Hugucinogens

… Yeah it is 🫠🥲

In literal terms it translates to “before-the-road” (pro - drómou)

(this literal translation includes the ambiguity of before- as in ‘temporally before’, or before- as in ‘in front of’)

So any way you slice it, it’s pretty ironic.

“Prodromou” is a Greek surname, with the rough meaning “the one who walks the road before others”.

So him being “a visionary” is fun, lol

Well, he sure as fuck has balls.

Literally, metaphorically, as well as probably 3 times a day

Semele was just a priestess who got diddled by Zeus, as you do, and got pregnant with Dionysus.

However, after shenanigans by Hera, she got tricked into asking Zeus to show himself to her in his full godly might, and because he was oathbound due to earlier power-of-boner stuff, he had to unwillingly comply.

He tried his best to show the tiniest sliver of his true being that would count, but she was still mortal, and got burned in godly flame for just witnessing him.

Zeus, saved the foetal Dionysus by strapping him to his thigh until the thigh-pregnancy was complete, and later, Dionysus found his mom in the underworld, and made her into the God of Drunk Frenzy.

Following all that, Semele appears to be uppity about her incredible husband to her sister, because Semeles husband carried their fetus to term after Semele died, while her sister’s husband was a mere wife-and-son-murder-attempter.

I love out of context ancient greek mythology. Btw, all that, makes Dionysus the only god in this graph, apart from Gaia herself, to not be the product of direct incest. (Is brain-parthenogenesis incest? Who knows)

Lord Uncle Zeus getting it on with ALL his nieces

No wait, I miscalculated, those are cousins

Edit: except Maia, that’s a niece… I think. This layout is confusing

A “truly small” creator, would get , I dunno, let’s say 5% of Disney’s marketed sales, after being stolen from, from being known as the guy Disney stole from. Which would be enormously more than if he only had his “truly small” marketing.

A more successful and known creator, who would market himself more broadly on his own, would not be easy to steal from, since it would be quick enough for the stealing to be found out, to dampen Disney sales.

And all this, ignores the paradigm shift in monetisation (Uniquenameosaurus YouTube video), that could enhance this process immensely, and allow artist creativity to flourish even more, without even leaving the diseased economical rules of capitalism.

Holy shit it do

Hear me out.

This kinda looks like the point of view of mother earth taking off her wet panties.

I’m really sorry, I might not be ok.

Disney wins in that scenario, because they have more resources to spend on getting their media out there.

As… Opposed to now?

If Disney does plagiarize small artists’ work, and becomes known for it, they take a reputation hit, and the artist gets an explosion of exposure, as long as it is provable he made the original story. (Disney making million-dollar budget movies of your OC, isn’t even that bad for you, to be honest, but let’s assume that it doesn’t market the fuck out of your small artist story. In real life, stories are not in competition.)

If Disney doesn’t, then it’s an undeniable positive for worldwide creativity.

The only thing copyright protects, is big companies’ exclusive right to public-consciousness characters.

1. The current system doesn’t protect small writers either. Look at the amount of money plagiarism gets you, with copyright law in effect.

And

2. at the stage where you’re big enough for copyright to effectively protect you, provable publication dates take care of that problem through reputation. If you become known(read: found out) as a plagiarist, you get the boot from the public zeitgeist, never to receive public money again.

Copyright only protects the Mouse’s bottom line, and strangleholds creativity.

Stop. I’m too egg for this

So, having seen exactly 0 episodes of Star Trek… Can someone please explain?