Subject: ...I don't think you're quite understanding.
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Posted on: 2012-03-22 02:07:00 UTC
(Yes, you are allowed to use a link to get to the writing sample.) There are other issues, which were mainly covered in the responses to your application directly - mainly, your writing samples, to be honest, looked slap-dash, hasty, and sloppy. As Neshomeh pointed out, your piece mostly consisted of a few characters being crude and insulting - and your dialogue was plagiarized. There were also July's concerns about your agents. But what I'd like to focus on, what I feel you really are not grasping the depth of, is the plagiarism aspect.
Putting up a disclaimer does not change the facts. Plagiarism is plagiarism. A disclaimer can 'cover' things like "I took a few story elements from this 'fic," or "This was inspired by an AU that started with the same idea," or the like.
For example, the following is acceptable: I got the idea for this story from "Patching Through," by Snarksaysgo, but it goes in a different direction, as I have a different take on the characters.
This is what you wrote for your first writing sample: Here's an expert from a Glee fanfic I made that parodies a Red vs Blue PSA: You didn't parody the episode. You wrote something directly transcribing the dialogue (or copy-pasted it from a transcript) and put it in your own characters' mouths. That's plagiarism. The disclaimer cannot cover it, because there is no way to cover "I copy-pasted the majority of this text from someone else's stuff."
Then you did the same thing with your second writing sample. Your disclaimer there might be more clear: "with yet another PSA from the minds at Rooster Teeth." But again, what you need to say is "All the dialogue in this writing sample is directly taken from Rooster Teeth." Which makes it plagiarism. Which is wrong. You're not adapting parts of a story, you're facelifting it and changing the names of the speaking characters. That's not fanfic, it's not good writing, and, again, it's plagiarism.
You're sort of acting like nothing is wrong, or brushing off concerns, which is not exactly reassuring to those of us you're asking for permission. Please try to look at this from our point of view - you posted a copy-pasted 'parody,' didn't get called on that aspect of it, and then did the same thing again, and did. When people told you it was plagiarism, you insisted that it wasn't, and never really backed down or apologized. As a permission giver, this does not exactly fill me with confidence that you won't do the same thing with your PPC agents.