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]

My guess is that the fact that no one but the two authors and the mod had access to the evidence made it look like a case of "he said/she said" to many people rather than something clear-cut and proven (when apparently it was proven, but not publicly), so people reacted according to what their previous experience with plagiarism claims was (hence, either completely believing it because their last fandom had a serial plagiarist who pulled this kind of thing all the time right down to protestations of innocence and fake apologies, or going "well, the last supposed case of plagiarism in my previous fandom was someone who'd written a pirate AU claiming that any and all AUs where the characters were pirates was plagiarizing her; how do we know it wasn't just common h/c tropes the author only thought were copied from her?").