all of my fanfic reading was on Warrior cats and Legend of Zelda, but I just read the VSD and I have to say.... I remember when fic was written like that....... and everyone thought it was Great and Peak Comedy.... not to bring relevant meme humor into this but.... I was there, Gandalf...
The memories of my Legolas/OC fic where I used the strawberry soap and those notes where authors argue with the characters fuckin suplexed me the moment I opened her livejournal.
the fucking…… author’s notes sections…..
it was such a short-lived trend, but by gods it was pervasive
TO THIS VERY DAY I have to fight down the urge to write disclaimers on my fic, and when I see people doing fic FOR COMMISSIONS every cell in my body screams.
It’s a different world, truly.
PEOPLE WRITING FIC FOR WHAT I know it’s a thing that happens but I still can’t believe it. Memories of the Annes McCaffrey and Rice still haunt me to this day.
…remember the ban on songfics? is that still a thing? or has that part of history been lost and people no longer write paragraphs of story in between blocks of lyrics?
You aren’t allowed to be shocked by that after I found that ad on Craigslist for custom macro/micro smut. That someone just stuck that in the job section still gets me.
Someone put an add on Craigslist for someone to write explicit micro/macro porn, specifying it was slash fic. And wanted to pay $5 per fic.
And they put this in the job section.
I’m not sure if I’m still feeling a degree of raw fear five years later from seeing someone post that sort of ad out in the open
Or wanting to laugh my ass off at the fact they thought $5 would be enough for a full fic.
Bear wanted me to do it for the lols
but before she could do it, the posting was deleted
I was Extremely Disappointed
I would have 100% jumped on that shit. Holy fuck. Though, for $5, they’d get like 500 words.
We are truly living in the future.
I cannot believe that here I am, explaining the in-jokes, arguments, and idiosyncrasies of the LotR fandom of the late 90′s/early 2000′s to a new generation of starry eyed young’uns who are sitting at my feet, staring at me in amazement, going “What was it like?”
Welp I guess it’s time to just go get my walker and join a bingo night.
“shakes cane” In MY day it took FIVE HOURS to download the Fellowship of the Ring trailer on our shitty dial up, and you COULDN’T USE THE PHONE while you were doing it! And then you watched it SEVENTY TIMES IN A ROW
I have a 500 MB external hard drive that I paid a goddamn fortune for in 2004, and it is pretty much entirely full of meme videos, AMVs, movie trailers, and pirated roleplaying game book pdfs that someone scanned manually from their book.
OMG I forgot about the photocopied game books! I had a huge stack of role-playing books, about 20% of which were crappy copies on 3-hole paper in binders with sharpie labels on their spines.
I distinctly remember getting the player’s handbook and DM guide, going to the college where dad worked because they had a photocopier there, and him letting me photocopy EVERY FUCGKGING PAGE
Which then went in binders labeled with sharpie.
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Heeeey everybody, so a bitch needs gas and groceries
We had to deal with some medical expenses recently and the new work won’t let me have overtime and just now the car insurance got charged to our bank account twice
Can your favorite grouchy trans polyglot novelist get a hand maybe?
Yo who has 2 thumbs an empty gas tank and $5 in the bank it is me
The only reason I am not sending Natalie money right now is because I’m broke rn too.
Help her out, y’all, if you can.
I mean after you’ve been in your first tornado you develop a kind of ‘oh well’ attitude towards high winds. Plus I don’t have a basement so if it happens it happens- oh well. I just wish someone would fix whatever’s making that awful sound on the roof.
Yeah this is kinda what I was going “wat” about because down here our roofs don’t make noise unless they’re poorly built or there’s a tornado a quarter of a mile away and at that point you just go “welp time to embrace death”.
Yep, it’s windy as shit out right now and I’m just sitting here like “Oh cool maybe some branches will fall and our kindling will be taken care of for the next year”
This is also how it be like in hurricane country.
