Miss Raquel: Saving the "Natives" One Latte at a Time

[AmazonGrace]

This sounds familiar from an earlier posting. She has to hide her relationship so  he might have another girlfriend. She is special because she vandalized public spaces, and the sky is special because it's seen her with her boyfriend. 

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itsjustraquel

a piece from my book, In the Afterglow ✨
SIGNED COPIES available at link in bio.
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We paint the town with our feelings and let the street lights Morse code the words our hearts beat out.
Graffiti will be the secret tongue to our secret love, and we’ll leave messages on trains and outhouse walls.
The trees in the park will sign our language with their waving arms and the river’s tide will lap at our scribbles on the sand.
Maybe someday we won’t have to hide our obsession for each other.
Maybe someday the sky will boast that it has seen us all along.

 

[AmazonGrace]

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itsjustraquel

Stand with me at the hilltop
Watch the trees wave goodbye to their leaves
And stand nude as autumn wraps its colors around nature
The wind whispers “change is ever present”
Rustling my hair and sending a shiver down my spine
Even as the sun kisses my face —
For not every season is full of just one feeling.
——

© Raquel Z. Duarte

writing prompt - “change is ever present” - by @_soulpoems

Is it the trees that are supposed to stand nude, or me?

[catlady]

22 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

This sounds familiar from an earlier posting. She has to hide her relationship so  he might have another girlfriend. She is special because she vandalized public spaces, and the sky is special because it's seen her with her boyfriend. 

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itsjustraquel

a piece from my book, In the Afterglow ✨
SIGNED COPIES available at link in bio.
——
We paint the town with our feelings and let the street lights Morse code the words our hearts beat out.
Graffiti will be the secret tongue to our secret love, and we’ll leave messages on trains and outhouse walls.
The trees in the park will sign our language with their waving arms and the river’s tide will lap at our scribbles on the sand.
Maybe someday we won’t have to hide our obsession for each other.
Maybe someday the sky will boast that it has seen us all along.

 

if the street lights are "Morse cod[ing]" then someone should notify the Dept of Public Works about changing the flickering bulbs.

[formergothardite]

1 hour ago, AmazonGrace said:

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itsjustraquel

Stand with me at the hilltop
Watch the trees wave goodbye to their leaves
And stand nude as autumn wraps its colors around nature
The wind whispers “change is ever present”
Rustling my hair and sending a shiver down my spine
Even as the sun kisses my face —
For not every season is full of just one feeling.
——

© Raquel Z. Duarte

writing prompt - “change is ever present” - by @_soulpoems

Is it the trees that are supposed to stand nude, or me?

How to properly construct a sentence is apparently one of those things Raquel's mother didn't think she needed to learn. 

 

[GuineaPigCourtship]

As a newbie to Raquel and her poetry - and if only I could have been experiencing this for years - does she know she's copying everything under the sun or does she just take a ton of peyote and vomit out a book? What the hell is with her?

[formergothardite]

9 hours ago, GuineaPigCourtship said:

does she know she's copying everything under the sun

Years ago she had one of those things where people could ask her anything and she got comments about how much she plagiarized and examples of her plagiarism. I don't remember her replies or if she even did reply, but she knows, she just doesn't seem to believe that passing off the writings of others as her own is stealing. On her blog years ago, there was a poem that part of it was a word for word copy of a country music song and she ended up editing it later, so someone she listens to must have explained to her she what she did.  I do wonder if one of the reasons we never heard anymore about that writing class she took is because she got in trouble for plagiarizing. 

10 hours ago, GuineaPigCourtship said:

What the hell is with her?

I blame her parents, in part, for giving her such a terrible education and making her believe she is actually better educated than everyone else. But she is an adult now and it is on her if she refuses to learn, grow and mature as a person. 

Raquel is basically a very spoiled person who is convinced she is the most special one on the entire planet. She wants writing to be easy and it isn't, so she just steals the ideas of others and pretends they are her own. She seems to view everyone else in the world as someone to be used and exploited. A horse she neglects, a dog she kicks, a vulnerable teen boy she preys on, "natives" she wants to use in her selfie pictures,  so it makes sense that she just takes what she wants when it comes to writing. 

