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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-08-02 06:02 pm

[ SECRET POST #2404 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2404 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[League of Legends]


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[Fuck City crew]


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[Jon Richardson, British comedian]


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[ ----- SPOILERY SECRETS AHEAD ----- ]









09. [SPOILERS for Sailor Moon]



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[ ----- TRIGGERY SECRETS AHEAD ----- ]










10. [SPOILERS for the Godfather]
[WARNING for gore, animal abuse]



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11. [SPOILERS for Hannibal]
[WARNING for abuse, gore]



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12. [WARNING for eating disorders]




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13. [WARNING for underage]
http://i.imgur.com/J2FVb1W.png
[linked for photomanip of snape/hermione]


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14. [WARNING for torture? probably?]














Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #343.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

(Anonymous) 2013-08-03 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
When I was a young teen, I had an idea for a fanfic story. Outer space disturbance, people get too close, they're transported to an alternate world with a medieval setting. Not an original plot (particularly for fanfic), but this was pre-Internet Star Wars, so it felt new to me. After shining up this plot idea for a while, I bought my monthly Star Wars comic, and bam! there's my story idea.

My sister is a prof, and she knows people who've found they were one of two people working on the same 'unique' idea, only to have someone else publish it first. It happens.

I personally have written fanfic that I later discovered had a very similar plot setup - actual execution and resulting stories were very different.

For all that we are each unique and special snowflakes, in a world filled with unique and special snowflakes, there is more overlap than you think.

The other thought is, as other people pointed out above, this may also be something they read before and were unconsciously mirroring. But I think a plot similarity is not plagiarism.