#derivative work

[karigeyik]

acrobatics professional

[kabo-channel]

【宝石の国】シンシャ

ようやくできた・・・。

[space-carp]

Trying to draw killerAU... This is a first try! The novel was really inspiring with interesting and brilliant story! 🔪✨

[infamousbrad]

I guess this is what derivative works are for

Twice in a handful of years now, book series that I have fallen deeply in love with have become boring, or too much work, to their authors. I wanted so much more from both series, and reasonably hoped to see it. Apparently not.

Are you familiar with Becky Chambers' "Monk and Robot" books?

On a world much like ours, when artificial intelligences realized that they were being used to totally destroy the ecosystem, they claimed half the planet and opted themselves entirely out of the economy, promising to some day check back and make sure humans didn't need anything. It's a century later, and we've gotten a tour of the wilderness and rural parts of the solarpunk utopia that humans built from the rubble and a monk, from the sect that worships the Goddess of Small Comforts that give life things worth staying alive for, is guiding the first robot to come back around as it asks everybody, "what do you need?"

And in a solarpunk utopia, the question isn't trivial! And the second book stops just as they're about to enter the biggest city on the planet, just as they're both starting to come to terms with just how big the question even is (and beginning to acknowledge the depths of their friendship since the trip began). I really want a better look at The City! I really wanted to see Sibling Dex figure out what it is that they need, that's left them so driven to jump from job to job.

Chambers has admitted that she has no current plans to even start that book. Which is a shame because, honestly, it's the only series she's started that I was even slightly interested in.

Surely you're familiar, by now, with Martha Wells' "The Murderbot Diaries," if only from the Amazon TV adaptation of the first book?

In a distant future, in a part of the galaxy so far from Earth that they've heard of it, but never expect to meet anyone who's seen it, there's an anarcho-capitalist slash corporate dystopian alliance called the Corporation Rim (the US only more so) surrounded by a thin scattering of decolonized independent ("non-corporate polity") worlds trying to not get invaded by some corporation but still having to deal with them. And our titular narrator is a badly traumatized, accidentally freed cyborg slave, rescued by the democratic socialist researchers that it rescued when it was rented out to them.

We've seen a lot of the corporation rim, and a little bit of that democratic socialist utopian world, but the book before last wrapped up those plots by introducing our narrator to, and having it join, a Corporation-Rim-native covert do-gooder group disguised as the Pan-System University of Mihira and New Tideland, and I really was looking forward to at least two, more likely four or so, stories about Murderbot's view of the PSUMNT, getting to know their human members (and the actual students that serve as their cover identity)! I'm deeply invested in this character, and this setting, and really want to see more!

Martha Wells, who just published Platform Decay, has just said that it's the second-to-last book in the series, and I guess I can see why. It disappoints me to say it, but she clearly half-assed this book, either too tired of the story or just impatient to end it. It's a short book because there are at least two straight-up hand-waved gaps in the story, literally phrased as something like "and then a bunch of stuff happened but never mind that." There should have been at least four or five more chapters in this story and she just didn't write them. She says she's going to drag the series to some kind of conclusion, maybe sometime next year, maybe later. Which really sucks because, again, of all her series this is the only one I'm even vaguely interested in.

I've seen fanfic of both series that has already taken the story farther than either author apparently still has any interest in taking them. I don't interact with fanfic, much, I mostly despise derivative works. If I'm interested in a series, it's specifically and only because I want to see where the original author was going to take it.

But I know that artists don't owe me anything other than the art that they're willing to make. So I guess the fanfic is all I'm going to get, isn't it?

[grox]

[deepdreamnights]

Fair MisUse: Mona Lisa

or... Ever heard a JPG sing itself to you?

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I have been playing around with Suno a bit, something I will be inflicting upon you all more in the coming weeks, and I found something interesting.

Suno lets you prompt music with symbols.

In the Lyrics box, if you put together strings of symbols and punctuation, the system interprets that into the structure of the music. Not quite sure how, or what symbols link to what notes because I'm absolutely a monkey with a flamethrower when it comes to music, but if I build a faux waveform with punctuation marks and extended ASCII, I get repeatable motifs.

Example from an early test: -_---…--.--

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And since that worked, I prompted with this:

I loaded the JPG file into notepad, copied the results, and used them as a lyrics prompt (first 3000 characters at least). I've since found that if I can crunch an image to around 2k I can load the whole image's data into the lyrics block.

For the style prompt, I used a truncated version of the Wikipedia info block on the painting:

Mona Lisa Italian: Gioconda, Monna Lisa da Vinci c. 1503-1517 Oil on poplar panel Lisa del Giocondo 77cm×53cm

(I had to omit the word "Leonardo" from the prompt because there's apparently a musician called that.)

(the same prompt (more or less, had to change some symbols MJ uses for code) run through Midjourney, as a bonus).

Mona Lisa (the Song) and the above image are very obviously in the public domain. Not really sure about the Machine Ghouls' Hunt since technically I did compose it.. but if you wanna use it, go nuts.

Check out the whole DeepDreamNights Robot Band Oeuvre here.

[plague-of-insomnia]

Japanese word of the day: 二次創作

にじそうさく

nijisousaku

“Derivative work,” that is fan art/fic etc

Not to be confused with 同人誌、どうじんし (doujinshi)

[mineornot]

Mine or Not?

This is derivative art I made based on two other pieces I don't own. Do I own this?

yours

not yours

not sure

Voting ended onJun 23, 2024