Podcast appearances and mentions of emma clare

Når forfatteren av kult-bøker som American Psycho og The Rules of Attraction gir ut en ny roman for første gang på 13 år, er det en begivenhet av de sjeldne. For de som har lest Bret Easton Ellis' tidligere bøker, har romanen Skår (til norsk ved Henning Kolstad) en gjenkjennelig atmosfære, og han er fortsatt ikke redd for å skrive eksplisitt om sex eller vold.Vi befinner oss i LA på tidlig 80-tall, og hovedpersonen Bret Ellis er 17 år og avgangsstudent på den prestisjefylte privatskolen Buckley. En sjarmerende ny gutt i klassen utfordrer den unge Brets forsøk på å skjule sin tiltrekning til menn.Men under den glatte overflaten lurer noe mørkt. Historien fortelles av en nå middelaldrende Bret som husker tilbake til det skjebnesvangre avgangsåret da en seriemorder dukket opp i LA. Han blar i årboka, der fem av klassekameratene mangler.Ellis liker å provosere, både i litteraturen og i offentlig debatt. Så også med Skår, som først ble utgitt i serieform på hans egen podkast med tittelen The Shards, og i likhet med Lunar Park utgir boka seg for å være en memoar basert på Ellis' egne opplevelser. Parallelt med at sporene fra seriemorderen kommer stadig nærmere, skildrer boka også en ung Brets seksuelle og litterære oppvåkning. Slik kan boka også leses som forfatterens vei inn i skrivingen.Når Bret Easton Ellis gjester Litteraturhuset for første gang, møter han Emma Clare Gabrielsen til samtale. Hun har mangeårig bakgrunn som journalist i Natt & Dag, DN og NRK, der hun blant annet var programleder for de to første sesongene av dokumentarserien Innafor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It is a rare occation when the author of cult books such as American Psycho and The Rules of Attraction releases his first novel in 13 years. For readers of Bret Easton Ellis's earlier books, The Shards has a familiar atmosphere, and he doesn't shy away from explicit descriptions of sex or violence.We are in early 80s LA, and the main character, Bret Ellis, is 17 and a senior at the prestigious private school Buckley. A charming new student in class challenges Bret's attempt to hide his attraction to men.But something darks lurks beneath the glossy surface. The story is told by a now middle aged Bret revisiting the fatal senior year when a serial killer appeared in LA. Leafing through his old yearbook, he notices the five classmates that are missing.Ellis likes to provoke, both in fiction and in public debate. The Shards is no exception. First published in serial format on Ellis's own podcast, the story is passed off as a memoir based on Ellis's own experiences, much like the earlier Lunar Park. As the serial killer moves ever closer to Bret's circle, the book also describes Bret's sexual and literary awakening, making it as much a story of the author's journey into writing.When Ellis visits the House of Literature for the first time, he is joined on stage by Emma Clare Gabrielsen. She has worked for many years as a journalist in Natt & Dag, DN and Norwegian broadcasting NRK, where her documentary on pedophiles earned her nominations for both Norway's premier journalist prize and Prix Europe's "European Journalist of the Year". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, hear Deb Rawlings and Emma Clare on Death Doulas, death education, the language we use around death and dying, and doing death differently! Who is Deb?  Deb Rawlings is a Senior Lecturer in postgraduate palliative care at Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia. With a background in palliative care nursing, Deb is an academic/researcher with an interest in the Death Doula role. She was an author and moderator on the successful Dying2Learn MOOC. Deb is Co-Lead Investigator on the End-of-Life Essentials project funded by the Australian Department of health which aims to support health professional working in acute hospitals. The End-of-life essentials website can be accessed here. You can follow Deb on Twitter @deb_rawlings The Conversation article we mention in the podcast is titled ‘Passed away, kicked the bucket, pushing up daisies – the many ways we don't talk about death' and can be accessed here. You can download the corresponding journal article here. Some of her death doula articles as discussed on the podcast are: Rawlings, Litster, Miller-Lewis, Tieman, Swetenham. End-of-Life Doulas: A qualitative analysis of interviews with Australian and International death doulas on their role. Health Soc Care Community. 2020;00:1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13120 Rawlings, Litster, Miller-Lewis, Tieman, Swetenham. The voices of death doulas about their role in end of life care. Health SocCare Community. 2020;28(1):12‐21. doi:10.1111/hsc.12833 Rawlings D, Tieman J, Miller‐Lewis L, Swetenham K. (2018) What role do Death Doulas play in end‐of‐life care? A systematic review. Health Soc Care Community. 2019;27(3):e82‐e94. doi:10.1111/hsc.12660 Who is Emma?   Emma Clare is a Health Psychology PhD researcher and Director of End of Life Doula UK. Based in Yorkshire, she describes herself as an activist and nature lover with a passion for bringing death and dying out of hospitals and back into compassionate communities wherever possible. Emma's current research is focused on supporting individuals (both professionals and the public) to develop death competency – our skills and capabilities in dealing with death and dying. You can follow Emma on Twitter @emmacclare How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists? To cite Emma in this episode, you can use the following citation: Clare, E. (2021) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 15 November 2021. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: https:doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.17012624 To cite Deb in this episode, you can use the following citation: Rawlings, D. (2021) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 15 November 2021. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: https:doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.17012624 What next? Check out more episodes or find out more about the hosts! Got a question? Get in touch. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thedeathstudiespodcast/message

