#they’re just put in different situations

[rafesangelita]

heyy everyone, i just wanted to come on here and say a few things regarding a lot of plagiarism that’s been going on, along with some other points that i feel inclined to speak out about. before i start this post, i just want to preface this by saying that i am in no way speaking about anyone in particular, this just applies to the general community, and i think it’s important to not be so divided, especially amongst each other. so many writers in this community are so incredibly talented that unfortunately, copying and stealing of work has become a regular occurrence. below are some topics that i believe needs to talked about and acknowledged in some way.

stealing of au’s and concepts + the claim on concepts and au’s that already exist:

there is a huge difference between creating an au and introducing something completely new that has never been done before in a fandom, or ever for that matter, vs. introducing a concept that has already been around and existed outside of a fandom and bringing popularity to it/making it more well known, thus, kind of lighting a fire and inspiring others to write for it as well. this goes for plot lines, !readers, different versions of !rafe (example: frat!rafe, dealer!rafe, etc..), prompts, and the list can go on. there’s so many original au’s and concepts out there, but there’s also a lot of stuff that’s already been done before that isn’t considered ‘original’, which means it would’t call for the need to be credited for in the first place.

the difference between being ‘inspired’ by someone else’s work vs. publishing a remake and often times NOT crediting the original writer:

no matter what the instance is; being inspired by someone’s work, or publishing your own version of the same original concept by someone else, YOU SHOULD ALWAYS ASK THE ORIGINAL WRITER FOR PERMISSION FIRST. if they tell you yes, CREDIT them, if they tell you no, COME UP WITH SOMETHING ELSE. if you’re ‘inspired’ by someone, your work should not be similar to theirs in a way that the plot, !reader, !rafe, prompt, etc.. is being used in the exact same way as their original work. you could only be ‘inspired’ so much before you’re just paraphrasing a fic, it truly gets to a point.

DIRECT communication:

this would fix most, if not all, of the problems in this fandom. feel like someone is copying you? (using exact, word for word, lines from your writing pieces?) DIRECTLY confront them. feel uncomfortable with the similarities between your work, or works, and another writer’s? DIRECTLY express your concerns with your valid proof. feel as if your layout is being copied and you’re not being given credit? DIRECTLY, kindly, ask for someone to start doing so. politely messaging someone will never make you confrontational or problematic, INDIRECTLY making rant posts that are throwing disses at someone without messaging them about the situation first is what does that. INDIRECTLY speaking out about someone hoping they’ll see it and know they’re the one being talked about doesn’t make the matter any easier when it really all could be resolved with a single message. PLEASE JUST TALK!! we are all (mostly) adults..

note: i say this with only one exception in mind; if you see anything like this and you make the active decision not to make shady posts, acknowledge the situation, confront a person, or simply just put your energy into something like that, and instead you just block the person and move on with your day, that is 100% your choice, and you don’t owe anyone an explanation for anything.

debunking the whole ‘this fandom isn’t welcoming to newcomers’ accusation:

this is not true in the slightest. if you’re a new writer in this fandom, and you’re not starting off by coming up with your own fics and ideas, but instead piggy backing off of others, stealing and not crediting, copying, etc.. you truly can’t expect others to want to interact with you if you don’t have the common decency to not do certain things. this is not just for this fandom, but any fandom that you may write in. think about it like this; if people and other writers are supporting a writer that you’re ripping off of, why on earth would they interact with you if they are already reading similar, if not the same, content from someone else? it’s not possible to establish yourself anywhere if you build your blog off of copying, that’s just the truth!

[astronicht]

if you’re looking for prompts i would LOVE some outside pov on rosquez if any era 💜

In my heart and dick I wanted this to be Dani or Dovi pov from earlier in the rosquez saga, but I’m just not era-informed enough. Instead, I have yet again put Marco Bezzecchi in unfair situations. Also this isn’t even REALLY to the prompt, because outside pov is fun when it’s subtle, and this is about as subtle as a chair to the face. Whatever I tried!!

It’s Pecco’s personal motorhome, Ducati red. Rain is loud on the roof. Far off, road bikes rev among the tents and tarps where the fans are camped in the mud of Mugello. Marco still smells like damp leathers from practice. Pecco had said, “Ah shit, they’re calling me in early. I’ll see you later, let yourself out.” Pecco wants to win at Mugello. So does Marco, obviously, but he deals with it differently, packed down and nervous in his stomach until he gets on the bike and finds out if it’s good nervous or bad. 