[AmazonGrace]

I think some of her writing might be the result of reading something or hearing a line in a song, and convincing herself later that it's a deep and unique thought that her wild and unapologetically raw creative mind personally came up with and she needs to share her wisdom with the world.

But there have been enough examples of verbatim, or very nearly verbatim copying that  I don't believe it could happen  accidentally.  She has been called out on it before, and she's still doing it, so I have to believe she knows and just doesn't care. She read it, so she owns it.

In one of the archived threads she wrote a story in which she lifted dialogue straight from Everwood.

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[formergothardite]

1 hour ago, AmazonGrace said:

In one of the archived threads she wrote a story in which she lifted dialogue straight from Everwood

Or that time she tried to pass off the writings of Maya Angelou as her own. 

 

 

[3splenty]

On 9/2/2020 at 12:44 PM, AmazonGrace said:

This sounds familiar from an earlier posting. She has to hide her relationship so  he might have another girlfriend. 

 

My next question is, does she realize that this guy may not even see her as girlfriend material (if he's real)?  

I can see her living in her very vivid imagination and not so much reality.

[AmazonGrace]

 

A rare instance in which she cited her inspiration

https://www.freejinger.org/topic/18941-raquel-has-a-band/page/5/?tab=comments#comment-694768

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm 62&version=ESV

 

I guess the Bible is out of copyright by now so that's okay. 

Here she is acknowledging that she repeats cliches but her excuse is that the cliches she repeats are exactly what you need to hear the most.

https://www.freejinger.org/topic/19333-new-raquel-stuff/?do=findComment&comment=711691

Here we see an excerpt from a story of hers...  https://www.freejinger.org/topic/19333-new-raquel-stuff/?do=findComment&comment=717672

...that she outsourced from Pinterest https://www.freejinger.org/topic/19333-new-raquel-stuff/?do=findComment&comment=722160

.... and Everwood https://www.freejinger.org/topic/19333-new-raquel-stuff/?do=findComment&comment=722400

but it was okay because she's sure that MILLIONS of people have plagiarized this same sentence and because when people point out her plagiarism it doesn't count.

Guys, Raquel doesn't steal, she just makes things her own.

https://www.freejinger.org/topic/19333-new-raquel-stuff/?do=findComment&comment=723363

... and then she changed a couple of words so that makes it totally okay

https://www.freejinger.org/topic/19333-new-raquel-stuff/?do=findComment&comment=724520

.... and this just made me LOL

https://www.freejinger.org/topic/19333-new-raquel-stuff/?do=findComment&comment=724669

I think she deleted this old blog so I'm not totally sure if she claimed this is her own writing but knowing Raquel she probably did...
https://www.freejinger.org/topic/19333-new-raquel-stuff/?do=findComment&comment=721262

... it's from a song You do all things well by Tenth Avenue North. 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_JEcbP5ZCs

 

...she used to have a band and they listened to Tenth Avenue North

https://twitter.com/wonderfallband

Oh god I forgot she said she's a Confederate. anyway she is quoting a mug. https://www.freejinger.org/topic/21625-raquel-has-a-job-as-a-reporter/?do=findComment&comment=819843

 

At one point she had a job at https://www.thechiefnews.com/

but their site is blocked for me due to GDPR. and I can't see her  news stories that are no doubt highly original *sadface*  Do they still exist online? 

I'm sure MILLIONS  of people have said "Don't give up on me  if I push you away" before Raquel, and they're all on Pinterest   https://www.freejinger.org/topic/23239-raquel-wont-date-you-if-you-cant-handle-butchering-animals/?do=findComment&comment=925431

 

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Sometimes words aren't enough to describe emotions but that's when Pinterest quotes come in handy:  https://www.freejinger.org/topic/23239-raquel-wont-date-you-if-you-cant-handle-butchering-animals/?do=findComment&comment=966457

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[Dysfundamental]

There are still 41 brief stories by Reporter Raquel up at The Chief’s site (from November of 2014 through May of 2015). The punctuation, syntax, and grammar are not great.

