The Oncoming Inkstorm

ask and you shall receive, @nothorses​​

YESSS HAAHAH.. YEESSSS!! HEHAHAH

I’m so glad you like it, crispycrungy! :D

thank you for letting me use your masterpiece for this nonsense

since I had my video editor open and everything…I made it so the wizard is pondering “Caramelldansen” with every second beat removed

enjoy

I love Addams family canon feeling so jumbled after so many incarnations. Grandmama is Gomez’s mother except when she’s not. Fester is Gomez’s brother except when he is not. Gomez is Spanish though Grandmama and Fester and the Addams predecessors don’t seem to be. Pugsley is older than Wednesday except for the times when he is her little brother. I honestly love the incongruity errors, they add to the fun.

Gomez went to law school and med school maybe. He also might be a business man.

Okay, that totally makes sense.

Secret origin: she was a bag lady who slipped into the Addams home thinking it was an abandoned building she could sleep in for a few nights.

Both Morticia and Gomez were appalled and embarrassed that they forgot a relative was coming to visit, and they couldn’t even remember which branch of the family tree this one was from!

She told Wednesday and Pugsley to call her “Granny”, quickly refined to “Grandmama”, and pretty soon they collectively forgot that she wasn’t part of the family.

Or put another way, the infectious madness of the family made her true origins irrelevant. She was Grandmama now. An Addams. That’s all that mattered.

when I was a little kid, my theory was Grandmama was from Gomez’s side of the family, but she wasn’t his mother or even his grandmother... she was like, at least 5 greats-back, and she just hasn’t died yet because SPOOKY MAGIC

Two universal constants of high fantasy living:

I’m sorry, sir, if you don’t renovate your summer keep and live in it at least one month out of the year, we’ll have to charge you with Negligent Dungeonization of Property. The old cellar laboratory might have belonged to your uncle, but if you aren’t going to use it, something will.

The players are a squad of government investigators, trying to prevent monsters from claiming new habitat. It’s mainly negotiation but sometimes people have an interest in attracting dangerous entities for their own purposes.

I love this so much!! GIVE 👏 ME 👏 DUNGEONS 👏 WITH 👏 BACKSTORIES

Heck but I’d play that idea though

Reverse embezzlement.

Evil accountants, hired by people who hate you surreptitiously adding gold to your treasure rooms, increasing your wealth incrementally, until the day the Dragon Event Horizon is passed and you’re ruined.

The group hired to stop the evil accountants are called Robin Hoods. They’re oftentimes nearly too late and end up having to pull some elaborate heist to distribute the gold over a wide enough geographical area that the dragon looses the scent

“Gods damn thee, Hardison!”

Let a building fall into ruin, but every year, go back there and add a bunch of gold

If you get it just right, the Dragon Event Horizon will be reached at the same time as the necromancer moves in, and then you get to sit back, eat popcorn, and take notes on what happens so you can write an article and get published in Mad Artificer Weekly

This is how you get Dracoliches

I made a reddit account specifically to make this post. Let’s see how this plays out.

Some of them are catching on!

Others are…not 😂

I kind of feel bad for how seriously some people are taking this (one person suspects I’m in a cult)

Dropping hints

Let’s see how long before the post gets taken down

The devil works hard but reddit mods work harder

https://www.instagram.com/p/COXf-rCHC0s/

@pangur-and-grim

Harsh, but I accept it I suppose.

[Transcription: Speaker is a blue-eyed older man with dark blond hair that falls down his back, a round face, and a moustache and beard combo with some gray hairs amongst the blond. His voice is deep, and a bit choked up at points.]

“These are my red flags for women:

Pokemon go update is 10/10 totodiles now spawn in my bathroom

so irrespomsible of roughly 2 million people to just be in budapest didnt you know theres a global pandemic??

THIS WAS AN ACTUAL POST BY THE POKEMON COMPANY. 

@jessiphile

today i’ve seen a lot about disney ‘copyrighting’ loki. the whole thing seemed rather ridiculous to me, so i decided to do some research; it’s still a sketchy situation all around but as someone who is close with people who are practicing norse pagans, i felt like it was important to share.

firstly: the mouse did not, actually, do anything here in regards to the redbubble artist. it was actually redbubble that sent the email and took the work down, because the artist was copying a shirt from the comics. as in, it’s literally on the cover of a comic book, same text, color, and all.

the email alert to the artist was likely auto-generated. the email states: “…in most cases, this means that the rights holder did not specifically identify your work for removal.” so redbubble is being overly cautious here.

secondly: that article is poorly researched and written. their “source” for their claim that disney might trademark mythological depictions of loki is the artist who was copying the shirt. according to the article: “Even art specifically of the Norse deity, which predates the MCU character by a handful of centuries, could be claimed, according to an artist who posted a takedown notice of their Loki art from Redbubble.”

then i got to thinking about “the rights holder,” being the mouse. where does that leave us? do they hold the rights to loki? can they even do that?

the answer is no — sort of.

from what i can tell (and again, i’m an internet random, so i may be wrong!) it appears that the mouse is not copyrighting the norse gods, they’re trademarking their particular versions of loki — so comic depictions, movie depictions, etc. “marvel’s loki,” vs norse loki, basically, or “loki as depicted by tom hiddleston.” meaning any unauthorized art that could be linked to disney’s trademarked version of loki is within the company’s rights to have removed. but again, in this situation that started the whole kerfluffle, it was redbubble that removed it.

then i got to thinking a little more: what’s the difference between trademark and copyright?

as it turns out, copyright and trademark are two very different things. here’s an article that details it fairly clearly, but this snippet below is a pretty good summary.

so disney has trademarked their particular version of loki. trademark is also limited to a particular context. the mouse trademarking loki in the context of a superhero/comic book world means that he cannot be made into a comic book hero or villain by anyone but marvel.

tl;dr — don’t panic if you are someone who counts loki or anyone else in the norse pantheon among your deities. a very overzealous redbubble, not disney, was the one who took down the shirt and sent the email, and they state in that email that “in most cases, the rights holder did not identify your work for removal.” the article that claims that disney is trademarking loki is poorly researched, written, and designed to freak you out.

I really hate to defend Disney on main because they have screwed up copyright law this country but that theoretical copyright is literally unenforceable. You can’t copyright something if its in the public zeitgeist. It’s called a generic trademark

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

For a non-religious look at Jello. Which is a brand yes but because we refer to all gelatin desserts as Jello, the word is longer the property of Kraft. It’s why I can print shirts with the words “Google it” and I wouldn’t owe anyone any money because it’s no longer a trademark it’s a common phrase. Now both of those examples are less than a hundred years old. If you even tried to enforce a copyright on a pre-Christian religious figure you’d be laughed out of a court. Now if your producing something with Loki the comic character/film character and it’s clearly intended to be the comic/film character then Disney would have a leg to stand on. For example if I make shirts that said “Hakuna Matata” in Comic sans, Disney couldn’t touch me because it’s an actual phrase. But if made that shirt in Disney’s font and put Timon and Pumbaa on it then I’d be in violation of the copyright because it’s clearly meant to refer to the song. Plus religious freedom laws in the US are so goddamn intentionally broad you could probably make the case that you were worshiping the comic character and win.

^ this is an excellent addition. reblogging.