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[mickeymouseispublicdomain]

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This blog is being created on January 6th 2024, to help combat the rampant misinformation and fearmongering being spread about the Public Domain in general, and about Mickey Mouse in particular now that he's Public Domain.

I will be reblogging posts with the correct information, as well as posts that are originally misinformed, but with corrections added.

I'll start reblogging art of Public Domain Mickey Mouse once I get all the tags organized :)

Please take the time to learn what the Public Domain is.

This collection of videos from the Internet Archive from 2019, which is an important year you'll learn why when you watch them if you don't already know, is a good starting point: Link here. Unfortunately only some of them seem to have subtitles.

There are also a lot of youtube videos summarizing the basics, but please note: Look for videos published before 2024. So much misinformation and fearmongering is being spread right now you probably won't find anything correct from January 2024 because everyone who has a camera suddenly feels the need to start talking about things they clearly do not understand. I really hope it gets better by the time February gets here.

For Public Domain media, go check out Project Gutenberg, LibriVox, Public Domain Movies, and Comic Book+, not to mention the Internet Archive itself, and more.

[huntthemouse]

Mushroom Mickey

134/365 #hunt the mouse

Gonna need a truffle pig for this one...

I am making 365 new versions of Mickey Mouse for the public domain and releasing them under public domain all year long.

You can join the initiative to #hunt the mouse or suggest a theme yourself via my ask box.

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[ID: A digital painting of an original, Public Domain version of Mickey Mouse. This one is labeled 134/365. This version of Mickey is made out of fly agaric mushrooms, which have white stalks, and red caps with white spots. His ears, shoes, hands, and the end of his tail are the mushroom caps, with his arms, legs, torso, head, face, and tail the white of the stalk. He wears dark red shorts, with white mushroom shaped buttons. His eyes and nose are simple black. He is posed with one hand on his hip and his head cocked to the side with a smile. Behind him is red grass and larger mushrooms climbing up into the red-grey cloudy sky, releasing smoke. Below this is an image reading “Public Domain”, with a zero inside a circle. End ID.]

[huntthemouse]

Frutiger Aero Mickey

133/365 #hunt the mouse

This is an aesthetic I've only really attempted once before- I took the stylization of those glossy orbs and had to apply it to the very complicated shape of Mickey. There's def a bit of... ambiguity to the style since aesthetic wikis and sites tend to nail different elements slightly different as part of one aesthetic or the other, so I tried my best here lol

I am making 365 new versions of Mickey Mouse for the public domain and releasing them under public domain all year long.

You can join the initiative to #hunt the mouse or suggest a theme yourself via my ask box.

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[ID: A digital painting of an original, Public Domain version of Mickey Mouse. This one is labeled 133/365. This version of Mickey is made out of blue glass spheres or bubbles, posed with one fist raised. Behind him is a swirled black and green background with green bubbles and fish swimming past. Following this is an anonymous ask to huntthemouse that asks: "Frutiger Aero Mickey". Below this is an image reading “Public Domain”, with a zero inside a circle. End ID.]

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Princess Mickey

132/365 #hunt the mouse

This one was pretty fun to design- throwing in some golds, some iridescents, just making this Mickey really pretty and doing some interesting balcony setting. The tail is based off the fleur-de-lis.

I am making 365 new versions of Mickey Mouse for the public domain and releasing them under public domain all year long.

You can join the initiative to #hunt the mouse or suggest a theme yourself via my ask box.

[describe-things]

[ID: A digital painting of an original, Public Domain version of Mickey Mouse. This one is labeled 132/365. This version of Mickey is a princess, with brown for his face, arms, and what is visible of the feet, with pale blue ears, gloves, shoes, dress, and long hair. The dress has an empire waist, with a jeweled collar of gold, with black fabric for the bust area, followed by gold plating, then a long blue skirt with gold leaves. The shoes and gloves are the same shade of light, shimmering blue, with long sleeves on the gloves with gold cuffs at the wrists. The nose is blue, and the tail is light gold, ending in a sharp point with curls to either side like a fleur-de-lis. The background has a gold banister like on a balcony, with an intricate gold and yellow tiled floor, with a blue cloudy sky. Mickey looks back over one shoulder, as though listening to something off screen. Following this is an anonymous ask to huntthemouse that asks: "Princess Mickey?". Below this is an image reading “Public Domain”, with a zero inside a circle. End ID.]

