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They are smitten, I believe <3
#good omens#crowley#aziraphale#ineffable husbands#Aziraphale have so. much. fun. being the damsell in distress and living his romantic dream#but he's also caring. so incredibly caring of crowley agsdfgasd#and Crowely is such a service top#but if Aziraphale gave him too much affection he'll C R U M B L E#vane: nata per disegnare animali. costretta a disegnare omini#piccioncini innamorati; letteralmente#aziracrow#aziraphale x crowley#good omens art
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M. C. Escher (Dutch,1898-1972)
Puddle, 1952
Woodcut in colors on thin laid Japon paper
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CRINGE: The world is ending and you're in love with your best friend who is a nun. and your roots are showing.
#m-- in her lululemon quarter zip and leggings about to barf from sheer longing#c---#m--#cristabel oct#mercymorn#m--'s nun#tlt art#franzia's art#tumblr did unusually bad things to the quality for this one
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Copy Right and Public Domain in 2024
Happy 2024 all! its also Public Domain Day! a magical holiday here in America where things enter the public domain. Works published in the year 1928 (or 95 years ago!) have entered the public domain, which means they belong to us, all of us, the public!
Mickey's Back!
Yes! I'm sure you've heard, but Mickey Mouse (and Minnie Mouse too) is entering the Public Domain today. This has been news for a few years and indeed Disney's lobbying in the late 1990s is why our copy right term is SO long. So what exactly is now public domain?
Most people know about Mickey's first appearance Steamboat Willie, but a second short film, Plane Crazy was also released in 1928 so will also be public domain. So what's public? well these two films first of all, you're allowed to play them, upload them to YouTube or whatever without paying Disney. In theory you'll be allowed to cut and sample them, have them playing in the background of your movie etc. Likewise in theory the image of Mickey and Minnie as they appear (thats important) in these films will be free to use as well as Mickey's character as he appears in these works will be free to use. Now Mickey's later and more famous appearance
will still be protected. Famously the Conan Doyle Estate claimed that Sherlock Holmes couldn't be nice, smile, or not hate women in works because they still held the copyright on the short stories where he first did those things even though 90% of Sherlock Holmes stories were public domain. It's very likely Disney will assert similar claims over Mickey, claiming much of his personality first appeared in works still copyrighted.
Finally there's copyright vs trademark. Copyright is total ownership of a piece of media and all the ideas that appear in it, copyright has a limited set term and expires. Trademark is more limited and only applies to things used to market and sell a product. You can have a Coke branded vending machine in your movie if you want, but it couldn't appear anywhere in the trailer for your movie as thats you marketing your movie.
Where trademark ends and copyright begins and how trademarked something in the public domain is allowed to be are all unsettled areas of law and clearly Disney in the last few years as been aggressively pushing its trademark not just to Mickey in general but Steamboat Willie Mickey in particular
Ultimately the legal rights and wrongs of this might not matter so much since few people have the money and legal resources of the Walt Disney corporation so they might manage to maintain a de facto copyright on Mickey through legal intimidation, but maybe not?
And Tigger Too!
All the talk about Mickey Mouse and Steamboat Willie has sadly overshadowed other MAJOR things entering the public domain today. Most people are aware Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain in 2022, but they might not realize his beloved friend Tigger didn't. Thats because Tigger didn't appear till A. A. Milne's second (and last) book of Pooh short stories, The House at Pooh Corner in 1928.
Much like Mickey Mouse only what appears in The House at Pooh Corner is public domain so the orange bouncy boy from the 1960s Disney cartoon is still on lock down. But the A. A. Milne original as illustrated by E. H. Shepard is free for you to use in fiction or art. His friend Winnie the Pooh has made a number of appearances since being freed, most notably in a horror movie, but also a Mint Mobile commercial so maybe Tigger too will have a lot of luck in the public domain.
Other works:
Peter Pan; or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up
Peter Pan is a strange case, even though the play was first mounted in 1904, and the novelization (Peter and Wendy) was published in 1911, The script for the play was not published till 1928 (confusing!) meaning while the novel as been public domain for years the play (which came first) hasn't been, but now it is and people are welcome to mount productions of it.
