#now for the copyrighted characters

[encountersltd]

sep 2022

a pile of grayscale goobers

why can't i make text gray on this site augh

#encountersltdart #first i'll tag the named ocs of mine here #space woman #space woman's friends #el #hubie #raph #max #now for the copyrighted characters #dragon quest slime #spongebob doodlebob #pac man sue #bomberman #pokemon elesa #ok ko citrus twisty #blue's clues snail #cave story balrog #mario and luigi jojora #and now the one that's in the middle #gabriella #shes from the #IGELAU #you'll know more about her soon #phew thats a lot of tags lololol #this is still so fun for me to look at... it was a lot of fun to draw too ofc #goofy gooberz #character design #creature design

[fionnaskyborn]

Was tagged by @oceancamp to post my current five favorite songs! (They should invent a stages-of-grief-esque model that encompasses and accurately describes both types of anguish I had to go through making this list - the one of limiting myself to only five songs, and the one of trying to put as little videogame music on here as possible so that I don't end up looking like an absolute goddamn geek, which... I am... Oh well!)

Thank you so much for tagging me - here are the songs!

Heaven Pierce Her - War Without Reason

Tatsuro Yamashita - Love Space

This specific arrangement of Death And Republic + Meet Again

Winger - Junkyard Dog (Tears On Stone)

The Protomen - Light Up The Night

Is it courtesy to tag other people after you've been tagged in a post like this? If that's the case, I'll tag @spiralled-fury, @solradguy, @swamppossum, @five-by-five, @northstarring, @ineedmoredragons and @tbonechessor!

#logs #ya don't have to participate if you don't want to‚ from what i've gathered - it's all just for fun anyway :] #The link to Yamashita's song is actually a link to a website that hosts city pop songs‚ since those keep getting taken down on YouTube due #to the strictness of Japan's copyright laws with regards to music. Uploads of Yamashita's songs in particular get taken down quite #frequently... The rest are either Bandcamp or YouTube (in case of Junkyard Dog) links #Very out-of-character of me not to put a Кино song on here‚ haha #I had a hard time deciding whether to put HOLD BACK THE NIGHT or Light Up The Night here‚ but ultimately decided on Light Up The Night #because... hoo boy #okay storytime. i've known of the protomen since somewhere around 2021. got The Good Doctor in my recommended feed‚ clicked on it because #i thought the album cover was cool + the title was appealing‚ but i never really listened to anything theirs beyond that song after that. #fast forward to 2022. be me‚ watching the greatest videoessay on planet earth (Steak Bentley's Metal Gear Solid 4 Was A Mistake). #the fucking MONTAGE comes on‚ and I fall in love with my second Protomen song. second fast forward to 2023 going into 2024‚ finally got #around to playing the Violence update. i learn of the name of level 7-2. the widest‚ most mischievous grin appears on my face. #i enter the level‚ proclaim ''ULTRAKlLL IS NOW A STEAK BENTLEY REFERENCE'' and blast the song as i get my ass beat by every single thing in #that level. #and let me tell you. getting mollywhopped ten thousand times by the FUCKING GUTTERTANK TRIO AT THE END OF THE LEVEL WAS. not a pleasant #experience. but the song made it better. :) (i played the level before the balance patch came out and uh let's just say i had more deaths on #that level than on 2gabe and 1gabe. SEVENTY-FOUR. FUCKING. RESTARTS. JESUS /CHRIST/. #goodness how i yearn to make a 3d animation of v1 going through 7-4 with that song in the background as a tribute to the man himself but #alas i am a student who has everything in the world but time #thanks for the tag again!! ^^

[paintings-drawings-sketches-ohmy]

!!! It's Nightwing!!!

I've been dying to start this project/series of pangolins based off some of my favorite comics characters!

I wanted to do gold detailing as a nod to discowing so not only are the paws gold so is all the thread used!

