QuirkyQuill8
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Greetings everyone. It’s been very hard to even attempt to say goodbye. I’ve unpublished my original works. I’ll leave my fic up for all of you to enjoy. I’ll be packing my bags and making this a sort of museum.
Love you all.
AriaAshtri113
@QuirkyQuill8 Aw man I’m sorry :( We’ll miss you! Good luck wherever you write next <3
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QuirkyQuill8
Greetings everyone. It’s been very hard to even attempt to say goodbye. I’ve unpublished my original works. I’ll leave my fic up for all of you to enjoy. I’ll be packing my bags and making this a sort of museum.
Love you all.
AriaAshtri113
@QuirkyQuill8 Aw man I’m sorry :( We’ll miss you! Good luck wherever you write next <3
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QuirkyQuill8
I can't believe it’s been nearly four years since I came here. I don’t know if many have become aware yet, but it was officially announced on Thursday that Paramount and Wattpad will be partnering to basically glean and steal original work from this site to use as series fodder. A dream come true packaged in an uncredited nightmare.
I’ve loved writing for a long time. I thought Wattpad would be a nice place to start networking. It was fun for a while, posting everything from art, to fanfic, to poetry, to roleplays. Some of you I know from those days. My work, and the amazing work of others, was so fun to see come alive in a privately public little place. Yes, there were informal children but there were also titan novelists, professional or self-made, originalists or fic-ers.
Wattpad gave me the confidence to improve my writing and make my relationships bloom at a very hard time in my life. And now this. I could foresee that Wattpad was slowly becoming too corporate for itself, with the dumb guest author promotions and tokens for certain stories. (I understand some great authors were functioning with these.) I hoped to hold on, delete my work and stay there for my DM friends.
Now, CBS, who has a history of killing fanmade projects, (see the Axanar Star Trek fan film), is going after original creators to fish for their ideas. The copyright seals in the Wattpad tags were all for nothing. Merely formalities. This is the last straw.
I’m gonna leave. I kindly ask DM pals to stay in touch on Insta or Discord. I’m gonna wipe everything off my page. I won’t let them take me. I’ll rewrite better works and take them to actually sealed sites like AO3 and FFN. You cannot do this to the artist community, Paramount. To those of you that have verbally heard me say something akin to I love you, that still stands. None of this is you. It’s Wattpad. May the Force be with you, Live long and prosper, Till the end of the line, and Day shall come again.
QuirkyQuill8
@Silmarilz1701 thank you for rectifying this. I had suspected that no true corporation would be so direct in theft, but i still would not feel comfortable partnering with a corporation over work i planned to nurture in my own right. Thank you for the encouragement.
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Silmarilz1701
@QuirkyQuill8 I'm so sorry to see you go, but just so misinformation doesn't spread, there's been zero indication that Wattpad & ViacomCBS will be adapting any work without partnering WITH the author. The partnership with ViacomCBS (and thus, Paramount+) is, as far as I've been able to tell, an extension of the work that's been done by Wattpad Webtoon Studios which found popular, original stories and worked with the authors to bring them to life as film (see "After" as an example of a Wattpad story becoming mainstream). There is no stealing. There is no copywriter infringement. This is about giving a potential pipeline to a major streaming service for original work creators on Wattpad, should they be evaluated as potentially profitable. Fanworks will not be eligible, I am positive. Fanfiction treads a very careful line between fair use and copywrite infringement. But I 100% support anyone jumping ship to go publish transformative works to the Archive. AO3 is the best place for that!
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Mandalorian_Princess
I just wanted you to know that I showed Jasmine to the people in my ASD support group on campus and started explaining to them about the disability representation in our AU (I don’t think we ever have it a title so what about “Peace Lillies and Cat Cults AU”??)
And they loved it and the characters
Mandalorian_Princess
(Soler)
You are Palpatine's son!
(Luka)
*faking being offended*
How dare you, I am the prince of Alderaan!
QuirkyQuill8
Mandalorian_Princess
I forgot to tell you! I have a sticker of Jasmine flowers on my laptop
QuirkyQuill8
@Mandalorian_Princess just wait till I open a sticker shop and you’ll get an actual Jasmine sticker
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Mandalorian_Princess
It’s friendship day…
And I know you’re not active but thanks for being a friend…
I miss you girl.
And I’m sorry I wasn’t a good friend….
QuirkyQuill8
@Mandalorian_Princess Girl stop. I haven’t come in contact with you because of what you said on Insta and I wanted to be respectful. I love you and I miss you Sis
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Mandalorian_Princess
I'm not sure if you're active here anymore...
but i am so so sorry...
QuirkyQuill8
Hello everyone!
I sadly must announce a hiatus. Graduation is coming soon, and we’re staying with a family that has very different cell phone rules. I won’t be able to play as much.
Thank you for the awesome times.
See ya soon.