Guys.

Guys.

I don't want to be that person.

I really really really don't want to be that person.

BUT.

It's one thing to be inspired by someone's fic. It's one thing to see a concept and think "I want to try that out!" and remix it. No one owns concepts or tropes.

But it's another to completely rip off someone else's story. Lifting the entire plot structure, words and phrases used (especially when one is very specific to said fic), and overall vibe of the story is not okay. Not when everything happening is almost identical between the original fic and the "new one".

As I said above: tropes and concepts are free range. No one owns them. But there's a big difference between writing out a concept in your own style, words, voice, and making the story uniquely yours - and actively stealing another writers fic.

Copying other writers stories is not okay.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

i am just fucking losing my mind trying to imagine how the hell Cillian Murphy got cast as Scarecrow in The Dark Knight trilogy like

how did they look at THIS MAN and decide he should be Jonathan fucking Crane?!!??

“Oh who do we have auditioning for Scarecrow next?

…The prettiest man I’ll ever see in my entire life?

He’s hired.”

GOTHAM: THE CITY OF FEAR

a walk at gotham university