WTF?

[elspethdixon]

So, can any of you explain to me what the heck has happened to Thor fans on tumblr?  The last time I saw reactions like this to an actor getting married, it was LOTRPS and J2 fandom over Orlando Bloom dating.. I forget which actress, and Jensen Ackles marrying whomever it is he's married to (Daneel Harris?  Or was that Jared Padalecki?), and in those cases the guys were the center of huge, tinhat-filled RPS fandoms.

Also, what happened on on the Avengers kink meme?  I stop checking it or a few months, and suddenly there's (possible?) plagarism and long discussion threads on The Meme That Must Not Be Named about whether or not it really was plagarism wherein no one actually seems to know anything about it.

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[elspethdixon]

That would explain why I didn't recognize anything familiar when I went and skimmed the fic (well, the first couple bits of it - it was deleted before I got a chance to read through the whole thing). If the fic that was plagarized was posted on the kink meme rather than to the c_i comm, I might not have read it.

I'm glad the mod and both authors decided to keep everything anonymous. If user names were attached, the wank would probably continue on for ages rather than dying out in a couple of days, as I suspect (well, hope) it will. With no names attached, nobody will feel compelled to jump in and defend their friend/attack on behalf of their friend, and I suspect the author of the copied fill wouldn't have reacted nearly as well if she'd been posting un-anon with her reputation on the line (offering to take down the fic pretty much without protest rather than throwing a drama-fit of injured innocence and flouncing is practically a best-case scenario for people caught plagarizing).