#Jane Riordan

[nuttersincorporated]

Mickey Mouse does not need your protection

Since Mickey Mouse became public domain, I’ve seen some really wild takes and misinformation going around. Yes, Mickey Mouse is public domain. No, you do not need to protect him. It’s fine if people other than Disney make Mickey Mouse stuff, even if you don’t like the things that are made.

You are not protecting Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse is not real. Even if he was, you STILL wouldn’t be protecting him. You’re just sticking up for a megacorporation. Disney has more money and resources than you will ever have and they horde them. You shouldn’t be trying to help them do it.

Disney is a company that loves using public domain properties to make things. They have just tried their absolute hardest to make sure that nobody else could do the same thing. If you think Mickey Mouse should only be used by Disney, you should be upset that Disney made money off public domain stories like Snow White and Rapunzel.

What about things like Winnie the Pooh? Disney didn’t come up with him but they were happy to make money off him. They bought the rights to him and then didn’t share.

‘Ah!’ I hear you say. ‘But Winnie the Pooh actually helps prove our point! When Disney – that poor poor super rich company that should be protected – lost the exclusive rights, a Winnie the Pooh horror movie was made! That’s not in the spirit of the original character!’

Firstly, you can just ignore that movie if you want. I did. Nobody is making you watch it. You are responsible for your own media consumption.

Secondly, there are nice Winnie the Pooh stories out there that aren’t by Disney or the original author. The Pooh books by Jane Riordan are lovely. Her stories are much more in the spirit of the original character than a lot of the Disney comics were.

This is an official Disney comic with Winnie the Pooh

This is a picture from one of Jane Riordan’s Winnie the Pooh books

One of them is sweet, kind and in the spirit of the original character. The other is Disney owned and approved.

What would the original author A.A. Milne think of the different adaptions and new works? Well, we don’t know because, at the end of the month, he’ll have been dead for 68 years. However, I can quote one of the original Pooh books about sharing,

And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.

Thirdly, Disney does not respect authorial intent.

PL Travers, the author of the Mary Poppins books, did not want Disney to make a movie based on her work. She got coerced into letting them make one. She hated the movie and refused to let them make any more.

What happened after she’d died, the ban on them making more Mary Poppies movies ran out and they got their hands on the rights? They made a sequel.

I think you should be more upset that Disney went against the direct wishes of an author than the fact regular people can now use a character that megacorporation uses. PL Travers was a person. Disney is a company. There is a difference.

I love the original Mary Poppins movie. I don’t care about or like the sequel. However, PL Travers died in 1996. People should be able to use the character now, no matter how you or I feel about those newer stories. Again, you can just ignore them if you want.

The original stories are still there.

Royalties are different to public domain. The profits from PL Travers original books go to her descendants and the Cherry Tree Foundation. They will continue to go there for 80 years after her death and then the royalties will be shared out among any decedents who are alive at that time. The money from those books will continue to go there, no matter what new stories with Mary Poppins get made.

You all seem okay with Disney making money off public domain stories and buying the rights to other stories. Why can't you extend that right to other people?

No one has stolen Mickey from Disney. Disney can and will continue to make money off him. All that’s change is that other people can now do that too.

#mickey mouse #steamboat willie #disney #public domain #snow white #rapunzel #winnie the pooh #A.A. Milne #Jane Riordan #PL Travers #mary poppins #art #comics #long post #Winnie the Pooh isn't actully public domian in the UK yet #If anyone was wondering #He will be in two years #70 years after A.A. Milne died #That's too long #It's not like Pooh becoming public domain steals the royalties

[downthetubes]

Farshore announces official Winnie-the-Pooh sequel by Jane Riordan and Mark Burgess

Farshore, an imprint of HarperCollins UK, has announced an official Winnie-the-Pooh sequel, written by Jane Riordan, illustrated by Mark Burgess

Farshore, an imprint of HarperCollins UK borne from their acquisition of Egmont Books (formerly Egmont UK Ltd), has announced an official Winnie-the-Pooh sequel, written by Jane Riordan, illustrated by Mark Burgess. Due for release in September, Winnie-the-Pooh: Tales from the Forest brings the beloved character, along with Christopher Robin and his group of woodland friends, back for a new…

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#A.A. Milne #downthetubes News #E.H. Shepard #Farshore #Jane Riordan #Mark Burgess #Winnie-the-Pooh

[thatwritererinoriordan]

Once There Was a Bear: Tales of Before It All Began (Winnie-the-Pooh)

#Winnie the Pooh #a.a. milne #e.h. shepard #jane riordan #mark burgess

[aroaceleovaldez]

okay last one for the night but. honestly i really hate how the franchise has been using loyalty to Rick as a shield for so long. If Rick was involved in a project or not doesn't matter, especially not anymore.

