Wanking on my mind...

[rijane99]

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"

Now, now, dirty girls, the wanking in question is Fandom_Wank . I've spent far too much time reading the backlog of wanking that happened before I knew there was a place dedicated to mostly to having lolz at the sound and fury that is life in a fandom. Some

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[dargai]

I want to edit the shit out of this essay, and I want to buy Michela a beer. I hope she likes beer.

'Plagiarism is not creative' - WORD. WORDWORDWORDWORDWORD. Because nobody ever needs to pass off ideas/words as their own. Cassie Claire's LoTR stories *are* funny and well-written. That's what makes it sick. She has creativity. She is a good writer [though that HP shit - ugh!]. I just think she's got a shitty moral compass and that inspires a sizeable helping of disgust in me. /preaching.

[franzeska]

CC's LOTR stories are funny, but I don't think there's a big difference between them and the Buffy quotes in her HP stuff. The whole Very Secret Diaries format is exactly like Bridget Jones's Diary. If people are bothered by fic authors lifting large passages, fair enough, but I don't see much difference between borrowing a few jokes from Buffy (in the form of individual lines of dialogue) and borrowing jokes from Bridget Jones's Diary (by copying all of the stylistic quirks).

*shrug* Vast portions of fandom are severely lacking in the moral compass department. I'm usually more bothered by fans who post other people's real names or cause intentional drama than by those who've done something stupid in their fanfic.

[dargai]

Copying a *style* is not plagiarism. If so, haul me away. Though Joyce would probably laugh in my face for my attempts at stream-of-consciousness.

If we're talking quirks, then Bridget Jones pulls huge amounts of stuff from Adrian Mole [who was the first diary-writing figure to break into the lit market]. Not the unfinished sentences, but that slightly pathetic focus on the self and on certain objects/people, like Adrian's obsession with his spots [pimples].

I think what rijane is referencing is an alarming view that *it's OK to plagiarise if...* in the fandom. Once you've been *caught* doing it, there should be a social price to pay.