[huntthemouse]

Fishbowl Mickey

131/365 #hunt the mouse

I was thinking about that meme with the goldfish jumping out of the bowl and just laughed imagining a zoomed out version that's just revealing that the bowl he's jumping to is still connected to the same bowl and that's how this came about

I am making 365 new versions of Mickey Mouse for the public domain and releasing them under public domain all year long.

You can join the initiative to #hunt the mouse or suggest a theme yourself via my ask box.

[describe-things]

[ID: A digital painting of an original, Public Domain version of Mickey Mouse. This one is labeled 131/365. This version of Mickey has his head and ears made out of transparent glass fishbowls, with an opening on either ear, connected to the larger 'bowl' of his face, where a small pink blob, with scales and small fins, shaped like his iconic head sillowet, sits on the bottom of the bowl. His arms, legs, and torso are made of rock covered with moss, and he is surrounded by deep azure blue that fades to black, and green moss or seaweed. Below this is an image reading “Public Domain”, with a zero inside a circle. End ID.]

[huntthemouse]

Neo Expressionism Mickey

130/365 #hunt the mouse

Based this off the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who's honestly one of my favorite artists of all time. Sort of moved this one to the sense of my own beat, I can't pretend to fully be able to replicate his work and the way he would do it but it's hopefully evoking those same feelings.

I am making 365 new versions of Mickey Mouse for the public domain and releasing them under public domain all year long.

You can join the initiative to #hunt the mouse or suggest a theme yourself via my ask box.

[describe-things]

[ID: A digital painting of an original, Public Domain version of Mickey Mouse. This one is labeled 130/365. This version of Mickey is drawn in the neo expressionist style, as though painted on a flat canvas. Mickey is drawn without a 'regular' distinct form, but rather represented by different shapes and textures. His ears are navy blue with red mixed in, with red white and black circles for his eyes, and a white oval surrounded by black for his nose, with a cross-thatch grid for his mouth as though he is grinning. His torso is a rectangular black box with a smaller grid, and his shorts are represented by two navy boxes with white circles. His arms and legs are grey streaks as though from a larger paint brush, ending in yellow for his gloves and shoes. Behind him is red against a white and black streaked background, giving the impression that he sits upon a throne, with floating red and white crown shapes on either side, and a gold crown above his head. Below this is an image reading “Public Domain”, with a zero inside a circle. End ID.]

[huntthemouse]

Puzzle Cube Mickey

129/365 #solve the mouse

The copyright and trademark for Rubik's Cube is a bit of a puzzle inofitself- as of 2016 it was deemed that the trademark no longer stood- there was never an outright copyright either, and the patent expired in 2000, so techically this would be in public domain to use the Rubik's name but I wanted to err on the side of caution when it came to the design and name, so it's Puzzle Cube Mickey.

I am making 365 new versions of Mickey Mouse for the public domain and releasing them under public domain all year long.

You can join the initiative to #hunt the mouse or suggest a theme yourself via my ask box.

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[ID: A digital painting of an original, Public Domain version of Mickey Mouse. This one is labeled 129/365. This version of Mickey is part Rubiks Cube, with his different body parts connected to different cubes on the puzzle, which is black, white, green, blue, and purple. His feet are on the bottom, and he is kneeling, holding his hands up to the puzzle. His tail is thin and ends in a smaller Rubiks cube. The background has grass with flowers, and more plants in the background in pink, orange, and blue, overlapping. Following this is an ask from unown-anomaly to huntthemouse that asks: "Hey there! [waving emoji] Could you do a Rubiks Cube theme Mickye? I think it would be very cool…". Below this is an image reading “Public Domain”, with a zero inside a circle. End ID.]

[huntthemouse]

Scalding Mickey

128/365 #hunt the mouse

Wet flames trickle across the water basin as a flaming mouse refuses to disperse, held together out of sparking spite. Bubbling salt across the aquatic glass, claws of fire and ash.

I am making 365 new versions of Mickey Mouse for the public domain and releasing them under public domain all year long.

You can join the initiative to #hunt the mouse or suggest a theme yourself via my ask box.

[describe-things]

[ID: A digital painting of an original, Public Domain version of Mickey Mouse. This one is labeled 128/365. This version of Mickey is made of fire, with sharp teeth and claws, and flames flying off his ears, arms, and legs. He is walking across a pool of boiling water, with steam flying off of and surrounding him. He bares his sharp teeth at something off screen. Below this is an image reading “Public Domain”, with a zero inside a circle. End ID.]

[huntthemouse]

Elephant Mickey

127/365 #hunt the elephant

Bit of a reversal, based off that idea that elephants are afraid of mice. This myth is sort of murky in terms of how true it is- Mythbusters weren't able to conclusively prove it but there's like a hint of truth to it, but it mostly seems to be based off the context of which elephants encounter these mice.