#art #mine #please don't repost #sewing #stuffed animals #plushies #hand sewing #reblogs are much loved! #Nightwing #dick grayson #pangolins #fleece #discowing #dc comics #dc characters #fan art #Sadly I'm not really comfortable putting him up on the Etsy store cause I'm not sure about the copyright laws around that right now

[arbitrarystrawberry]

so I just found out Steamboat Willie is public domain this year

#as soon as I googled it I saw headlines about 'Mickey's Mouse Trap' #first Blood and Honey with Winnie the Pooh and now this #like I understand why #I get that the most obvious shocking thing you could do with a children's character that could never be done under copyright #is to stick them in a slasher #but gosh could we be a little more creative? #the Mickey one isn't even animated #I could at least respect that to some extent (tbh old Mickey Mouse cartoons creeped me out anyway) #but this one is just some dude in a Mickey mask killing people #boring!! #but not surprising #current events #(I guess) #mine

[bmpmp3]

and in general i think everyone should have some kind of mildly IP infringing passion project. i think its good for your health

#like something in a copyright gray area. or something completely copyright infringing that ur only getting away with #because its like noncommercial and under the radar or something #i think everyone should do something like this. i think its important to do #make thinly veiled expies of ur favourite characters. do it now

[hellaverse-critical-confessions]

I saw some Hazbin Hotel leaks ( pre-being pick up by A24 ) and if they decide to use at least some of it's planned content then my predictions were right

Hh will be 8-10 episodes of Angel sexualy harassing everyone and being a dick while the narrative, Viv and the fanbase will be excusing him because "he has sadge backstowy UwU"

I'm not sure I've seen those myself. If you have a link, could you share?

I only found a 4chan thread at some point that I scrolled all the way through where people were leaking dialogue examples and character pages. (Which is where I found out about the angels being called shit like Clitorissa, Labianne and Pusscilla... *shudders*) There must've been something for Angel too but I honest to goodness can't remember.

Either way, he is one of Vivzie's pet twinks just like Stolitz, so I wouldn't be surprised.

#confession #also!! it's eight episodes. if the copyright database is to be believed #I do still have those leaks I mentioned though. along with the S2 Helluva ones #but that's all I'm currently aware of #angel dust #I used to have a crush on that guy when the pilot had just come out. did you know. now you do #don't know what I was thinking either. don't ask #though now that I'm head over heels for a different Michael Kovach character I realize it might have just been the voice

[samble-moved]

genuinely so nostalgic for the old virtual warrior world proboards forum. wish i hadn't deleted my account from it. it's dead, with almost zero posts from the past 3-4yrs, but i wish it had survived. i don't think id much enjoy feral cat rp nowadays, but wish i knew where my friends from back there went.

#my cat was dappledheart and friends with frostfall and echofall (?) #suffixes may be off but those were 100% the prefixes #i think the frost one also had a seperate account for a cat with a night- prefix but may be wrong #i deleted it bc i was mentally ill on main once and got embarrassed but now there's no way to register :( so i can't post for Nostalgia™ #it was cringe but really do regret it bc i can't even view their profiles now bc no account #i had art one of them made of our characters before but now i can't find it :( swore it was on da but i can't locate it #i think i myself uploaded it on da but i was like 11 so didn't know how copyright worked so posted a Lot of uncredited stuff

[htfs-ranked-on]

could ya rank them from most likely to get into a twitter argument to least likely?

think it’d be kinda funny lol

sniffles: i just know in my heart that this man is so chronically online. his twitter account is 90% him going back and forth with flat earthers

giggles: there's a tumblr post floating around of someone calling someone a slur and then putting "/neg" on the end and i think giggles does that on twitter every single day

handy: okay handy doesn't so much get into twitter beef as much as he posts paragraph long rants calling someone an idiot and then immediately blocks them afterwards

cuddles: definitely has a stantwt account. do y'all remember the youtube 101 short where he left a hate comment on disco bear's channel that appeared to be entirely swear words? that's at least half of what he does on twitter

disco bear: exclusively fights with cuddles but other than that his account is mostly selfies

splendont: he doesn't post much but when he does it's usually to argue with someone

lifty and shifty: these two don't go out of their way to get into twitter beef but they will happily participate if it comes across their feed + they are Always having the most cartoonish fights with each other on no provocation.

splendid: he... technically Has a twitter but he runs it like a brand account. it's all convention dates and quote tweets going "Thank you so much to @(insert the most heinous stantwt username you can think of) for the wonderful fan art!" captioned over a tweet of some risque fanart of him

mime: has a twitter but mostly just posts pictures and videos of tricks he does and stuff like that. captions them exclusively in emoji for the bit.