The street floods and the air starts screaming and it’s just “Wel'p, missed the window to evacuate, guess I’ll sit on the porch and wait for the sky to kill me.”
Yup. Sometimes the sky just decides to destroy everything and that’s just how it be.
So, the entire part in “The Master and Margarita” where she flies naked on a broom, hosts a party of the damned, and is bathed in blood and roses?
That is a party all celebration is to be measured against.
I dug up an old show of the book, and the episode of that part was, just, holy fuck.
Is it the 2005 one? If so, with all due respect for Margarita - on the subject of fashions, Hella remains my personal icon.
I can see your point. Hella’s style is definitely top notch as well.
LIKE 10 GOT DAMN YEARS OF LOOKING FOR THIS FUCKER
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Heeeey everybody, so a bitch needs gas and groceries
We had to deal with some medical expenses recently and the new work won’t let me have overtime and just now the car insurance got charged to our bank account twice
Can your favorite grouchy trans polyglot novelist get a hand maybe?
I’ve seen the video for their latest work going around, and feel it my duty to share what is my personal favorite song they’ve done.
But seriously go buy their songs.
Plate with rattle feet Late Classic Period, A.D. 650–750
Place of Origin: Department of El Petén, Guatemala, Yaxhá-Holmul-Xultún area
Tripod plate with tall, cylindrical supports. Its interior surface is painted with the image of a Maya lord dancing in front of a bench throne which is decorated with sky signs. The lord peers into a divination mirror which is set atop the bench and leaning against a stack of cloth topped by long, quetzal bird feathers, both of which represent tribute or a gift received by the lord. The black background of the scene may indicate the event is taking place at night or a supernatural location. The interior wall of the plate are divided into 4 sections by short, vertical, pseudo-glyph texts, each section embellished with a profile saurian head that likely provides locational information for the depicted event. The exterior wall of the plate is painted with large blood or water scrolls on a black background, which may indicate an underworld or supernatural location for the event. “Supported on tall rattle feet, the tondo boldly painted with a corpulent lord standing before a large bench throne, looking over his right shoulder with strong arms in a gesture, wearing loincloth, jade necklace and earrings, the headdress of a snouted monster head with thick feather panache at back, the bench laden with tribute including a stack of bound codices, a plumed perforator resting on top, and a mirror propped against them, the rim encircled by four bands each with a profile head of the long-lipped monster, the exterior rim decoratively painted with alternating scroll and mat motifs/ the whole with areas highlighted by pink pigment against the black and orange.” [from Sotheby’s catalogue text] A ruler’s primary responsibility was to channel supernatural forces through vision quests (journeys to the spiritual realms) in order to affect human affairs. Here, a lord gazes into a divining mirror and dances before a throne embellished with celestial icons. The stack of valuable cloth, quetzal-bird feathers, and rare, spondylus shells on the throne indicate his political and economic success. Vision serpents, conduits to the supernatural realm and conveyors of visions, adorn the plate’s interior.
Madame, your carriage awaits.
Anonymous asked:
Hi, you linked me to the wiki about Cassandra plagiarizing her Draco Trilogy and I wanted to thank you and also let you know that I did some digging around on Google and found out she also plagiarized The Mortal Instruments series. Did you know that?
Oh, yes. See, the Mortal Instruments is, in fact, just the Draco Trilogy with some names changed and very slightly re-written.
There is a reason I refuse to read anything she’s published.
A fifty shades/master of the universe, if you will.
Which…like if someone decides to re-write a fanfic into an original work and publish it, that’s great!
But when I know that it still contains huge plagiarized chunks lifted word-for-word from other people, nah fuck you very much.
I like to put them in parallel because both, in their own way, damaged their fandoms.
Here’s a writeup about what EL James did for the curious, since you already linked one about Cassandra Clare
So, the entire part in “The Master and Margarita” where she flies naked on a broom, hosts a party of the damned, and is bathed in blood and roses?
That is a party all celebration is to be measured against.
