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getvalentined · 19 days

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Thinking about finally throwing all my FF7 meta analysis and lore deep dive stuff onto a sideblog. It'd be reblogged from here, but I'd be able to organize it a little better, have a directory so people could find things more easily, and maybe it'd stop people from regurgitating things I say word-for-word for brownie points when they can just find and reblog the fucking original post(s).

#fandom vent #this happens WAY more often than I talk about #like constantly #not daily #but if I put up a ramble #there will always be 2-3 people on the twits or here #who immediately start saying the same thing #in the same words #acting like they're the ones that did the analysis #and it's really frustrating #y'all know I actually do research on this shit?#I check my sources #I review the source material #I get alternate translations to be sure #I read real-life research journals for scientific stuff #I research dates and real-world events and natural phenomena and religious history etc etc etc #it's not just 'nashi writes 2k words of bullshit and hits POST'#I do actual research for my analyses and my deep dives #I cite my sources whenever possible #I don't LINK all the time because that can kick a post from the tags #but I don't just make shit up #so people grabbing it and running with it as if they were the ones that did the work to figure it out #is super disheartening #my current big research project is figuring out if Reeve's surname #is actually rooted in Gaelic #because it's such a weird name #and it's possible that it's not spelled right #because it may be Gaelic #this is a theory that has not panned out yet #but I've been researching it on and off for weeks

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