#i cannot imagine

[bloomingdarkgarden]

I am going to say this as gracefully as possible.

There are new people in this fandom everyday, people who have never experienced fandom before, and are not aware of the courtesies surrounding fan-created work. Creative overlap totally happens within these spaces, and I have a lot of grace with those boundaries. I do believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt, particularly when they lack experience. That being said:

- Borrowing strangely specific developmental plot elements unique to a story to build your own without permission is stealing.

- Taking a sentence or metaphor from a fic and marginally warping it to pass as your own is also not ok and the original author can almost always identify it.

I could go on, or be less kind, or share screenshots, but I'm not going to (at this time). The effort I've put into the Darkgarden is immeasurable. I have dedicated 13 months and close to 1000 hours crafting this story via literal tears and 4am sessions. My voice as a writer is, well, strange- and quite distinct. This is a VERY popular story within a relatively small fandom community. If someone borrows original elements from it, it is going to be brought to my attention.

A couple of close ACOTAR writer friends have also experienced plagiarism over the last few months and it really just isn't ok, no matter the degree.

I can't explain what it feels like to see ideas + expressions I've toiled over being blatantly taken and used elsewhere. The feeling is completely arresting, gut-wrenching, and quite frankly, hurts me.

I find peace at night knowing that I crafted this story raw from my heart. It reflects in the writing.

Can you say the same?

Have a great weekend.

[cowlisthenics]

To the people mad they made Viktor ugly:

1) I'm so sorry the terminally ill disabled man is no longer the correct amount of disheveled to get you all twisted in a good way. This is actually an active example of people treating disabled ppl with visible disabilities less than human like how can you miss the point so strongly I'm actually losing my mind

2) you are actually also wrong he's literally running around with a staff and a cloak and nothing else he's serving so much cunt he's infecting other people with it literally what more could they do -

[jyndor]

this country is so violent. goddammit we are going to teach kids that murdering other kids is wrong by... putting a 14 year old to death. awesome, that definitely will do the trick.

edit: man I totally misunderstood the article I was reading, I don't think he can be given the death sentence but he will probably be getting life without parole.

[buddyhollyscurls]

honestly suing is not enough the dpr crew need to beat scott with a baseball bat

[stellar-jay]

still on dragon keeper. i NEED the liveship crew to find out the fools deal at some point. imagine finding out that your friend who was a kind of odd woman who was a very good ship's carpenter who sometimes spoke cryptically who you presume left the country to go marry her lover in the six duchies is actually a prophet, not human, probably at least over a hundred years old give or take, a notable religious figure, formerly the jester of the late king of the six duchies turned war hero, singly tasked with ensuring the skies are graced with dragons so as to delay the apocalypse, which was the only reason he was on your ship at all, who left the country to go continue delaying the apocalypse with the chosen prophesied one, the one true king of the six duchies, who is also his soulmate, who rejected him on the grounds of him being a man, married him anyways, and then brought him back from the dead. how does one react.

[sophsicle]

wait im sorry can we go back to u admitting u can’t drive?

if you wanna

i've only ever lived in big cities so having a car is a waste of money and time

also i can't even walk in a straight line let alone drive

like i am such a hazard, i can't imagine putting me in charge of a piece of machinery flying through space

[brinnanza]

Coping by writing some slightly overwrought missing scene fic for the magicians 1x4 and like not to navel gaze BUT if magic WERE real and someone put me in a fake world they wouldn't even have to try particularly hard and I would never leave I am at all times prepared to fully and entirely believe in the reality I'm currently perceiving. this means I have some Wild and Vivid dreams and also that I fully cannot relate to fictional characters in that situation. like if I went to magic school and then I woke up one day in the mental ward with a doctor telling me 'oh boy we're back on the hallucinations again huh' I would just be like "yeah sure that makes sense I'll take the haliperidol please" any time a character is like "hm this isn't quite adding up" or "this is too good to be real" I'm like couldn't be me dog I'm like 'huh weird' and then move on with my life I can't do anything about anything anyway so like might as well just hit what's pitched. might as well be a brain in a jar I have to live like this anyway

[faffreux]

y’all ever see people who are able to share art from five or even TEN years ago in a way where they still like it like?? “i’m still proud of this!” how???? 

i look at my stuff from even 2 years ago i pass away

[baronessblixen]

That one Cillian Murphy & Tom Hardy interview where the interviewer calls Cillian british and he’s immediately like « no I’m Irish. » 😂😂

I mean yeah, you wouldn't want to be called British if you're Irish 😆

[snowydeskset]

I can't imagine being charlies parents at that dinner party 😭

[technicolor-swarm-of-bees]

been tucking those little toe warmer and finger warmer packets into my boots and gloves while riding because the arena isn't heated and it's, yknow, winter in the midwest so it's freezing. they're supposed to stay hot 'up to 6 hours' but they've been hot for more like 10 hours most weeks, so after I get home I just rotate them around all my sore muscles and shit joints like heat packs, and I think this is actually doing significant good. and I was being all pleased with myself for discovering a self-care... and then I remembered that my occupational therapist has been prescribing regular heat for my myriad joint issues for like 3 years and my adhd brain managed to just wholesale forget it.

[realbadatpoker]

I feel like social media is completely different for some people

do y’all remember before direct messages tumblr had a dumbass ask limit of 10 per hour and communication was impossible until they introduced dumbass fan mail and we were basically sending telegraphs back in forth trying to communicate those were…dark times

[rivetgoth]

It's honestly crazy that discussion around testosterone HRT skews so much towards the beginning stages of it (to the point that you have dozens of guys thinking their transition is "failed" if they don't pass by like a year in lol) and what the initial changes of the first couple of months to years look like, like the classic laundry list of those early basic changes like bottom growth, voice drop, etc, when IMO literally none of that compares remotely to the depth and intensity of the long term total masculinization you start to experience like 3-5+ years in.

[noknowshame]

why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?

[pinkmonkey21]

Hey @mortalmab

WTF

ordered pizza from a small local place and they didnt actually cut it so i've chosen to revert to a wild animal and begin ripping it apart instead of just using a knife to portion slices

[reasonsforhope]

Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."

Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.

These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!

Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!

Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.

So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.