Basil of Baker Street
Basil of Baker Street
Very important.
Getting a chance in this new article to talk about something I think about too often: Disney World is, literally, by definition, a dictatorship
These gods do not belong to Disney. They do not belong to Marvel. They belong to themselves and themselves alone, along with all those who worship them as the deities they are.
Thor, Loki, Odin, etc., these gods were not thought up by anyone at Disney or Marvel.
Stan Lee knew how sacred these gods are to those who follow many different Pagan traditions, how sacred they are to Scandinavian cultures to whom they are so important.
My best friend follows the Norse gods. She will be so bloody offended when she finds out about this. These are her gods, this is her religion. These are the deities she worships, the gods she prays to, the traditions she follows. She enjoys the Marvel portrayals of these characters, but they are separate from the gods she believes in.
Disney is stepping on her religion in an effort to gain more and more money.
Stan Lee did not trademark these names. He understood their importance and their sacred meaning. He was respectful enough not to do this.
These names are not the intellectual property of anyone. Neither the original names in runes nor the anglicised names that are used in Marvel's works.
They were around well before us (a whole ass millennium before us), and they will be around well after the greedy bastards who have decided to trademark religious symbols are dust.
It should be common sense and common courtesy not to trademark the names of religious figures, which all of these gods and goddesses are, even if you do not believe in them.
mod is not christian but you would never see me trademark jesus ffs it crosses a Line
If you agree, please sign and share the petition. If you can, please chip in to get this petition everywhere it can possibly go.
It is f**king disgusting that Disney is doing this.
It needs to stop.
Oh, and one more thing.
i want to throw up ive included a bunch of tags trying to get the norse pagans attention bc im sure they'll want in on this if u have an in with the norse paganism community on tumblr pls do tag everyone u can
im wondering now if they've done this to the greek gods too ughh that would show even more of a disregard for other people's religious views and past people's religious views ughhhh ok imma go look at the toilet bowl for a bit 😅pls sign it'd mean the world to me
This... will actually be pretty easy to fight. Even if they somehow get the trademark, it will get shot down the first time it goes to court-- even in the context of contemporary fiction, you've got multiple portrayals of these gods.
Hell, @neil-gaiman used both Odin and Loki in American Gods (book and series).
He also used them in, you know, his book of Norse mythology.
They're doing this knowing that it wouldn't hold up in court, but gambling that their massive fucking legal spending will let them grind someone into the dust and make them settle long before it ever appears before a judge, I'd guess.
Disney plus is not even available in china i am begging you to stop blaming American homophobia on China
Nimona was going to get a film and they CANCELLED it? I never even heard they were making this. Apparently they laid off the team cos of coronavirus but man, what a loss. Nimona is great and I’m positive it would have made an awesome movie.
“Cos of coronavirus” nah fam they bought the studio making Nimona, which was MOSTLY DONE, and cancelled the project. Disney is a multibillion dollar corporation and could easily afford to continue funding the project to completion but willfully chose not to. They chose to kill it. Not because of China or Russia or COVID, but because they are at their roots still supremely bigoted, including anti-gay. Don’t let their rainbow-washing fool you. Disney is not your friend.
Walt Disney often filmed actors as models for his animated features. What’s surprising about this scene is that the audio from this footage for Alice in Wonderland is the actual audio used in the film. When Ed Wynn was brought back in to the recording studio to do his lines, the reading was not as good as the reference tests, so the test audio was used for the film.
diversity win! this character you already forgot about is gay!
some other first ever gay characters that have been brought to my attention
remember, if you don't get praise the first time, you can keep going and pretend it never happened in the first place 💕
Two more for the pile
disney same-facing dragons now
introducing elsa's dragonsona
what the hell is this cursed shit
same energy
I downloaded a fucking screen recorder just so i could do this
so many star wars series, too many, really, but theres some potential out there
but also
tyleroakley
demonsdealinme
afloweroutofstone
thor-the-asgardian-meme
aqueerkettleofish
nudityandnerdery
lesbwian
comets-alone
starkidmack
scurviesdisneyblog
funkyness
butchflirt
thefloatingstone
muppethole
pururin
sabertoothwalrus
mira-shaards