it's truly the tried and tested Doctor Who formula for a showrunner to say "yep we're doing a soft reboot of the show! this is a great opportunity for new viewers to jump on board!" and then immediately pivoting to lore heavy additions and continuing 60 year old character arcs and pulling random plots from obscure 90s novels.
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I think, legally, if a studio/game developer/publisher/whatever has the rights to an IP, but they go for five or more years without releasing any projects related to that IP, the rights to the property should return to the person who originally pitched or wrote it and they can repitch it somewhere else or continue it on their own as they see fit, or just keep the rights and know that nobody can butcher the property.
Obviously, companies should keep the rights to the projects they create while the IP is theirs and any characters or concepts that they introduced that was not the original creators idea should belong to their individual versions, but I think if more creators had the option to take their beloved brain child and walk if a studio decides they actually don't want to do anything with the IP, they should be more than capable of doing so.
This should also apply to cancelations without any plans for new projects AND media being removed from streaming and viewing should automatically return to the original creator.
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now that i'm mentally working towards making a new ren ref sheet, i'm finding i'm. SO torn. because yeah, ref sheets can be redone if things change, w/e... but it also feels like with each one i'm "locking in" more features? and he's gone through so many changes in such a short amount of time that it's hard to decide on certain things!! like!!
(design choice rambling under the cut, i just needed to get it out of my head bc it's been stuck in there for weeks kJNKJNS)
baby boy. baby. squeezable. squeaky toy noises. super cute and primed for Corruption... and his hair is very easy to draw LMAO...
but he also just kinda looks like a silly, tired 20-something year old??? like a guy who's still catching up on sleep after many college all-nighters, but otherwise doing well?? and he looks a little more... well-kempt than he initially did. not exactly your standard anime guy but much closer to that kind of design.
meanwhile...
very first sketch, from the morning after my dream. very pretty but also A Bit Of A Mess. also very clearly 30-something years old. and i REALLY love how his messy ass hair looks.... it's just... such a pain to draw consistently KJNKSJFN...
and while it makes sense for him to look more put-together, with the way his character and story have evolved... man... messy ren is so pretty, wtf. and his hair looks so grabbable who said that.
idk i'm rambling, i'm just frustrated bc he changes a little each time i draw him so there are a bunch of different possible design choices to pick from and i like ALL OF THEM. AUGH.
(i'm also frustrated in parallel bc he was initially a scorched-earth, pure villain post-Fuckening, which was fun AND hot AND took from a lot of past dream-ocs i never did anything with... but story-wise it makes soooooo much more sense for him to directly target specific people and then fuck up Massively and have to deal with the aftermath. like i'm debating making ANOTHER ren offshoot where he really is a pure villain JUST so i can draw him being evil and fucked up and hot about it 🥴 idk, a lot of frustration from a lot of different angles!)
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I FOUND A VULCANOLOGIST!!!!!!!
BEANS AND BEINGS OF THIS WORLD AND OTHERS, I HAVE ENCOUNTERED:
A MAN
His name is Luca De Siena. He's an Italian seismologist. I am watching "The Next Pompeii" (by NOVA) with my roommate, and it got to this part and we just
So, he needs to study Campi Flagrei near Naples in part to determine the likelihood that The Ground Explodes and Everybody Dies. To do this, he wants to use sonar, right? But one of the big ways you do sonar on that level is with Dynamite, and they are In a City. You can't just blow up a city to look at rocks.
But really, all they actually needed was a source of loud, resonating sound waves that they could measure to study the properties of the rock underneath them, and they had one!
THE OCEAN
THEY ARE USING THE OCEAN AS A GIANT SOUND GENERATOR
And I could be getting this wrong, but to my understanding, since the ocean is just... Always On, they can track the movements of magma pockets. In real time. They're on top of a huge hub of magma activity and get to watch it.
(( YOU CAN EVEN LOOK AT IT ON HIS GITHUB IF YOU WANT (pretty sure that's the right link) ))
Anyway, I looked him up and found his personal website and I CANNOT GET OVER THE GRAPHIC DESIGN. There is so much graphic design. (His team and former students are prominently displayed, too!)
Luca De Siena, if you find this, I think your science is cool and I want to know more about your cool science team
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im trying to design a Alive Ransomware Forme for something and ive just been staring at it trying to think Okay whats a visual indicator of being Ransomware. and then i just slapped some triangles on it
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