ReadRiordan and the publishing for the franchise has been using this tactic for ages - they obscure if any writing related to the series wasn't written by Rick unless it's special circumstances. It's near impossible to find out who the ghostwriters are (Stephanie True Peters and Mary-Jane Knight). TSATS was promoted as the first time we got a non-Riordan (Rick or Haley) author working on one of the companion novels despite having seven already existing ghostwritten books in the series. The only reason Mark Oshiro was emphasized so heavily for TSATS was because they also work as a sensitivity reader for topics such as queer identity, and Rick had received backlash in the past for being a Straight Cis Old White Guy repeatedly falling into bad habits (that he hasn't broken out of) with certain characterizations that he kept doubling-down on or retconning into oblivion. The show emphasizes that Rick was involved, but the LA Times article brings into question exactly how much he was involved, and it doesn't even really matter either way. The ReadRiordan site actively avoids putting any writing credits on their articles (or art credits...) or anywhere on their site.

Practically the entire fandom unanimously agrees the musical - which had zero involvement from Rick - is the best adaptation of the series so far, including the TV show. Some of the best writing to come out of the series recently was the stuff ghostwritten by Stephanie True Peters (Camp Half-Blood Confidential, Camp Jupiter Classified, Nine from the Nine Worlds, etc). And yet when promotional stuff is posted about CHB:C, there's clearly coded language used to hide the fact that Rick himself didn't write it. Yes, that's how ghostwriters work, but at this point we should really stop pretending "Rick Riordan" isn't just a pen name for a group of authors like "Erin Hunter" and that Rick is actually writing everything in the series. I can easily look up and see which Animorphs books were ghostwritten, and who those authors were. I can find every "Erin Hunter" easily listed on official sites. And yet most people don't even know the Riordanverse franchise has ghostwriters at all.

And the franchise is still trying to use the "Tio/Uncle Rick" stuff. Author loyalty and marketing parasocial relationships isn't going to save the franchise when the author himself can't hold up his own original themes or even keep basic series bible details straight, and especially not if the editors are barely if at all doing their job. And please at least get a goddamn series bible by this point.

#pjo #riordanverse #rick riordan #readriordan #pjo tv crit #rr crit #< this isnt just rr crit im coming for the whole brand #readriordan site also cant center their webpage footer properly. thats just kind of sad #@readriordan staff make sure your </center> code has the closing angle bracket in the right spot. check for spaces. #mary-jane knight #stephanie true peters #< more self organization tags cause i like talking about the ghostwriters. unsung heroes #long post //

[felicimaa]

#curvy brunette #cutie pie #cutie w a bootie #gloved hands #love poem #onlyf@nz #thick vibes only #jane austen #rick riordan

[fluffyou777]

IF I HAD A KNICKLE

For every time.

I have seen a superhero show with a muppets parallel.

#dc #dc comics #doom patrol #doom patrol tv show #hbo doom patrol #crazy jane #Gen V #gen v spoilers #gen v prime #Sam Gen V #Sam riordan #Emma Meyer #the boys #the boys show #the boys prime #the boys universe #if i had a nickel

[tales-from-the-abbey]

That damn feeling when an author is mostly known for one of their works and you find out most people haven't bothered with their other stuff you'd like to talk about

#19th century literature #20th century literature #18th century literature #antoine de saint exupéry #oscar wilde #jane austen #gaston leroux #diana wynne jones #victor hugo #markus zusak #cornelia funke #v.e. schwab #rick riordan #literature #bookblr

[18-2024]

Sam Riordan Vs Crazy Jane

#sam riordan #asa germann #gen v #crazy jane #diane guerrero #doom patrol

[ravensgraham]

"It is infinitely better to be loved, than to love. ... After all, to love someone is to be held captive." Sanditon - Jane Austen & Kate Riordan

#hannibal #my posts #hannigram #will graham #hannibal lecter #digestivo #books #quotes #sanditon #jane austen #kate riordan #to be loved or to love #to be honest i'm not crazy about this book #but i love the quote and thought it fit these two #on the surface it fits hannibal perfectly #but then i realized it fits will too

[wanderingmind867]

If it weren't for the fact that Hera has black hair in the books (according to the wiki and to her illustrations), I'd say Jane Fonda would make a good model for Hera or Juno. I feel like she'd have made a good choice for that role. I'm not too good at remembering voices or emulating them, but I at least think Jane Fonda has the right apperance to play a Goddess like Hera or Juno.

