#what in plagiarisation

[timetravellingkitty]

I'm not listening to a white person on what's racist or insensitive to brown people. read orientalism by edward said before talking to me or my son ever again

[osachiyo]

writing "how (insert character) fucks you" and just slapping a twitter link on it then proceeding to tag it with x reader is crazy.

[my-mistake-lets-do-this-again]

source (x)

This whole Comic Relief video is amazing but the Jeeves and Wooster section is the best by far. Hugh Laurie’s singing + Stephen Fry’s everything killed it. With the bonus content from the whole video just being so funny.

Watch it and join me in knowing about this absolute gem.

[kissmypoets-hp]

Fanfic Classics (inspired by zeziliazink and bubu0h)

I'm not even exaggerating when I say that these Drarry fics will always be famous to me! I believe I first read these around 2018, and I've reread them multiple times since 🤣 They're hits on AO3 for a reason and I cannot recommend them enough.

Away Childish Things by @letteredlettered

Far From the Tree by aideomai

What We Pretend We Can't See by gyzym

view more fic covers here. art credits below!

Artwork used (in order):

"L'Atre (The Hearth)" by Édouard Vuillard (1899). Credit goes to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of the Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection in memory of Virginia Jackson.

"Olive Trees at Collioure" by Henri Matisse (1906). Credit goes to the 2019 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

"Corridor in the Asylum" by Vincent van Gogh (1889)

[sadkachow]

how the fuck did my english class manage to take a semi-positive stance on generative ai

[snoruntfan]

Not Palworld fans thinking Legends ZA is a response to it 😭

Legends ZA has likely been in development since 2022

So unless GameFreak knew 2 years in advance about the game (doubtful) then Legends ZA is simply a prequel/sequel to Gen 6 like how Legends Arceus is a prequel to Gen 4

[bipirate]

Wait what do you mean james somerton posted a fake suicide note, secretly switched to a different account under a false identity, started defending himself there, and then posted nudes that he apparently stole from grindr, and then just started posting his actual face and voice which is how we know all this now?

[crowleys-bentley-and-plants]

My friend told me how her uni isnt against ai and even encourages students to use it because it is inevitable and im like 😀 excuse me 😀

[xinyuehui]

I'm 10mins into EP18 and I had to pause it to come on here to write a paragraph. Up until now, I've been like hmmm okay Ziyu is a bit dumb but I'll give him time. The fact that he found out Yun Weishan is a Wufeng (by standing outside and listening in because a Wufeng assassin is that dumb to talk about their plan that loud...anyways...not the point now) and immediately sides with her against his own family??? By restraining Yuanzhi and shoved him in a cupboard????? Yuanzhi has been a bit of a smug kid and says all sort of shit but he has never hurt Ziyu physically. Shangjue comes along, and Ziyu has the heart to lie to him while standing in front of Yun Weishan. AND YET SHANGJUE STILL ORDERS TO NOT HURT ZIYU because he still prioritise his family first.

In Chinese, there's a proveb "There's gold on a man's knees" which means you do not bow down easily. When Shangjue said after he count to 3 Yuanzhi better be able to stand up. It's a massive humiliation for Yuanzhi to bow down to a bunch of traitors and a Wufeng. I've been joking saying I'm a Shangjue apologist, but at this point, I don't need to be because he really hasn't done anything wrong 🥴

I would've burned the entire house down if I were him. Fed up with internal fights and stupidity 🙄

Edit: I still stand by this after ep22 because all of this happened before his "genius" plan, he was intentionally hurting Yuanzhi for reals

[n7punk]

i was watching a video on plagarism in cosplay and the girl making the video managed to put into words something that i've kind of struggled with and tbh am still struggling to adapt to my "field" but. it bugs me so i want to try. also i should say this wicked isn't a problem it has happened to me all of Twice (one from each end) but someone finally summarized why it felt the way it did.