Finally we got to the five hundredth Quackcast! Wow! That's so many. We've been doing these for 10 years now. That's a long running podcast! To celebrate we invited our DD members aboard. We had a great fun time, lots of laughs and a really good chat. We even had time to introduce special cotributions from the people who couldn't be live with us. I'm making our exclusive patreon video of this week's cast free for all to view! Just click on the youtube link bellow. Featured in our cast was MegaRDaniels, Tantz Aerine, Kawaiidaigakusei, PaulEberhardt, Andreas Helixfinger, Pitface, Niccea, Emma Clare, Banes, Cresc, and Gunwallace, with extra contributions from Hushicho, Usedbooks, and Kawaiidaigakusei We started the Quackcast late in 2010, with just Skoolmunkee and myself, Ozoneocean. Wowio, our parent company wanted us to do a weekly video show but Skoolmunkee wasn't happy with that so we compromised and did a podcast. We recorded it on Thursdays and Kinh at Wowio would edit it and make it live on the next Tuesday. Amelius and EvilEmperorNick were our first interview guests. In due course Wowio downsized and Kinh was let go. We had to start editing the casts ourselves. Skoolmunkee did it for a while, then Banes came onboard to help us out. Skoolmunkee left and I did the Quackcasts solo for a time before making Banes my co-host! I took on the task of editing and I've done it ever since. Tantz Aerine and Pitface joined up as guests and then permenant members and the whole group was formed. The Quackcast has featured many fun bits in it's time, like the DD radio plays, skits and plays by Banes and I, and the DD Soap. I wonder if people would ever want to see the return of those? Anyway, have a listen and watch to all of us

Emma Clare posted about avoiding burnout on Friday and we thought we'd steal that subject to chat about it. Burnout is something that can affect all of us, most especially when you're stuck at home with lots of time to create, funnily enough. When there's a lot of pressure on you to create it often makes you STOP creating. But there are a lot of ways to void burn out and when it actually does happen to you there are a lot of ways to come back from it and rekindle those exhausted flames of creation. How do YOU come back after being burnt out? What was your longest burnout? This week we're showing our Patreon vid to all, just to give you a taste on what we update weekly for our patrons, and because burnout is a serious thing that affects us all. https://www.patreon.com/DrunkDuck If you become a subscriber on the $5 level and up level you can see our weekly Patreon videos and get our special advertising perks. Even at $1 you get your name with a link on the front page and a mention in the weekend newsposts! This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Grayling: Wonder through the still, dark, cold forrest. It's damp and cold. Wind whistles through the trees, rattling bare branches and shedding the hanging drops of water like little flurries of rain. In the distance there are unwelcome hints and glimpses of lights and the sounds of technology… Topics and shownotes Links DD on Discord! - https://discordapp.com/invite/7NpJ8GS Moderated by Boundbun and Tallfroyo - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/BoundBun/ Featured comic: Abejitas - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2020/jun/07/featured-comic-abejitas/ Featured music: Grayling - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Grayling/, by Arborwin, rated M. Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Pitface - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/

Styles are a very individual thing. Emma Clare did a great newspost on them last week featuring a pic of Sailor Moon that she drew in her own style. The cover image here features my own version. Pit, Tantz, Banes and I had a good long chat about all the different aspects of style and how you develop them. For myself, I sort of just fell into my style, it wasn't something I planned. It's just a sort of stylised realism, mostly made up of all the errors, mistakes and incorrect assumptions of how reality and the human body looks and it just comes out as my “style”. How did you come up with your style and have you had a go at the Sailor Moon challenge? The musical feature this week that Gunwallace has given us is theme to the Mystic From Wanzerbe - Long, dry, dusty roads, desert adventure, hot winds, mirages and magic shimmering in the heat haze of the hot red sun above. This music is full of the fire and hot spice of far north Africa. It sounds like a techno Tinariwen! Topics and shownotes Links Em's post about style - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2020/may/21/developing-a-style/ Featured comic: The Daily Doodle - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2020/may/19/featured-comic-the-daily-doodle/ Featured music: Mystic From Wanzerbe - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Mystic_From_Wanzerbe/, by Delcino, rated M. Special thanks to: Pit Face - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/ kawaiidaigakusei - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/ VIDEO exclusive! Become a subscriber on the $5 level and up to see our weekly Patreon video and get our advertising perks! - https://www.patreon.com/DrunkDuck Even at $1 you get your name with a link on the front page and a mention in the weekend newsposts!

RUSH Wednesday Morning Hanger Seminar

At the beginning of a story how do you grab and KEEP your readers? This comes from the Friday newspost by Emma Clare. Her advice was pretty brilliant. From my own perspective it's generally characters that grab me first before anything else. Great art and a fantastic cover can hook your eyes, but without a great story or interesting characters there's zero to keep you there. Info dumps explaining the entire premise can scare people away but so can dumping the reader in a complex world and complex situation without explaining anything… One technique is to ease people into the world by starting them off with a familiar and identifiable situation and then building up from there, maybe having the weirdness and complexity being new to the protagonist as well? This is how we start off in The Hobbit (the book, not the crappy films), Magician by Raymond E Feist, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Quasi and Psudo - Waves of contemplative strings, like huge feathered fans slowly wafting in air, thick with importance and potential at the imperial court. The musical atmosphere is rich and heavy… A cheeky clarinet takes up the theme of the deep bass cello, performing a twirling pirouette, before sinking away and ceding to the cello once more. Spikes of harp strings glint like gold reflected from the richly decorated furnishings… Topics and shownotes VIDEO exclusive! Become a subscriber on the $5 level and up to see our weekly Patreon video and get our advertising perks! - https://www.patreon.com/DrunkDuck Even at $1 you get your name with a link on the front page and a mention in the weekend newsposts! Featured comic: QUASI and PSUDO - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2019/jun/04/featured-comic-quasi-and-psudo/ Featured music: QUASI and PSUDO - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/QUASI_and_PSUDO/, by 1rd2th3st, rated E. LINKS Emma's newspost on Beginnings! - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2019/jun/07/starting-your-story/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Pit Face - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/ Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean kawaiidaigakusei - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/