#percy jackson #rick riordan #pjo #pjo hoo toa #hera #riordanverse #my thoughts #random thoughts #hera pjo #juno #juno pjo #jane fonda #I once thought about Joan Collins too #solely based on aethestic #since I've never heard her before #pjo series #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackon and the olympians

[redbubblebuy7]

Shop Website kaisergame.redbubble.com

#call of duty #jane austen #deltarune #t shirt #art #destiel #rick riordan #shopping #store #handmade

[gatheryepens]

JOMP book photo challenge: August edition 🍷

Day 27: rainbow books

I have been very busy this past week hence the sporadic posts. So I decided to share a picture with some books that I’ve read and some that are on my tbr in a rainbow :)

#jompbpc #justonemorepage #rainbow books #bookblr #booklr #books books books #gatherreads #jane eyre #charlotte brontë #the boy in the dress #david walliams #they went left #monica hesse #boy: tales of childhood #roald dahl #percy jackson and the lightning thief #rick riordan #loveless #alice oseman

[tragedy-strikes-writes]

Fandoms I Write For:

ride the cyclone

be more chill

heroes of olympus

magnus chase and the gods of asgard

more to come….

#ride the cyclone #rtc headcanons #rtc ask blog #please send suggestions #im begging #constance blackwood #noel gruber #mischa ride the cyclone #mischa bachinski #ocean oconnell rosenberg #jane doe ride the cyclone #ricky potts #be more chill #be more chill musical #bmc musical #rick riordan #heroes of olympus #magnus chase

[glitterynostalgia]

Top 3 authors I’ve read this year are literally Jane Austen, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and Rick Riordan

#jane austen #rick riordan #emma jane austen #reading #percy series #taylor jenkins reid #Evelyn #evelyn hugo

[fandom]

Books

Huge congrats to The Iliad. It's only taken 3,000 years. This list is brought to you by Tor Publishing Group, which you're probably familiar with, given what tops the list this year.

The Locked Tomb series +3 by Tamsyn Muir

The Percy Jackson & the Olympians series -1 by Rick Riordan

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

The Six of Crows duology +3 by Leigh Bardugo

Dracula -3 by Bram Stoker

The Warrior Cats series -1 by Erin Hunter

A Song of Ice and Fire -1 by George R. R. Martin

The All for the Game series by Nora Sakavic

The Discworld series +7 by Terry Pratchett

A Court of Thorns and Roses series +3 by Sarah J. Maas

The Silmarillion -1 by J. R. R. Tolkien

Pride And Prejudice -3 by Jane Austen

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Raven Cycle series +3 by Maggie Stiefvater

The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro

The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice

Wings Of Fire +9 by Tui T. Sutherland

The Secret History -7 by Donna Tartt

The Trials of Apollo series -4 by Rick Riordan

The Iliad +10 by Homer

The Odyssey +24 by Homer

The Folk in the Air series -8 by Holly Black

The Animorphs series +5 by K. A. Applegate

The Stormlight Archive +8 by Brandon Sanderson

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

Moby Dick +24 by Herman Melville

1984 +6 by George Orwell

Fables by Bill Willingham

The Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka

The Song of Achilles -10 by Madeline Miller

The Last Hours series by Cassandra Clare

The Simon Snow series -10 by Rainbow Rowell

The Throne of Glass series +13 by Sarah J. Maas

Nimona by ND Stevenson

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard +6 by Rick Riordan

The Bell Jar -15 by Sylvia Plath

The Dreamer trilogy +6 by Maggie Stiefvater

The Shadowhunter Chronicles -15 by Cassandra Clare

The Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

Captive Prince -1 by C. S. Pacat

The Twilight Saga -7 by Stephanie Meyer

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

The Deltora Quest series by Jennifer Rowe

Romeo and Juliet -8 by William Shakespeare

The Far Side by Gary Larson

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde +2 by Robert Lewis Stevenson

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

The Picture of Dorian Gray -31 by Oscar Wilde

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

The number in italics indicates how many spots a title moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded titles weren’t on the list last year.

#year in review #books #tumblr2023

[felicimaa]

#curvy brunette #cutie w a bootie #onlyf@nz #cutie pie #thick vibes only #gloved hands #love poem #jane austen #nice bewbs #rick riordan