Your heart’s beating inside the hourglass
Orbiting your soul system it comes to pass
Begging for a new season to amass
Alas, white shadows still lasts–shrinking
But the earth is now drinking and the silver shifts to brass
Your heart’s still beating in the hourglass.
Poetry Time 106: Cold to Hot Shadow
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Jan. 26, 2025Creator Interviews Are Coming Back!
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 25, 2025
So I slacked a lot in getting interviews prepared for our awesome webcomic artists here on the Duck, but that is going to be remedied!
I'm trying to find a way to establish regularity for all the features for showcasing DDers and their webcomics that I've been handling ...
This and That (the power of contrast)
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 23, 2025
One of the main drivers of story is the principle of CONTRAST.
A character in a traditional story arc begins one way and ends up in a very different state of being - the underdog to the victorious hero, or the innocent, unaware victim to the final survivor, or the selfish ...
Quackcast 723 - Changing tech and design
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Jan. 21, 2025 LISTEN on our player!
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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 ...
Advice I Would Give to My Younger Self
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Jan. 20, 2025
Photo: “Mies Couch”. Drawn by Plymayer. (January 2025)
I rewatched two-thirds of Richard Linklater’s Before Trilogy, skipping over the first film of the series to focus on the latter two. The trilogy consists of Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight each film spaced roughly a decade apart. The ...
Poetry Time 105: Intervals
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Jan. 19, 2025
Frozen ripples cracking in the glade
Blades so fine in between
Solemn metals clashing in the field
Yields of time in between
Broken rattles gatling in the cold
Molds to mind in between
Preventable Deaths
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 18, 2025
There's nothing more frustrating when a character dies from a situation that had no reason occuring except perhaps that the writers wanted to be edgy and make the story have more gravitas with a random death that's forced into the plot.
I've talked often over the years ...
Continuity Falls
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 17, 2025
Prev'yis Paige:
https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/jan/08/continuity-falls/
Awright, then!