Millions of Cats
The oldest picture book still in print, did you own a copy growing up? (I did)
Lady Chatterley's Lover
The iconic porn novel that was at the center of a number of groundbreaking obscenity cases in the 1960s and helped establish your right to free speech.
All Quiet on the Western Front and The Threepenny Opera in their original German (but you can translate them if you want), The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie, and Orlando by Virginia Woolf will also be joining us in the public domain along with any and all plays, novels, and books published in 1928
for Films we have The Man Who Laughs who's iconic image inspired the Joker
Charlie Chaplin's The Circus, Buster Keaton's The Cameraman, Should Married Men Go Home? the first Laurel and Hardy movie, Lights of New York the first "all talking" movie, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Wind, as well as The Last Command and Street Angel the first films to win Oscars for Best Actor and Best Actress respectively will all be entering public domain
For Musical Compositions (more on that in a moment) we've got
Mack the Knife by Bertolt Brecht, Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love) by Cole Porter, Sonny Boy by George Gard DeSylva, Lew Brown & Ray Henderson, Empty Bed Blues by J. C. Johnson, and Makin’ Whoopee! by Gus Khan are some of the notables but any piece of music published in 1928 is covered
Any art work published in 1928, which might include works by Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alexej von Jawlensky, Edward Hopper, and André Kertész will enter the public domain, we are sure those that M. C. Escher's Tower of Babel will be in the public domain
Swan Song, Public Domain and recorded music
While most things are covered by the Copyright Act of 1976 as amended by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, none of the copyright acts covered recordings you see when American copyright law was first written recordings did not exist and so through its many amendings no one fixed this problem, movies were treated like plays and artwork, but recorded sound wasn't covered by any federal law. So all sound recordings from before 1972 were governed by a confusing mess of state level laws making it basically impossible to say what was public and what was under copyright. In 2017 Congress managed to do something right and passed the Music Modernization Act. Under the act all recordings from 1922 and before would enter the public domain in 2022. After taking a break for 2023, all sound recordings made in 1923 have entered the public domain today on January 1st 2024, these include.
Charleston by James P. Johnson
Yes! We Have No Bananas (recorded by a lot artists that year)
Who’s Sorry Now by Lewis James
Down Hearted Blues by Bessie Smith
Lawdy, Lawdy Blues by Ida Cox
Southern Blues and Moonshine Blues by Ma Rainey
That American Boy of Mine and Parade of the Wooden Soldiers by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra
Dipper Mouth Blues and Froggie More by King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, featuring Louis Armstrong
Bambalina by Ray Miller Orchestra
Swingin’ Down the Lane by Isham Jones Orchestra
Enjoy your public domain works!
#Copyright#public domain#public domain day#2024#happy new year#Disney#mickey mouse#minnie mouse#Tigger#Winnie the Pooh#Peter Pan#Charlie Chaplin#buster keaton#cole porter#louis armstrong#M. C. Escher
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learned behavior (x)
#final dsmp 'fanart' forever im done#half of the ppl still into it are sickos and some other percentage#are the meanest people alive#i must flee...#anyways if any new ppl see this these are my interpretations of the characters#my original writing#and MY fucking designs#and some people wanna make a stink about this.#so im done this sucks#dsmp#my art#c!tommy#ccdr**m fans dni#art#gore warning#gore#tw gore#idk#exile arc#mortis metamorphosis
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"a vampire and a bear walk into a bar..."
#halstarion#s: instagram story#neil newbon#dave jones#halsin#astarion#baldurs gate#baldurs gate 3#astarion voice actor#astarion ancunin#c: astarion#nobigneil#larian studios#bg3 companions#bg3#druid halsin#bg3 halsin#archdruid halsin#druid#dungeons and dragons#dnd#bloodbear#halsin x astarion#astarion x halsin#bloodoak#honeysuckle#bearstar#neilblr#m: bg3
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okay but when fiance!sylus takes you dress shopping, you know you're in for an experience. bc... you think you're diva? no he's diva. but he also only acts like this bc he so intimately knows what you like, and also what makes you look good. so you'd barely step out of the dressing room in a new gown before he shakes his head, flicks his finger at the personal shopper like "next", barely glances at a dress on the rack before shaking his head and asking for the next one.