Inspired by Emma Clare's Friday newspost about supporting characters, today we're discussing sidekicks! Sidekicks are a useful character type that are used in so many different ways. They can be a specialised type of supporting character that are also a main character or they can be the main protagonist in some cases. In comics sidekicks came in during the early days as a way of giving juvenile readers their own insert character who they could identify with… Bucky Barnes, Jimmy Olsen, Robin etc. They had other functions like giving the hero someone to save, providing commentary, reaction and exposition. Later when that kind of sidekick fell out of favour they became superheroes in their own right. But sidekicks are a lot older than comics. People in social situations will often naturally fall into that sort of role because humans work well in hierarchies. One person takes the lead and the other follows: the person with the most forceful personality, The most experienced person, the higher ranked person, the socially superior person leads, and the other follows and that's reflected in literature. Class was often used to put people in their “natural” roles: Frodo and Sam from Lord of the Rings; AJ Raffles and Bunny Manders; Sherlock Holes and Dr Watson: the posher person with the higher social rank is automatically the leader. This is very much a part of the British class system, officers and senior management came from the higher social classes etc, it's a large subject. But that's also inverted occasionally; Jeeves is Bertie Wooster's Valet and social inferior and yet Jeeves is the leader in that relationship. The sidekick is often the main character when used as the point of view character to tell us how marvellous their leader is. We get this with Doctor Watson in the Sherlock Holmes stories, Bunny in the Raffles the gentleman thief stories, Bertie in the Jeeves stories, and Archie in the Nero Wolfe stories. Archie is interesting; he does everything, he's the main active character, and yet he's still no more than a sidekick to the great Nero Wolfe. Sometimes the sidekick is the smart character who's there to try and rein in the excesses of their leader, like Arthur with the Tick, Sancho Panza with Don Quixote, Doctor Girlfriend and the Monarch, Agent 99 and Maxwell Smart, Kif and Zap Brannigan, Banes and Ozoneocean… They can also be used to compliment the leader by replacing something they lack, not just intelligence as in the former example. Kato in the Pink Panther provides Inspector Clouseau with muscle, Brock Samson provides EVERYTHING for Doctor Venture, Doctor Watson has skill the ladies, tact, charm, and humanity that Sherlock lacks, Archie has the confidence and mobility that Nero hasn't. There are so many clever an interesting ways to use sidekicks, far in advance of the Batman and Robin method! I think we should continue to use them. What are your fave sidekicks and why? Do you have a sidekick in your story? This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Operation Boom - Booooooooooom! This one thunders in, all action and furious energy, rolling in like a 50 tonne bulldozer at high speed while on FIRE and sparking with insane electrical discharges. This is danger music. Bright yellow with black diagonal lines. Listen for the deep, bass booms. Topics and shownotes VIDEO exclusive! Become a subscriber on the $5 level and up to see our weekly Patreon video and get our advertising perks! - https://www.patreon.com/DrunkDuck Even at $1 you get your name with a link on the front page and a mention in the weekend newsposts! Featured comic: Customer Service - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2019/may/07/featured-comic-customer-service/ Featured music: Operation Boom - - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Operation_Boom/, by Recklesshero, rated E. LINKS The importance of supporting characters, newspost by Emma Clare - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2019/may/09/supporting-characters-and-why-they-are-important/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean kawaiidaigakusei - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/

In this Quackcast we chat about set-ups. pay-offs, and rip-offs. To make your climaxes and endings more satisfying you have pay-offs for audience expectations: set them up in the story and pay them off at the end. If you fail to pay-off then you get a rip-off, it's pretty simple. Your audience will be really disappointed. That's not to say disappointing and unsatisfying ends to stories are wrong, not at all! Often those are fully intended. We're just talking about satisfying audiences, not “good” endings. There are a lot of ways to do this, oh so many… building up the emotional development of a character in the story and giving them an emotional pay-off is a small scale why of doing this. On a larger scale you can have a satisfying end battle where the forces of darkness are defeated in a resounding way. A “Checkov's gun” that was hinted at earlier finally comes into play… or maybe you just have all sorts of great call backs to hints of things mentioned earlier in the story, rewarding the careful watcher. This topic was inspired by both Emma Clare and Tantz Aerine's opinions of the Avengers Endgame and the 8th season of Game Of Thrones. This week Gunwallace has given us a Requiem for Tupapayon, our recently departed and loved member of the site: A haunting, sepulchral piece… a deep, brooding, melancholy requiem that expresses the reverence and sadness we feel for our departed ducker, Isaac Ramirez, aka Tupapayon. It takes us into the dark shadows of a lofty gothic cathedral, where the magic of coloured light through stained glass paints the cold stone floor, shining through the gloom, the same way Tupapayon would always light up the site with his presence. Topics and shownotes VIDEO exclusive! Become a subscriber on the $5 level and up to see our weekly Patreon video and get our advertising perks! - https://www.patreon.com/DrunkDuck Even at $1 you get your name with a link on the front page and a mention in the weekend newsposts! Featured comic: Angels of the Fallen - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2019/apr/29/featured-comic-angels-of-the-fallen/ Featured music: Requiem for Tupapayon - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2019/may/01/rip-tupapayon/ Links: RIP Tupapayon - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2019/may/01/rip-tupapayon/ Emma Clare on Set-ups and pay-offs in fiction - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2019/may/02/a-confused-rant-about-setup-and-payoff/ Tantz Aerine's counterpunch - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2019/may/03/a-proposed-counterargument/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/banes Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ PitFace - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean

