how does anyone take this guy seriously lmao
i didnt know this many people were fiddlin their gear to M&Ms and Minnie so much. no kink shame though!
some posts here make me feel like I just gazed into the ark of the covenant
ellen has done terrible things for straight america's conception of lesbian fashion lmao
Minnie lookin' like she's wearing a collared pajama set made out of your great aunt's living room curtains from the 70s.
why is she dressed like a jojo character. i dig it, though. they should dress more characters in the kind of haute couture araki likes.
I learned about it from this clip. Disneyland Paris is having an anniversary and did a branding deal with Stella McCartney.
Since when did the unholy crossbreed of Ray Romano and RDJ become a cultural pundit?
I can't remember his name but he's been a regular on Praeger U for a while. 2 or so years at least I think.
Who cares, she's going to be public domain in like 5 or 6 years and then you can draw her wearing whatever you want. Just make sure she's black and white with dot eyes.
she’s going to be public domain in like 5 or 6 years
She'll still be an active trademark/brand icon. Disney has their legal ducks in a row.
In theory, you would be able to use Mickey/Minnie Mouse once they're PD, but each of the works they appear in will enter the PD one at a time, so if you use elements of the Mouse that appear in later cartoons that haven't become public yet, you're opening yourself up. We see this in action with modern retellings of classic fairytales - Snow White and the others are all public domain, but the Disney adaptations are not, so if you make one you have to be careful that none of it looks too similar to the Disney version, and major publishers basically don't touch those properties even though they theoretically could because if it turned into a huge court case it would all be up to the interpretation of some judge and that's a pretty expensive coin to flip.
The trademark/corporate identity thing is another layer of legal trouble on top of the sketchy interpretation of what is and is not public domain. The Mouses are pretty well established as mascots of Disney, and if you decided to use a public domain version of them you would have to be sure that your use can in no way be confused with an official Disney use of the character, but what the fuck that means in practice nobody has any idea. Mickey in particular has appeared in so many costumes and so many contexts over the years that I cannot fathom a way to present him that couldn't possibly be confused with an official use of the mascot.
Like how Felix the Cat is public domain, but only the old 1920s cartoons and not the 50’s chase cartoons or the 90’s edgy metatextual humor cartoons
