Revisiting Hayao Miyazaki’s Film, The Wind Rises, Ten Years Later

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 23, 2024


Photo: “End of Summer 2024”. Photograph taken by kawaiidaigakusei. (September 2024)

Ten years before Miyazaki’s latest animated film, The Boy and the Heron (2023), was released last year, The Wind Rises (2013/2014) was announced to be Miyazaki’s final film.

In a Drunk Duck forum post dated February ...




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Top Five Tales of Teaching

Banes at 12:00AM, April 11, 2024


teacher, teacher, can you teach me –

I was revisiting a classic movie, one of the ones on this list, in the past week or so, and thinking of the archetypal teacher/student dynamic in fiction.

So, in line with my Top Five Tales of Bands from last year, here's ...




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Quackcast 679 - Correlation doesn't equal causation

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, March 19, 2024

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The phrase “Correlation doesn't equal causation” is something associated with science and statistics but it really applies to EVERYTHING and that's important to understand. But was does it mean? If a bunch of things happened ...


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Bravo1102’s Interstellar Battle Girls Blazes to 250 Milestone; HawkandFloAdventure’s Phantom Force 3000 Book Cover Released; JohnCelestri Completes Book One of Bloodwing Fire Fist Angel

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 5, 2024


Photo: “Second round All-seeing and The Federation page 246”. Interstellar Battle Girls created by bravo1102. (January 2024)

Message Regarding Interstellar Battle Girls

Time: 07:24AM
Day: 30 January 2024

Subject: Interstellar_Battle_Girls has reached 250 pages

Bravo1102 writes:

Amazingly the auto text suggested Interstellar_Battle_Girls reaching 150 pages. Well it has now ...











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Apricots, Hibiscus, and Amaryllis

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 25, 2023


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 ...


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🔥 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 ...












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🐈 ANIMALZZzzzzz

lothar at 12:00AM, July 7, 2023






HELLO—
It's summer in the northern hemisphere! …. So hot

Here's some stories about anthropomorphic dudes

Here are the 3:

FIRST one here is a story from 2013 called Grim Dog by Saikiyo




Grim Dog
It's a short story about a couple of cat-like creatures living in a ...

















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Three Rounds of Milestones for Blessed Days, Android Blues, and Crimson Stars!

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 29, 2023


Photo: “Blessed Days: Chapter 5 Promo (featuring Dylan + Grace)”. Story and art created by InkyMoondrop. May 2023.

We have several major announcements from three talented comic creators here on The Duck. InkyMoondrop of Blessed Days has updates for the direction chapters five and six are headed. Stahlberg of Android Blues ...


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My Own Private Central Valley

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, May 1, 2023


Photo: “Windmills through the Passenger Side Window”. Photo taken by me. (June 2022).

When June came
The grasses headed out
And turned brown,
And the hills turned brown
Which was not a brown
But a gold and saffron
And red—
An indescribable color.
And from then on until the next ...










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The Cure For Procrastination

Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 26, 2023



I've been a notorious procrastinator. Well, notorious in my own mind at least.

Last summer my folks were goodly enough to give me a large pile of dirt.

Hey, did you say that's more than I deserved? You cheeky devil!

It was to fill some holes and ruts ...







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