Randomly clicked Traitor's Throne to read from the Cap_Ironman reversebang, and dang, was that good.

Non-linear, which means I have to reread it, just like The Twice Told Tale. Has me gasping for more. The writing, tone, dialogue, world-building, was simply gorgeous. Unlike the last fic I commented on, this one has so much implied inbetween the unspoken. Even if you don't know what it was that happened during the unfilled gaps, there is a feeling of great depths that have a weight of lost legend. And the art it's based on is impressive.

I'm now off to explore more of Cluegirl.

Had a genderswap dream that might inspire some really screwed up bandom. That messed up musical couple way back when: Bobbi Brown and her husband Willie Houston.

I don't understand why there are plagiarism scandals in the fanfic world, and then things like this [link] have 39 favourites and people blandly commenting. Do they not have, you know, eyes or memory or anything? Look at their gallery! They're not really even hiding.

Is it because it's canon being copied, maybe, and there's the whole grey area about defining transformative?

In fanfic or fanart?

Fanfic because people want attention. I'd assume the same for fanart but on my phone it's harder to see the big differences in the two images you linked.

Had to step away from a fic for a moment because they were dissing Army food. College cafeterias and MREs, sure, but DiFacs and Spoons are one of the Army's primary morale boosters, and you don't get that with shitty food.

Fanfic because people want attention. I'd assume the same for fanart

my question isn't why fake it--rather it is why accept it?

I'd assume the same for fanart but on my phone it's harder to see the big differences in the two images you linked.

She ran a filter over the photo. If you look at her gallery there are some clearly pencil-drawn pictures, and she's not very good. I don't think there are that many people who can be original and photorealistic in digital art, and seem to have forgotten what perspective is with a pencil.

And if there are many, she's not one of them, because she's posting photos!

She's at least tagging them at as airbrushes.

Look at the other entries in that folder: [link] She's not copping to anything. And if you say "thank you" to all the "looks just like them!" comments, you're deliberately trading on, at best, a misconception.

And if you say "thank you" to all the "looks just like them!" comments, you're deliberately trading on, at best, a misconception.

I didn't dig that far so I took it as not calling out a commenter on being a dumbass. But it sounds like that was too charitable.

In my defense, I was distracted by how quickly the comments devolved into No Homo. Bizarre.

I was distracted by how quickly the comments devolved into No Homo. Bizarre.

Seriously. Clearly I need to pay more attention to who I'm demanding things of.