The entire gang comes together today for two topics that were taken from recent newsposts: Emma Clare's Positive self promotion, and Tantz Aerine's Handling Controversial Characters. First up we chat about why it's always a great idea to sell yourself positively, NOT be arrogant or douchey, but rather by talking enthusiastically about what you genuinely love about your work and using that REAL and SINCERE enthusiasm to infect others with your love of what you do. Emma was mainly talking about the way you introduce your comics to friends and family but it definitely applies more broadly to self promotion in general: Don't try and get sympathy through self depreciation (oh, it's not very good…), and don't be an arrogant ass (My stuff is AWESOME!), rather you should just be honest about what you love about it (This story was so FUN to write!). There are exceptions. “READ HARKOVAST” become a great catchphrase for the author of that comic ;) Next up we talk about Tantz's subject of handling controversial characters: Real controversial characters and established characters in fiction that have very different interpretations and views about them can be tricky to use in fiction. WHICH of the popular interpretations do you choose? - The one that says they were an insane dictator or the one that says they're a hero of their people? Whichever you do you'll have audience members who're angry about it in some way. Examples are characters like Jesus (comics linked bellow), and Mother Theresa. Jesus obviously means a lot of things to different people, there's around about 2000 years of culture focussed on him and people during the time he was meant to have lived would have regarded him very differently to the later worshippers. Mother Theresa during her lifetime was almost universally regarded as a living saint, her name was common shorthand for being extremely caring. After her death opinions changed and fractured desperately. To many she was either a monster, a scheming witch, or a stupid naive backwards woman who was used as a promotional tool. Which approach do you as a writer take? This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Tusk. Fast tribal beat that makes you want to shake your hips, stamp your feet, wiggle, twitch, and vibrate all over! A nice, stompy, vibrating rhythm booms into the centre and slows things down for a change of pace. This is the ultimate dance track. Get hot, sweaty and show off your crazy moves as best you can. Put the other dancers to shame! Topics and shownotes VIDEO exclusive! Become a subscriber on the $5 level and up to see our weekly Patreon video and get our advertising perks! https://www.patreon.com/DrunkDuck Even at $1 you get your name with a link on the front page and a mention in the weekend newsposts! Featured comic: Breached - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2019/apr/09/featured-comic-breached/ Featured music: Tusk - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Tusk/, by Fallopiancrusader, rated T. LINKS Positive promotion newspost by Emma Clare - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2019/mar/30/talking-about-your-comic-to-others-and-why-you-should/ Controversial characters newspost by Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2019/apr/12/handling-controversial-historical-characters/ READ HARKOVAST - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Harkovast/ Holy Bible the Albino Ginger version - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Holy_Bible_the_Albino_Ginger_version/ Jesus 2016 - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Jesus_2016/ Look who's back (movie) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4176826/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/banes Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Pit Face - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean kawaiidaigakusei - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/

It's the rating game! Yeah! This Quackcast was inspired by Emma Clare's newspost on Friday about rating levels. On Drunk Duck we have 4 rating levels so they're nice and simple: “E” for everyone, “T+” for teens, “M” for mature, and “A” for Adult! We talk about why ratings exist and how to use them. But why do ratings exist? Well it's complicated actually… The main reason is that all cultures have various taboos and things they consider inappropriate to be viewed in certain situations so most countries have ratings systems set up to cater to that. Ratings are partly used to restrict access to some material (eg. stopping children from seeing violent or sexually explicit content), and partly as a way of marketing material: ratings let people have a good idea of the content, so parents will snap up any child rated material for their children to see and adults will know that higher rated things will be more appealing to them. Ratings such as “NC17” and “MA+15” were invented so content creators could sneak in more of what adults want to see in films (sex and violence) and still avoid a higher more restrictive rating which would mean they have less of a market because there are less forums to display and advertise higher rated work. Ratings on the duck We only have four ratings levels. These are based on old style film ratings, we do this to try and avoid confusion. Higher ratings mean you have a lot more freedom in what you can show but less freedom in who you show it to: “A” rated work is ONLY visible to adults (not kids) who are logged into the site. Theduckwebcomics is one of the few webcomic hosting sites that allow creators to post very sexually explicit material. Work is self regulated, we expect creators to be responsible adults here. The rating of a comic can be changed by us upon request, but we prefer to ask the creator to do it themselves. Here are our ratings: E: Everyone Open to everybody. Non-offensive material in text or imagery. Appropriate for both children and adults. T+: Teen Content is suitable for teens or older. Mild violence, slightly mature themes. No obscenities, graphic violence, sex, or nudity. M: Mature Content contains mature themes that might not be suitable for children. May contain occasional obscenities, limited graphic violence, implied sex, mild nudity. No sexually explicit material, no graphic sexual acts, no Hentai, no unrelenting violence, or non-stop obscenities. A: Adult Content is sexually explicit, exceedingly violent, or an excess use of obscenities. Must be logged on to view. This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Blighted The Odyssey: The spirit of exploration, taking you far out into the deep black starlit ocean. St Elmo's fire glows around the mast and yards, swirls of glowing plankton cling and drift away from the sides of the hull as you venture further into the unknown, disappearing into the darkness… Topics and shownotes VIDEO exclusive! Become a subscriber on the $5 level and up to see our weekly Patreon video and get our advertising perks! https://www.patreon.com/DrunkDuck Even at $1 you get your name with a link on the front page and a mention in the weekend newsposts! Featured comic: Sunstrike and Bluemist An Origin Story - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2019/mar/18/featured-comic-sunstrike-and-bluemist-an-origin-story/ Links: Emma Clare's ratings newspost - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2019/mar/21/rating-your-comic/ DD ratings list - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/about/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/banes Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Blighted The Odyssey - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Blighted_The_Odyssey/, by Alpharie, rated M.