I dug up an old show of the book, and the episode of that part was, just, holy fuck.
Is it the 2005 one? If so, with all due respect for Margarita - on the subject of fashions, Hella remains my personal icon.
I can see your point. Hella’s style is definitely top notch as well.
So, the entire part in “The Master and Margarita” where she flies naked on a broom, hosts a party of the damned, and is bathed in blood and roses?
That is a party all celebration is to be measured against.
I dug up an old show of the book, and the episode of that part was, just, holy fuck.
Can you explain the Cassandra Claire plagiarism thing?? I haven't read any of her books and am just curious. Thank you <3
Her Mortal Instruments series is a revamp of her Harry Potter fanfiction and entire excerpts, dialogue and plot were plagiarized from:
The Secret Country Trilogy , comprised of The Secret Country, The Hidden Land and The Whim of the Dragon from Pamela DeanEpicyclical Elaborations in Sorcery from Patricia WredeSorcery and Cecilia from Caroline StevermerTerry Pratchett books All of which were published books. And I suppose you can say:
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowlingbecause Mortal Instruments was an off-shoot from a Harry Potter fanfiction (so you can recognize a lot of characters personalities from Harry Potter). And let’s not forget either paraphrased or straight up copy paste of dialogues from TV shows such as:
Angel Black Adder Buffy the Vampire Slayer and a couple of others At the time in fanfiction, she ignored these allegations because it was fanfiction. But she is now published off this plagiarism and making money off others creativity. Other female fantasy writers.
Cassandra Clare (or Cassandra Claire, she changed her pen name) also harassed and bullied a number of people who brought up her plagiarism, including the authors that she plagiarized from. Her friend was a lawyer, so she basically bullied a lot of people.
As of right now, she is trying to get her litigation team to erase the internet history of her plagiarism and misbehavior.
Cassandra Clare and her loyal fans also ruined a lot of peoples lives through real world harassment. They tracked down IP addresses and threatened them for even talking about how Cassandra Clare plagiarized. Even tried to get a girl expelled from university as well as called people’s relatives and harassed them.
Cassandra Clare is not a nice person. Cassandra Clare stole creative works of others and has turned a profit from it and has not acknowledge it. Good chunks of text are from a lot of other stories. Those authors will probably never get a movie deal. But Cassandra Clare did because she is a literary bully as well as a real one.
Anonymous asked:
Hi, you linked me to the wiki about Cassandra plagiarizing her Draco Trilogy and I wanted to thank you and also let you know that I did some digging around on Google and found out she also plagiarized The Mortal Instruments series. Did you know that?
Oh, yes. See, the Mortal Instruments is, in fact, just the Draco Trilogy with some names changed and very slightly re-written.
There is a reason I refuse to read anything she’s published.
A fifty shades/master of the universe, if you will.
Which...like if someone decides to re-write a fanfic into an original work and publish it, that’s great!
But when I know that it still contains huge plagiarized chunks lifted word-for-word from other people, nah fuck you very much.
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I prefer to have a guy romance me the old-fashioned way.
If u wanna get a text back u gotta best me in a trial of strength and feat of arms and then pay my family a large donative of fat cattle and iron swords.
So, the entire part in “The Master and Margarita” where she flies naked on a broom, hosts a party of the damned, and is bathed in blood and roses?
That is a party all celebration is to be measured against.
I dug up an old show of the book, and the episode of that part was, just, holy fuck.
