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quite the problem child of fandom

@temporarilyobsessive / temporarilyobsessive.tumblr.com

Lexi said it, not me. As did Erica. And then Liz made me some serious fanart. I've also been inducted into Rolly's Spuffy Mafia. And Caitlin would like to call me "Master". NO BUFFY THAT IS NOT HOW MORTAL ENEMIES BEHAVE. "Mari is full of joy and sunshine. She ships all of the things, especially Buffy/Anya, and she is a meta queen." -Nicole
Anonymous asked:

I've been following you for several months now and I must say that you're one of my favorite blogs. Can I have your new URL so I can keep following you?

Thanks, anon! You are lovely.

You can message me un-anon and I'll give it to you. :)

Please do not repost my stuff. I’d appreciate it if you took this down immediately. If you’d like these on your blog, you can reblog the originals which can be found here and here. And hey, they move and are bigger! :D Also if you’d like them in one post together for the parallel similar to this, I won’t mind putting them in one post, so next time if you want a post like that just ask instead of editing my things together because this is not cool, bro. It’s actually plagarism.

If you really think about it. Everything we do is plagiarism. We take words written by others and we use them to our benefit in our blog posts.

Who is not guilty? No matter how you dress it up, it is what it is. :-/

It still doesn’t change the fact that I put a lot of time and effort into the things I make from the raw source material and someone else decided to repost it as their own work without any credit to me. It is rude. It is unethical. Are you seriously trying to say that what I’m doing by creating things out of tv shows for fun is just as unethical?

Like I said…you’re also guilty so don’t rag on others when you do the same. It’s not right nor is it fair. You can’t have it both ways.

Did you just completely ignore this reblog? I’m not as great with words, but it is exactly why what I’m doing is NOT wrong, but what a reposter is doing is.

You obviously do not get it or have any kind of respect for tumblr graphics/gif-makers so I don’t know why I’m wasting time arguing with you, but the difference is that it’s obvious that the words and images from the show are not my work. People have seen the show so they know I did not create those words or take that video. The arrangement of those words and images is my work, yet if someone reposts it, that credit is taken away from me and someone else gets the credit for it. It’s still obvious that the words and pictures are not theirs, but other tumblr users are going to think that they did all the work. Another thing: I am not making any sort of monetary profit off of this and my reward is the notes and the enjoyment I get from seeing other people like what I make. That is proportional to the amount of effort I put into it, usually. Someone else who just takes my work is going to get the same notes/enjoyment out of people liking it without putting any effort into making it.

So no I am not guilty and no someone completely stealing my work is not the same as me celebrating the show by putting it into graphic representation. What’s not fair here is people who repost and people like you who have no appreciation for the work that the graphics/gif-makers of tumblr do. If you thought it was so wrong why do you reblog things people make? If you’re so against it that seems pretty hypocritical to me.

Oh and one more thing. It takes no time to make gifs. I do it all the time and it takes no more than a few moment to plan it out and get it done. But you said it your self. You’re not good with words so that’s why it must take you so long.

And if you don’t want others to re blog then don’t post it.

If you're trolling, you're doing a pretty crappy job of it. The originals clearly took a lot more time than a standard gif, especially considering the typography and the size, and how anyone who makes gifs knows that even the simplest can take more time than the ones that look more complex because of Tumblr's size restrictions.

But that's irrelevant, because no matter how much or how little time was spent on the gifs, it doesn't change the fact that Liz made them from the source material. It's her vision, her work, and someone else took that interpretation and presented it as their own. It'd be like someone claiming the series Sherlock as their own because "they're just plagiarizing!". Um. Nope. And the fact that I went to your blog and found fanfiction there is probably the most ridiculously amusing part of your argument, since I'm sure you'd be very frustrated if someone reposted those creations from the source material- although judging from your attitude toward all this, I'm very doubtful that any of them are originally yours at all.

And whether or not you're trolling, you're still disgusting for that last post. But I'm pretty sure that that's self-evident.

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I think it's completely okay to examine Spike's motivations in Seeing Red as confusion based on Buffy's hot-cold up until then (though I'd also argue that she'd been completely adamant since As You Were, while Tabula Rasa and Wrecked both had romantic interludes less than a day after she denied them, and initiated by her), but examining his motivations as related to Buffy's actions is something else entirely than saying that he tried to rape her because of it. He tried to rape her because of Spike reasons, no matter how many Buffy reasons he may have come up with for why he wanted to do it.

So you want to ship Spuffy- a guide to not being an ass about it.

  • So you want to ship Spuffy! Congratulations! You've been drawn to a ship that hosts probably more fans than any other BtVS ship, some of the most brilliant meta and fanfiction I've ever read, and some of the greatest people I've ever met.
  • Keep in mind from the start that you are shipping something incredibly problematic. Which is okay! You're allowed to enjoy something with problematic aspects, and even support the non-problematic parts of it. No one's telling you that loving a fictional villain is wrong because he killed someone, for example.
  • But no media exists in a vacuum, and when you refuse to acknowledge the faults of characters or a relationship, you're enabling your own ignorance to those same things in the real world. So don't.

Guys, guys! The correct response to hate in the Spuffy tag is to reblog with love. The correct response to things you don't like in the Spuffy tag is to write an untagged passive-aggressive tag post about it on your own blog! We don't do infighting unless you're a rape apologist!