Merry Christmas one and all! And all that stuff. This year our release date falls exactly on the 25th! It was a busy year for us, lots happened. But in this Quackcast what we chat about is something rather different: the difference between pros and amateurs, specifically when it comes to comics. There's this common misconception that an amateur is a novice that will produce work of a lower quality, while a professional is an experienced person who knows what they're doing and will always produce things of the highest quality… The REAL story is more complex than that. Professionals produce work for a living. It has to support them. Because of this they need to develop a high level of skill and proficiency. They need to learn how to produce work reasonably fast and to a consistent level of good quality on a regular basis. Time, cost and quality are the main factors, the pressure is on them to make things relatively cheaply, relatively fast, and at a good quality. This is very hard to do so they learn to make compromises and take shortcuts to achieve that. “Quality” becomes “good enough”, or basically with enough tricks and shortcuts to convince you that it IS high quality. In terms of art that involves tracing, pre-rendered images, photo backgrounds with filters, gradient fill colouring, cut and pasting, use of 3D assets, reliance on standard models. For writing that means sticking to formulas and story outlines someone else has come up with; tasks are split and delegated to teams: pencilers, inkers, colourists, background artists, creative directors, writers story editors and so on. Amateurs come in many flavours. On one end of the scale you have the beginners who are learning, then you have casual people with just enough skill to do the job, and finally you have people with an extremely high level of skill, higher than any professional. Amateurs lack the pressure to make a living out of their work which means they have far more time to produce it in and experiment. They have the freedom to learn, advance and perfect, far beyond what is available to people stuck in the professional world. But of course it's not a case of either/or. Both worlds can learn from each other and frequently do. There are many helpful tricks that amateurs can pick up from the pro world and pros have a LOT to learn from doing projects at a more amateur level. I hope this Quackcast helps to dispel the old myth that Pro = great, while amateur = bad. Reality is frequently a lot more interesting and complicated! ;) This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Lost Honey. Something epic is about to begin! Chords full of portent rise and flood your ears, creating a gorgeous blue backdrop upon which play the golden notes of the piano, full of stinging melancholy, joyful exuberance and wistful reminiscence. Topics and shownotes VIDEO exclusive! Only for Patrons who donate $5 or more, here: https://www.patreon.com/DrunkDuck Featured comic: Urban Legend - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/dec/18/featured-comic-urban-legend/ Christmas Newsposts Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/dec/19/merry-quackmas/ Emma Clare - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/dec/20/winding-down-and-looking-back/ Tantz - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/dec/21/a-most-awesome-dd-year/ Pitface riding in a TIGER TANK - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au8cImGEjhA&feature=youtu.be&t=948 Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/banes kawaiidaigakusei - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/ Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Lost Honey - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Lost_Honey/, by Fleebites, rated E.

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This week in the Quackcast we were going to talk about fear in general. What are we afraid of? Why do we like or do not like media that may reflect these fears or lead us to new ones? How do such things inspire fear or similar reactions within us. DO we like horror because we like fear to an extent? It's that Halloween time of year once again so it's time to focus on such things. We had Emma Clare on board as well! Oh it was going to be so amazing and fun! Little did we know… But I won't spoil it. Do you remember Quackcast 99? That was the first time our whole team of me, Banes, Pit, and Tantz all got together to do a Halloween episode together. Good times. We were so young and naive then. Little did we know what would befall us… This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Tales of Schlock. A wakka, wakka, wakka, wak… A slow, effortlessly pacing cool, building up step after step, with a little flourish and a dance step every so often. This is music to strut your fine stuff to! Slip on your snakeskin boots, your purple velvet suit with the flared legs. Straighten your wide brim purple hat with the long orange pheasant feather, adjust your big blue bow tie, pull out your fluffy shirt cuffs and get out on the town! Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Paladins - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/oct/23/featured-comic-paladins/ Quackcast99 - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/quackcast/episode-99-halloweens-a-commin/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ kawaiidaigakusei - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/ Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/banes Emma Clare - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Emma_Clare/ Pitface - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Tales of Schlock - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Tales_of_Schlock/, by Rampant404, rated A.

We nicked the idea for this Quackcast from a newspost by Emma Clare. What we chat about is the unintentional process of giving your characters you own traits or even traits of people you know without realising it: Every time you draw an expression for your character you're not really creating a generic expression but basing it on yourself… when you character is being quizzical or irritated for example people may recognise that as you. It could be in other things too: their taste, the way they dress, what they like to eat, their furniture. things that annoy them, their hobbies etc. It's interesting how tied they are to us. This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Crypts and Cantrips: An epic tune evocative of a vast sunlit valley, green and fertile. Clouds sweep across, washing it in a refreshing summer rain. Small animals dance and frolic in the puddles. The clouds blow away, leaving everything golden lit in the rays of the low afternoon sun. Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Tainted Eden - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/aug/14/featured-comic-tainted-eden/ Links: Emma Clare's newspost about imprinting - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/aug/07/imprinting-on-characters/ Banes' animated Typical Strange - animated typical strange https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPQ36L2uJUXSwgj9jued_pQ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ kawaiidaigakusei - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/ Pitface - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/banes Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Crypts and Cantrips - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Crypts_and_Cantrips/, by itsKytri, rated T.  

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ALL the tropes!!!! Based on Emma Clare's newspost, tropes are damn useful but they can also be your undoing if you handle them badly. Tropes are shortcuts to meanings, scenes, procedures or jokes that take too long to set up in their own right. You can use them like prefabricated parts to build your story, Lego if you will. You really should know how to use them correctly though. If it's for jokes, then work on them and expand on them, if it's for more serious stuff then you should know WHERE those tropes come from so you use them correctly. We chat about tropes, boob-slips, Doki Doki, Baka and Test, Kung Fury, Satan Ninja 198X, and Vaporwave among other things. Gunwallace gave us a lovely theme to Yasu no Monogatari this week: Floating out on a blue river of dreams into an echoing crystal cave illuminated by thousands of refracted glittering lights, traveling on your way further underground, deeper and deeper to more exciting and mysterious sites. Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Generation Bad - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/jun/12/featured-comic-generation-bad/ Links: Newspost - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/jun/07/the-sheet-of-glass-and-other-tropes/ Tropes - http://tvtropes.org/ Baka and Test nose bleed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FFdDrJZjQ Satan Ninja 198X - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Satan_Ninja_198X/ Vaporwave - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wcURnFRp9A Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/ Pitface - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Emma Clare - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Emma_Clare/ Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Yasu no Monogatari - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Yasu_no_Monogatari/, by Kanes, rated E.  