I am making 365 new versions of Mickey Mouse for the public domain and releasing them under public domain all year long.

You can join the initiative to #hunt the mouse or suggest a theme yourself via my ask box.

[describe-things]

[ID: A digital painting of an original, Public Domain version of Mickey Mouse. This one is labeled 127/365. This version of Mickey is a cartoon elephant instead of a mouse, with blue arms, head, and legs, with a paler blue face and a long pale blue trunk, with small tusks at the corners of his mouth. He is wearing black overalls with matching gloves and shoes, and looks down, one hand to his mouth in horror, at a small purple mouse in front of him holding a peice of cheese. The background is covered in thorny foliage, with larger trees further back, and a orange cloudy sky, with rocky mountains in the very background, and closer to the middle a large cluster of strange, 3D pink and purple spheres like a plant. Below this is an image reading “Public Domain”, with a zero inside a circle. End ID.]

[huntthemouse]

Chess King Mickey

126/365 #checkmate the mouse

In the halls of the checkered king sits a emperor made of marble. He seems out of place, out of sorts, as if he is not the monarch in charge...

I am making 365 new versions of Mickey Mouse for the public domain and releasing them under public domain all year long.

You can join the initiative to #hunt the mouse or suggest a theme yourself via my ask box.

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[ID: A digital painting of an original, Public Domain version of Mickey Mouse. This one is labeled 126/365. This version of Mickey is a chess peice, made of black for his head, grey-tan for his face, and greenish black for his body. His arms are small and short, with white gloves, held at his sides. There are two white buttons on his torso. Behind him is a warped monochrome blue chessboard, with the impression of other chess pieces at the sides. Below this is an image reading “Public Domain”, with a zero inside a circle. End ID.]

[huntthemouse]

Salt Shaker Mickey

Bro's full of so much salt it's just spilling out and making a real mess. Someone needs to deal with this guy

I am making 365 new versions of Mickey Mouse for the public domain and releasing them under public domain all year long.

You can join the initiative to #hunt the mouse or suggest a theme yourself via my ask box.

[describe-things]

[ID: A digital painting of an original, Public Domain version of Mickey Mouse. This one is labeled 125/365. This version of Mickey is mettalic and partly transparent, with his ears made out of glass salt shakers with metal caps, and metallic blue-grey for his shorts, gloves, shoes, and head, with the rest of him cloudy white. For his eyes are simple black crosses. His tail is a trail of salt. He is posed as though floating in the air, or holding himself up with his tail, surrounded by a white cloud of salt against a black background. Below this is an image reading “Public Domain”, with a zero inside a circle. End ID.]

[huntthemouse]

Rock Climber Mickey

124/365 #hunt the mouse

he's fine, he's got like three seperate lifelines to help him climb the mountain, those carabiner ears aren't going anywhere...

I am making 365 new versions of Mickey Mouse for the public domain and releasing them under public domain all year long.

You can join the initiative to #hunt the mouse or suggest a theme yourself via my ask box.

[describe-things]

[ID: A digital painting of an original, Public Domain version of Mickey Mouse. This one is labeled 124/365. This version of Mickey is a rock climber, with large carabinder hooks for his ears,s a white face, black fur, and dark brown shorts, with dark red shoes with yellow laces or buckles. He is hanging upside down on the side of a rocky cliff, with a sky next to him covered in grey-green clouds and raining. Ropes attached to his ears and a harness around his torso stop him from falling, and he smiles at the camera. Below this is an image reading “Public Domain”, with a zero inside a circle. End ID.]

[huntthemouse]

Puddle Mickey

123/365 #melt the mouse

SPLASH!

I am making 365 new versions of Mickey Mouse for the public domain and releasing them under public domain all year long.

You can join the initiative to #hunt the mouse or suggest a theme yourself via my ask box.

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[ID: A digital painting of an original, Public Domain version of Mickey Mouse. This one is labeled 123/365. This version of Mickey is a witch with green skin who has melted into a puddlle of water and green slime, with orange eyes, black ears, and a dark blue witches hat. His black ears are partly see though now, showing water on the inside. The background is dark, and covered in small rain drops, with brown pillars rising up in the shadowy ceiling. Below this is an image reading “Public Domain”, with a zero inside a circle. End ID.]

Plain text: Splash!

