paIeseptember

i've been thinking a lot about the kind of writing culture this site fosters or i suppose forstered in me specifically about 2/3 years ago (or further) when it was still in some sort of heyday, specifically when the original character books got popular with the specific soup of having tumblr quotes attached and moodboards made and webs weaved to support whatever plot was inspired but mostly ripped off whatever tv show recently came out or got popular again. i guess as i try to do more and more original writing or even bounce back to fanfiction once in a blue moon it dawns on me how, and i don't really want to say damaging, but stunted this place often made me, not by anyone's fault or anything --- but it just always makes me come back to the question of what exactly is taking inspiration from other things, how far can you exactly go with that; weaving other authors' writing into paragraphs, the way richard siken quotes are so imbedded into quote-on-quote themes of stories that have no real substance besides some words snagged off pinterest. i think i was writing deeper work on here when i wrote fanfiction for a video game and everyone died at the end. there was no tumblr pinterest board in a long winded aesthetic intro but at least i managed to write it past 10 chapters

paIeseptember

maybe others will relate or maybe not and i'll get tomatoes thrown at me in the town square but i've long stopped checking my notifications on this website so say whatever you want to
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paIeseptember

i've been thinking a lot about the kind of writing culture this site fosters or i suppose forstered in me specifically about 2/3 years ago (or further) when it was still in some sort of heyday, specifically when the original character books got popular with the specific soup of having tumblr quotes attached and moodboards made and webs weaved to support whatever plot was inspired but mostly ripped off whatever tv show recently came out or got popular again. i guess as i try to do more and more original writing or even bounce back to fanfiction once in a blue moon it dawns on me how, and i don't really want to say damaging, but stunted this place often made me, not by anyone's fault or anything --- but it just always makes me come back to the question of what exactly is taking inspiration from other things, how far can you exactly go with that; weaving other authors' writing into paragraphs, the way richard siken quotes are so imbedded into quote-on-quote themes of stories that have no real substance besides some words snagged off pinterest. i think i was writing deeper work on here when i wrote fanfiction for a video game and everyone died at the end. there was no tumblr pinterest board in a long winded aesthetic intro but at least i managed to write it past 10 chapters

paIeseptember

maybe others will relate or maybe not and i'll get tomatoes thrown at me in the town square but i've long stopped checking my notifications on this website so say whatever you want to
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paIeseptember

to leave this site and still have people plagiarizing is really crazy

achilleias

just a heads up they moved accs to @/eiffeltowers and have a lonnng history of not learning and also faking nationalities and ethnicities when they’re very white and welsh so . keep an eye out <33
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headcuts

they act like it’s a CRIME to be original or something 
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paIeseptember

they deleted their account lmfaooooo
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gutsspiIIed

there's this story called touchdown by @parismotel who's got a very similar cover style to ur book touchdown, the same description and the whole "where in the world is..." I thought it's a coincidence but the cover font, description style, first chapter title is the same as urs.

paIeseptember

@gutsspiIIed thanks for letting me know!
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achilleias

@gutsspiIIed the way i came here to warn him too pleek
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paIeseptember

still on obx rewatch.... i can't believe they let 17yr old john b out of jail and told him to go home like they weren't seizing his home like 3 days ago. no parents no guardians no nothing. i love this show

chaosmagicc

@paIeseptember when john b and sarah came back to obx in s2 after they deadass were given entire funerals and everyone just acting like it's any other day is TOP TIER TV
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twinspite

like that’s television actually!!
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