[formergothardite]

48 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

At one point she had a job at https://www.thechiefnews.com/

I had completely forgotten about that! 

And she has no excuse to not know she is plagiarizing. She knows, she just doesn't care. 

[AmazonGrace]

Stupid teens write stupid stuff but now that she's an adult and calls herself an author it's worse I think. I'm sure she would pitch a fit if she found somebody else posted her work as their own.

A post regurgitating a bunch of gender stereotypes includes an unattributed quote from a movie, I don't know which one: https://www.freejinger.org/topic/24099-raquel-loves-gender-stereotypes/

She wrote a poem https://www.freejinger.org/topic/16161-sentences-with-miss-raquel/?do=findComment&comment=595607

and confirmed that she wrote it herself

https://www.freejinger.org/topic/16161-sentences-with-miss-raquel/?do=findComment&comment=596983

Except she didn't

(It may not have been written by FSG either but it certainly wasn't Raquel.) https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/503226/11-popular-quotes-commonly-misattributed-f-scott-fitzgerald

Apparently she tweeted song lyrics https://www.freejinger.org/topic/16161-sentences-with-miss-raquel/?do=findComment&comment=694265

without quoting the source:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX7pO4zGWnU

Remember Xaquerie, the Nanowrimo that went nowhere? It was supposed to be about a girl who published someone else's writing as her own https://www.freejinger.org/topic/24585-miss-raquel-is-writing-another-novel/

...but of course it wasn't her idea https://www.freejinger.org/topic/24585-miss-raquel-is-writing-another-novel/?do=findComment&comment=1049505

 

 

[GuineaPigCourtship]

Thanks for all the info.  I can't decide if her world is simple (no accountability) or exhausting (too many mental gymnastics to avoid accountability).

I probably didn't invent that, but at least I didn't actually look it up on pinterest.

[Cults-r-us]

On 9/3/2020 at 7:09 PM, GuineaPigCourtship said:

As a newbie to Raquel and her poetry - and if only I could have been experiencing this for years - does she know she's copying everything under the sun or does she just take a ton of peyote and vomit out a book? What the hell is with her?

What is wrong with her is she is an arrested case of development. She is Peter Pan the girl. Sadly, she is destined to be  stuck at age 14 all her days. As she ages, this will get more pathetic.

[AmazonGrace]

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More on Raquel's Adventures In Copycat Land

Here we have Raquel admitting  that she knows perfectly well that stealing others' work and publishing it as your own is wrong. This is way back in 2010, folks. So young and immature as she might have been, she was definitely old enough to  know better. https://web.archive.org/web/20101020232606/http://god-sdaughter.blogspot.com/2010/06/lifes-choices-cha pter-5.html

But it is important to understand that she will never apologize for plagiarizing, because  every experience, person, circumstance, place, smell, feel, taste, conversation, song, TV dialogue, poem, and Pinterest quote is held as fodder for her inspiration and some day she will be forced to rewrite it.

 

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The thing about being a writer is that every experience in life affects you and your writer's heart.  You keep everything locked up inside until a time when you feel you need to, you must write about it.
Every person, circumstance, place, smell, feel, taste, conversation, song... Everything is held in your thought case, your memory jar.  And someday, you'll go back and sift through them all.  And you will write.  Some will be difficult to pen, others will come easily and freely because you need closure, you need to let your voice be heard, you need to get a message across.

