DISCLAIMER
[Edit: Just thought I'd add that another reason I posted this disclaimer is because I got a little paranoid and my overactive imagination convinced me that the FBI were going to track me down. Or at least, that FF was going to report me to some higher authority that would take me away and eat my liver. Sorry :P I think I was having a bad day :P ]
The reason that I initially wrote this was because I was MISTAKENLY called a plagiarist. As in, the person who did say this then sent me a really, really nice PM saying that they were mistaken, and hadn't read my summary which does have a disclaimer of sorts. That person is perfectly nice and this following disclaimer sounds quite aggressive, which is not really my style, but I did want to get my point across. This disclaimer in my summary, however, I now realise, is not clear enough, so I now have this massive thing to eliminate any confusion. As the incident that prompted me to write this was all a misunderstanding, the below is no longer directed towards anybody, except for if there are any future readers who think I am a plagiarist.
This means that I wrote the below during a misunderstanding, so I reiterate that it is not directed towards anyone anymore. You are all my friends and I am not an angry person. Still, now that I've written this massive, unnecessarily angry disclaimer, I might as well use it.
Just please, please, please, keep in mind that it was born from a misunderstanding, and is only still posted because I frankly need a better, more detailed disclaimer than what is in the summary, and, well, it should convince people that I'm NOT a plagiarist before they ACCIDENTALLY send me a PM or something telling me that I am.
Sorry about this long bit at the beginning, sorry for the following that makes me sound vicious, and sorry for any false impression that I am big and scary, and filled with anger. I'm not really. I'm actually quiet and shy, and do my best to be friends with everybody, which is why I feel so bad about this whole misunderstanding.
This disclaimer is now practically a novel. I'm sorry about that too :P
Ok, so recently I got a couple of reviews where I was called a plagiarist. I found this hurtful, and I don't want people to believe this, as IT IS A LIE.
That is why I'm now writing a nice big disclaimer for you all. By the way, I apologise in advance for the overuse of capital letters.
I am NOT labelling these jokes as my own. I did NOT think them up, and I DON'T know who did, otherwise I WOULD reference them. They are jokes that a fair few of you ALREADY KNOW. All I am doing is CIRCULATING THEM for a bit of fun. I love hearing new jokes, so I'm happy if I've managed to show you one that you haven't heard before.
In my summary for 'Jokes!' I have written:
'My favourite jokes that I have adapted to various novels by Tamora Pierce.'
I have written up my favourite jokes, which OTHER PEOPLE have told me, that I enjoyed and that I thought you might enjoy as well. I am simply sharing these jokes with you guys, and ADAPTING them to Tamora Pierce's novels (as in I am using HER characters, which I DON'T own, in these jokes which I DIDN'T think up) for an added twist.
I think that most people DO understand this and DON'T mind that I actually HAVEN'T thought up these jokes. I HAVEN'T been taking the credit for any of them. My sole purpose in creating 'Jokes!' was to try and spread my favourite jokes around, because I believe that everyone could use a laugh at times. Is that such a bad thing?
For example, a reader named Aradhel Rien Atrail wrote, on the 6th of April, concerning chapter 8:
'I've heard that one before! that is one of my fave jokes of all time! I like it even more with the Emalan twist. Nice job with the charactor choice.'
I think it is obvious here that this reader knows perfectly well that I have NOT made up this joke, and that I have simply added an 'Emelan twist'. Do they care? NO. Does it matter that I have not made up the joke? NO.
I'm not the first one to have posted jokes on FF, and I acknowledge this. There are heaps of jokes posted by others, based in places ranging from the 'Harry Potter' world to 'Naruto'. I apologise if any of the jokes I have posted are the same as the ones that others have posted. This is UNINTENTIONAL, and if I do decide to use a joke that I have first seen as posted by someone else, I WILL reference them. Somehow, however, I doubt that all, if any, of the jokes posted by others were made up by the person who posted them.
When I first had the idea of adapting jokes to Tamora Pierce's novels, it was because I was looking for jokes set in Tortall and Emelan. I saw that there WEREN'T any, and thought that maybe those who read about Tortall and Emelan might enjoy having some jokes based in those places. This led me to begin writing 'Jokes!'.
I have NEVER SAID that I made up these jokes, as I HAVEN'T. I'm not ashamed to admit this, and I think that enough people know these jokes that it is PERFECTLY OBVIOUS that I did NOT make them up. The only thing I have done that is mine is remembering and writing down the jokes, in relation with Tamora Pierce's characters, ordering them, and posting them.
I thought that you understood this, but I guess I was wrong.
I apologise if you did not understand this, and feel that I have deceived you amongst others, as that was PERFECTLY UNINTENDED.