Rambling

[mrv3000]

After how many years of seeing it, I still don't understand fic plagiarism. Is it for the smattering of positive reinforcement of comments? Fans cross fandom lines so much these days, that odds are usually good they'll eventually be caught. Ignoring the basic fact that it's lazy and moronic to copy work, it seems like the risk/reward ratio is way off, especially with communities logging IPs and so on.

Randomly, I'd read the illicit fic a day or two ago, and had been grumbling about the dubious consent issues. Sherlock having sex with a delusional and ill John isn't romantic. I don't care how you try and spin it. It's icky and it should have been labeled. And, you know, not plagiarized.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

lol some poor lady who used to beo n my flist had her fic plagiarized a while back, and I guess i shouldn't find it as funny as I do but omg they took her Merlin AU and used find/replace to make it Jack/Ten and omg it was the funniest thing I have ever read.

I don't really get it either though. Like... LOL IDK I just don't get what's rewarding about people praising something you didn't actually write.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

omg they took her Merlin AU and used find/replace to make it Jack/Ten and omg it was the funniest thing I have ever read.

Jack/Ten is automatically funny for so many reasons. XD

I'd once had a SG-1 fic plagiarized, and they actually turned it into a Doctor/Rose fic. OH NO YOU DIDN'T.

I don't really get it either though. Like... LOL IDK I just don't get what's rewarding about people praising something you didn't actually write.

Yeah, to feel good that your find and replace function works?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

IT WAS AN AU TOO IN WHICH JACK/ARTHUR WAS A MOVIE START AND TEN/MERLIN BECAME HIS NEW PA omg omg it was the best. They replaced mention of Merlin's magic with "sonic screwdriver" and there were great lines where Donnagwen was like "he doesn't like to tell people about his sonic screwdriver".

I'd once had a SG-1 fic plagiarized, and they actually turned it into a Doctor/Rose fic.

LOL LOL that is the worst.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

"he doesn't like to tell people about his sonic screwdriver".

*SNORTS*

LOL LOL that is the worst.

Which made me ponder (for about 5 seconds) if I could turn old SG-1 fics into D/R fics...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

Oh and also Merlin smoked, and they replaced "cigarette" with "banana" and there were lots of times in the middle of like, tense scenes, it would be like "The Doctor angsted and pulled out a banana and started sucking on it." O rly, Doctor.

Which made me ponder (for about 5 seconds) if I could turn old SG-1 fics into D/R fics...

It's um possible I did that to one of my HP fics once. Because I... am a bad person.

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

I am so not up on Sherlock gossip- what was the fic?

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Oh and also Merlin smoked, and they replaced "cigarette" with "banana" and there were lots of times in the middle of like, tense scenes, it would be like "The Doctor angsted and pulled out a banana and started sucking on it." O rly, Doctor.

BWAH!!!!

It's um possible I did that to one of my HP fics once. Because I... am a bad person.

HA! I decided that I'd be way too bugged by the characterization to do it.

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

in the middle of like, tense scenes, it would be like "The Doctor angsted and pulled out a banana and started sucking on it."

LOL FOREVER

Okay, I actually snorted out loud at work. That's amazing.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Here's the post about it:

http://sherlockbbc.livejournal.com/2648329.html

It was a fic where John was sick and Sherlock took care of him.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

lol between that and the sonic screwdriver that kept getting mentioend awkwardly there was an incredible amount of phallic items around. NGL it was one of the gayest things I have ever read.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

It took me a really long time, too, to figure out what "banana" was replacing, so it was just like DOCTOR THIS IS INAPPROPRIATE

HA! I decided that I'd be way too bugged by the characterization to do it.

LOL I got a cople comments that were like "THIS IS SOOOO THEM" and I was like "...is it? Really?"

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. XD

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

Ah. Thanks for the link. I skipped that fic when I saw it, it didn't seem like my cup of tea. And I didn't even realize it was a cup of tea that had originally belonged to someone else.

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

Oh my God does this exist somewhere? I need this.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I've been reading practically everything that comes along these days. Unless it's a vampire AU or something. :D

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

lolol I just found an old chatlog from my friend and I reading it:

_thirty2flavors: “I love you, Donna," said The Doctor, yanking a banana from the fruit bowl. As soon as the banana was peeled, he took a bite and sucked on it deeply. It helped. A bit. His legs stopped jumping.
_thirty2flavors:.....................................................
lacunaz: that is gayer than a pirate 14 months at sea

[goldy-dollar.livejournal.com]

Okay, I so don't get this. I mean, there is no monetary value in fic?? So what's the point for taking credit for something you didn't even write? It's fake fannish kudos!

Also I think you should read Sherlock AU vampire fic.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I'd sooner read character death fic.

[goldy-dollar.livejournal.com]

Generally you do have to die to become a vampire.

[papilio-luna.livejournal.com]

It's um possible I did that to one of my HP fics once. Because I... am a bad person.

BRB combing through your master list

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

XD Not helping.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

And the next bit is where Donna figures out what alien space drug he's on, right? XD

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

LOL you will not find it there

I did it the other way though, it was this fic that I turned into a Harry Potter fic using the most minimal effort possible, basically, just because I was curious what kind of response it would get and I guess I am secretly a big troll. lol I felt bad once I got all these nice comments from poor deluded people though. LOL And this one poor person was like OH I LOVE YOUR STUFF THIS WAS UM... DIFFERENT...

[goldy-dollar.livejournal.com]

But would John still love Sherlock if he was a creature of the night!!!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

HE WOULD ALSO BECOME A CREATURE OF THE NIGHT. BECAUSE THEIR LOVE IS PURE.