There Is No Such Thing As 'originality' Everything We Do Is Always Inspired By Something Even If That Inspiration Is Subconscious - Tumblr Posts
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“Almost everything is imitation… The most original minds borrowed from one another… It is with books as with the fire in our hearths; we go to a neighbor to get the embers and light it when we return home, pass it on to others, and it belongs to everyone.”
— Voltaire, Lettres philosophiques
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there is no such thing as 'originality' everything we do is always inspired by something even if that inspiration is subconscious
what we do with the inspiration is what matters
we all have such different perspectives and voices
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it irks me so much when fandom spaces fight even for the smallest of things because of 'originality'
there is a difference between 'plagiarism' and 'taking inspiration' and people should know that