In this Quackcast we chat about the categorisation of work by specific genres and how it makes it easier to promote your work to people, while for fans it makes it easier to find what you're into, but it can also be a bad thing when people categorise too specifically and narrow their audience to nothing or just pointlessly confuse the crap out of people. I came to this topic because I saw a post on Facebook which was very badly explaining “Steampunk” and “Dieselpunk” while introducing the two utterly superfluous sub-genre names of “Ray-punk” and Atom-punk“. Let me explain… First there was ”Cyberpunk“. A sub-genre of SciFi that really started in the early 1980s, famously championed by William Gibson among others. The ”punk“ suffix originally referred to it's gritty nature and the fact that it focussed on young people and the technology of the streets. The characters also wore the punk fashions popular in the early 1980s, it tended to feature cybernetic body modification and focus heavily on computers and ”cyberspace“. It was largely inspired by things like Blade Runner and Tron. Obviously there was a need for this sub-genre categorisation because nothing like it had really existed before. ”Steampunk“ is mainly 19th century but can be set at any time. Steam and clockwork are the basis for all technology, the aesthetic is usually based in the 19th century with modern touches. It takes some inspiration from the works of Jules Verne and HG Wells. Again, this was a totally new style and needed a name. ”Dieselpunk“ is from about 1900 onwards and encompasses the time of the birth of the internal combustion engine which is used as a basis for high technology, just like Steampunk does with steam. Movies like Mad Max 2 among others can be seen as inspiration. Once again it was a new style. Steampunk and Dieselpunk stole the style of their names from cyberpunk. They use ”punk“ to refer to the unusual hybrid nature of being pre-hightech SciFi as well as the fact they often include punk type fashions and body augmentation which was a popular feature in Cyberpunk. Then we have ”Atom-punk“ and ”Ray-punk“, both of which are describe work that is already fully encompassed by conventional mainstream SciFi from the 1920s onwards. ALL Scifi including fantasy space Operas like Star Wars can be included in these (Apart from the original aforementioned ”punk“ styles). I feel that this type of categorisation is very, very pretentious, ignorant and counter-productive: since it dilutes and trivialises the ”punk" brand; imagines it does something novel while ignoring all the millions of works on the same theme; and confuses audiences precisely because it IS so dilute and superfluous. Dieselpunk and Steampunk by contrast are weird, they don't fit at all with normal SciFi and so need to be described in an unusual way. Our guest Emma Clare offers up a spirited defence, so it's not all one sided and I don't have it all my own way on this! Listen to the Quackcast to see what she says. This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to The Adventures of Tildie and Chewie. We're greeted by the imposing strains of the Imperial march on heavy bass guitar… before we're rocketed off into a pink heavenly dream cloud filled with rainbows and Teletubbies! Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Tethered from Dusk to Dawn - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/may/15/featured-comic-tethered-from-dusk-to-dawn/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/ Emma Clare - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Emma_Clare/ Pitface - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: The Adventures of Tildie and Chewie - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Adventures_of_Tildie_and_Chewie/, by Patricklind, rated E.

In this Quackcast we have a chat about some ways to promote your comics and sell yourself. Emma Clare and Tantz have been doing cool stuff with the DD Twitter account. Hash tags are an important part of that, help them come up with a hash tag for DD! Who understands hash-tags on Facebook? Covers are one of my favourite ways to promote your work. They're tricky to get right but you need them to properly encompass your work and promote it, the form they take can depend on where your work is: Amazon, Drunk Duck, a convention, targeted ads etc. But be careful not to disappoint your audience with false advertising. This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Coward of Valor. It's a Modern yet medieval, this tune strides in with great pomposity and deigns to dance for us. It pirouettes and swoops in all its beauty and extravagance then exits stage left with just as much flare. Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Sune - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/may/08/featured-comic-sune/ Links: DD Twitter account - https://twitter.com/DrunkDuck Covers newspost - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/may/11/designing-a-cover/ Advertising in comics newspost - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/may/02/this-way-to-the-egress/ Promotion newspost - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/may/09/the-sizzle-and-the-steak/ DD Twitter poll for a hashtag - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/may/10/quackaboutit-we-have-a-poll/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ kawaiidaigakusei - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/ Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/banes Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Coward of Valor - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Coward_of_Valor/, by Matt@Deadpen E.

Everyone tends to have a strong opinion on Political Correctness so I thought why don't we try and have a chat about that and ask what people think. Can it be a problem in comics and other creative works? I was inspired by a video by Youtuber Metaron. He was talking about the decision to put a black actor in the role of Greek mythical figure Achilles in a BBC series about the fall of Troy and questioning the reasoning for it given that being a blonde haired incarnation of the sun-god Apollo is a huge part of the character. My main issue is that the actor is as bald as an egg! At least give him a blonde wig, I don't care how silly it looks. To be fair Achilles has rarely been portrayed well on the big screen, there was Brad Pitt's petulant version in Troy and an even balder Joe Montana in Helen of Troy! Do we spoil creative works by trying to be too inclusive or not being inclusive enough? This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Wanted dead or dead: Welcome to a much cooler version of the old west… we open on a widescreen panorama shot of a dry, dusty desert scene and a lone cowboy all in black, kicking his toe in the dirt. This music is as warm as the hot desert breeze, the guitar is as hard as gunmetal. Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Empress Mother Earth's Handmaiden - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/apr/17/featured-comic-empress-mother-earths-handmaiden/ The things that inspired the cast: Metatron's video on the subject of Black Achilles - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZH35n7SxW8&t=0s Troy: Fall of a City - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5103758/ Helen of Troy - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340477/ Troy - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332452/ PLEASE TEST OUR COMMENT REPLY SYSTEM! Comment reply notifications newspost - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/mar/23/test-the-comment-notifications-today/ Reply Notifications - http://next.theduckwebcomics.com/user/replies Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Emma Clare - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Emma_Clare/ Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/ Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Wanted dead or dead - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Wanted_Dead_or_dead/, by MayelV, rated T.

