Snowflake Challenge 2024 #9: The New Thing

Challenge #9 wants to know what's the newest thing to capture our fannish interest.

Rec Us Your Newest Thing.

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Obsessions come in a lot of shapes and sizes, some of them come and go and some linger. You can absolutely use this space for that manifesto or fandom promo that you’ve always wanted to pen. You can also use it to share an earworm that you can’t get out of your head and think the best way to do it is to share it with the world. Or something in between.

( I am not one given over to many fannish obsessions )

So, yeah. That's what came out, a want for more people to poke at worldbuilding or something like it.

Stuff from the new year - early January 02024

Let's begin with material that finally made it into the public domain in the United States in the year 2024. While much attention has been given to Steamboat Willie, as the thought of finally getting something from the Disney juggernaut, there's plenty of other material that is now freely usable as well. If you're interested in using Mickey, there's a handy primer on how to use Mickey successfully and avoid getting walloped with trademark issues. There are still some Mickeys that are under copyright (like the Sorcerer's Apprentice Mickey), but Mickey Mouse, in at least some form, is now finally making it to the public domain. (As are some more Winnie-the-Pooh characters, like Tigger.)

The "Golden Rod" illustration used for C-3PO that made the robot look he'd been designed by a species with a baculum. And pair that with an oral history of a Folgers holiday ad where the shipping goggles suggested a brother and sister were going to engage in incest even if no such thing were ever intended.

( And more inside from here )

Last for tonight, a map of the Indigenous Nations of North America, approximately the 16th century CE, and where possible, the name of the nation in the language of its residents.

(Materials via adrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, the_future_modernes, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the meta_warehouse community, little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)