[ SECRET POST #5405 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5405 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Nah. I'm not sure specifically what an imagine is. But if it's like, "Hey it'd be cool if there was a fic of [fandom] about [thing] where [this] happens.", no one owes someone else credit for that.

Nevermind that for the amount of stuff I scroll past on many websites, things get stuck in my brain and may come out later and I have no idea where the inspiration came from.

It'd be different if you wrote the fic and they basically copied it word for word.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I was thinking that the writer might have scrolled past it on their dash and couldn't hope to find it again even if they tried. Happens to me at least once day.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah. I'm not sure specifically what an imagine is. But if it's like, "Hey it'd be cool if there was a fic of [fandom] about [thing] where [this] happens.", no one owes someone else credit for that.

It wasn't. It was more like, "Here is a very specific, two-thousand word paraphrasing of a fic I'd love to read, including very specific scenes, story beats, plot points, and narrative dynamics." The fic was very, very clearly inspired by my post. There was nothing vague about it.

Nevermind that for the amount of stuff I scroll past on many websites, things get stuck in my brain and may come out later and I have no idea where the inspiration came from.

I mean, if you are capable of reading a two thousand word condensing of a very specific fic idea and then remembering what you read but forgetting you didn't come up with it yourself...IDEK what to say to that. Sounds fake but ok?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

1. I said I didn't know what an imagine was, I assumed it was like a plot bunny. Clearly it's not.

2. Also, no one OWES you for realising your idea. Obviously I would remember not coming up with a specific idea, but I (hypotherical me) did all the work of actually writing the fic so... still not really owing you anything.

That's like saying someone saw a great dress design sketch and went home and fleshed it out and made the actual dress for their own use but you're mad that they don't tell everyone they meet, "Hey I saw the sketch for something similar online."

Would it be nice if they did? Sure. But they don't owe you zilch.

[(Anonymous)]

Hard disagree. The only sense in which you don't owe someone acknowledgement for realizing an idea that is clearly their own is, in some cases, legally. But in every other sense you absolutely do owe them acknowledgement. And hell, in some cases you even owe them legally. Not in the case of fanfic, obviously, but in some scenarios, yes, you would owe them credit legally as well.

But I mean hey, if you want to try writing and publishing a novel based heavily and recognizably off of a lengthy and detailed outline for a novel that someone else has posted online, be my guest. Have fun in court.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not even like someone stole a design sketch and turned it into a dress; it's like someone posted a design sketch and a list of fabrics saying "I don't have the time/skill/energy/knowledge to actually drape, pattern, cut, sew, or embellish a dress myself, but I wish someone would make this for me" and then getting mad when someone sends them a finished dress but posts pics of it online.

Like, would acknowledgement be nice? Sure. But as someone who's come up with way more ideas than I will ever have the time or skill or energy to write, and who has had my share of anon prompts filled by people who did a better job than I could (and couldn't credit me since I was anon rando # 457), I'd rather get fic from my ideas than credit for them, so long as no one's earning money off it.

Also I've seen so many "so and so stole my super awesome original idea" claims turn out to be so much inflated ego bullshit that six people came up with independently that I'm always a little skeptical of those claims anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

2000 words is not an imagine though. Imagines are short plotbunny ideas, not big outlines.