#like. the public domain character.

[radicalrobotz]

actually why is the new fop cartoon animated like the ppg special from 2014

#actually i think the ppg one is animated a little more smoothly but its the same kind of. style iunno #also the new main character keeps reminding me of frisk undertale fanart from back in the day #like literally i remember a fanon design that looked EXACTLY like that #anyways. how did i get here i was going down a catman rabbit hole bc nothing is answering my questions about him #like. the public domain character. #i was mostly just thinking about kitten why doesnt anyone use her. #i never read Any of the cat-man comics fcking obviouslyyy maybe i should i dunno. for fun #if i can find them ik there was another neat super old superhero i wanted to read abt but i couldnt find any comics #i dont know if HES public domain pretty sure its been long enough and they had like. copyright issues or whatever w him #so it probably saved some trouble just moving on #. this was a fairly odd parents post im sorry i rambled in the tags about old comic book superheroes

[mwagneto]

okay just to clear this up since people are spreading misinfo even though the truth is way funnier. SHERLOCK HOLMES HAS BEEN IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FOR AGES. a few stories haven't, sure, but the doyle estate doesn't give a fuck what you do with him either way. he was already gay in 1970 (private life of sh) and was a jolly & emotional guy in 1979 (murder by decree).

when you see people/articles saying the ""doyle estate"" threatened to sue people for things, such as guy ritchie for making him too gay in his 2009&2011 movies, that is NOT THE DOYLE ESTATE!!!!!! all those stories are about one single woman, Andrea Plunket. her claim to Holmes is that she married someone who owned US copyrights to some Holmes stories but the thing is. they got divorced in the NINETIES and she has Zero claims to Holmes. she's literally going insane about Holmes possibly being gay thirty years after her husband owned the rights to him, she literally never has and never will, and people have been doing whatever they wanted to Holmes for decades now. it's obviously all a play to squeeze some money out of anyone she can, the entire story is so insane i suggest you guys look it up and read about it more but tldr:

#like they literally made a movie where he fights a t-rex and both holmes and watson have been canonically gay before (separately) #literally noone cares what they do to him and even if they did they couldn't have stopped it since it's #only the stories that are copyrighted due to holmes first appearing as a character in a newspaper #it's all very complex but point is it's some rich american heiress who has 0 power and endless time #sherlock holmes #public domain #andrea plunket #doyle estate

[lilaccatholic]

Complex feelings about copyright and Disney's appalling ethics aside, it does unsettle me how quickly people jump to make and monetize the most unnerving, depraved content imaginable about characters created for children the second it hits the public domain

#lilac rambles #lilac goes to the movies #look you don't have to defend yourselves to me i don't really care what you do #so please don't flood my inbox with all this stuff about why disney sucks and why gross stuff is good actually #im not here to fight #i get it. they suck and this feels vindicating #i just get unnerved watching people do terrible things to things created for children the second they can #maybe it's bc i don't see anyone making anything...idk...nice? and like...not freaky? #like it really feels like 'haha we're going to defile this creation bc it makes us feel good to destroy something created for families' #bc if it had just been the case with mickey id get it yknow #but people did this with sweet old pooh bear too #but maybe that's bc he's now a disney property idk #like maybe as other famous characters come into the public domain people won't do the same things #and honestly that will make me feel a lot better

[galactic-glamour-girl-posts]

With Steamboat Willie Mickey becoming public domain, I keep thinking it's too bad the Animaniacs reboot was cancelled the year before it happened.

I'm just saying him interacting with the Warners (since in-universe they were drawn like a year after Mickey, so they embody the same era) or even Pinky and the Brain would've led to something way more creative or at least funny than cheap horror or having him *insert random vulgar act here*.

#animaniacs #animaniacs reboot #animaniacs 2020 #mickey mouse #steamboat willie #public domain #yakko wakko and dot #the warner siblings #pinky and the brain #patb #some disney characters like mickey and daisy (and more) are acknowledged throughout the og show so we know they exist as toons in-universe #and hey bugs bunny has appeared in animaniacs a few times so if you wanna have him and mickey meet again...

[thestuffedalligator]

is their anyone else you could add the League of extraordinary Gentlemen, Canada branch?

Nelvana of the Northern Lights

Buck from Call of the Wild and White Fang from White Fang

Ojistoh from the poem by Emily Pauline Nelson

Uhhh Murdoch? I’ve never seen Murdoch Mysteries but it fits the timeframe and he looks very polite

Bob and Doug McKenzie but their early 20th century ancestors. Roberta and Douglas McKenzie

Edit to just add that this is the post being talked about here

#league of extraordinary gentlemen #keeping with lxg rules i’m only using characters written in canada who are in the public domain #or the bootleg expy of a canadian character under copyright but could exist in canada in 1910 #so no deadpool or wolverine or ned land or sir henry baskerville #does this severely limit my options? unimaginably so. i don’t know why i’m like this #also i’m still on break but i saw this ask when i logged in to grab a thing in my drafts and i wanted to answer it so bad

