#on the plagiarist

[dragonomatopoeia]

i'm always a bit unsettled by disdain for intellectual or creative labor in leftist spaces. there's this commonly held belief that academics are a bunch of rich old white men, rather than a wide variety of people who are barely getting by. most lecturers in universities are adjuncts living paycheck to paycheck. authors make very little money as a general rule. most researchers are overworked and underpaid. and yet there's still this idea that academics are overcompensated to sit around and smoke cigars together while making shit up

[8one6]

"... In the video, Somerton blames his serial plagiarism on a childhood head injury. No, that's not a joke..."

[eldritch-bf]

I love Dan with internalized homophobia bc it’s like “Herbert I’m willing to desecrate corpses and be an accessory to murder after the fact but I’m too afraid to act on my attraction for you”

[pulsingvoid]

romance

[rlaehrwk-37]

How do I explain to someone that the side story is a book about a guy who wrote a book about a guy who read a book about a guy who read that same book and made some strangers read that very book via the first guy who wrote that book who actually didn’t even write it himself.

[twinklecupcake]

Begging people to not mix up Japanese and Chinese wedding traditions/clothing.  I just saw an LMK fic mention a character wearing “a traditional wedding dress, a red shiromuku.”

Which first of all isn’t even red, it’s white, it’s right there in the name, and second of all holy hell no, that’s Japanese.

Not to mention the actual wedding was a Western Christian one.

[therealvinelle]

twilight-tok is high key ripping off/parroting yours and the muffin’s heretical metas it’s actually getting crazy. do you and the muffin feel weird that they don’t credit you?

We do, actually. While we're not on tiktok and it's news to us this was happening there too, we've seen a lot of it already on the platforms we do frequent and this being on tiktok as well does explain a lot.

At first noticing little and not-so-little ripoffs was funny, these days it's just very discouraging and part of the reason we post less and keep new fics unpublished.

Credit people, guys, it's not that hard.

[fukutomichi]

The Plagiarist (2019) directed by James Popplewell Sam Hazeldine as Jason Harlow For @thequeensjester ❤ Thank you for the recommendation!

[phantomrose96]

I'm having an incredibly strange glitch where when I look at my own blog, every single post I've reblogged is attributed to one of 3 blogs, assigned seemingly at random. Tumblr picked your blog as one of them, so congrats on retroactively authoring half of the posts on this website I guess!

I hope you have a good day! ✨

In a modern day that is rife with discourse about plagiarism, intentional erasure of authorship, and theft of intellectual property, Tumblr has taken a bold and brave approach to solving the problem by spinning a very big and shiny roulette wheel. They didn’t have time to think this through so it has the only three tumblr users they could think of. This has brought peace to the website.

[disgracefulthings]

Is it me or...

Is Han Sooyoung from Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint very similar to our resident hamster?

[accirax]

Exchange #2: Whit's gift for Charles!

[thatrandomblogsays]

Me anytime a video essayist I like posts a new video and wondering if it’s original work or if they plagiarized it

[jilted-love]

Orv: reading the story again changes the story

Me: If the Demon King of Salvation is the constellation sponsor of 0th turn Yoo Joonghyuk but Yoo Joonghyuk forgot about it because of his first regression that means that when 1864th turn Yoo Joonghyuk saw Kim Dokja become DKOS, they are both reuniting and meeting for the first. It's a time paradox that neither one of them knows about. They don't know how significant that moment is for both of them. An inevitable reunion and immediate parting. Star-crossed? More like time fucked, giving this official ORV art another meaning.

[wowitsverycool]

damn i thought about how pro-copyright people on the internet are getting and got really mad again

[seneon]

i hate to be those booktok girls who goes like "omg dazai is so relatable" "omg sewercide king!!" "he's literally me fr!" but like... the way he writes oba yozo's view on his family in no longer human actually gave me chills when i read it. wdym you're only funny n silly to your family but feels the least speck of human emotion and understanding !! wdym you're a people pleaser!! wdym you draw morbid paintings to feel something!! clown shit!! ( he js like me fr )

[annabelle--cane]

this is too much I need ink5oul back