#to assume is to make and ass of u & me

[utilitycaster]

Ludinus Da'leth, to Fearne and Imogen:

The security footage of the gods he's showing them a couple months later:

[gatheredfates]

On the Topic of Plagiarism:

I decided to make my own post rather that co-oping @thefreelanceangel's because, despite having her full and enthusiastic permission to do so, what I'm talking about is somewhat adjacent to her point and entirely inspired BY the fact she tagged @riftdancing—particularly Blink—and I wanted to demonstrate examples of incidence were coincidence and consent do not immediately equate to plagiarism; it's ultimately about intent, and you do not need to tear yourself up on the inside if you find someone with a similar idea to yours, provided neither of you have gone out of your way to copy each other.

First, please meet the troops:

On the left is Miss Koret Swan. On the right is Miss Blink Vaniro. As I so delicately summed up:

It would be easy to surmise, based on this alone, that one of us copied the other person. However, both of these are old characters, written in a time and space where neither of us knew each other, and the similarities have always been a cause for laughter and playful teasing rather than competition and spite. I made Koret in WoW as a sister to a wolf and lamb concept, and Pepper made Blink as a character to an overarching D&D campaign set in a sci-fi universe.

What I'm trying to say is that, whilst plagiarism is absolutely a bad thing, as someone with anxiety over this sort of thing, you do not need a wholly 100% original idea in order to write and roleplay publicly, and many ideas share overt similarities to others that deviate the moment you peel back the veneer.

Koret and Blink are both 'pirates'. Koret is a privateer (said with all the sarcasm a privateer entails; a pirate with the proper papers) and Blink is a sky pirate. All of Kor's theming is around the ocean, particularly the deep ocean, and Blink's is all about the sky and the freedom it gives. But they both have wolf motifs. Kor has had a sister, Blink has had a brother.

What makes these characters different is the way that we explore them and how these broad ideas become niche based on the concepts we want to expand on as writers. What makes them different is that neither was written despite (or even in spite) of the other, nor did one of us look at the other and go 'oh, i want to do x with y because i think it'll be better'.

There are dozens of femme fatal concepts out there. There are heaps of bad-ass men. If I had a dollar for every knight character that was in xiv alone, I'd still be a rich woman. Hell, I know for a fact that my star-gazing viera is certainly not the first of her kind, nor will she be the last. I can coexist in spaces with people who have these similar concepts because I know there's enough deviation between those characters, as I have spent the time cultivating a niche story for mine where broad concepts are more set-dressing than the actual meat and potatoes of the character.

If you have the ick about someone copying you, especially if you have a negative history with them or the person is being weird, you're probably right on the money. I have had characters of mine blatantly ripped off for the former. But this is more for the reassurance of people who are like 'I don't want a pink-themed miqo'te because I know one already exists' or 'I don't want to play with a spore druid concept because I know one exists' (i'm using my own miqo'te here as an example, LMAO). You can have a primadonna, pink miqo'te who lives in Ishgard and is clawing her way to the tippy top of the high houses and I wouldn't stress because my primadonna, pink miqo'te is currently knee-deep in a bog because she heard she can find peat mummies there. They're not the same. They share similarities, but they're not the same.

Write it because you think it's fun. Not because you've seen x's concept be popular and you want a slice of it. Not because you want a ship similar to y's and you're going to gush about how much you love it and try to mosey in with a knock-off (no, this has never happened to me, what do you mean?). You're not going to have the same amount of fun!! It won't be the same!!

But also, at the same time, don't rob yourself of an opportunity to play with a concept because someone else is already doing it, especially if it's just a trope. People can tell the difference and they will embrace it if you're earnest.

You may even find someone like I found Pepper. We laughed at it. Then we made an AU and shipped them. They're kissing. They are stabbing. They are kissing and stabbing each other.

[skyartworkzzz]

I like to think of the Goat being from an Underfell kind of version of COTL and thats my essay

[lokh]

at this point i have to assume the ongoing chest pain is from living in this fucking house

[loser-jpg]

i cant remember who it was but i think its so funny one of the guys assumed jack was from sunset savanna.

beastman + dark skin = from sunset savanna, 100%

[dullahandyke]

squints. why did i open tumblr. i know there was a post i wanted to make. OH yeah for one of my courses i gotta make a webpage which is soooo yippee and i was rlly hyped i was gonna challenge myself to make a neocities look nice from scratch but now im thinking its probably more energy and time efficient to just use wordpress or something :( literally so fucked...... sigh do i have a personal neocities which has provided me with html experience? yes. however it looks like this

[danceintheskies]

coming out as a kriselle enjoyer im sorry lesbians

[torchtour]

I'm gonna be so honest it was so funny LOAJAHS

could u guess who I was tryna be? :D

~the 6 anon(ooc)

weeeeeell i read 6 and immediately assumed you were the man the myth the legend stanford sixer pines but you know what they say about assuming

[katatsumuli]

Happy any way the exchange blows 2023 @onepintobean ! Thanks for the motivation. This is fanart for your fic

because it is both hilarious and I think you have found canon. The lineart functions as a coloring book page and is printable. (If anyone colors it, can I see?)

I used this chair as a model because their whole house is a vampire joke and I had to -

[waitedforgarridebs]

I just explained some meta-stuff regarding S4 and Eurus to a non-Sherlockian friend @yayen-chan, and when we got to the window deduction scene and Faith's note, she said:

... there's also about the window scene. LONDON BARELY GETS SUN - how in the world would that paper be exposed to sun unless the place where it came from is somewhere sunny [...] therefore the conclusion > the paper wouldn't be able to get any sort of sun at any part of the freaking window in a country where the sun dont shine

The common sense of it all actually makes me cry.

I am going out on a limb... but adding Sherlock's "deduction" about how the paper was exposed to "a variety of cooking smells" and "lots of different spices"... was the paper maybe not originally found in England, like we were all lead to assume?

*coughs* Morocco *coughs* Karachi ...

[penelopecruzcoded]

you ever try to sleep but can't bc anxiety and overthinking are doing your head in and it's triggered your tinnitus on top of everything and your stomach is churning and turning and you lowkey wanna vom now but you're suppressing it all for the hope that you can just go the fuck to sleep -- and then you remember a joke your friend made in high school that you completely forgot and it makes you laugh and smile and completely forget your worries for 1.5 seconds?

that part, more of that part please.

[monsterkingdom]

people are so disjointedly stuck in their own tunnel visions and think theyre allowed to assume things about other peoples lives im very tired.

[bettinalevyisdetermined]

bfb is battle for bfdi,bfdi is battle for dream island

bfb's second half changes named to

*drumroll*

battle for bfb

also the previous ask about bfb was asking if you like object shows basically(animated game shows with sentient objects as contestants)

Ohh, object shows. One of my friends is pretty fixated on those. :P I never saw them myself, so nah.

For future, if anyone wants to know if I've seen something, write out the whole title instead of the abbreviation. (Good advice for anyone really, just to avoid confusion.)

[spotsupstuff]

What did you use to make your map?

-pained- google images and Paint Tool SAI

lookit the shit

[dollking081]

don't assume, because that just makes us both turn into donkeys and I'm sick of being turned into a donkey all the time

[bear-do-well]

You'll never guess what I'm about to do

you're right, i do not.