So Pecco had left. And Marco had nodded and grunted and finished watching the show on Pecco’s ipad, because that was what they'd agreed to do, and then went and pissed in Pecco’s bathroom. He washes his hands. He dries them. The door — not the bathroom door, the exterior door — pushes open. The roar of rain and street bikes and generators rushes in, and stumbling footsteps, wet shoes squeaking on the metal steps.

Marco thinks, maybe an assistant. Maybe Pecco back early.

But no: Outside the bathroom door, Vale’s voice says, “Oh, I found it.” Pecco's front door shuts, and in the ensuing quiet is the clink of keys. Vale has keys to everything, because people just give them to him. You learn that early on at VR.

A laugh, not Vale's. Marco has paused at the door handle. It will be a little awkward if he opens it now, but fine. The more seconds tick by, the weirder it gets. He could flush again. He could run the sink.

Another laugh, smothered. Like by a mouth. That is not Valentino laughing. Marco’s palms are sweating.

“No, here,” says Vale. “Here is fine.”

“No, no, whose is this?”

Marco has rarely heard Marc Marquez speak Italian. He is doing it now, fluent and easy. But with a gasp on the end.

Something inaudible from Vale, who is not worrying about pronouncing his Italian. Marco’s palm is slick on the door handle. He’s trying to remember, heart pounding, if he unlocked it already.

“Oh,” says Marc Marquez, who is laughing again. “He’ll be half an hour, then. It’s his turn for the Mugello speech.”

“The Mugello speech?” Vale asks, amused.

“Gigi’s don’t die for glory in Mugello speech.”

Vale makes a 'hm' noise. It is no longer amused.

The slick sound of kissing is loud over the rain. It is personal. It is something you're only supposed to hear at a party, when you are too drunk to care what the people behind you on the bed are doing, unless they-- unless they say-- or touch your shoulder. Marco tries not to breathe loud. He is afraid to take his hand off the door.

In Spanish now— “Wait, wait, I can—”

A belt buckle clinks. Marco knows it’s Vale’s, and that that’s Vale’s zipper going down, fast and fumbling. He wouldn’t have thought it would be fast and fumbling.

Someone’s knees hit the floor. The picture floats up in Marco’s mind, unbidden, unwanted. He has to part his mouth so he doesn’t breathe too fast and loud through his nose.

Then Marc Marquez whispers, quiet and strained, “Fuck, Valenino, fuck—”

Vale’s belt clinks, desperate and fast.

A wet noise. Vale says something like ‘hm’ again, but it is very clear that he says it with something in his mouth.

[snowyh2o]

I absolutely love how of the (two) Hazbin Hotel role swap AUs that featured Alastor as either supporting or starting the redemption project I’ve seen and liked, they both put him in glasses and gave him a pony tail. That is what I call peak character design right there.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Outdrawn

f/f contemporary romance

two cartoonist who’ve been rivals since uni, and now have competing webcomics online, have to work together on the relaunch of a cult classic at the comic press they both work at

they both struggle with art-related physical and mental health issues, and complicated families

[flightlesskiwi]

I don’t think the Rat Grinders are irredeemable or whatever but I DO think a lot of people are putting the onus on Brennan specifically to redeem them or “write them a redemption arc”, like yes it is a show and there has to be character narratives especially for foils to your PCs, but ttrpgs are fundamentally a /collaborative/ storytelling medium, the thing about DnD is that the players have to invest in the NPCs, they have to give them the time and space to redeem themselves through interacting with them, the reason we see characters like Aelwyn and Ragh get a redemption arc & change and develop is because the Bad Kids went out of their way to talk to them (In Aelwyn’s case Adaine had to commit to redeeming her sister on multiple occaisions). Lets not forget there have been other teen villains, like Penelope, Dayne and Biz who the Bad Kids just straight up killed in combat, who didn’t get redeemed. Do I think it’s fully possible that the Rat Grinders can experience redemption/forgiveness and it would be narratively satisfying? Absolutely! But, imo, a lot of the narrative thrust behind wether a character gets redemption is in the hands of the players, and it would be a little bit unsatisfying if being freed from their rage crystals immediately gave them all full personality transplants (like removing all of Kipperlily’s anger and ambition for example)

[adashofniallandasprinkleoflunacy]

home from work

[mandalhoerian]

OK DISCOURSE TIME!!! I've played TONS of otome/otome gacha in my time so I want to talk about this phenonenon a lil bit!

