One Wank After Another

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A blank assignment is a funny thing, isn't it? When you have it, you don't appreciate it, and when you miss it, it's gone.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know about bad but tracing feels lazy. It's like the equivalent of a fic where someone's just writing out a scene from canon. Sure, you technically produced something, but I'd rather have a genuine badfic or stick figures comic where there's some spark of inspiration even if it's incomprehensible.

[(Anonymous)]

I see what you mean, but at the same time, I think if you tried to ask a mod for EPH for canon rehash not a one would give it to you.

[(Anonymous)]

DC

On the other hand, if it contained sufficiently large chunks of directly plagiarised canon text with very little added, they probably would? So I guess it's down to where you feel tracing falls on the analogous spectrum between "copy-paste 900 words directly from canon and just add a couple extra sentences in there" vs "canon rehash but in the writer's own words". (My instinct is probably somewhere in the middle, which is admittedly not particularly helpful in drawing a line.)

[(Anonymous)]

DC

I think the plagiarism issue for canon rehashs is just relevant for written canons. When you rehash a scene from a movie or a TV show, it will obviously copy the dialogue 1:1 (otherwise it wouldn't really be a rehash) but the narration couldn't be lifted from canon. That doesn't necessarily make it a better gift.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm. Maybe the comparison holds up, but I'd sure prefer a technically competent canon scene or traced art rather than ~inspired badfic or really badly drawn art.