[jumpscaregoose]

since I've been making so many citizen memes lately here are the headcanons I came up with for how megapolis/the general public views the plot

pigsy's noodles is the waffle house of megapolis. there are like 2 dozen yin & jin level demons who routinely start shit and pigsy's noodles will stay open through all of them. you only need to be worried about demons when they close early

coincidentally, the pigsy's noodles delivery app will always show the driver heading straight towards danger. there are several conspiracies that the driver is the monkie kid (no one believes them)

the "mayor" actually did assume government office and no one liked him. the editorials in the papers were scathing and he was always in those hideous political cartoons

the jttw fandom discourse was INSANE after the monkie kid appeared. everything is rpf now. everyone on twitter is getting cancelled. new fans who joined because of mk and dbk are getting dragged through the mud. november 5th of megapolis fr

mk has a sizeable following of hardcore fans from edits of shitty news footage. same with dbk. these groups duke it out online daily

mei's streams are legendary for always capturing current events (especially with lbd because you bet the mayor was doing media coverups)

red son is a local cryptid. the delivery kid subreddit has so many theories about why they hang out. weather station demon/pigsy's noodles delivery kid has 6 fics on ao3 for some reason

#lmk #monkie kid #lego monkie kid #lmk citizen memes #this might be my fascination with fandom history showing but I LOVE thinking about how a hypothetical modern fandom would react to #“all your favourite characters are real now byeeeee~” #like what would they fight over who would join the fandom who would leave what would “canon” be #how was the production of monkey king media affected #did they have to pay swk licensing to use his image #was he public domain before did he leave it when he came back??? #so fun to imagine

[fizzigigsimmer]

Do you think if I @ the Duffer brothers they’ll just give us the character of Billy?😆  Like if you’re gonna throw that away, can I have it please? I have the perfect home for him thanks!

We could write a screenplay where Billy actually has a chance and kicks supernatural ass, and I bet you we could raise enough money that maybe Dacre would even do it. And once we have Dacre I think Joe will be an easy sell.

#Billy Hargrove #Pipe dreams #wouldn't it be amazing though #lol if I ever create a character people love so much and they didn't feel like they were given justice #and I had no plans to do anything with them #I'd do it lol toss that shit in the public domain #it belongs to you now #let me see what you create #Stranger Things

[brookheimer]

what is it with this past 24 hours and absolutely baffling takes on the last episode

#like y’all think kendall had every right to ignore rome’s wishes to not have the abuse leaked bc roman is living in a dream world where #logan wasn’t abusive and needs to be brought back down to reality???????? y’all think he loses the ability to have a stake in this decision #bc his abuse is so deeply internalized that he excuses logan’s actions for it??????? it’s one thing to say ken made the smart move but it’s #a whooooole other one to act like he didn’t even do anything bad at all. you do realize they explicitly mentioned leaking the physical #abuse right? you do realize rome was the only one (we know at least) to have been phys abused? you think kendall is right to leak that info #to the masses?????? that would literally define roman’s life. like he’d be The Roy That Logan Beat. how the fuck is he supposed to grieve #his very-recently-dead father let ALONE heal from his abuse if roman’s forced to relive it in the public eye 2 days after logan dies #like the experience of having that leaked will be infinitely worse roman than for kendall bc he will be singled out as the only one logan #hated enough to beat and boy do tabloids love physical abuse and kendall is WAY closer to coming to terms w the abuse than roman who #really really needs to work through that shit before idk it becomes public domain #like idk if that’s what WILL happen but it certainly fuckin could. we have no rzn to think it wouldn’t!!!! #this isn’t like a Uniquely Evil Move from ken or anything it’s a pretty classic succession maneuver i’m not saying he’s the devil or smth #like… at all. but it’s still not a Great Thing To Do? especially to roman????? #seen this take multiple diff times now. insane <3 #it’s wrong to act like this is the single worst thing any character haa ever done (a take i have not seen but i digress) but it is also very #wrong to act like it literally wasn’t even bad #seen this take at least four times so i’m not talkin ab any one person or thing in particular just like… dude. cmon #succession #succession spoilers

[gikairan]

Everyone taking the Steamboat Willie design and making it do things Disney wouldn't sanction like....

you could have done that anyway. Disney would not have sued you for that. He didn't need to be in the public domain for you to do that.

Disney would have had a problem with you if you tried to sell Steamboat Willie. Not that you made him swear ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Public Domain is about being able to sell your version of the character, not "do whatever you like with it for free". You could do whatever you like with it on the internet anyway, you will not face consequence. Just as long as you didnt try to make money off of it - no one was going to come after you.

