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“Ha… right.”

Like, she had actual goddamn tears in her eyes, and that was what she considered an appropriate reply to the joke.I just marvelled for a minute like ‘what the actual hell?’ and eventually asked my mom a few questions. I didn’t want to make her feel defensive or self-conscious or anything, it just kind of blew my mind, and I wanted to know what she was thinking.

Turns out that she’s using the ellipsis the same way I would use a dash, and also to create ‘more space between words’ because it ‘just looks better to her’. Also, that I tend to perceive an ellipsis as an innate ‘downswing’, sort of like the opposite of the upswing you get when you ask a question, but she doesn’t. And that she never uses exclamation marks, because all her teachers basically drilled it into her that exclamation marks were horrible things that made you sound stupid and/or aggressive.

So whereas I might sent a response that looked something like:

“Yay! That sounds great - where are we meeting?”

My mother, whilst meaning the exact same thing, would go:

‘Yay. That sounds great… where are we meeting?”

And when I look at both of those texts, mine reads like ‘happy/approval’ to my eye, whereas my mother’s looks flat. Positive phrasing delivered in a completely flat tone of voice is almost always sarcastic when spoken aloud, so written down, it looks sarcastic or passive-aggressive.

On the reverse, my mother thinks my texts look, in her words, ‘ditzy’ and ‘loud’. She actually expressed confusion, because she knows I write and she thinks that I write well when I’m constructing prose, and she, apparently, could never understand why I ‘wrote like an airhead who never learned proper English’ in all my texts. It led to an interesting discussion on conversational text. Texting and text-based chatting are, relatively, still pretty new, and my mother’s generation by and large didn’t grow up writing things down in real-time conversations. The closest equivalent would be passing notes in class, and that almost never went on for as long as a text conversation might. But letters had been largely supplanted by telephones at that point, so ‘conversational writing’ was not a thing she had to master. 

so every dot on this map is basically someone’s queer experience: coming out, meeting their future wife, seeing another gay man in public for the first time, anything you can think of that truly left a mark on them

Insert Gold for appropriate item.

Roll a d20

On a 1 your potion shatters on the bottom and the machine keeps your gold.

On a 20 you get two potions.

Insert Gold for appropriate item.

Roll a d20

On a 1 your potion shatters on the bottom and the machine keeps your gold.

On a 20 you get two potions.

(source: @mswyrr, @wonderswoman)

So this is a thing I do not want to say, but nonetheless, here I am.

There’s been some Fandom Discourse on the similarities between Chapter 18 of The Desperate Type and Chapters 28 and 30 of Jump. The take away depends on who you talk to: Some people are claiming that the author of Jump plagiarized me, some people are saying they didn’t notice any similarities between the two chapters, some people say that they liked that the stories are so similar, and in general I’ve kept out of it because I am an adult and my enjoyment of DEH is meant to be exactly that: enjoyment. I don’t want to engage in some petty fight. I’m not interested in a pissing contest. My work stands for itself and, ultimately, was posted and completed to chapter 18 before Jump was ever published. I’m not exactly pleased that this happened, but you know, life goes on.

But having seen a number of posts floating around, I thought maybe it was time I said something. 

Here goes: I do think the similarities between Jump and TDT are a little too close to be pure coincidence. I’ve spoken to the author of Jump about it, although my message was never returned, and their latest chapter, published after my message, is also very similar.  As the author has stated publicly, their intention wasn’t to pass off my work as their own. I am sure that is true. However, as the author of TDT, chapters 28 and 30 of Jump read like shot for shot rewrites of chapter 18. And I don’t really think the appropriate course of action to this being pointed out to them is simply to say “I didn’t do this on purpose” and then comment vaguely about it on tumblr and refuse to address it further on the fic itself.

The author of Jump is young, and I never want to scare someone off of writing. I love other writers, and in some way I guess I am glad to see my work is so influential. But basically, the rule of thumb I’ve always followed is: if you’re not certain the idea is 100% without a doubt, purely your own, cite it. If someone says it still reads too much like another work, change it. If you don’t, then it’s plagiarism.

For example, The Desperate Type is modeled, in part, on a book called My Heart and Other Black Holes. The main plot outline was directly inspired by that book. I mention it in the summary and in the notes of the first chapter. It is clear as day.

No such indications about what inspired the plot appear on Jump. I know. I literally just checked.

There are other fics on AO3 that have been very similar to TDT in one way or another. For example: Between the Pages by arimarris features Connor working as a librarian, and Now We’re Making Some Progress by murphystarr borrows Dave the Tattoo Artist, Connor’s librarian career, and his pine tree tattoo. Both of these authors include my handle and the title of my fic in their notes, indicating clearly that they were inspired by my writing before embarking on their story. Both of these authors they told me prior to publication about their plans for their stories, and now we chat regularly and I consider them wonderful friends. I would like to encourage others to follow these examples if writing something based on my work is something they are interested in doing.

TL;DR: I don’t appreciate the way the author of Jump has handled this conversation, mostly because I wasn’t able to have a conversation with them about this after I said my piece. I try to assume good intentions whenever possible, but that simply isn’t possible for me now. I don’t appreciate the vague posts on tumblr or the disrespect toward readers. I’m not expecting total professionalism from a sixteen year old, but I do expect kindness to be extended to fans of both of our works.

So, that’s my stance. Take what you want from it; I know authorial intent isn’t really worth a damn. I will not be posting any hate for the author of Jump or their fic at all anywhere, so please don’t go looking for that from me. 

Feel free to drag me publicly if you must. I’m certain some corner of fandom will decide to paint me as a jerk because of this or bash my writing. That’s fine with me. I can take it. I’m just a grandpa trying to tell stories.

Emotions: numbed

Coping mechanism: shitty