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The QuackCast

De: Michael Morris
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The QuackCast features Ozoneocean, Banes, Tantz Aerine, and Pitface, talking about writing, movies, webcomics, art, politics, philosophy, sexuality, and everything else! We're the hosts of the oldest webcomic host on the net, Drunkduck.com, aka theduckwebcomics. 20 years this year!WOWIO, Inc. Arte
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  • Quackcast 750 - Censorshipping

    Quackcast 750 - Censorshipping
    Jul 29 2025
    Hey ho! We thought we'd address the topic of censorship again on the Quackcast! Today we're covering the topic in a rather general sense: The need for censorship; how it can be wrongly used; free speech and its limits; how free speech isn't equal around the world; slander and defamation; how censorship used to be applied to media and how that has changed since the internet and more. Next week we'll chat about how free speech and censorship works now on the internet the way it is now, but for now it's a bit of a rambling overview because it's a gigantic topic! With “free speech” and censorship people always imagine that it's something very basic and black and white but when you look into it the complexities and complications are pretty huge, not to mention there are NO universal global “free speech” rules and that is a big issue with the internet and instantaneous unregulated communication which bypasses national borders. Basically “free speech” usually means that governments aren't allowed to restrict the political expression of individuals because that is essential for preserving free democracies. We expand that to “free expression” in a more general sense because we don't want governments restricting what we can say or do (within certain limits). But that's just about preventing governments fining or jailing or killing us for what we say, it's not about people or businesses restricting us… Then there's the issue of using “free speech” to advocate for violence or persecution, or lying about catastrophes in order to cause mass panic, THEN you can face government limits. Or what if your way of expressing yourself is to defame people and accuse them of made up issues? Then you can face them in court for things like libel or defamation and that is unfairly weighted towards people who have more money so they can get away with lying about you in public and they can also get away with claiming the TRUE things you said about them were libel too… And that's just a taste of how complex it gets. Not to mention copyright issues, fair use, obscenity, ratings systems etc, it all factors in! On Drunk Duck we need to have a ratings system that comics fall under. Our Adult rated comics have restrictions on them, and we don't allow comics that depict underage characters in sexual situations, (that can be hard to police). Comics designed to defame others can also face restrictions. So censorship is everywhere! Though DD is more free than other comic hosts on the net and that has always been one of our main features from the very beginning! What have been your experiences with censorship? This week Gunwallace has given us a musical theme inspired by Mortify - A sepulchral, highly evocative, almost dreamlike reverie on the tenebrous existence of the penumbra between life and death, dark and light, where souls hang on the edge of oblivion. Topics and shownotes Links Info on freedom of expression https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/rights-and-freedoms/freedom-information-opinion-and-expression Forum post about censorship issues https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/180046/ Featured comic: Dragen Asylum - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/jul/22/featured-comic-dragen-asylum/ Featured music: Mortify - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Mortify/ - by Pit Face, rated T. Special thanks to: Gunwallace - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Gunwallace/ Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Kawaiidaigakusei - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/ 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! Join us on Discord - https://discordapp.com/invite/7NpJ8GS
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  • Quackcast 749 - Chasin' trends