I totally get where this is coming from, first of all! I think the reason it feels like that is because the MC isn’t really a stand-in for us in the traditional sense. She’s written as her own character: she has a distinct personality, a backstory, a voice, and her own reactions to situations, differing from a lot of dating simulators out there. Like, take Mystic Messenger. in that game, the MC is almost completely blank. She doesn’t even have a face or a defined backstory, and her personality is shaped almost entirely by the player’s choices. This makes it super easy to project yourself onto her because there’s no existing character to get in the way. She’s more of a placeholder for you, so it feels like you’re the one texting the RFA members, building those relationships, and getting pulled into the drama. The game is designed to make you feel like the central character in every way.

Now compare that to something like Obey Me, where the MC is also somewhat neutral but still has a bit more personality and presence. They don’t have a backstory or a detailed face either, but they do have a clearer voice in the dialogue. Their responses often hint at their own sense of humor or emotions, even if it’s subtle. Still, they’re written to be flexible enough that the player can feel like they are the one navigating the relationships with the demon brothers. It’s a middle ground, there’s some character there, but not so much that it takes you out of the experience of self-insertion.

In LADS, the writing leans more into a story-driven approach and strips you of choice-making that puts you in control of the MC, where she’s the protagonist and you’re more of an observer. This is why it can feel like a novel or a TV show where you’re rooting for the main character but might also feel a little jealous because she isn’t you.

When games like this give the MC their own traits AND takes away the element of choice, it creates this weird disconnect. On one hand, we’re supposed to project onto her because she represents us in the story, but on the other hand, she’s clearly her own person with her own role in the narrative. It’s less “I’m the one dating Xavier” and more “I’m watching her date Xavier,” which can absolutely bring up those feelings of jealousy or distance.

It’s not necessarily a bad thing---it just means the game leans more toward being a story-driven experience rather than a traditional self-insert dating sim!!

Guys I may be mentally insane but ... Why do I low-key feel jealous of MC when I see clips of the upcoming cards... Especially the Sylus one..

IK SHE'S MEANT TO BE US BUT 😭😭

[cetoddle]

i do like writing in second person. but i hate trying to get other people’s opinions on it because they either don’t actually understand what i mean or try to make it about h*mestuck

[a-wins-a-win]

unpopular opinion?? maybe?

Matt & Ivy have a really interesting dynamic!! both pre- and post-canon!! with or without romantic undertones!! either reciprocal or one-sided!!

and obviously it has to be handled with a particular level of care/respect BUT I think if we allowed them enough grace there is space to explore a really interesting possibility for that relationship.

[butnotbubblegum]

Thinking a lot recently about the fact that within a wider group of friends there will be people you don’t like. And this is fine and normal and you just get on with them because that’s what you do. But when it happens in a smaller group which is tighter knit, what do you do then? If you try and do the same it comes across weirdly. Because the level of closeness with the rest of the group is on average higher than in a big group.

[skhardwarevers1]

anyways “just don’t leave me alone wondering where you are” Program and “I am stronger than you give me credit for” Vista

[nellasbookplanet]

Trying not to be annoyed at the people commenting on my mass effect wishlist about how they like the boob windows actually, because I get it’s a kind of jokey response to a kind of jokey post. I get wanting a bit of fanservice on occassion, or wanting to have optional sexy outfits or characters who dress in a sexy way if it suits their personality and/or the occassion (such as a character dressing up for a party).

But please tell me you didn’t somehow play the entire trilogy without noticing the massive disparity between male and female character design. I am not being jokey anymore, it’s genuinely gross how the games were seemingly so at a loss about what to do with a woman who can’t be sexualized that they simply refused to feature them at all, and all you can say is 'but I like the boob windows'!!

Okay yeah I'm annoyed.

[ow-old-men]

sorry i'm 50-50 split on the vote why can't i just do both? like both in voting and not in voting

I say this with all love for the many-faceted nature of humanity that I could ever muster, but if there is any doubt in your mind, we operate on entirely different hotness scales

It is the most straightforward choice I’ve ever been presented with. Your indecision is as foreign to me as most types of advanced maths. Projecting myself into the headspace where this choice is in any way a challenge is like asking me to imagine the world how a tree sees it; I will indulge, I will try to be empathetic through all means available to me and yet I will always come up short: the wiring of my entire being is incompatible. You’ve heard me state the sky is blue and told me you waiver between calling it blue or brown

[leviiackrman]

I actually want to scream so bad rn

[vanity-complex]

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[crutchie-morris]

i forgot the special kind of goodbad that fanfiction.net fics are

they’re so wonderful