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MercyTale Rewrite Redesigns

AIGHT! the MercyTale redesigns. ARE DONE! Mild warning- there is blood. and some bones through someone. which is why I'm putting this under a cut lmao. its not the worst but better safe than sorry XD

shamebats

When vampires are portrayed as mainly preying on women that's so unrealistic like I'm sorry but they're too careful especially around strange men. Dudes are much easier. You could literally lurk in a bush in the park at night and call out "whoa look at this fucked up looking squirrel" and have 3 grown men climb in immediately

thecadhatter

Also almost every woman I know has low blood pressure and so many are anemic. Men make for much better prey because 1) easy to catch yes and 2) so much more blood

jewishpangolin

strangehorse

[ID: an exchange in the notes between chronosaurai and shamebats (the OP). The exchange reads:

'chronosamurai: Sorry, I wasn't paying attention, wheres the squirrel at?

shamebeats: @chronosamurai it's right here. In the fog. follow me.

chronosamurai: YIPEEEE']

kossithmercar

Oh no, oh no, he is seducing me with his deep passion for his field of study and his genuine joy at teaching people about it

14mg

quick what’s ur opinion on tea. everyone who sees this is obligated to answer in some way

#goosegoblin you tAKE that back #good tea is baller

strangehorse

the single worst thing about the hbomberguy video is that some of the comments i'm seeing from internet randos suggest the twelve billion "plagiarism is bad" lectures i was forced to attend in university might actually have been necessary for some people

strangehorse

"okay, but internet historian like, did something interesting with the essay. he clearly put a lot of passion into it"

i'm going to come into your home and steal your clothes and use them to make a funky mural which i then charge entry for. and if you complain, i will simply point out my Passion

strangehorse

some of you would never have survived first contact with turnitin. that's all i'm saying

dulcidyne

There is such a fundamental difference between essay writing assignments in high school and in college that I think it becomes incredibly obvious who has ONLY had exposure to the former and how it’s shaped their views on what constitutes plagiarism.

High school essays are predominately summary and regurgitation. For the most part, the point of a high school essay is not 1) to add new subject knowledge to the field or 2) to function as a subject matter expert of the field. If you’re lucky, you may develop the skills to reframe a subject through the lens of personal experience, but high school students are limited by their relative lack of life experience and will have a hard time, in general, accomplishing this with many topics. An AP lit course may introduce elements of critical thinking to high school essayists, where they will be expected to analyze literary technique and prose and support a textual thesis, but for the most part an essay in high school is a knowledge test. A summary. Yes, it is supposed to be in your own words and yes, it is supposed to be cited, but the focus on plagiarism is different and restricted to the most egregious use cases (at least, in my experience)

Speaking from experience, the transition into college essays can be a shock, even for high achieving students. I’d done so well in English in my (public, underfunded) high school , I didn’t spare a second thought for my college major: English. I remember my first research paper assignment. I chose teenage suicide in Japan as my topic. My sources were exhaustive, my bibliography two pages long. I turned in my first draft for feedback, certain it wasn’t even necessary, certain it was really final draft quality.

Instead, I got my paper back heavily marked up with red ink. A first in my academic writing career. ‘Citation’ was scribbled all over the margins. ‘CITE SUMMARIES!’ she’d written across the top. All caps. I was confused. I had to cite summarized information? But…that was my WHOLE paper!

Exactly.

In reality, I had nothing new to say about teenage suicide in Japan. My thesis boiled down to: teenage suicide is bad. I had no personal experience with suicidal ideation at the time, I had not lost a friend or a loved one to suicide, I had no capacity to get information from primary sources. Most importantly, I had no real curiosity on the topic as it related to a larger framework. I didn’t think to ask why teenage suicide rates differed between Japan and the US or investigate for myself what factors may have contributed to that discrepancy. I didn’t even think to explore the psychology of teen suicide, the sociological research. There was no hint of original thought in my paper.

I didn’t fix it. I dropped out instead. Later, I returned to major in Biology and had to retake the course. I wrote my research paper on the role of identity in Noh Drama and first person video games. This time around, I had a unique framework. I analyzed primary sources and used my personal experience playing Half Life 2 and watching and reading Noh drama. I had a solid thesis and something to say, I wanted to talk about how we represent audience identity in different mediums. For the first time, I wanted my opinions on the page.

But I wasn’t the first honors/AP high-achieving high school student who excelled in regurgitating information, not so much in actually thinking about it and I definitely wasn’t the last; I’ve met plenty throughout my academic career. And seeing the defenses of these creators, the claims that no, what they were doing was not original work but it was also, somehow, not plagiarism either, I have to think it is common enough high school educational outcome.

Creativity is difficult to cultivate. It takes hard work and a broad or thorough knowledge base to analyze and place information into a unique or relevant framework. Finding new primary sources is hard. Doing your own research and data collection is hard. Adding something NEW and not parroting someone else’s work is hard. But it’s a skill everyone should learn even if it’s not a skill most will ever be taught. I agree with Harris’s closing statement: plagiarism is ultimately cheating yourself out of your own individuality and development.

The only original idea plagiarized work actually conveys is that you don’t believe anyone will be interested in what you have to say.

#important

tiktoksthataregood-ish

voidedlight

moringmark

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peebls

Ran a suspiciously familiar set of colors tonight 👀

mouseghosts

King Boo!

#king boo #my art stuff #oc #mario oc

important-animal-images

Meow.

baddiefitfinds

important-animal-images

Percy (office cat) is working overtime tonight

cookie-kirsten

He is a baker at the office cafe.

melon-moth

long rick and morty rambling post bc it’s midnight and I’m thinking about this. I’m kind of surprised not many more people like beth. I know she’s not perfect and one of the versions of Morty’s mom (either the original cronenberg version or the new one) evidently loves summer more and I have thoughts and opinions on that but for as much as Rick fucks up & proves he’s not a great person, I feel like beth is much more aware of her actions than rick (and is certainly in no way as awful or cruel as he can be) but from what I’ve seen, the fandom still views beth as this unforgivable sociopathic menace & then they turn around and praise Rick for being 10x worse. beth and rick are bad in different ways but it’s. odd to both romanticize rick and claim that beth is a terrible person if you’re not also agreeing that Rick is a terrible person. maybe I’m biased because I love beth and relate to her a LOT but I guess I’m just surprised that very few ppl in the fandom seem to obsess over beth the way they do with Jerry or even summer. idk beth is so pretty and cool and I think the fandom forgets how sick and awesome she is and I wish there was more content of her. mmkay done rambling now gn

tastelessskin

I know this is not the most positive take since it goes into real-world issues, but I do genuinely think part of this is misogyny and has to do with how normalized the behavior is in a lot of men. I think Beth is a good character. Another part of it is likely her role (in my opinion), as I wouldn't expect a lot of the fanbase to relate to a middle-class mother character, despite her other traits. It's far more likely for this show's fans to identify with the overpowered scientist. Maybe another part of it is some fans' (especially younger viewers') own problems they have with their mothers? Idk, just a couple guesses. But it's definitely interesting, and the newer arcs with space beth are phenomenal.