#like c'mon...

There’s no other industry out there in the world where a start-up gets off the ground and doesn’t own the trademark - it just doesn’t make sense. It may be legal, but it’s still a crime. If a bank walks away with ownership of a company and the trademark, how much should a creator really be participating? The artist should always have the lion’s share of their creation. It’s really unfortunate, you know. There was room for Scooter to make his acquisition because that’s just the way the business is, and I felt for Taylor and not being able to be in control of it. There’s a system in place that’s just all wrong. He’s a businessman and he also represents artists, so from his point of view he’s just making an acquisition of something that he felt would be a good investment. But the artist should have the opportunity to retain ownership, and I don’t know whether she did or she didn’t. I just know that the system is wired in ways that is oftentimes not always fair to the creator. I think it should be the norm that the creators retain their rights.

I want some fantasy series set in the Bronze Age and early Iron Age Ancient Near East. Or, if “set in” cannot be, at least some using (some of) those mythologies as a base for the worldbuilding/magic system.