psa I don't rly care if the things I said came off as mean. I'm here to defend a friend, not play saint. telling half truths, conveniently leaving out parts of the convo and pretending b did anything to 'rally' us is just a poor attempt at deflection. be genuine, or at least try.
The issue is not with writing a similar trope but with continuously reusing and poorly rephrasing entire lines/paragraphs from somebody else's fic (a fic which is honestly a staple in bmjn rpf) that they have put a lot of work into and is incredibly personal to them
and you would never read both our prose and think 'aren't these pretty similar?' bcs there's always something that sets us apart. working w the same source material ≠ working off of someone's material. our interpretations are different, so it naturally reflects onto our works.
ykw this would all be so much easier if B didn't have this distinct of a writing style that you just look stupid copying her😭😭😭😭 like I wanna be less definitive about all this... but you look stupidddd😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
also this is coming from someone w a rly similar writing style w b (esp in monologues) but our styles were alr similar BEFORE we ever knew of each other's existence. and I would argue that b has a better grasp of prose flow than I do bcs she reads more than me by a mile +
my nuanced take: if a persons normal writing voice is more casual 90% of the time and then at random it switches tones and loses the original voice/lexicon/punctuation patterns of the writer, and adopts COMPLETELY new ones, maybe there is smth there to pause and consider
ALSO SINCE I'M ALREADY RANTING ANYWAYS
there's so much ai slop in the bmjn tags!!! HAVE SHAME!!!! 🫵🏻🫵🏻🫵🏻🫵🏻🫵🏻🫵🏻 I will come back to whack all of you over the head!!!!!!
I have more to say about this because B brought it up to me like once a few months ago and then never again and it's disheartening to me that she felt this helpless over it without being able to tell anyone abt it. let's be better people fr. okay that's it for now!!!!!
okay first off, I would just like to highlight that this whole situation sucks ass. I wasn't aware of the extent of this bullshit bcs I was mostly offline for most of the year, and unfortunately I am employed and still studying +
Hey I’m a writer as well (I don’t post publicly yet) and just reading what you went through sounds so heart wrenching. I ca… — Tbh that’s how it went for me too, super unsettling familiarity and then i was like, ah, it’s me. Thank you for your kind wo… https://t.co/7bnHYouYX5
which is why it's stupid as fuckkk to me that B has to feel like a horrible person even though she's the victim here. It's also stupid that this took a year to surface at alllll despite the fact that most of us would've written a call-out thread by the end of the week