All the planning and set up in the world will never count for anything if you never start your webcomic, so just put your own to paper and begin! “Getting started on a webcomic” is what we chat about here. I was inspired by PitFace's newspost about a crappy horror film and how the creators just went for it. As a webcomicer that is what you HAVE to do! You can plan, research and gather resources for years, but the reality is that it just makes you more and more scared to take the plunge. You'll develop a LOT faster as a webcomicer if you throw caution to the wind and go for it. I'm not saying that research and planning are uneeded, it's just that most if it can be done while you're actually working. Do not worry about putting out a perfect piece of genius work from the getgo- your comic WILL get there regardless if you're dedicated and put the work in AS you work, but the first few pages or chapters don't have to be there. Your audience will appreciate the chance to grow with you a lot more than if you put out a polished gem to begin with. Starting out at a place like Drunk Duck is your best bet. It's a nurturing, easy to use, creator run platform, focussed around promoting webcomics. So what are you waiting for? This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Flesh and Wires: Dirty and distorted electric guitar and determined fuzzy bass, weaving together over a haunting synthesized Melodica. Portentous and evocative, this music tells a story in it's own runtime! The main riff reminds me a little of my fave part for We don't Need Another Hero from Tina Turner. Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Kawaiidolia - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/feb/27/featured-comic-kawaiidolia/ Pit-Face, Asshole in a mask - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/mar/03/all-you-need-is-an-asshole-in-a-mask/ How to get into webcomics - https://twitter.com/Blackmudpuppy/status/969773241198960640 Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com PitFace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ kawaiidaigakusei - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/ Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/banes Emma Clare - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Emma_Clare/ Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Flesh and Wires - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Flesh_and_Wires/, - by ngrootendorst, rated M.

In this Quackcast we chat about all the different options for hosting your webcomic. At the moment it seems the fashionable new young kiddies on the block are Webtoons and Tapastic, but they're certainly NOT the only choices for webcomic hosts out there and certainly not the best choices. I think we make a good case here for why Drunk Duck is a better choice in many ways, but we also bring up other host sites like twitter, comic fury, comic Genesis (used to be Keenspace), Tumblr, Deviant Art, Smack Jeeves, Fur Affinity, self hosting on a Word Press site etc. In the early days of the millennium there were just two hosts for your comic: Drunk Duck and Keenspace. Drunk Duck was a better choice for most since it was a lot easier to customise and it had a friendlier, smaller community. Keenspace had a two tier system: the picked comics with all the best stuff were in their “keenspot” site while the rabble were stuck with the slower hosting and slower updates. The main thing they had going was a gigantic member base. But they even changed the site's name from “keenspace” to “comic genesis” to further separate KeenSpot from the rabble, which left a sour taste in the mouth. By contrast Drunk Duck was always dedicated to being fully egalitarian. One of our main strengths is that we accept all without stigma: manga, furry, adult comic, sprites, American style, superhero, slice of life comedy, photocomics, professional published comics or stick figure amateur work and we welcome them all the same with the same level of enthusiasm. The big young Webtoons and Tapastic have some of the same issues Keenspace used to have: a big community where you will be lost in the crowd. And no site has as solid and safe programming and hosting as Drunk Duck does. Plus we're community run so you're same from corporate oversight and interference in the content you're allowed to post. You can read more about comic hosting sites in Emma Clare's news posts linked bellow. This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Odd Days. Sometimes you just have one of those days… or many of them in a row! Odd days. The sound here has a positive, optimistic theme overlayed with a harsh zigzag of electric guitar. This tune does well to illustrate the twisted euni, the off-balance and askew takes on everyday life and situations dealt with in this slice of life, humorous comic. Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Flesh and Wires - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/feb/13/featured-comic-flesh-and-wires/ Emma Clare's webcomic host newspost 1 - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/dec/05/mirror-mirror-part-1/ Emma Clare's webcomic host newspost 2 - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/dec/14/mirror-mirror-part-2/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com PitFace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ kawaiidaigakusei - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/ Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/banes Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Odd Days - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Odd_Days/, by Nightmarelunatic, rated T.

Today we talk about where our characters began, not their origin stories or why we started writing them but rather what they used to look like! Pitface was inspired to create a thread based on this idea by Emma Clare's newspost series of origin stories. So we just HAD to have Emma Clare along with us to discus this too! Pit, Tantz, and Emma discuss their bishie origins and talk about maybe doing a bishie DD calendar… We HAVE to make them do that! Emma Clare of course does our Friday newsposts as well as the comic Puppets and Strings and is the artist on Constellation Chronicles. What did your character look like when you first started? This week Gunwallace has given us the theme Wolf Moon - A slow, rich acoustic beginning lulls you calmly, then we roar into a rough, electric feast, a veritable tidal wave of sound washes over you and carries you out to sea. Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Fallen World - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/feb/06/featured-comic-fallen-world/ Pit's Primordial Creations Thread - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/177847/ Emma Clare's webcomic origin's newspost - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/feb/02/the-origin-stories-of-webcomics-part-3/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com PitFace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Emma Clare - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Emma_Clare/ Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/ Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Wolf Moon - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Wolf_Moon/, by Selecia, rated E.

In this Quackcast I thought we'd chat about Emma Clare's great and thoughtful topic of webcomic origin stories: Basically, what was happening to make you start your webcomic on DD, all that stuff in your life back when you first began posting… Emma's newsposts are a great read and they made us all think back to how we began. Pit, Tantz and I have a long talk about our comicing origins. What were YOU doing when you started webcomics? What made you begin? This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to NanoCritters. It's a minimalist white expanse, dotted with mysterious little marks of sound. What do they mean, what do they represent, is it code? Read NanoCritters to find out! Also included in the Quackcast are extracts from a lovely Starwars themed rap that Tantz's Greek students performed in English. Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Red Banner - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/jan/30/featured-comic-red-banner/ Emma Clare's webcomic origin's newspost - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/feb/02/the-origin-stories-of-webcomics-part-3/ Origin newspost 2 - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/jan/25/the-origin-stories-of-webcomics-part-2/ Origin newspost 1 - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/jan/18/the-origin-stories-of-webcomics-part-1/ last page of putrid meat! 11 years!!! - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Master The Tiger - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Master_the_Tiger Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com PitFace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: NanoCritters - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/NanoCritters/, by NanoCritters, rated E.