Every single time I get a TERF in my inbox my alliance to the trans community becomes stronger
TERF: trans lesbians are straight men blah blah blah terfy crap you’re a lesbian blah blah blah what if someone forced you to like dick blah bla
Me:
Biphobe: blah blah blah how can you date a bi person mimimimi they’re not loyal blah blah
Anti nb person: mimimi non-binary people aren’t real and that’s a made up identititty blah blah
People who invalidate asexuals-
Asexual people aren’t valid, they don’t deserve a place in the LGBT+ community, that’s not even a thing you can-
Aaaaaaallllllll of the yes
AS THE OP, I VIOLENTLY APPROVE OF THE AIRPODS OF RESPECT.
systlinAnonymous asked:Hi, you linked me to the wiki about Cassandra plagiarizing her Draco Trilogy and I wanted to thank you and also let you know that I did some digging around on Google and found out she also plagiarized The Mortal Instruments series. Did you know that?Oh, yes. See, the Mortal Instruments is, in fact, just the Draco Trilogy with some names changed and very slightly re-written. There is a reason I refuse to read anything she’s published. #Anonymous8195372
systlinRebloggedlibrafordFollowI mean after you’ve been in your first tornado you develop a kind of ‘oh well’ attitude towards high winds. Plus I don’t have a basement so if it happens it happens- oh well. I just wish someone would fix whatever’s making that awful sound on the roof. callacabformeYeah this is kinda what I was going “wat” about because down here our roofs don’t make noise unless they’re poorly built or there’s a tornado a quarter of a mile away and at that point you just go “welp time to embrace death”. systlinYep, it’s windy as shit out right now and I’m just sitting here like “Oh cool maybe some branches will fall and our kindling will be taken care of for the next year”5142394
systlin@upyricaSo, the entire part in “The Master and Margarita” where she flies naked on a broom, hosts a party of the damned, and is bathed in blood and roses?Gotdamn 1591
systlinRebloggedtheshitpostcalligrapherFollowwind gust speed in weather forcast: 69 kmphme, as i get blown into the next province: NIIIIIiiiiiiiiiiicccceeeee quality-purple-trashI’M LITERALLY SOBBING WHAT HAVE YOU DONEtheshitpostcalligrapherflying over sasky now ladstheshitpostcalligrapher#aint sasky that dude from naruto i would like to invite everyone to imagine naruto, but completely dubbed with only people from SaskatchewangallusrostromegalusLETTERKENNY: SHIPPUDENdancing-thru-cloudsI will Argue With You that Katie is obviously Sasuke, and Squirrely Dan is Sakura, because they have the same trollish personality, and flat effect233,0125,439
systlinReblogged dancing-thru-cloudsthegleampt2fromtheglowpt22001FollowHELL WORLD OH MY GODpostmarxedFBI is really just straight up developing Trojan horse apps now postmarxedlappislazuliThe people in the comments are amazing, like, half of them are saying “aren’t these the normal permissions for an fitness app?” And the answer is yes. Of course they are. Your regular fitness app is a takes a ton of data on you in order to function, and that data may or may not be stored with the company for a period of time.But here’s the thing, when the FBI needs location data on someone, they need a WARRANT to get that information from that company, or that company’s cooperation. Back in the early 2000s, there were a number of companies that simply handed over data to letter agencies like the NSA or FBI, and they got roasted for it by their customers. Don’t fool yourself, the only reason why backdoors weren’t coded into your phones by companies like Apple is because they did the math and realized that the cost of cooperating and alienating their customer base was too high, not because these companies have ethics.So we live in a climate where companies are promising users security and privacy, and when they don’t it’s a scandal that loses them customers and money. They aren’t playing nice with the FBI, so what is the FBI to do? Easy. Circumvent silicon valley.There is exactly zero reason for the FBI, as an organization, to make entertainment apps. Educational is maybe in line with past practices, but even when they did stuff like that in the 90s, we called it out for the propaganda it was. This app is absolutely a trojan horse. This is so they can get the data you would normally give to a 3rd party company without a warrant.Please, ffs, learn internet history. Go take a look at the EFF website and archives. Look up the patriot act and the AT&T scandal with the NSA from around 2004. Lots of people on here were barely children pre 9/11, but you can’t possibly understand surveillance and internet policing until you understand what happened to society and privacy from 2001-2010systlinNEVER TRUST THE COPS, PEOPLE, FUCK’S SAKE175101,78182,152
