Halloween is around the corner!
The swiftly-international-becoming Fright Season, where people dress up and surround themselves in scary imagery and settings. Everything is about the scare, the close brush with death or worse, the thrill of the blood running cold in our veins for seconds before laughing at each other ...
The Need for Catharsis
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 28, 2023Quackcast 658 - Marvellous musicals
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 24, 2023 LISTEN on our player!
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We're chatting about the subject of musicals for this particular Quackcast. You might think this has nothing to do with webcomics but webcomic musicals popup from time to time, like The Black Parade on DD by ...
Character Deep Dive: Polly from Bottomless Waitress
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 21, 2023
Today’s deep dive is with Polly, from Bottomless Waitress! Bottomless Waitress is the joint creation of Banes and Ozoneocean, with Banes writing the script and Ozoneocean doing the artwork.
It's a teasing, raunchy and somewhat absurd slice-of-life comedy. It’s a masterful balancing act, dancing carefree on the ...
So Many Ways to be Scared
Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 19, 2023
Horror…and the baddies and creepies and long-legged beasties of horror…come in many flavours.
These divisions might be incomplete or somewhat meaningless in a way, but hey, I have to approach it somehow…
Reality Bites: Human Creeps, Scary Animals and Nature
-Serial Killers, Jason, Michael Myers, The Strangers, And ...
Quackcast 657 - The art of the tease
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 17, 2023 LISTEN on our player!
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The art of the tease is what we're talking about here. It's something Banes and I work with on Bottomless Waitress and it's what you see in a lot of raunchy comedies, you also ...
Blessed Days (Ch7 Sneak Peak): “Smoke and Mirrors”; Davidxolukoga’s Origin Becomes a Video Game; Cast Your Vote for Best Presenter in the 2023 DD Awards!!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Oct. 16, 2023
Photo: “Chapter 6- Page 110”. Blessed Days. Original story and characters created by InkyMoondrop. (October 2023)
Blessed Days Milestone Announcement
Message from Blessed Days creator, InkyMoondrop:
“Hi!
It's that time again!
The 6th Chapter of Blessed Days comes to an end on the 18th of October! On the 20th ...
Quackcast 656 - Character Growth 2, Indiana Jones
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 10, 2023 LISTEN on our player!
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This Quackcast is a sequel to our Quackcast last week on alternative character growth, but instead of Star Wars this time we decided on Indiana Jones. It's a really interesting creative writing exercise, we think up ...
Quackcast 655 - Alternative Character growth
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 3, 2023 LISTEN on our player!
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Last week we focused on character growth VS tropes to run characters but Tantz had the idea to look at alternative growth for characters who did NOT grow well (after the original trilogy). So in this Quackcast ...
Quackcast 654 - tropes vs character growth
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 26, 2023 LISTEN on our player!
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Today we're chatting about characters who're mainly based on tropes VS those that grow. You see this difference quite clearly in a lot of British comedy VS American comedy where characters are set up in ...
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 ...