Wonderlust

🐁 Rat - charming,  aggressive,  quick-witted,  loving and devoted.

🐂 Ox - diligent,  judgemental, impulsive,  responsible and  loyal.

🐅 Tiger - unpredictable, warm-hearted, over-confident, hard-working and jealous. 

🐇 Rabbit - kind, artistic, placid, sentimental and insecure.

🐉 Dragon - idealistic,  aggressive,  dauntless,  generous and intelligent.

🐍 Snake - intellectual,  thrifty,  charming,  egotistical and well-mannered.

🐎 Horse - social, suave, cunning, impatient and ambitious.

🐑 Sheep - nature loving,  creative, hesitant,  disorganised and romantic.

🐒 Monkey - cheerful,  opportunistic,  flighty, carefree and deceptive.

🐓 Rooster - observant,  straightforward,  vain, practical wnd loyal.

🐕 Dog - honest, intelligent,  defensive,  finicky and reliable.

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[video description: a video by thegentlebarn. it starts with a clip of people grooming a cow's snout with the caption, "5 signs a cow is truly ✨ happy ✨." each of the captions describing the signs is accompanied by clips of cows exhibiting them. they are:

"1. they expose their belly for tummy rubs as a sign that they trust you 2. they initiate gentle physical contact like licking or hugging you 3. they're chewing cud - this means they feel safe & their digestive system is doing its thing 👍 4. zoomies! just like with dogs, this is most often a playful, happy behavior 5. they make a 'purring' sound - cows do this when they're extremely relaxed and content. it's like a big exhale"

(This is the basis of, e.g., the infamous "Sherlock Holmes can't respect women" lawsuit: the Doyle estate, which at the time owned only a tiny handful of the latest-written stories, the others having already fallen into the public domain, argued that specific personality traits which Holmes exhibits only in those later stories are sufficiently distinctive as to be the valid subject of an infringement claim.)

With respect to various elements of Mickey's visual design, such as his red shorts and signature gloves, the matter is clear: just don't use those for another few years. However, there's another thing Mickey's public domain iterations don't exhibit: speech.

The present consensus among copyright scholars seems to be that "a character speaking" is not sufficiently distinctive as to qualify for protection, but the vocal characterisation with which Mickey Mouse is famously associated may so qualify. So, if you want to be scrupulously safe, you can have him talk, but not in that exact specific voice.

Been thinking about how much there is to love. Like, I love kpop and silly little Minecraft streamers and baseball, but I also love the smell of new books and local coffee shops and messages from online friends letting me know they’re alive and calling my mom while I’m at college just so we can quote the Lego movie together.

And I think most of all, I’m thankful for finally recognizing how many small things there are to love. Because, while the big things saved my life, they no longer need to, they can just be big things I love. But it’s the small everyday things that help me realize how beautiful life can be all the time, and how happy I am to experience it.

I don’t know. I guess I just figured out recently what happiness really is for me and it’s just got me thinking.

hey, I don't really know you, but I can tell you deserve a gold star. whatever you did recently that was hard, I'm proud of you. this star is for you