nutty: too busy playing video games to get into twitter fights

russell: he's over on youtube posting "hamilton slime tutorials" he's not on twitter

lammy: she never actually Says anything on her twitter she just posts aesthetic moodboards and pictures of flowers

flippy: he has a twitter he rarely uses. will sometimes retweet lammy's flower pictures but that's about it.

mole: facebook user (derogatory)

petunia: petunia is chronically OFFline for her mental health because the one time she tried to get on twitter she got stuck in a doomscrolling spiral for 6 hours and had to be dragged out of it by handy

flaky: they follow maybe 10 people on twitter and 3 of them are baseball fun fact accounts

#htf ranks #anonymous #is the hamilton slime tutorial joke too niche do you people know about the active broadway piracy going on on youtube #idk i just love the fact that the youtube copyright school short established russell as someone #who's willing to sit in a theater and film an entire movie to post online #also this is embarrassing but it wasn't until i was writing up this post that i realized the joke is that he's pirating it. bc he's a pirat #ALSO also unrelated fun fact but your dear mod is banned from twitter and has been for about 6 years now #ranked by character #mod's favorites

[tj-crochets]

Hey y’all! A bit ago, I asked for drawings to be turned into plushies. I will still be looking at that post, but now I’m curious: What fandom plushies would you like to see? I know Pokemon plushies are fun to make, and I’ve been thinking about making a Crowley snake plushie, but are there other fandom-related plushies you’d like to see?

#the person behind the yarn #I do not accept commissions for copyrighted characters #But! I do accept art trades! #and I do at least one charity auction per year #and am actively looking for more charity auctions to participate in #so like...there is a chance if I make a fandom plushie you could have it? #so even if it's a niche fandom if it's a plushie you'd love to see please suggest it #I seem to have accidentally forcibly reset my adrenal issues (by having a bit of a panic attack) and now I am functioning again! #I can sew! #I almost have another quilt done!

[iiigris]

bro I forgot how exhausting and time-consuming finding face claims for 2d characters was,, I haven’t done this in y e a r s

#we’re not allowed to draw fictional characters/copyrighted material for this assignment but we ARE allowed to use it as inspiration #so I’m trying to find a good face claim for sung jin woo #and I could draw that guy instead #but it’s so DIFFICULT #K-POP ICONS KEEP SHOWING UP and I’m like NOO. I DONT NEED BTS I NEED PICTURES OF NORMAL PEOPLE LAUSIFHKF #sorry kpop idols but now is not your time to shine #eve's thoughts #sung jin woo

[leechandoki]

Been a long time since I made a speed paint. Was gonna make this into a YCH (Your Character Here) but got carried away and made my VTuber Avatar Lil'GreenBean (@lilgreenpeas on Tumblr, @leechandoki on Twitter).

I absolutely love how this came out and was quite surprised that I still got it and also it took me an Hour and 17 minutes to finish. You have no idea how proud I am to still have the ability to draw quickly :')

Kofi | Post+

#my art #my artwork #doodle #artists on tumblr #oc character #my ocs #vtuber #english vtuber #envtuber #It's like 2 in the morning now 💀 #I still wanna draw but also I wanna sleep #On repeat not gonna lie but I just been listening to Tick-Tock... from Interstellar. Hans Zimmer is like the best really. #It's so tempting to have Tick-Tock play with the speedpaint but sadly that is what we call Copyright

[jewishsuperfam]

sjdkhfdskjhfsj i FORGOT that the lawbearer and the wildmother are canonically girlfriends

im suddenly MUCH more into them changing kima into a paladin of the lawbearer

#i know it had to do with copyright stuff but #now it ALSO feels like a change that makes sense in-character

[nerdyqueerr]

Sometimes i think abt how my first 3 big d&d characters work as sun/stars/moon symbols and also how they all had weird genders self-sacrificing tendencies and sarcasm. Oh and theyre also soldier/poet/king but not in that order. AND they would absolutely not be able to stand each other

