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People need to learn what derivative art means.

What it doesn’t mean: copying something but changing it slightly.

What it means: copying something but changing it slightly without understanding it.

A lot of anime about “girl life and girl problems” written by men are extremely derivative. It’s obvious they have no idea what it’s like to be a young girl but they like the genre and just copies what they’ve seen in other stories like that, resulting in girls who feel more like passive puppets.

Most of Studio Ghibli’s girls aren’t derivative. They react like real little girls to situations. Say someone is attacking them, they don’t respond with extreme passiveness or immediate aggression but by trying to get away, trying to stop the aggressor in their tracks or hiding, only turning to aggression when all else fails. They’re written as characters instead of tropes. They show anger and sadness in appropriate situations and don’t come off as weird mystical creatures with no rime or reason. That’s a huge part of why a lot of anime girls feel unfair and moody. The creator has no idea how girls respond to things so they make a guess based on other works.

Someone making a magical girl story isn’t automatically being derivative. They might like magical girl stories but get ideas based on their own life and experiences. A black girl making a magical black girl isn’t being derivative. She just couldn’t help but imagine what it would be like for a black girl to go through that.

I can’t say it enough. Taking inspiration from stuff isn’t copying or being derivative. I often see fanart that has so little in common with the original work that it might as well be the fanartist’s own character and my immediate thought is always “Just make it your own character. You’ve put so much of yourself into this it’s no longer the original character and it would be so much more interesting if you allowed yourself to go all in on this idea, and trust me, people will like it way more. Yes you can make them a pirate too. Pirate stories are a whole genre”

Anyone who accuse other people of being derivative left and right is a 100% guilty of exactly the same thing they consider derivative when other people do it. Show me any character or story and I can say “Oh it’s [insert story idea or character] like [insert story idea or character]” The only thing new about any story is our own take on it.

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We really do need to bring back the word "trolling" and warning ppl not to feed the trolls

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Supreme Court refuses to hear case that allows states to ban mass protest

You can’t protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas anymore. And there will be more states to follow in their example.

You know what time it is?

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So, there's a dirty little secret in indie publishing a lot of people won't tell you, and if you aren't aware of it, self-publishing feels even scarier than it actually is.

There's a subset of self-published indie authors who write a ludicrous number of books a year, we're talking double digit releases of full novels, and these folks make a lot of money telling you how you can do the same thing. A lot of them feature in breathless puff pieces about how "competitive" self-publishing is as an industry now.

A lot of these authors aren't being completely honest with you, though. They'll give you secrets for time management and plotting and outlining and marketing and what have you. But the way they're able to write, edit, and publish 10+ books a year, by and large, is that they're hiring ghostwriters.

They're using upwork or fiverr to find people to outline, draft, edit, and market their books. Most of them, presumably, do write some of their own stuff! But many "prolific" indie writers are absolutely using ghostwriters to speed up their process, get higher Amazon best-seller ratings, and, bluntly, make more money faster.

When you see some godawful puff piece floating around about how some indie writer is thinking about having to start using AI to "stay competitive in self-publishing", the part the journalist isn't telling you is that the 'indie writer' in question is planning to use AI instead of paying some guy on Upwork to do the drafting.

If you are writing your books the old fashioned way and are trying to build a readerbase who cares about your work, you don't need to use AI to 'stay competitive', because you're not competing with these people. You're playing an entirely different game.

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I’m so sorry but in the nicest way possible do yall actually read books or just read words??? Cause I’ve been seeing that trend of people not understanding how “snarled” and “eyes darkened” and “eyes softened” etc. was used in a book and like…

Genuinely, do yall just not have imagination?? Or not understand figurative language??? Also eyes do literally darken and soften have you not lived a life??? How do you read with no imagination? Is this how you get through so many books in one month - you simply don’t take the time the understand the words as they are read?

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Music is magic.

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Maybe this is the wrong platform to pose this question given the average tumblr user but

Is it just me or did our generation (those of is who are currently 20-30 ish) just not get the opportunity to be young in the 'standard' sense?

Like, everyone I talk to who's over 40 has all their wild stories about their teens and 20s, being young and dumb, and then I talk to my friends and coworkers and classmates, and we just... dont.

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"No climate justice on occupied land"

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I get my media recommendations the old fashioned way: by watching someone I follow on here go on an unhinged reblog spree of media related content until I eventually decide to go "alright, what's all this then"

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People know that the whole "don't portray [harmful action] because viewers might recreate it" thing is a rule for children's shows right? It's supposed to be shit like "don't show peppa pig playing with fire so we don't get sued if a kid watches it and burns their house down." Not like, fanfiction for adults.

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what's the most cancelable shit y'all do when ur not online

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~ Featuring Pink ~