Another plagiarism story

In my unfinished series of essays on the "young man stories" genre one of my favorite examples is Dominic Luka. This is partly because his work is good, his characters likable, etc., but also because he's sort of an exmplar of the genre and the writers of it (one of the characteristics of the genre is that, unlike things that you would point to and say "this is yaoi," the authors are fairly likely to be young men and very young men --teenaged boys themselves -- not always, but very likely). Now the peculiar epidemic of cyberfan plagiarism has touched him.

I have nothing to say about it, just that it's interesting that the plagiarism of an entirely original story about American high school students with no manga/movie/anime/comic/series characters or characteristics (no uke/seme, for example) is plagiarized on a site called fanfiction.net. (I can't find it there, but that's where it is apparently).

The story that was plagiarized is "Desert Dropping." It's as much about family and friendship as it is about coming out and first love, and that's a characteristic too.

On another front, the nice fellow found my real glasses in a stupid place I had checked three times at least before. I wore my emergency backup glasses for two days.

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Degeneriaceae

What a great name for a family of plants.






< a href="http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/newgate/cronang.htm">Found while trying to find out if the ipomoeaceae are related to the solanaceae. Still working on it.


On another front, we went to the back of Cowell and found: 2 small and 1 large shrimp mushroom (the nice fellow's gone to bed so I can't confirm that these are the only russulas we think are worth eating) and 1 funny-looking little king bolete. It had a tiny head and a big trunk, but sometimes boletes do that.

The forget-me-nots are about as long as my hand. It sprinkled on Wednesday but other than that it hasn't rained in a long time, but the ground is damp.

I hate desktop wallpaper in general, but I found the astronomy picture of the day and I couldn't find a feed I could stick in lj like I do the botany picture of the day (you can get it too at the bpod lj profile. What you can get, and I did, is a program that downloads the astronomy picture of the day to your computer as wallpaper. The first picture wasn't all that inspiring, but I just got a new one that sends chills down my spine. The one bug I see is that setting the preferences to show the explanation (that is, an icon you can click for information) doesn't seem to stick at all, and you have to keep going into the program to reset it and get the explanation.