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Book 2 premieres in the US from January 6 to 10th 2020

It’s the affirmation that you don’t need to be conventionally attractive to be loved, you just need to be nice

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— “Laziness Does Not Exist” by E Price on Medium

(And a footnote I didn’t see explicitly covered in the article: laziness still doesn’t exist when it is you yourself making no progress and not knowing why. You deserve that respect and consideration, too, even from yourself.)

people who read while listening to music are very talented and are probably going to hell 

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Okay guys this is kinda important. GQ just came in the mail and for the first time in a long while it had a really important article…

I just sat here for like the last half hour reading this and I’m incredibly appalled at our justice system in regards to the military. The article interviews about 23 men who have all been sexually assaulted in some branch of the military. The PTSD from sexual assault in the military is more prevalent than PTSD from combat…

If you have a chance I suggest reading this article…and the title is a quote that one of the victims Doctor told him…

Hey guys! I’m very impressed and extremely happy to see this post gaining a lot of speed over the last few days! A few people have requested it, so i’ve gone ahead and scanned the pages of the article for those who want to read it, to read. 

So, here it is!

Wow. Very powerful stuff. I’ve had quite a few friends from back home enter the military and this is never something we bring up in discussions. I’m glad it’s garnering more attention. 

Some quotes:

“The moment a man enlists in the United States armed forces, his chances of being sexually assaulted increase by a factor of ten. Women, of course, are much more likely to be victims of military sexual trauma (MST), but far fewer of them enlist. In fact, more military men are assaulted than women— nearly 14,000 in 2012 alone.”

“Military culture is built upon a tenuous balance of aggression and obedience. The potential for sexual violence exists whenever there is too much of either.”

“Trent Smith, Air Force, enlisted 2011: “He was a senior aide— he had a direct line to the top. Being invited voer to his house, I just took it as I should go. Looking back, I as myself, Why didn’t you do anything? It wasn’t like he held me down or tied me up. I didn’t want to cross him. I really didn’t feel like I had any choice. I had just turned 19. It could be my career. I froze and went along with it.”“

“Rsearch suggests that the military brass may have conspired to illegally discharge MST victims by falsely diagnosing them with personality disorders. “The military has a systemic personality disorder discharge problem,” write the authors of a 2012 Yale Law School white paper. Between 2001 and 2010, some 31,000 servicepersons were involuntarily discharged for personality disorders. It is likely that in many cases these were sham diagnoses meant to rid the ranks of MST victims.”

“Jeremy Robinson [name changed], Army, 1970-1972: “I have very little memory of my time in the psychiatric ward, because I was so heavily drugged. I stopped eating. I became suicidal, and I made three attempts. They gave me shock treatments against my will. The diagnosis was paranoid schizophrenia. I bore that label for forty years before the VA finally admitted they had misdiagnosed me.”“

“Above all, MST victins keep quiet because they do not believe their attackers will be punished. And they’re almost certainly right. The conviction rate in MST cases that go to trial is just 7 percent. An estimated 81% of male MST victims never report being attacked. Perhaps it should astonish us that any of them do.”

“Mike Thomson, Marines, 1997-1999: ”I wasn’t “afraid” to report it— I was ashamed and disgusted. Guys aren’t supposed to be raped. I didn’t want to tell anybody about it. I didn’t want to say anything.”“

“Men develop PTSD from sexual assault at nearly twice the rate they do from combat. Yet as multiple research papers have noted, the condition in men is egregiously understudied. This is because so few men tell anyone. Those who do often wait years; many male participants in therapy groups are veterans of Korea and Vietnam. At Bay Pines’ C. W. Bill Young VA Medical Center in Florida, the country’s first residential facility for men suffering from MST, the average patient is over 50 years old at admission.”

So GLAD the word is spreading! 

How to talk about really important issues without derailment

i hate talking on the phone. 

i hate it. 

i will never not hate it and i will never feel bad about hating it. 

ever.

Totally agree with @ao3commentoftheday.  My fandom had a (pretty bad) plagiarism case a couple of years ago where the writer used entire sections from different authors and fics, just changing the name of the OC to argue those sections were therefore different enough. AO3 was alerted and they took those fics down. As for ideas, I think the “Inspired by” section AO3 provides is perfect for that, whether the idea comes from the same fandom or a different one. And, yes, it is good form not to use every single same detail. 

For a convenient short-hand, here’s how a program like “Turnitin” might recognize plagiarism in a piece of academic writing or a student paper. Obviously, this isn’t 100% the same for fanfiction writing, but perhaps this might be useful to anon and others to get a sense of how plagiarism is talked about outside of specifically fannish spaces.

The 10 types listed below are taken from the Turnitin website, at this link here, and that site also provides good textual examples for reference. I’ll repost the categories here for convenience:

1) Clone: Submitting another’s work, word-for-word, as one’s own

2) Cltr+C: Contains significant portions of text from a single source without alterations

3) Find & Replace: Changing key words and phrases but retaining the essential content of the source

4) Remix: Paraphrase from multiple sources made to fit together

5) Recycle: Borrows generously from the writer’s previous work without citation (or self-plagiarism)

6) Hybrid: Combines perfectly cited sources with copied passages without citation

7) Mashup: Mixes copied material from multiple sources

8) 404 Error: Includes citations to non-existent or inaccurate information about sources

9) Aggregator: Includes proper citation to sources but the paper contains almost no original work

10) Re-Tweet: Includes proper citation, but relies too closely on the text’s original wording and/or structure

Some of these (6-8 for example) aren’t going to be as relevant for fanfic, but aside from egregious cases (1-4) which would be obvious forms of plagiarism, even for fanfiction, I think 9 is interesting, and where it gets complicated. What it does is help flip the question on its head: it’s not a question of whether or not the text (say, a fanfic) has unoriginal content (tropes etc), but whether it contains enough original content to count as a separate contribution / original work. In academic writing a mash-up of someone else’s research (whether from a single or multiple sources), when done properly (i.e. with proper attributions and citations), would be called a lit review – and it’s not in the same category or genre as original research. When done improperly (no attributions), it’s plagiarism.

For, specifically, attribution: again, in academic writing (and this probably could count for fanfic too) – it is possible that the argument in your work has been made before, by another writer or researcher. The responsibility is on you to be familiar with your field, and cite your predecessors and fellow travelers. But, of course, lapses are made – and a reviewer will point out that “here, author should take at the work of XYZ for a very similar argument/method etc). Obviously this is not quite the same ethos as fanfic. However, where it IS the same ethos I think, is when you KNOW a similar argument or idea has been developed by someone else, you’ve read that work before starting your own, and you willfully chose not to cite them. That sort of plagiarism is hard to verify, but, again, if one does that, they open themselves up to call-outs from one’s peers (or the author of the other text), along the lines of where’s your citation/reference? TLDR: (1) Don’t do points 1-4, that’s plagiarism however you cut it. (2) If your work is inspired by or borrows from another work, don’t be an asshole, and reference.

I know this is mostly geared towards written works and fics but DMs/GMs and Players should reference and credit homebrew creators’ works to their players whenever they use homebrewed content; be it NPCs, creatures, classes, magic items, maps, art, tokens, mechanics, and/or full adventures.

And it’s also good to notify the creators because we also love to hear when someone uses or is inspired by our content.

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