[huntthemouse]

Witch Mickey

122/365 #hunt the mouse

Kind of a mix between a classic witch and a more modern, on the go witch for this one. I sure hope there's no water nearby! And yes, this witch can use the broom tail to fly, it's flexible enough for that.

I am making 365 new versions of Mickey Mouse for the public domain and releasing them under public domain all year long.

You can join the initiative to #hunt the mouse or suggest a theme yourself via my ask box.

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[ID: A digital painting of an original, Public Domain version of Mickey Mouse. This one is labeled 122/365. This version of Mickey is a witch, wiht green skin, wearing dark black-purple robes and a pointed hat, with black shoes, and a black tail ending in a pale tuft like an old fashioned twig broom. Mickey has dark lipstick, and eyeliner, and looks off to the side. The background is mostly green, with what looks like a doorway with blue and purple inside, and a dark shadow under Mickey's feet. Following this is an anonymous ask to huntthemouse that asks: "Can you do a witch Mickey?". Below this is an image reading “Public Domain”, with a zero inside a circle. End ID.]

[huntthemouse]

Domino Mickey

121/365 #topple the mouse

Kind of a more off-kilter one- he's got a long tail of dominos for a tail and I kind of imagine it's sort of a snake/lightcycle thing where he drops dominos as he moves and if you push one over, it can lead to a chain reaction that will knock him down.

I am making 365 new versions of Mickey Mouse for the public domain and releasing them under public domain all year long.

You can join the initiative to #hunt the mouse or suggest a theme yourself via my ask box.

[describe-things]

[ID: A digital painting of an original, Public Domain version of Mickey Mouse. This one is labeled 121/365. This version of Mickey is made of white dominos with black spots, with a rectangular body, flat rectangles for shoes, and the same for his ears, with black spots for his eyes and nose, and more patterns on the backs of his gloves. His tail is made of a disconnected line of dominoes. Each domino on his body has different combinations of spots. His left ear shows 9, his right ear shows 6, the back of his glove that we can see clearly shows 5, his left shoe is 3, his right show is 5, and his body has at least 3 dots. He is posed with a smile, one hand up at his mouth, the other lower, as though getting ready to fight. The background is grey, with transparent domino peices spiraling about. Below this is an image reading “Public Domain”, with a zero inside a circle. End ID.]

[huntthemouse]

Autopsy Mickey

120/365 #hunted the mouse

I liked the idea of the autopsy Mickey because I wanted to do a very off-putting concept and try and make it palatable with cartoon-y guts. Like the idea of designing the guts really appealed to me in a morbid way. Kind of a in between real guts and cartoony BMOesque guts. The Mickey design itself sort of has this plastic-y rainbow sheen to it- sort of like a mannequin but also abstract and sort of not feeling fleshy.

I am making 365 new versions of Mickey Mouse for the public domain and releasing them under public domain all year long.

You can join the initiative to #hunt the mouse or suggest a theme yourself via my ask box.

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[ID: A digital painting of an original, Public Domain version of Mickey Mouse. This one is labeled 120/365. This version of Mickey is silvery grey-white, with black on his shoes and gloves, with a pastel rainbow outline. He has his eyes closed, and his limbs stretched out to the sides. His torso is open in a ragged shape, showing his red insides, with cartoony lungs, who have their eyes closed as though asleep, and a pink heart shape that seems to smile. His leg bones are visible, but do not align with the position of his actual legs. Following this is an anonymous ask to huntthemouse that asks, "Surgeon mickey if you havent done anything similar? Ooh or even like autopsy Mickey (however you interpret that)". Below this is an image reading “Public Domain”, with a zero inside a circle. End ID.]

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Crystal Ball Mickey

119/365 #ponder the mouse

Sort of a strange magical idea I had that was entirely just based off the fact that the ears could house magical crystal orbs. I had a lot of fun with the textures and background of this one, as you can tell.

I am making 365 new versions of Mickey Mouse for the public domain and releasing them under public domain all year long.

You can join the initiative to #hunt the mouse or suggest a theme yourself via my ask box.

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[ID: A digital painting of an original, Public Domain version of Mickey Mouse. This one is labeled 119/365. This version of Mickey is dark, silvery metal on his face, shoes, and shorts, and the base of his ears, with the rest of him prismatic purple like crystal, with sharp crytal points for his fingers, and his ears rounded crystal balls. His nose and eyes are the same swirling purple. He is posed looking off to the side of the camera, posed standing on one foot, with one hand raised. The background is a swirl of iridescent shimmering purple that is darker at the corners. Below this is an image reading “Public Domain”, with a zero inside a circle. End ID.]