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David RevoyMy treasure
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Martin Owens 
mime-type: animal/pet
Arioch@davidrevoy I want a pet mimic now
Chakat FirepawI'll tell you one thing: They're easy to feed for a while, just teach them to copy an Amazon package.
cptcv 🌼@davidrevoy c'est du poirier savant ?
HighlandLawyer
Charadon@davidrevoy Ah yes, the Minecraft method of taming =P
Olivier Saraja ☕️📚🦖🛸👻@davidrevoy Cette nouvelle série est désormais très prometteuse. Quelle est ton idée derrière le format carré des planches? Tu ne te coupes pas l'herbe sous les pieds pour une éventuelle diffusion papier relié?
@oliviersaraja Merci! Le format carré, c'est juste pratique pour une consomation directe sur les reseaux sociaux; ça passe et en écran de PC/laptop, et en mode mobile à la verticale. Pour une publi papier, on verra; mais je pense à un petit format comme un manga carré. Ca serait sympa à bouquiner. Mais oui, ça marchera pas dans un album classique A4 BD couleur avec couv en dure, mais pas trop grave... Web first et community first 😉
Drekles Void Art [On a Hiatus] 🔞 
lp0 on fire 
I'd say that that was the Luggage, but there are no legs.
https://wiki.lspace.org/The_Luggage
https://wiki.lspace.org/The_Luggage
四@lp0_on_fire I was going to say The Luggage’s nephew :)
Jargoggles
The Luggage
The Luggage is a fictional object that appears in several of the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. It is a large chest made of Sapient Pearwood (a magical, intelligent plant which is nearly extinct, impervious to magic, and only grows in a few places outside the Agatean Empire, generally on sites of very old magic, such as Indian burial grounds and ancient monolithic sites). It can produce hundreds of little legs protruding from its underside and can move very fast if the need arises. It...
@jargoggles Perfect 🙂 That's indeed a little cameo in disguise (for copyright reason).
@davidrevoy
Legally distinct baggage creature.
Legally distinct baggage creature.
@jargoggles Yep, good dogo-like-treasure CC-BySa Creature :D For future video games derivations maybe.
Emelia/Emi@davidrevoy FYI on the alt-text (not intended as criticism): that particular type of monster is generally known in English as a "Mimic" given that they 'mimic' treasure chests. And in panel two she throws a bone 'at' the mimic, not 'to' it ('to' implies she's intending for the mimic to catch it, while 'at' implies she wants to hit it with the bone).
For some reason this reminds me of "The Luggage" from Discworld... (basically a mimic that acts like a very overprotective dog, and also happens to function like a self-propelled larger-on-the-inside luggage trunk)
@becomethewaifu Thank you. yes, the Luggage reference is wanted (Discworld fan here 😉 ).
The Mimic is a DnD name at origin (so copyright?) but the creature exist in many fantasy games, anime, and books. That's why I prefered to avoid this name. On a personal note: I like the versions in Dragon Quest or in Secret of Mana.
The Mimic is a DnD name at origin (so copyright?) but the creature exist in many fantasy games, anime, and books. That's why I prefered to avoid this name. On a personal note: I like the versions in Dragon Quest or in Secret of Mana.
@davidrevoy Honestly calling it a mimic is perfectly fine, because names are generally handled under trademark, not copyright, and trademark almost always requires that a mark not be 'generic' or 'purely descriptive'. And given that calling "a monster mimicking a thing" (treasure chest, chair, etc.) 'a mimic' is about as descriptive as you can get, any attempt at 'enforcement' would likely be grounds for sanctions against the lawyers that filed it with how purely-descriptive it is.
Now the term 'Hobbit' on the other hand, that was made up by Tolkien, and his descendants are dead set on keeping that trademark/copyright money-train going as long as they're legally able to, which is why almost everything else uses the term 'halfling' instead (which predates DnD by "a few centuries", and is thus also free to use)
Linebyline→mastoart.social@davidrevoy @becomethewaifu I have a hard time believing that any reasonable person would think the name "mimic" is copyrightable. Might not even be trademarkable.
Unfortunately corporate legal teams in general, and WoTC's in particular, aren't known for being reasonable. You probably made the right call.
@linebyline As I said as well: the term 'mimic' is both a descriptive English word, and super generic (it's used to refer to a lot of things in real life too, like "ant mimics"). Any lawyer that puts their name on an attempted enforcement action is at risk of sanctions it's so obviously not protected, even if it never makes it across a court clerk's counter.
@becomethewaifu True! Unfortunately, lawyers do a lot of things that risk sanctions, if they think they can get away with it. (See: Most of US politics the past few years, and anyone representing a billionare.)
Besides, two *competing* companies own (or owned) the name of an entire genre of comics. US trademark law is bonkers. Or at least what does and doesn't get enforced, even where the actual law itself makes some degree of sense.
Nartance
MR.Cleymoxx@davidrevoy I'm thinking DISCWORLD 1, 2 for the PS1...
Nosaj 
Was more than half expecting a Frieren face first into the mimic meme panel
datenwolf@davidrevoy is it made from sapient pearwood?
@datenwolf 😉 Yes.
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Aviva Gary
Internet Rando@davidrevoy they're all good mimics, bront.
Gords@davidrevoy Il est en poirier magique ?
@Gords Oui 
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Touhoppai@davidrevoy Il est adorable :)
Très bonne idée ce crossover discworld !
Très bonne idée ce crossover discworld !
@touhoppai Merci ! J'ai cru quand même que ça allait être un peu heavy en termes de gag à référence, mais ça a l'air de bien passer. (Alicja ne connaissait pas ce genre de monstre, donc elle trouvait ça gentillet, mais sans plus, limite un peu gratuit).
Kalle Katt@davidrevoy Literally just the luggage from Discworld. Albeit, a bit less murderous than the luggage.
@Kallekatt13 I'm so happy many got the reference 🐢🐘🐘🐘🐘 . That's the closest thing I can do without doing a copyright infringement an inventing my own luggage-like creature. ☺️
@davidrevoy I love Discworld, even tho I often feel like I've read too little of it.
Steven Sandoval@davidrevoy I know itʼs meant to be a mimic, but I canʼt help but think it is a chest made of sapient pearwood. https://wiki.lspace.org/Sapient_pearwood #discworld
@baltakatei yes, it's a crossover 😉
BrilliantIdiotAdorable as always. 
Sci-Fi GirlAdorable! 🥰
Aral Balkan@davidrevoy Gorgeous :)
Expert Plus 🍀🔱@davidrevoy Lol, I love it!
Justin@davidrevoy #camelCase hash tags please. 😀
@justin Right, I'll try to remember about it!
Decius@davidrevoy I shared that with my players. I get back “yes yes YES YES YES”. They’ve been wanting a pet mimic for four years!
Alice 🔥 End Of An Era
Jacket@davidrevoy Reminds me of chester from don't starve.
Claudio Zizza 🦜@davidrevoy You know that treasure chests can contain rare grimoire? Ignore the spell that can tell if a chest is a mimic or not. It's just 99% accurate. #frieren
KiwiRed
Physicmâne@davidrevoy can we see the influence of the Luggage from the Discworld series? 😉😄
@physicman Oh yes, big time! 🐢 🐘🐘🐘🐘 😉 👍
Clifton RoystonDo you have these hosted somewhere that I could give as a more permanent link than a mastodon reference? This is delightful and I’d like to share it with someone.
vv221You can find the Mini Fantasy Theater series here: https://www.davidrevoy.com/tag/minifantasytheater
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