plagiarism and fangirlyness

[salixbabylon]

alienvoe posted a question about plagiarism, and I thought puterpatty's comments were so perfect that I feel compelled to put a link to the thread in here. I just feel like writers sometimes get so upset about theft of ideas, and puterpatty's comments said everything I've always been too scatterbrained to say.

I don't think I've ever written an original piece in my life. I read so much, everything comes from somewhere else, I'm sure. I try to credit when I know where the piece may have come from, but sometimes, in small communities like the slash ones, a group of people are thinking about the same ideas, and you all develop similar concepts simultaneously, unintentionally.

And just think, although I disagree with it totally, we'd never have Narnia if CS Lewis hadn't stolen some ideas from Tolkien!

Anyway.

In other news, I've reach an all-new fangirly low -- I'm seriously considering going to San Francisco to see Orli with bad facial hair in "Ned Kelly". God help me.