stupid, stupid plagiarists

So misunderstood_b plagiarised fated_addiction's stuff on ff.net, without even bothering to change the titles of the stories. Then, of course, she deleted her LJ and the stories once she was *caught*, but why *would* you plagiarise someone who's that well known and expect to get away with it in the first place? Oh, right. Plagiarism 101. *rolls eyes*

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hihoplastic tagged me for the Ten Things That've Made Me Happy meme, so here we go: ( memememe )

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Also, yesterday I went shopping and bought silly things like a yellow ball with a smiley on it and black rubber bracelets.

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( BSG 2.15, or Kara Thrace, How Are You So Awesome? )

Waah

Every now and then, posts discussing 'Why doesn't het work for you?' pop up on LJ. There is discussion. And invariably, there are commenters stating that they prefer slash because 'slash (boyslash) is generally better written than het'. And that? Makes my blood boil. I speak, admittedly, from my limited experience, which does not consist of any of the legendary boyslash fandoms (say, due South)*. But I've hung around in fandoms that have a large amount of both boyslash and het, and I read all kinds of fic, so when someone claims that of all the het ships in, say, the HP fandom, of all the giant freaking archives and all the fic being written, the boyslash is 'generally' better-written (what does 'generally' even mean? are there statistics?) than the het, I have to ask: seriously? See, when I first found the House fandom, it was a relatively new fandom, still growing, still small, and the main ship was (is) House/Wilson. All the rec sites contained House/Wilson. And I love House/Wilson, but what I really wanted was to read fic about Cuddy. I went around asking for recs, and I'd be pointed to the same three stories - which were very good, but I wanted more. So I started looking. Digging through archives and ff.net and recs sites. And you know what? I *found* fic. So when someone says that they can't find the good het, I'm tempted to think that maybe they didn't *look* properly. And you know, it's okay, not to look. If your priority is boyslash, and you can't be arsed to trawl through crap in ff.net in order to find that one good het fic, don't. No one's asking you to. But please, please don't say that you don't read het because it's 'generally' badly-written - say you don't read it because it doesn't work for you, because you like slash more, because you don't want to. Het fen aren't Fandom Police. They aren't going to make you sit and force you to read their fic if you say that it's not your thing.

Of course, because I'm crabby today, I have a complaint against het fen as well - *why* are they so poorly organised? Look at the boyslashers. Look how organised they are, how they come up with good, navigable sites and rec lists (please spare me the 'recs are elitist' stuff) every time they move into a new fandom. *That* is why all I found only House/Wilson when I started looking for Housefic. The girlslashers got together and founded femslash_today. Het fen on the other hand post in the obscure corners of ff.net and their own badly designed websites, with light font on dark or, god forbid, light font on light**. And then they wonder why some people say there is no good het fic out there. Newsflash: they probably weren't looking very hard, but you didn't make the effort to be found, and the ones who did find you probably ran away with tears streaming down their face.

Sigh. I think I've been reading too many of those OTW is stupid and evil posts.

* What is it like in these fandoms? Enlighten me, O flist. Am I being too harsh?
** This is largely hyperbole. Some of it *is* true, though.

ETA: OMG people mina_de_malfois is back! OMG *dies* (there might be SPOILERS in comments, so beware)