when you hesitate over a gown that the harried personal shopper says is the season's most exclusive design, he only cocks his eyebrows at you in the mirror, giving a tiny shake of his head. you deflate, glancing back at him like
"but... don't you think it looks good?"
he scoffs, "course it looks good, you're the one wearing it. you could wear a plastic bag, and it'd look good, but that's not the point right? you wanted something stunning, and this isn't it."
you sigh, clearly a little tired, and he only clicks his tongue, but his gaze is soft when he tugs you into his chest, twisting a strand of your hair around his forefinger, thumbing at the ends. he glances down a the massive diamond on your finger and smirks.
"we can do better," he murmurs, leaning in to graze his lips along your cheek, his voice low enough to rumble from his chest to yours.
"b-but we've tried on so many dresses already!" you say, even though you know you're just whining and that he's right. the dress is pretty, but it's not what you want in your heart of hearts.
sylus only pulls back and grins, lilting his head to one side as he looks down at you with those ruby-red eyes, his gaze molten.
"i can do better for you. and... i want to."
#⛈ monsoon season#sylus x reader#sylus fluff#l&ds x reader#l&ds sylus#l&ds fluff#l&ds x you#sylus x you#sylus x m/c#love and deepspace#love and deepspace x reader#love and deepspace fluff#lnds x reader#lnds sylus#lnds fluff#sylus#lads fluff#lads x reader#lads sylus#there's too many variations on love and deepspace istg
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What’s crazy about “what am I without you?” “Yourself!” Is that that it is genuinely such an insane line to conclude Tommy’s arc in season 2 like, because all season people have been expecting Tommy to be a certain thing. Tubbo wanted him to be more mature, Techno wanted a loyal ally, Dream wanted a plaything. Throughout it all, Tommy’s struggled to say for himself who he is. And now, here at the end, when met with the prospect of never seeing his friend again, Tubbo tells Tommy that he’s himself. That that’s enough. That he will continue to be himself with or without him. Because through this whole season Tommy’s fucked up and been fucked over and made mistakes and suffered the consequences and that’s okay, that it’s who he is, and that it’s all he has to be.
#sorry losing my mind here L M A O#AHHHHHH CCLINGY I MISS YOU I MISS YOU#LETS ALL DIE LETS MEET UP AND DIE#dream smp#c!clingyduo
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#WHERE ARE MY DWARVES#E N C H A N T M E N T#dragon age#dragon age veilguard#dragon age the veilguard#bodahn feddic#sandal feddic
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People are often surprised to learn that this is by M.C. Escher! 1919. Source.
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This or That: Tarlos Edition -> Babe or Baby
#911 lone star#911lsedit#tarlos#tk strand#carlos reyes#my gifs#this or that tarlos edition#ok sooo this wasn't a gif prompt thing#buuuut I've made it one for myself#so thank you andie! for inadvertently giving me some tarlos gif prompts!!#we'll see how many of these I can get through!#these 'baby' moments are not comprehensive (or in chronological order) but rather just my personal favorites#there's something about the way carlos says baby to tk specifically since we get it so rarely that just HITS RIGHT#its so soft and loving and it makes me wanna s c r e a m
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#cursed#my gif#gifs#my edit#gif#f u c k y o u#middle finger#f u c k y o u m o t h e r f u c k e r#werewolf
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Miss Oranje Disco Dancer
#c o m p r o m i s e d#disco elysium#klaasje amandou#klaasje#discodancer#disco#dancer#digital art#fanart#my art
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redraw
#of that old exile arc doodle#exile arc#dsmp#mortis metamorphosis#mm#my art#c!tommy#please don’t tag as d***m#art
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TAYLOR SWIFT: CITY OF LOVER (2019) Daylight
#taylor swift#lover#city of lover#daylight#tsedit#tswiftedit#tswiftgif#mine#myts#./m#./a/lover#./c/city of lover#./s/daylight#./era/lover
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