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 ...

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 ...

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We're talking about how technology and design changes so much over the years and how that can change things with plot in story and it can also help pinpoint the date of something sometimes better than ...

Photo: “Genejoke’s Gift Art for HawkandFloAdventures”. Secret Santa 2023 Gift Art Exchange. (December 2023)

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Photo: “Usedbook’s Gift Art for Davidxolukoga”. Secret Santa 2023 Gift Art Exchange. (December 2023)


There are less than four weeks until the time of gift-giving. The time to begin planning for this year’s Secret Santa Gift Art Exchange has arrived.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to Panel by Panel, a periodic exploration of comic panels around The Duck. Moving away from the workshop format this week, and returning to the more solo-assessments of panels and comics. This week, we have a panel pulled from Marco Rossi's comic [i[Killer Ape ...

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Being right on the internet is Sooo important…
Being right in life and at all times is essential too! At least that's how a lot of us tend to think. Being told we're wrong, especially ...

We love a good revenge story.

The entire journey of a character from victimhood to avenger is one that almost guarantees audience engagement and their rooting for the character on the path of revenge.

The reasoning for that is easy: the character suffered a great grievance that is unlikely to ...

Solona Amell wakes up recovering from an attack that left her gauze-wrapped and wounded weeks after a battle won by Darkspawn. Greeted by a familiar face, Morrigan briefs Solona that she was rescued by Mother at the eleventh hour and that Mother would be pleased with her healing progress. Solona ...

Lothar has had to quit his Friday Newsposts so I've had to take over for now.
So my post is tech issues.

I recently experienced some tech issues- Windows 11 messed up my comp because of a faulty update and the computer needed to be reset. This means Windows ...