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Stargate Atlantis | 2x17 Coup d'Etat

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Best McShep Episode Poll: 1st Place | 5.06 “The Shrine” 

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Reblog if your art project has not, does not, and never will make use of generative ai at any point in your creative process.

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Reminder that if you support trump in any way, shape, or form to unfollow me immediately 🥰🥰🥰

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John Sheppard + kneeling for @colonelshepparrrrd <3

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i hate seeing people drink the openai/chatgpt koolaid 😭😭😭 genuinely feels like watching someone get seduced by scientology or qanon or something. like girl help it's not intelligent it's Big Autocomplete it's crunching numbers it's not understanding things i fuckign promise you. like ohhh my god the marketing hype fuckign GOT you

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I've rarely seen a more validating sentence in my entire life.

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Stargate Atlantis: Harmony

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Alan Parker, Joe Leitel and Bruce Reed Ben-Hurry (1959) dir. Richard Fontaine

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Hi, @pyros-hollow. Let's clear the air.

On May 5th, you sent me these anon messages: 

This is how I responded to you: 

The next day, you messaged me privately to apologize for making me uncomfortable. I thanked you for your apology, and reiterated that I did not mind if you wanted to write the same trope as me, but that I would like my versions of these works to remain mine. I expressed that I would have preferred if you had talked to me first. 

I read your fic, I mentioned that I noticed a lot of similarities to my own writing, but that plagiarism can be tricky when you’re admittedly very inspired by another writer. I told you that this is where communication plays a huge role in avoiding these uncomfortable situations. Finally, I told you that I would like it if you unlinked your story from mine on ao3, and that you and I could work together to fix the parts that feel too close for comfort. 

Initially I told you I would highlight portions I felt could be fixed. Upon rereading your story, I told you that it was not just specific lines, but it was the overall tone, structure, and premise that, in my opinion, strongly mirrored my writing. I told you I recognize that interpretation is subjective, but with all of this combined - emotional inflection, the way scenes are framed, sometimes dialogue and even the narrative voice that the story was written in - to me, closely echoed what I wrote. I told you it felt like a paraphrasing rewrite of my writing with slight changes. 

I reiterated again that I do not own these tropes or general ideas, but the way they are expressed is something that is unique to every writer. I told you that my intention with this conversation was not to discourage you from writing, but to help you see the line between being inspired by work and unintentionally recreating it. I asked that instead of changing things line by line, to consider how you would write that story in the case that you had not read my work. 

You bucked me every step of the way. You were not receptive to any of my advice, and you came up with multiple excuses to sidestep taking responsibility for your mistake. So finally, I told you that I was uncomfortable with this conversation, so I would be removing myself from the situation. I wished you the best with your writing going forward. Then, I blocked you. I did not talk about this on tumblr beyond answering your anon above.

You messaged me on Discord afterward, telling me that you felt horrible about making me uncomfortable. I did not respond to you. 

Three days after this interaction, you posted this: 

You responded to anons mostly in favor of me, but some in favor of you, too. You also posted screenshots of our private conversation, which is against Tumblr’s terms of service. 

You also admitted to making these harassing posts out of  “petty revenge”. 

At this point, my friend messaged you in good faith and advised that you take down these posts tagged with #drama and other things like that, understanding that this was a painful situation for us both, but that your choice to post these things was harmful for all parties involved. You were receptive to her, and took down these posts. 

But by the end of May, you were sending anons about me to the confessions blog. The specific use of the word “greedy” gave you away. You used that word multiple times when you posted about me on your own blog. 

These last two “confessions” were posted within the last couple days.

You were careless enough to like some of the posts on the confessions blog (these ones or other ones I can’t remember) which is why you were blocked by my friend who messaged you to take down those posts, as well as some other people. We’re not a clique, btw. Besides that one friend who messaged you, nobody knew what happened between you and I. 

So, to sum it all up - you have: 

Intentionally or not, plagiarized my fic. I attempted to deal with this privately, but…

YOU took things public, posting about me in an attempt to validate yourself or send hate to me. You posted screenshots of our private conversation - again, something that goes against Tumblr’s terms of service.

You have publicly interacted with the confessions blog, which more writers beyond just me block - something they are well within their right to do.

You’ve also written incest, lol. No judgment here, obviously. I do think it’s interesting you want sympathy from the kink-shaming confessions blog to validate yourself. They think you’re just as disgusting as I am.

And publicly admitted to using AI to write your fics 👇

And you’re bent out of shape that people are blocking you. That is a result of your own behavior.

I did not want to make this a public thing. I let it go until now, because you can’t. But since you want to make this public, let’s make this public. Let everyone see the role you played in this situation. I was patient with you. I was generous. I was kind. You made me uncomfortable, and I tapped out of the situation - this is how you chose to retaliate.

For someone who claimed to love me and respect me so much, this sure doesn’t feel like it. And I get that you’re my number one hater now - cute, btw. I’m glad you’re so proud of that. But I don’t think you ever respected me to begin with. Your behavior is appalling.

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I love auto-selecting camp supplies, it’s too funny

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So I'm currently in Season 3 of Sg1 and I have been hit with another difference between Sg1 and Atlantis.

The SGC is a job. Atlantis is home.

Don't get me wrong, the sg1 team is pack bonded and absolutely feral about each other. They are family. They are friends. They are also coworkers. They commute to the sgc. They have houses and apartments and lives outside of the stargate program. (Well, some of them do.) They get paid, go on vacations, and get benefits. In the end, this is a job. A job you love, with people you would die for, at a place that could be a second home, but a job.

Atlantis is a home first and a job second. They live there. They fall asleep to the sound of waves lapping against the piers of Atlantis. They go for runs in the catwalks. There's a chess club, a mensa chapter, an outdoors club, they go fishing and play volleyball together. They go for dates in the cafeteria, have Atlantis movie nights, and meet up for breakfast. They're a tight knit community.

The SGC is also a military base and it shows, it's barren and impersonal, there are a few exceptions to this, like Daniel having a picture of Sha're on his desk, but for the most part there's little to no personalization. Even the lighting is often very sterile and military. Again, there's exceptions, like the often warm and yellow lighting used in Daniel's office, but the hallways are all extremely sterile. (There's something to be said for the way that Daniel is most often the one breaking up the uniform and military vibes of the base, but that's another post)

Atlantis, on the other hand, is heavily personalized. They hang posters on their walls, they have golf clubs, art supplies, and remote control cars. There's dirty clothes on the floor of their quarters, a mini fridge tucked into the corner, and books left open on their beds. There's something so familiar and comfortable about Atlantis. A sense of belonging that doesn't come across as much as in Sg1.

Honestly, I think it comes back to how militarized the SGC is and how civilian Atlantis is. The vibe is less found family military heroes and more Atlantis is a home to the lost and the broken.

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09x13 - Ripple Effect