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 10, 2025

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This is a weird one to encapsulate, but it was based on an idea I had while re-watching Star Trek the Next Generation and I had to explore it with my fellow Quackcasters, Banes and ...


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Quackcast 742 - ex-special forces!

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, June 3, 2025

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It seems like every single “badass” in TV, Movies, books and comics is “ex-special forces” or something like it these days. It's become a meaningless cliche. Writers use it as a shortcut to show ...


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Back from the Dead

Tantz_Aerine at 2:02AM, April 19, 2025



It's Resurrection Saturday today! What better occasion then than this to talk about the resurrection trope?

Usually, cancelling out a character's death is not a good thing to do in a story. It undermines the weight of the stakes involved and/or the sacrifice or seriousness of the ...



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Quackcast 734 - When love turns to hate

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, April 8, 2025

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When love turns to hate… It's a common trope in fiction: partners split up and their once loving relationship turns to one of bitter acrimony! We see hate turning to love frequently too, that ...


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Days to Remember

Gunwallace at 12:00AM, March 6, 2025



Every year our family are gifted a very nice calendar from one of our relatives. However, it often arrives a couple of months into the year. So, I'm usually tasked with whipping up a temporary couple of months to pin to the door to use until it arrives.

This ...



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A Fair Playing Field

Gunwallace at 12:00AM, Feb. 6, 2025


Picture credit: Interaction Institute for Social Change | Artist: Angus Maguire

Today (Thursday 6th February) is Waitangi Day in New Zealand, although due to the nature of time zones you will probably be reading this after the day if over for us.

Waitangi is a place in NZ, the name meaning ...




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How Long is a Piece of String?

Gunwallace at 12:00AM, Jan. 30, 2025



Banes is taking a short break for the Thursday post, so I'll be filling in for a some unspecified number of posts. How many exactly? Well, how long is a piece of string? How long is the coastline of Britain? That was an academic paper ('How Long Is the ...

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Infatuation

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 30, 2024



How do you make a clever character stupid?

You give them an infatuation. A fixation. Something that completely overrides their critical thinking and better judgment. Something that drives them nuts like a switch is thrown.

And when that happens, they're dumber than a bag of rocks. (And they're ...





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Character Deep Dive: Robin Sinclair

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 2, 2024




Today’s character deep dive is on Robin Sinclair, the main catalyst of everything taking place in the supernatural comedy drama that is Blessed Days by Inky Moondrop!

Blessed Days is the story of a young woman that unexpectedly becomes a mom and must handle raising a child- that’s ...




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The Many Faces of Fear

Emma_Clare at 12:00AM, Oct. 5, 2024



Hello there my fellow Quackernauts! As it’s the spooky season, what better time is there to explore one of my favourite genres, horror. Horror is many things, but at its core it’s intention is to challenge the human mind; to remind us that, despite all our attempts to ...

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