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IP owners have to defend their copyright. No one wants to become the next aspirin. That said, there are a lot of gray areas where corporations look the other way, such as tee shirts and such. I strongly suspect this would be one of those cases, because there’s no money to be had and it would only garner them bad publicity. Disney, for instance, is already treading water reputationally and Homecoming isn’t even small potatoes, it’s no potatoes. There’s no upside to going after us. Just as no one wants to be the next aspirin and lose control of their trademark by not enforcing it, no company wants to find itself in the same situation as ASCAP did 30 years ago when they went after the Girl Scouts for singing licensed songs around the campfire. ASCAP demanded that every camp pay a fee and blowback for that overreach was ferocious. That was when those videos of pre-teen Girl Scouts dancing the Macarena hit the news… but they were dancing without the music because they didn’t want to incur the $10,000 fine or go to jail. The optics were bad.

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Same reason people write fanfic or cosplay. They just want to play with the characters they like. I do a lot of deep dives into mythology and history, so I have a ton of characters who are functionally the same as famous superheroes but are based on non-Western myths. My guy Kid Kibuka, for instance, is the reincarnation of the African god of war and lightning Kibuka. He is basically Thor or Storm, but no one has ever written anything about him as far as I can tell.

Also, you can always ask permission. Back on Live I made an homage to Atomic Robo called Robotomic and I asked Brian Clevinger if it was okay and he was all for it.

Yes, it is. What is life without whimsy? I doubt anyone at WB will care, but if it’s going to cause an issue I can delete him. No biggie. I have 580 other alts, after all. 😛

Hey, leave him out of this. He looks nothing like Sp1d3r-Mann.

Have a gander at my post in the Best Costume thread. 😛

The Midnight Raptor In-game Krea

Presenting the Raptor Family. Any resemblance to other persons, whether living, dead, or fictional, is entirely coincidental. https://ibb.co/59gHpjD https://ibb.co/Xb0g3NY https://ibb.co/QQ1Sctt https://ibb.co/6bcfGFg

Just pop a larger pic into Krea and see what it makes of it. Mess around with the sliders and presets. https://www.krea.ai/apps/image/enhancer/mobile

SilverAgeFan did this over on Rebirth, so it is apparently workable for someone smart enough to do so. I wish I were, but I’m dumb.

Just much enough.

Some of those look really cool, though.

Terrific background superbly realized with the costume. 10/10 no notes.

Stupid life. i hope you get sick again! …no, wait, that’s not what I mean. I mean that I hope you have copious free time and lots of money. Like fully recovered from any and all ailments and win a nice chunk of change from the lottery.

I found a new tool - https://www.immersity.ai It turns 2D images into 3D motion or stereo images. I’ll have to upload some of the videos to YouTube, but here are the stereo pics. I think they look better when looked at in parallel (relaxing eyes by looking past the pic) versus crosseye, but it’s still pretty cool. I tried a variety of different renders. I have a 1950s Kodak stereo camera so I’ve done a bit of experimenting over the years with stereo photography. (I even tried some in-game back on Live, which was way harder than it seems because characters and backgrounds aren’t static enough, but it worked.) Anyway, for best results, use pics where the elements of the image are clearly separated into foreground, middle, and background. To do parallel, it helps to kind of look through the screen and slightly downward.

It’s unsettling the same way all those movies with creepy little girls are.

Awesome. And horrifying. 😆

It’s certainly possible. Who knows what influences might inspire us? It’s a mystery.

Theme song? English version: Japanese version:

Eep! Horrifying,

Peculiar Girl Yumi versus the demon Axagrath. Yumi Yama is still here. Axagrath, not so much.

😂😆😂

Over on Goodreads I mentioned that having an Italian father from Brooklyn is effectively like being raised by gladiator wolves, and I immediately thought that would be an interesting prompt. So here is (the entire prompt) “gladiator wolf” and “samurai wolf”.