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systlinthunder-the-ranger-wolf asked:😂😂😂😂C'mon Plauntie, you ain't that old.I can’t hear you over the creaking in my bones, young’un. #thunder-the-wolf26
systlinRebloggedsystlinFollowI cannot believe that here I am, explaining the in-jokes, arguments, and idiosyncrasies of the LotR fandom of the late 90′s/early 2000′s to a new generation of starry eyed young’uns who are sitting at my feet, staring at me in amazement, going “What was it like?”Welp I guess it’s time to just go get my walker and join a bingo night. systlin“shakes cane” In MY day it took FIVE HOURS to download the Fellowship of the Ring trailer on our shitty dial up, and you COULDN’T USE THE PHONE while you were doing it! And then you watched it SEVENTY TIMES IN A ROW 148231
systlinI cannot believe that here I am, explaining the in-jokes, arguments, and idiosyncrasies of the LotR fandom of the late 90′s/early 2000′s to a new generation of starry eyed young’uns who are sitting at my feet, staring at me in amazement, going “What was it like?”Welp I guess it’s time to just go get my walker and join a bingo night. 148231
systlinbasalt-havic asked:Wait, I read through as much of the Cursed LOTR fanfic as I could but i didn’t find anything other than a couple short lines mentioning strawberry soap. Am I missing something?It’s mostly...it brings up memories to all of us who were There of the absolutely awful shit we put out there and let other people read oh jesus fcuk oh no I need to go back and nuke my old ff.net account from orbit. #basalt-main226
systlinAnonymous asked:Okay I’m not the first person and I genuinely have no idea what’s up with Cassandra Clare - can I get some sources or keywords so I can find out what’s up with the plagiarism thing?I made a post yesterday with a link to it. Or just google “Cassandra Claire Plagiarism” and you’ll find anything you ever want. #Anonymous13
systlinAnonymous asked:I was sheltered! Hidden away! While you were all being forged in hellfires of FF Net and LJ, I was in the enforced serenity of SugarQuill, far away from the wars. To this day, when I see fandom drama of any sort going down, I remember the arguments over slash in LOTR and how ToLKieN wRoTE AbOUt PLaTONIC loVE yOU LoT aRE baSIcALLy ShITTing oN HiS GraVE yOU aRe wORse ThAN sATan I HoPe yOU diE kILL yoURsELF FoR ReAL people vs the ShUT the FUCK UP you TWATS you just HATE GAY STUFF I hope you get HIT BY A CAR people. Both groups, of course, banded together to turn on the Legolas/OC writers and told us that we were the Actual Worst, Stupid Dumb Idiots, and should Be Ashamed. And probably jump off a cliff. If they had been able to, I fully believe that they would have come to physical blows. This is 100000% why my tolerance for fandom bullshit is now absolutely 0%. Like...none of that has ever done anyone a single bit of good. Fuck’s sake, people, get over yourselves and just enjoy things. You probably had a better fandom experience than I did, tbh. #Anonymous545
systlinRebloggedtoosummersagoFollowSIGNAL BOOST!!Hey Everyone!A friend of mine recently had a devastating blow. Her entire bathroom flooded and the room had to be torn out. Right now she’s living at home with her elderly mother after recent surgery so really needs help and can’t afford to lack hygiene trying to keep her wounds clean etc. Please guys, if you could give anything at all it would be greatly appreciated.If you can’t give anything, can you please share so we can get this as much attention as possible.https://www.gofundme.com/mother039s-bathroom-water-damage197,5344,877
systlinAnonymous asked:I'm sorry if it should be obvious but... I've never been much involved in fanfic. I read through the links and tried to do my own research, and I think I understand the bubble bath, but I'm not sure why the result of this is that "Cassandra Clare is shit." I mean, it's odd, but it doesn't seem that damning? Would you mind elaborating? Thank you for your time!Well, Cassandra Clare is shit because she’s a plagiarizing asshole. #Anonymous1122