READERS are a massive part of Drunk Duck! Actually readers are a huge part of ANY comic. But Drunk Duck tends to focus far more on creators than perhaps we should… This idea was inspired by a newspost of Tantz's. We talk about ways to make DD more accessible to readers, including highlighting comics in similar genres and guest representatives giving us recommendation lists of comics they like from a genre so we can promote them on the front page. Emma_Clare has done some GREAT mockups for a redesign of DD and in those is an example of the DD front page where we highlight comics by genre! We chat about comic listing sites like Comic Rocket, Top Webcomics and the brand new Archive Binge, along with other various topics like who are the best hosts for adult comics, cross promotion etc. This week Gunwallce has given us the theme to Blood and water: Cool, quiet, and creepy. This one will have you on edge from start to finish. There's an undertone of cool nonchalance that's surprisingly at odds with the on-edge feel! Please donate to our our Indiegogo drive to raise many for the latest improvement to DD: Comment notifications! We know that everyone wants those. Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Invaded - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/jan/02/featured-comic-invaded/ Tantz's Readers newspost - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/jan/05/creators-vs-readers/ DD Redesign mockups - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/177679/?page=3 Promotion via Twitter - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/jan/04/the-dark-broadcasting-experiment/ Archive Binge comic list - https://archivebinge.com/ Comic Rocket list - https://www.comic-rocket.com/explore/ Top webcomics list - http://topwebcomics.com/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com Kawaiidaigakusei - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/ PitFace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Blood and water - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Blood_and_Water/, by Genejoke, rated M. **Help add notifications for new comments!** Contribute here - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/drunk-duck-improvements-notifications-community-website/x/4410947#/ *Please* help us add this improvement to DD so you can get notifications for new comments and replies!

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This is the Quackcast where I get things wrong! Haha, I DO love to imagine that I know everything but fortunately Tantz and Pit are there to correct me! For this Quackcast I was thinking about the way we assign villains when there's a religious theme or anything influenced by mythology really. You know the way Hel in Thor Ragnarok and Hades in the Disney movie Hercules are cast as villains just because they're in charge of death, even though in the mythology they're not supposed to be bad guys at all. Perhaps it's our modern Christian influenced culture that makes us wrongly associate death with the bad guys…? Our topic meanders a little but it's mainly about how our interpretation of mythology and legend in modern pop-culture is influenced by our modern ways of thinking, which causes things to be quite drastically changed. This week Gunwallce has given us the theme to Puppets and strings - a sepulchral, hollow, sombre theme, yet also grand and portentous! Stirring, melancholic, epic. Topics and shownotes Featured comic: The Constellation Chronicle - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2017/nov/14/featured-comic-the-constellation-chronicle/ Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com PitFace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/ Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Puppets and strings - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Puppets_and_Strings/, by Emma_Clare, rated T.

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Our inspiring guest, Emma Clare Juniper (www.emmajuniper.com), knows how exhausting feeling stressed, unclear about your life purpose, out of alignment with your truest self and being emotionally overwhelmed can feel like. She shares with us her journey from that place into a state of mastery – meeting life with a sense of trust so we can all thrive. To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com

I samarbeid med Akademiet for yngre forskere inviterer vi til samtale om lykke! I dag blir lykke ansett som en forutsetning for å leve et godt og verdig liv, samtidig som mange føler det er umulig å lykkes med å være såkalt lykkelig. Spesielt blant unge, som både møter og selv skaper forventinger om en lysende fremtid, kan kravet om lykke være overveldende. Noen ganger leder dette til utilfredshet, apati og i ytterste konsekvens psykiske lidelser.

Emma Clare Juniper is an Emotional Mastery Expert, Authentic Confidence Coach and Transformational Retreat Facilitator. She assists visionary leaders in accelerating their inner liberation and fulfilling soul-guided success through workshops, online courses, retreats, and VIP Private Coaching Intensives. Emma's teachings were created primarily from her rapid self-empowerment journey after an intense abusive relationship resulted in intense trauma triggers, draining codependency, and emotional overwhelm. Her services are also infused with her studies and certifications in Kundalini Yoga, Quantum Touch, Sufism, Divine Feminine Practices, Trauma Release Exercises, Alchemy, Lomi Lomi, Toltec and worldwide travels. Emma Clare Juniper: http://juniperclare.com/ Ronnie Landis: http://www.ronnie-landis.com The Holistic Health Mastery Program: http://www.holistichealthmastery.com Ojai Energetic CBD Products: http://www.highpotencycbd.com

Emma Clare Juniper is an Emotional Mastery Expert, Authentic Confidence Coach and Transformational Retreat Facilitator. She assists visionary leaders in accelerating their inner liberation and fulfilling soul-guided success through workshops, online courses, retreats, and VIP Private Coaching Intensives. Emma's teachings were created primarily from her rapid self-empowerment journey after an intense abusive relationship resulted in intense trauma triggers, draining codependency, and emotional overwhelm. Her services are also infused with her studies and certifications in Kundalini Yoga, Quantum Touch, Sufism, Divine Feminine Practices, Trauma Release Exercises, Alchemy, Lomi Lomi, Toltec and worldwide travels. Emma Clare Juniper: http://juniperclare.com/ Ronnie Landis: http://www.ronnie-landis.com The Holistic Health Mastery Program: http://www.holistichealthmastery.com Ojai Energetic CBD Products: http://www.highpotencycbd.com