toyourliking:

I saw this post on my dash (with commentary, dw) and there was one thing that I didn’t see addressed in the comment chain that I really feel needs to be

Once an artist creates a work, they own the copyright

None of this “I paid for the art. It is mine.” bullshit, unless the artist actually sells you the copyright (something which has to be stated and never assumed, and something you would have to pay extra for) you can not claim ownership over the piece, even if you paid for it.

And yes, this means you can not alter the work in any way, you can not use it for banners/advertisements/etc., you can not print it, you can not sell copies unless agreed upon with the artist

and artists are also protected under moral rights

meaning that the artist has the right of attribution (the right to be identified and named as the creator of
their work), the right against false attribution, and the right of integrity. (Source)

so fuck off with your “I paid for the art. It is mine.” crap, it doesn’t stick legally

transpeter:

imagine one day spidey is held up by the new york city police department, and he’s expecting the same old bullshit of “this stupid spider menace vigilante blah blah blah” like the cops in queens always say to him, but instead he’s met with a 30 year old brooklyn cop who is less concerned with peter being a vigilante, and is more concerned with peter’s powers. he won’t stop asking peter about his spider powers, how they work, how he got them, how he would rate them on a scale of “cool” to “toit”

and finally peter gets a word in edgewise and is like “not that this isn’t refreshing compared to the way the police usually treat me, but what kinda cop are you again??” and the cop is like “i’m actually a detective, jake peralta from the 99th precinct. anyways can you summon an army of spiders or is that just a rumor?? oh my god can you talk to them, can you ask the spiders if they like die hard??”

toomanylokifeels:

I thought what Agent of Asgard did re: Loki lifting Mjolnir was really smart.

With Age of Ultron, lifting Mjolnir became a meme where [insert character] is capable of lifting Mjolnir to prove their worth. I got real tired of it real quick. So, I honestly wasn’t excited about Loki lifting Mjolnir. I didn’t care.

However. 

Loki didn’t prove his worth by picking up Mjolnir. He proved the worth of a heroic version of himself, who he transformed into due to a hero/villain role reversal plot device – so of course he’d be able to lift Mjolnir. 

This isn’t to say that lifting Mjolnir highlights nothing important about Loki’s journey. Loki is trying to make a change, and this does lend to his ability to lift Mjolnir when he needs to:

…but doing so did more to demonstrate Thor’s fall from grace, rather than highlight the importance of Loki’s journey:

Here’s the thing, though. The Agent of Asgard narrative is aware of this.

How do we know? – because Loki lifting Mjolnir is not the defining moment of the comic. We know because he soon after loses control of Mjolnir when a reminder of his “crime” surfaces…

…but most importantly we know because Odin tells him that he doesn’t need to be worthy of Thor’s power. He needs to be worthy of his own:

Lifting Mjolnir didn’t prove much of anything for Loki. 

Becoming worthy of his own power did, and he didn’t become worthy of that power by magically transforming into a stereotypical hero. He did so through self acceptance and self love and that was so powerful: