nanslice | GOSH

I typically try to stay out of school drama because I'm around a decade older than these people and it's just dumb. But sometimes I get dragged in and in the instance of the girl submitting fanfiction for critique, of course I get dragged in. :\

So I'm in a 3000 level creative writing class, right? We write weekly and do workshops and it's great. Well, the last assignment was flash fiction; fiction that's 500 words or less. A classmate submitted a piece to be workshopped and it was Naruto fanfiction.

And look, I get it. I submitted a piece with a character that was heavily inspired by Sherlock (his name was Davenport!). My friend submitted a piece that was originally How to Train Your Dragon fanfiction. But this girl. This girl. She didn't change character names, settings, or relationships. It was straight up fanfiction.

Anyway, I got dragged into the professor's office before class to talk about this. He wasn't angry, just thankful that we came forward, and that he would appreciate that we mentioned it during workshop. so I did!

Apparently right after class the girl went to the professor and tried to argue that it wasn't fanfiction and I don't know what all she said but apparently it angered the professor because he told her it was plagiarism and that she had to write something new for the prompt and that piece had to be in her final portfolio.

So that was yesterday! Today a friend was sitting behind her in another class and she was still talking about how it wasn't fanfiction and "just because I couldn't think of original names, doesn't make it fanfiction!" Like, bruh. Just stop.

Anyway, not looking forward to seeing her on Monday, hahaha.

Something's wrong with my car. I'm thinking it's something related to power steering, which is. Unfortunate. It's not drivable! So I'll be missing class tomorrow morning and instead will be calling all car guys to see if I can get it fixed in the next few days. If worse comes to worse, I can maybe carpool with a friend to class on Monday. But this really sucks. If only it waited two weeks! But nope.

I've been out of the video game loop lately (apparently Persona 5 is pretty great? That series isn't one that I'm super attached to - I've only played bits of Persona 3, although what I played was wonderful and I need to get back to it) but apparently Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia is coming out in May! Apparently it's a remake of a game that's considered a "black sheep" of the series but I'm cautiously optimistic and hyped about it. That might be because look at these adorable characters I can't wait to ship them all. Absolutely no one is surprised.