Damn, I Really Gotta Get The Malpractice MD Ds Game, But In The Meantime This Is Pretty Fun.

ROUND FOUR, SIDE ONE: Roland (Library of Ruina) vs Tad Strange (Gravity Falls)

Propaganda under the cut!

Roland

Roland is just a guy and is so much fun to watch he has committed several murders and he is FUNNY.

more propaganda here!

Tad Strange

His whole thing is that he’s so normal that it’s just a tad strange. He really likes bread.

Tad Strange is THE basic white man in business attire. Literally, that’s his entire personality (other than speaking in monotone, bread, milk, painting things white, and staring at nondescript rocks).

For every note this gets I'll personally kill a transphobe with my bare hands

reflections on the mechs rabbit hole

I just reada really good fic but halfway through I realized "oh shit this is really familiar.... didn't I write something like this once?" And as I kept reading I kept predicting what happened next and the further I went the more convinced I was that they'd ripped off my story-

like, copied the ENTIRE plot and re-written it, just better than I had? The characters were more fleshed-out than mine were, and the POV was more interesting, and the pace made more sense- but it was MY STORY?

So close to the end I was like "holy shit.. do I message them? Ask if my story inspired theirs? Should I be angry? Flattered?" Cause their tags and description didn't mention me AT ALL, which, sure, it's fanfiction to begin with, but if you're using my work than at least credit me as inspo, right? Just to be courteous?

But I get to the end of the final chapter, and it's not finished, and I'm kind of disappointed cause I never finished my story and I was really immersed in their version now and had been looking forwards to seeing how they tied up my loose ends- so I scroll to the bottom to leave a comment, and.

It's MY URL.

IT WAS MY STORY THE WHOLE TIME.

THE ONE *I WROTE*.

In *2013*.

And FORGOT ABOUT

BECAUSE I WAS SO INSECURE ABOUT MY SLOPPY, SHALLOW, AMETEUR WRITING

And I'm just sitting here now staring into space thinking about every shitty story I've ever written now like

IT WAS ALL GOOD?

IT WAS GOOD THIS WHOLE DAMN TIME??

I'M A GOOD WRITER?????

The dream demon can't get me if I don't sleep.

Dropping this here for anyone who may not already know about it. paywallreader.com

ROUND FIVE, SIDE ONE: Stanley (The Stanley Parable) vs Tad Strange (Gravity Falls)

more ‘Rose Walker is a PhD student under professor Robert Gadling, and yes they sometimes talk about his very good ‘friend’ and her uncle, what about it’ and more ‘Matthew sometimes meets up with this very nice immortal who bakes very good bread, yes he sometimes mentions his boss and yes the immortal sometimes mentions his very good ‘friend’, what about it’ and more ‘Matthew and Rose sometimes meet up to gossip about Dream, yes sometimes she mentions her nice literature professor and yes he sometimes mentions this random nice immortal, what about it’ and more ‘Rose Walker has a new friend named Johanna Constantine, and yes sometimes she mentions her weird uncle and Johanna sometimes mentions this weird guy who gives her stupid jobs, but she also sometimes talks about her literature professor and Johanna tells her about this new case she took about this guy who might have a painting up in his attic, but is probably nothing, hey does she maybe wanna tag along?’

so thats how on what’s supposed to be a nice Saturday morning Rose is standing with her new friend in the living room of her literature professor, with said literature professor in his boxers, while her gossip raven buddy flies in through the open window asking for more fresh bread *insert spiderman pointing meme*

(right until Dream comes out of Hobs bedroom stark naked asking what’s taking him so long)