    Quackcast 749 - Chasin' trends
    Jul 22 2025
    This week our cast is about the folly of following fashion! It could be with clothes, hair, interior design, architecture, music, OR creation! Things like plot styles, story structure, art, lettering, fonts, jokes, twists etc, all are subject to fashions of the day. And we are driven to participate in it, not because we're fashionable creatures who want to be “in” with the latest trends, rather it's because at our core we're just simple social animals and following fashion is an instinctual way for us to fit in with our social groups and participate in the simple social hierarchies based on how closely we follow the current fashion and how cleverly we express it. It's herd behaviour. But why is it folly? There are a few very important reasons that you shouldn't follow fashion: 1. It dates you in a really unfortunate and specific way. So you stuff is forever tied to a specific time. 2. Fashions come and then go, which means you only have a limited time before what was cool and making you fit in turns around and does the EXACT OPPOSITE. 3. You become just another part of the crowd, which is hard to stand out from, and in truth you will probably be a bad version of whatever the popular style is, which will be more obvious when the fashion moves on and no one makes allowances for you anymore because you were expressing a fashion they liked, rather you'll just be seen for what the are: a wannabe. 4. You will be driven to change things in order to keep up with fashion changes, which will be very disruptive to your work and annoying for your audience. 5. Audiences that are attracted to you because of the fashion you're expressing will also quickly leave when that's not the in thing anymore. Slang changes all the time. The very worst and most stupid thing you can ever do is try and unironically keep up with current slang, especially if you're trying to see “cool”. Why is that? Because the people most up with the latest slang are 12 to 14 years old, do you really want to be thought of as cool to a 12 year old? Aside from that the constant changes mean that using current slang dates you more than anything and gives the opposite of your intended meaning, instead of ever being cool you will look very stupid. If you must you can use it ironically and that will save you, you can also use it historically to date your stuff to a particular time, OR you can invent your own like A Clockwork Orange, the Simpsons, or The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Now we come to the topic of “style vs fashion”. You can be stylish instead of fashionable, this means you pick styles from where and whenever you like (even current fashions), based on your passion for those things and you intelligently incorporate them into your own personal style. The difference is that you are not simply following a trend because it's the done thing, going along with it, doing your own poor version of it because you don't really understand it and it not fitting in any way with you what so ever. Style is making the best choices and picking the best examples of things that worked, while fashion is simply fitting in. So what have been your own worst fashion mistakes? This can be in creation, clothing, hair, whatever. Did you try and jump onboard with manga style when that first became the big fashion in Western comics? I know I tried and did a terrible version of the style! Did you do the whole non-linear story thing? The alternative world thing? The superhero in the “realistic” outfit and setting thing? The “webtoon format” vertical scrolling infinite canvas thing? There are many more fads and styles… It's NOT a bad thing to do any of those as long as you're not just don't it because it's the popular thing at the time. Also, back in the late 80s I had black/grey acid wash jeans and white high-top shoes. And I also had a pseudo mullet (long at the back with lots and hairspray and gel on the sides). Gunwallace wasn't able to do a theme this week so instead we have a reprise of May the Rain Come, by Zimeta. It's a very beautiful piece. From Quackcast 177, 28th of July, 2014. Topics and shownotes Links Featured comic: Sheltered Lands - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/jul/14/featured-comic-sheltered-lands/ Featured music: May the Rain Come - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/May_the_Rain_Come/ - by Zimeta, rated T. Special thanks to: Gunwallace - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Gunwallace/ Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/ 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! Join us on Discord - https://discordapp.com/invite/7NpJ8GS
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  • Quackcast 748 - The Months

    Quackcast 748 - The Months
    Jul 15 2025

    Tantz Aerine showcased LGBTQ+ comics and creators for Pride month in June with the help of Skyangel, Mainly on Bluesky. It went to so well that she came up with the amazing idea of doing more monthly features for other themes. She doesn't want to dictate to us what those theme should be though, she wants input into the idea so we can all come up with good themes together! The idea behind a month long showcase isn't to be socially conscious so much as having a reason to bring more promotion to creators- that's important to remember. This is marketing :)

    We have a forum thread discussion* where people have shared their own recommendations. InkyMoondrop, Bravo1102, Lothar, Dragonsong12, PaulEberhardt, Kawaiidaigakusei, and J_Scarbrough had some great suggestions already!

    PaulEberhardt:
    - April as Autism acceptance Month.
    - December as Universal Human Rights Month
    - December's also Learn a Foreign Language Month.
    - October is Dyslexia, Depression and Breast Cancer.

    Bravo1102:
    - February is Black African heritage month
    - March is Woman's heritage month
    - November is for war, veterans and remembrance.

    Dragonsong12:
    - Hispanic heritage
    - Mental health

    Lothar:
    - Relationships
    - Mental health
    -Drugs and alcohol
    - Poverty
    - Religion
    - Politics
    - War
    - Existential dread

    Ozoneocean (me):
    – Erotic comics awareness month
    – mixed media comics
    – Newspaper strips
    – Political creators
    – War
    – Romance
    – Female creators
    – Creators who started before the digital age.

    Kawaiidaigakusei:
    - Alien Month
    - Furry and Scaly Month
    - mental health
    - Language Other than English Month
    - Fantasy Month

    J_Scarbrough:
    - October: Scary comics
    - December: Christmas, good will, happy celebration theme.

    All good suggestions but some of them can be joined into others I think? Something like “Hispanic Heritage” could go into a category like Kawaii's “Language Other than English Month”, and “Poverty” and “Drugs and alcohol” could be subsets of “Mental Health”? Also on the Quackcast Banes suggested February for “Romance” because of valentines day. Please give your opinions and suggestion! Tantz wants a popular vote of these.


    This week Gunwallace has given us a musical theme inspired by Over the Asphodels - Creeping, crawling, sneaking, and snarling from a delicate orchestral beginning into a grinding, heavy electronica

    Topics and shownotes

    Links

    *Let's design DD Month Events together! (forum thread) https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/forum/topic/180026/

    Featured comic:
    Tech Rush - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2025/jul/08/featured-comic-tech-rush/

    Featured music:
    Over the Asphodels - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Over_the_Asphodels/ - by Ma_Na, rated E.

    Special thanks to:
    Gunwallace - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Gunwallace/
    Tantz Aerine - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/
    Ozoneocean - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean
    Kawaiidaigakusei - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei
    Banes - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Banes/

    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!

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