#samaël meeting 2 high energy bards: if it werent for my strict morals i would turn into a wolf and kill you right now #tasia mia wolfrider meeting 2 sad freaks: i want to burn this building down so bad #allan meeting 2 incredibly violent women with fire magic: thats copyright infringement but im wayy too scared to do anything abt it #btw tasia is sun and king. allan is stars and poet. samaël is soldier and moon #i rarely talk abt tasia bc she was literally my first character #she self sacrificed a bit less but she had the most insane gender in retrospect. like esp bc it wasnt on purpose #love u tasia mia wolfrider ur crossdressing and pyromaniac tendencies will always have a place in my heart #now nixy doesnt rly fit into this bc she was for a smaller campaign #neither does sierra bc shes an npc #what sort of genderous self sacrificing weirdo will i play next? who knows! #my shit #my d&d #samaël CoS #allan ''firebolt'' fendan

[sugartits-kun]

there should be a reverse version of blaze where I can pay to stop a post from circulating :)

or at least one to disable people from leaving their own pointless comments on posts that are already too fucking long

#yes i know add ons take care of this but i mainly use mobile now #im SO fuckign tired of the long ass reusable pad posts #which are definitely not sponsored and no one is getting money from them :)))) #unfollowed so many themed blogs bc they would not stop reblogging fucking reusable pads posts that vaguely fit their theme #at least snip the comments off you asshats #i already use 100% reusable menstrual products #also if youre gonna use them maybe consider buying them from makers #and not unauthorized designs with copyrighted characters? #just sayin

[semercury]

New thing to feel guilty about just dropped 😎😎😎

#stuff sarah says #is it legal fpr me to play a character in a video game #if the original creator isnt happy he was included inthe game as is? #in theory i should be able to separate art from artist like i do with other things #and i can understand the frustration of smth you created being bastardized and used in ways that go against your vision #but also you created something and released it into the world and it is now no longer totally yours #but at the same time if an author didnt want you using the likeness of a character you couldnt bc of copyright #but bc this character is property of the company and not the artist legally... #like is it enough to say yeah theyre missing the point by including him in this game (and many other things) but his design fucks hard so?

[theabstruseone]

I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

Edit to add further developments:

Yes, this is all real. Check the notes and people have pictures. I understand the skepticism because it feels like a joke, but to the best of my knowledge, everything in the above is accurate.

Microsoft also owns the trademark on X for chatting and gaming because, y'know, X-box.

The logo came from a random podcaster who tweeted it at Musk.

The act of sending a tweet is now known as "Xeet". They even added a guide for how to Xeet.

The branding change is inconsistent. Some icons have changed, some have not, and the words "tweet" and "Twitter" are still all over the place on the site.

TweetDeck is currently unaffected and I hope it's because they forgot that it exists again. The complete negligence toward that tool and just leaving it the hell alone is the only thing that makes the site usable (and some of us are stuck on there for work).

This is likely because Musk was forced out of PayPal due to a failed credit line project and because he wanted to rename the site to "X-Paypal" and eventually just to "X".

This became a big deal behind the scenes as Musk paid over $1 million for the domain X.com and wanted to rebrand the company that already had the brand awareness people were using it as a verb to "pay online" (as in "I'll paypal you the money")

X.com is not currently owned by Musk. It is held by a domain registrar (I believe GoDaddy but I'm not entirely sure). Meaning as long as he's hung onto this idea of making X Corp a thing, he couldn't be arsed to pay the $15/year domain renewal.

Bloomberg estimates the rebranding wiped between $4 to $20 billion from the valuation of Twitter due to the loss of brand awareness.

The company was already worth less than half of the $44 billion Musk paid for it in the first place, meaning this may end up a worse deal than when Yahoo bought Tumblr.

One estimation (though this is with a grain of salt) said that Twitter is three months from defaulting on its loans taken out to buy the site. Those loans were secured with Tesla stock. Meaning the bank will seize that stock and, since it won't be enough to pay the debt (since it's worth around 50-75% of what it was at the time of the loan), they can start seizing personal assets of Elon Musk including the Twitter company itself and his interest in SpaceX.

Sesame Street's official accounts mocked the rebranding.

#twitter #twitterpocalypse #twitter fail #elon musk #fuck elon musk