#like so much of what im seeing is like.... you could have done that on december 31st #disney would not have sent the lawyers after you lol #the only thing that actually seems to understood the public domain thing is.... a video game that has potential ties to nazis so uhhhh #dont support that thank u #(and as a general rule - be sceptical of ANYTHING you see using 88) #public domain means someone can make their own shorts or write a book about the character #.... instead we just seem to see cheap cash ins in the horror genre bc 'what if family friendly thing is NOT haha we're so funny' #like theyre generally not even GOOD and its just boring that THATS the only take people HAVE #ppl make a big fuss over these characters being in the public domain but they dont actually know WHAT to do with them #because. honestly? .... theyre not that interesting #is winnie the pooh that easy to write new stories with WITHOUT the rest of the cast (Who are slowly entering public domain)?? #does anyone ACTUALLY care about steamboat willie??? #we only care bc its sticking it to the Mouse House #but no one actually has any ideas for these characters outside of that #if Disney hadnt adapted winnie the pooh... would that terrible horror film have been made? #probably not!

[to-you-from-the-public-domain]

yes I named the file that lofl. Here you go. Public domain. Have fun. Now I'm making a better version without random plot holes and cowardice at the very end.

#The Knight of the Cart #le Chevalier de la charrette #Sir Lancelot #Sir Launcelot #Lancelot #Launcelot #Queen Guinevere #uh how else do you spell her name #Gwenevere #?????????????????? #Queen Gwenevere #Maleagant #Meleagant #King Bademagu #King Bagdemagus #and like 5 other variants #but I'm not typing all that #free books #public domain stories #public domain characters

[july-19th-club]

ok the purist in me wants to haaaaaaaaaate this series for having ghosts innit because the original stories were all about regular detective stuff . but i can't the purist is crossing its arms in the back of my brain and pretending not to be watching, but it is, and it's having fun

#others may complain because they changed half the characters names to not be so 1950s (not me i respect it) #or that many of the characters have become different races or sexualities #(i think it is perhaps one of the funniest slays in the world to make thomas swift. of 'the swifty' linguistic joke fame. a gay black man) #but my one gripe i was expecting was to be upset that it was deliberately paranormal #i Want to be!!! but i'm not!!! they didnt ease into it like riverdale either it was right from the jump #anyway and either way. i think the best possible thing in this show is that they DO have a joe hardy character but they can't say that #because as of the start of this show joe hardy wasn't public domain yet #but they DON'T have a frank. because he's boring #nancy drew #q

[spirit0flondonatnight]

How I imagine the conversation between Sienna and Dr J went when they find out he dated their mom 

#okay so idk how to tag this #Dr J is not an oc cause he's well- Dr Jekyll #but he's a character in an original story I'm making #public domain shit #but like #yeah #original story #original story art #dr jekyll and mr hyde #dr jekyll #art #thespiritoflondonatnight'scollection

[furbearingbrick]

I've decided that Joe's horns pop out whenever it's funny for them to do so.

#joseph harrison president #joe blow #art #artists on tumblr #Sketchworld #horrible little dragon man my beloved #brick's ocs #public domain characters #furbearingbrick #yes he IS posing like wario #needs id #toons

[megas-x-l-r]

The animation historian likes how Steamboat Willie Mickey is in public domain

#LIKE WOW YIPPIE #There’s probably more animation characters in the public domain that PEOPLE DON’T KNOW ABOUT but shhhhh shhhh #I LOVE ANIMATION HISTORY YIPPEE when I learned about a lot of it in college I knew LIKE EVERYTHING FROM THE 90S guys guess what my favorite #Animation period is

[finelinegynandromorph]

this body for @topharryficfest

harry/louis | explicit | coworkers/casual friends to lovers | 15k | body worship | trans harry

“I guess I’ve pegged myself, though—does that count?”

Nell and Suraiya lean their heads together to confer in exaggerated whispers while Harry tucks one leg behind the other, trying as hard as he can to not vividly imagine hot Louis Tomlinson from work stretched out with a dildo up his ass.

“The information about your self-pleasure is appreciated, but we’re defining pegging as something you receive from someone else,” Suraiya clarifies with an authoritative nod. Harry grins in Louis’ direction and Louis raises his hands in admission. “One day, I’d love to,” he says to a round of encouraging cheers from around the circle.

Harry tries not to choke on his beer when Louis winks at him from across the fire.

or, louis wants to be pegged. harry helps him out

read on ao3

#a short one :) #1dficvillage #tracksintheam #1dsource #hlficlibrary #trackinghome #yourlarrysource #hlsource #hlcreators #hljournal #a little bit of gender affirmation for ya #using some past tags for disclaimers! #oh! pics in this post are all pinterest/public domain etc etc glad to put links in if anyone wishes! #annnnd a note that these are fictional characters and to treat real humans with boundaries and respect! #biggest of hugs topharryficfest what a wonderful collection of art celebrating queer joy and expansive ways of being!! <3 #my fics #this is like just pwp basically but the plot is just loving bodies yay

[vioshipping]

Heres some self ship art for the first time in 27 CENTURIES!!

#vio does an art #the f/o is YourSky by vulgaranon on Twitter #Before you ask. The creator said theyre public domain and the whole point of the character is that she’s in love with the viewer #So like I’m sure self ship art is fine