Sigh.

[cleolinda]

So someone else has run off and reposted my work (this time, it's Twilight in Fifteen Minutes. NO DOGPILING, Y'ALL). I don't go looking for this stuff, because honestly, if I started trying to police the internet--which I did try for a little while, back when I was first writing these things--I would never, ever get anything else done. But I feel

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[cupcakery]

Oh, Cleo. Want me to beat up the universe for you?

And: kids today, Goddamn. I can't wait until that twit gets to university and tries to pull that shit on a paper.

[annemjw]

I take somewhat malicious joy at red penning people who copyright at a tertiary level.

It isn't as fun at a secondary level, cause you still have that niggling feeling that they should be doing work to actually get an education, but tertiary, hah! Who cares if they're throwing their own (or their parents') money down the sink! Red pen of shame for you.

[cupcakery]

Ah, the red pen of shame, my favourite weapon. I became well-versed with its uses in high school writer's craft class wherein I became the de-facto editor. (Personally, I think that all English degrees should come with a very special red pen. Pfft, diploma. Pen, people, pen!)

[annemjw]

I would have liked that, instead of my (very attractive, but rather boring) piece of paper. It could have my name on it and everything!

[cupcakery]

I have this image of a pen version of the ruby slippers. Or something along the lines of the Sailormoon transformation pens.

Heh, I just have my diploma in a drawer. It's boring.

[annemjw]

(I am required by nerddom to point out that in the original books the shoes are silver)

I do kind of want a red editing pen that writes in sparkly ink when I want to write rants about intellectual property, gotta say.

Yeah, I should get my degree framed or something. And I'm getting another diploma at the end of the year (hopefully. IF MY MARKS EVER COME OUT. Um.), but I suspect it will be relegated to the same fate as my degree, which I hold in much higher regard, what's more.

[cupcakery]

(Oh, I know. :) )

Everyone's all "Get it framed! You have two degrees!" and I'm all "Why? It's paper." and prefer just to demonstrate with razor-sharp wit and tales of what happens in other cultures that freaks people out.

[annemjw]

(Yay! Ah, somewhat pointless nit-picking. How you make me happy)

Oooh, nice. Then again, I am not just an English Lit grad but a Classical Studies grad, so I know that fun feeling. Bonus points for doing a teaching diploma that meant I got to introduce the insanity of the ancient Greeks and Romans to innocent (hah) teenage minds. Good times.

[celestineangel]

I don't even know where that piece of paper is. It's in a blue sleeve. Somewhere. I think I packed it up when I moved away for grad school. But I don't know where.

[witchnyn]

I did hang mine on my wall, but it was pretty much for the sole purpose of being able to reassure myself when I wake up from a nightmare about suddenly having to write a test in a class I had no idea I was even taking. If my degree's visible, I can tell myself that SEE, it's RIGHT there, it's okay, and I am DONE with school right now, and I DON'T HAVE TO WRITE TESTS UNLESS I DECIDE TO GO BACK AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME etc.

[ilanka]

Believe me, I was happy when I learned that other people have that nightmare, too. On a regular basis I have the anxiety nightmare that I have to sit a test in a class I didn't know/forgot/something I was taking and I'd never been to class, etc. I thought it was my own special version of insanity.

Apparently, it is a shared insanity.

[witchnyn]

So much so that there's an xkcd for that! :D

Although I can't decide if my reaction to that strip is more "Sweet, this IS a widespread thing!" or "...oh God, you don't stop having it?!"

(Edited to fix my stupid HTML error. And that, kids, is why you should always preview your comments.)

[elbales]

This entire thread wins so hard.

Love,
A former editor

(Also: ICON LOVE. Oh, Hotch.)

[cupcakery]

*doffs hat*

(Oh Hotch indeed. omg two more episodes until more Foyet - not including tonights.)

[staringat_stars]

I'm almost twenty and in my second year of college. I've never plagiarized anything in my life, intentionally at least. Having found this in a Myspace bulletin, I figured it wasn't something people were going to take seriously. I thought it was FUNNY and decided to share it with others. I'll edit it again if you like.