#YOU CAN GET MERCH WITH OG MICKEY MOUSE MADE BY SMALL ARTISTS

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The Public Domain Discourse, as I decided to call it ("characters and works should never enter the Public Domain because that's disrespectful to the original artist") is fascinating to experience.

You see, I usually stay very successfully away from fandom discourses. The way I'm doing this is by completely ignoring everything and everyone, and just doing my own thing. Said thing consists to a good part out of older media, because old media fandoms are chill as fuck. There are usually around five people at a time talking about whatever thing, and it is very easy to be friendly if you know that there are only five of you. Even if you don't like something that someone does, you put some effort into ignoring it and focus on the fact that at least this person likes the same thing you do. I have read fic before that features a ship that borderline squicks me out, because it also featured a pulp hero I was hyperfocussing on at the moment and couldn't find anything else. And I had a lovely conversation with the author in the comment section. A lot of old media fandoms is just telling people that the Thing even exists. Or someone draws a picture, maybe writes a story. I have seen a lot of analysis.

So that's what it is normally like. Now suddenly in the middle of it all burst a bunch of randos yelling about how the Public Domain shouldn't exist, because what if somebody makes Bad Art with it. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW AMAZING SOME BIGGER PROFILE ART ABOUT SOME OF MY FAVORITE HEROES WOULD BE?!

#PEOPLE ARE WATCHING STEAMBOAT WILLIE FOR THE FIRST TIME #PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT STEAMBOAT WILLIE #YOU CAN GET MERCH WITH OG MICKEY MOUSE MADE BY SMALL ARTISTS #and yeah there is a lot of nonsense but also this was the first week?? #those people will leave and the ones who stay will be actually invested #and that will be a lot more people than before! #you could use this opportunity to increase your fandom a hundredfold! #you could try and replicate the success of Dracula Daily! #instead you are *checks notes* #making posts about how you hope copyright laws become perpetual so that Wonder Woman never enters the Public Domain #like ????? #fascinating #Public Domain Discourse #Mickey Mouse #small fandoms #old fandoms #Public Domain