Yeah, I've had a script produced. · 1:14am Jan 3rd, 2015
I checked my email a few days ago and found this message:
I adapted your story Goldenmane and the Three Bears into a screenplay, just for the hell of it. A few months later, I took a film class and decided, hey, why not pitch the script? Long story short, I got a bunch of fine young folks on board with it, and I ended up spending the last three months directing and editing a short film based on your fic. In hindsight, I imagine it would have made more sense to ask your permission before going ahead with the project, but the process unfolded so quickly that I didn't find myself looking back very often. For that, I apologize, and I hope the fruits of our labors at least partially makes up for my failure to contact you earlier.
I love it when people use my stories without asking permission, because not only might I get a cool adaptation of my work, I might also get a juicy lawsuit out of it! Doesn't look like there's any money in this one, though. Maybe next time. 
The (humanized, live-actor) short's on Vimeo (8 minutes long). It's got some clever additions of its own
They did credit me at the end, so stop calling it plagiarism, folks.
I hope you at least got credited.
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holy wow
You know, that thing I won a screenplay award for at a rather local event was done in much the same way, but that was based on a rejected pony story I had written.
If I knew you could just yoink other author's stories without their permission, and just have them be grateful for the results, I would have done it a long time ago.
I'd be plagarizing GhostOfHeraclitus blatantly, for starters. PoweredByTea too, quite blatantly indeed.
Well.
More blatantly than I already do.
All joking narcissism aside, Bad Horse, they do say that plagiarism is the highest form of flattery.
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Just ask him. The only downside is you'd have to listen to him complain about how bad his stories were and that you should really film someone else's, anyone else's.
...er, depending on what "yoink" means.
2696789 2696803 I got credited. What, you didn't watch it? And I thought we were friends.
Congratulations on being the first Fimfiction member to get a film adaptation.
Oh very nice. Shame about the lawsuit, but at least your evil is spreading!
Congratulations!
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Congrats, Bad. Couldn't have happened to a
I would suggest obvious alternatives of better things to film but it seems like someone's already filmed at least one of them.
nicmore despicable blaggard.2696803
Oh, please, you know you can have anything good out of anything I've ever written. At my most egoistical I figure that's about... a sentence? Two, tops.
So a very short movie, then. A Vine, really.
Oh, wow. That was a pretty nice adaptation.
So, the guy with the kids here wasn't a babysitter at all, but a burglar?
So is the implication at the end that he's actually part of a crew robbing the house, and he's in charge of keeping the kids placated? but then that doesn't make sense in light of him asking the kids to tell him what they're mom says about the word "Bitch".
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Oh yes, you got credited, but that falls under the 'Forgiveness' family, which is rather distinct from the rather inferior 'Permission' genus.
Whole other species, as it were.
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You don't know what 'Yoink' means? And you call yourself a blaggard, wot? No, wait, Ghost called you that, so I suppose I shall have to clarify.
To pinch. To nick. To abscond with. To be a speck in the distance when the object in question is first known to be misplaced. To put your kifers to good use and pay them off with results. To make merry with the fruits of other's labour. To borrow without permission or the intent to return unless held from the ankles by an unctuous copper.
You know. To steal.
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I'm taking this to PM. You have no say in the matter, unless that say is 'yes, please'.
I'm sorry, Bad Horse, for the imposition, but do you mind if I yoink our mutual far-too-humble-for-his-own-thrice-damned-good acquaintance for a tidge?
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I think it's just the kind of thing to say to make the kids think it's all normal for you to be there, implying they'll see you more often
So ideally you should find out your story has been 'used' when you go to the sold-out opening at the theatre and they use the word 'blockbuster.'
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I've answered.
Congrats! This is awesome!
It was okay I guess. I pictured the "narrator" as being much older, and it kinda sat on the fence between light and dark comedy tonally, but the bears' descriptions made me smirk at least.
Was I the only one expecting your real name in the credits? I bet the rest crew of the crew were like "what...who...?" when they watched that.
This is awesome!
Now somebody needs to tell these kids about Stan Freberg:
"A 4-12? WHAT'S A 4-12?! "
What the hell... where's the talking black stallion I was expecting? I expected a real talking horse in here, dammit! Or Bad Horse to play himself. Or Lenny.
Lenny is Bad Horse's real name, btw. Betcha didn't know.
This is still pretty fuckin awesome. Now I can't help but visualize sweet neopolitan ice cream held next to a blowtorch...
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He's just getting the kids to STFU for a moment. Y'know, to change the subject. Get the ball rolling again.
2696890 Funny thing is that was how I originally meant the story to go. I don't remember why I changed it.
"Better to ask forgiveness than permission."
- Grace Hopper
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If the guy's robbing the house, then the other chapters don't readily make sense. He and his crew went back to the same house and robbed it again. No, no. There's a higher chance of being arrested. And why the hell are you casing the same joint? You took all the good crap already, right.
Well, I guess it works if they're robbing a different house each chapter (or in ch2's case, foalnapping Skywriter's kid), but it makes Unca Bad kinda underwhelming. Like, watching the kids is grunt work. Why do that when you could be pilfering.
I dunno. I guess you took it out cuz it kinda closes the story, making it slightly less believable for more chapters?