basically, a couple times people have commented on a fic of mine likening it to another that exists. sometimes these are innocuous and even lead me to people with similar headcanons and interpretations of the character as me. sometimes i don't like the other fic so it feels less flattering, but it's by no fault of how the comment itself is written. i've actually written a comment similar to this once and hope it didn't come across as naggy, but i found out someone else used the same prompt as me for catradora, so i basically left a comment about how funny it was that two people saw that inspiration source and went "ah yes, this could be catradora." it was supposed to be a "like sees like" kind of salute (as well as an acknowledgement that i hadn't seen their fic before as i don't go in the tags often), but i've since gotten comments that i think are trying to at least toe the line of doing the same thing and felt off (bitter, self-promotey, whatever) to me, so i retroactively worry about how they felt about it.

but really this post is about the time i had someone say "is this fic actually inspired by [other fic]" and it was 1) something i'd never heard of and 2) insulting.

so why is it insulting, what did the video finally put into words for me?

when someone accuses you of copying, using/having the same idea as someone else, etc, it is insulting the creative process and labor it took to make it. It's saying that you didn't/couldn't come up with that yourself, that you didn't develop and nurture it and plan out all the impacts this event/plot/au etc would have on the characters; that any time and effort and love you put into it never actually existed because you just stole it from someone else. it's essentially accusing you of being chatgpt, putting someone else's hard work in as input and cranking something cheap and less valuable out instead. they don't care about the work you put in anymore.

like, when i did the bachelorette au, it was straight up inspired by one that existed and i openly sourced that because it deserved it, but even then i still spent hours reading recaps of the show, previously had an interest in the franchise from podcasts, went and read interviews to get an idea of the general timelines, etc. I put a lot of work - my work, unique work, creative work - into crafting an au that, in reality, only shares the phrase "bachelorette au" with the initial source of inspiration (again, a source i love and am happy to credit anyway). if someone else wants to write a cosplay au for catradora, even if they think to do it because they read mine, as long as they're not copying the plot, backstory, etc, i think that would be super cool! honestly, i'd be flattered to be an inspiration source for that, just like i'm flattered when someone takes on one of my headcanons. it's just the basics of how creativity works. no idea, no matter how much it may feel like it, comes from nowhere. you start watching a vintage car tiktok and it puts you on a train of thoughts that eventually leads you to "lol but adora bent over the hood of her broken down car" and then you build that out until it is its own world with plot, backstory, and characters who have been tweaked by living in this different environment.

anyway, i know i've been incredibly unconcise but it boils down to creativity being a lot of effort and it doesn't feel good when people claim you didn't put in all that effort ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ man this post could have been so much shorter. should i edit it. aw fuck i have to be at work at nine tomorrow. yeah no lmao

[blorbocedes]

the part in hbomb's video where hes like creatives don't put a lot of value in creative work that feels like second nature, like writing a review or expressing succinctly how something feels... but it actually IS a skill, and one people without are more than willing to steal and rip off and chat GPT generate to make money off of because it is a monumental task when you don't have it 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[loyletomycapo]

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[irithnova]

@meerudraws admitting they posted their bullshit without even reading the full document is comedy gold.

"Worst Christmas ever" you're the one who engaged yourself bestie! You didn't have to! No one put a gun to your head and told you to engage! No one put a gun to your head and told you to release that post before you finished reading the whole document!

Absolutely braindead

[blorbo-posts]

I have an AU im working on, its a cubmumscarian vigilante au

Basically like, Cub and Scar are anti heroes, and Grian and Mumbo are vigilantes who are begrudgingly working together because they're both hunting the same crime syndicate, a group that the duo are referring to as "the eye"

Mumbo and Grian are under the impression Convex are part of the eye due to a good old case of wrong place, wrong time, but in reality they're also investigating the eye.

Oh also, Mumbo and Scar are roommates, Mumbo has a crush on Grian's civilian identity, and Cub and Grian work together

[razzek]

This is going to be hard to find so, to anyone else who was on James Somerton's Patreon until last night, can anyone help me find out the sources of his Revolutionary Girl Utena video? I really enjoyed that and I'd like to give whoever he got it from some love.

[autism-disco]

hello gamers it’s me mr fantastic welcome back to another sick minecraft let’s play. this time i thought we’d try something a little different and see if i can beat the game WHILE SLEEPING??!! WU-OH looks like someone didn’t get enough sleep but that sick minecraft grind never stops am i right gamers? …gamers??