Don't ever apologize for your words.  Think before you speak, ponder before you write.  But when you finally do, never say 'sorry'.  Because why are you apologizing for something your heart wants to say?

http://www.itsjustraquel.com/2015/

As a writer, she must repost that song lyric as hers because it's what her heart wants to say, and because her words are God's way of blessing others:

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Here her writer's heart is tweeting a poem without proper attribution:

https://www.freejinger.org/topic/24585-miss-raquel-is-writing-another-novel/?do=findComment&comment=1101713

 "A sky full of star(lit diamond)s" is totally not a line from Coldplay song: 

https://www.freejinger.org/topic/25518-miss-raquels-second-novel-part-2/?do=findComment&comment=1117807

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I don't remember  this Divergent inspired story https://www.freejinger.org/topic/25518-miss-raquels-second-novel-part-2/?do=findComment&comment=1119946

https://www.freejinger.org/topic/25518-miss-raquels-second-novel-part-2/?do=findComment&comment=1130066

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Tweeting more songs without attribution:

https://www.freejinger.org/topic/25518-miss-raquels-second-novel-part-2/?do=findComment&comment=1131656

Then there's this poem that she found on Pinterest https://www.freejinger.org/topic/25518-miss-raquels-second-novel-part-2/?do=findComment&comment=1160299

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[formergothardite]

Looking at the volume of stuff she is plagiarized really shows how little creativity she has. Raquel paints herself as a super special creative artist, but her entire writing life has been one plagiarism after another. 

 

[AmazonGrace]

It's like they say, Creativity killed the Copycat. Honestly I didn't remember her being this bad until I went back on the old threads.

I forgot she had two bands, an official singing instagram and a vlog. Did she ever learn to play the guitar?

Pinterest has such great poetry: https://www.freejinger.org/topic/26428-miss-raquels-2nd-novel-part-3/?do=findComment&comment=1166196

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Ooh, a poetry challenge!  https://www.freejinger.org/topic/26428-miss-raquels-2nd-novel-part-3/?do=findComment&comment=1166670

it's totally not the same as this meme  on Pinterest because rain makes them think of you but rain makes Raquel think of her.

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This probably happens to Raquel a lot because whenever she sees something she likes, she eventually becomes its author.

https://www.freejinger.org/topic/26428-miss-raquels-2nd-novel-part-3/?do=findComment&comment=1167699

I'm sure the similarity between this pome and this Pinterest quote must be just a coincidence: https://www.freejinger.org/topic/26428-miss-raquels-2nd-novel-part-3/?do=findComment&comment=1183126

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She has deleted a bunch of embarrassing blog posts and weird tweets and I've got the sads. It might be a sign of self-awareness but probably she was afraid they would be plagiarized or something.

[formergothardite]

 Raquel's wrote this on her Facebook page16 hours ago:

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one of the biggest slaps in the face to a writer is copying their work and not giving them credit for it. (it's also called plagiarism and it's illegal).

their art isn't free. if they share it, it's because they want to touch others.

if you love what they write and want to support them, then put quotes around their writing when you post it, AND tag them/give them author credit.

it's that freaking simple.

 

[AmazonGrace]

She asked people to remember this tweet a few years later so I am: 

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No doubt she had to copy this poem in order to encourage people: 
https://www.freejinger.org/topic/27225-miss-raquels-2nd-novel-part-4/?do=findComment&comment=1279870n

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Quoting Joel Osteen without attribution; (not sure which one is worse, omitting the attribution or quoting Joel Osteen https://www.freejinger.org/topic/28473-miss-raquels-2nd-novel-part-5/?do=findComment&comment=1304094 

Has she ever credited photos on the blog?  https://www.freejinger.org/topic/28473-miss-raquels-2nd-novel-part-5/?do=findComment&comment=1333895

This  is from Saved by Khalid. Assuming she didn't credit it but I might be wrong.  https://www.freejinger.org/topic/28473-miss-raquels-2nd-novel-part-5/?do=findComment&comment=1450035

Plagiarizing instagram poet Atticus on instagram because why not: 
https://www.freejinger.org/topic/30336-miss-raquels-2nd-novel-part-6-wielder-of-words/?do=findComment&comment=1488739

Deep Thoughts by Everyone and their Grandma

https://www.freejinger.org/topic/30793-raquel-goes-new-agey/?do=findComment&comment=1560293

Lifting stuff from Elizabeth Gilbert:

https://www.freejinger.org/topic/30793-raquel-goes-new-agey/?do=findComment&comment=1568058

She has posted the same Pinterest quote several times so I'm sure she wrote it herself by now https://www.freejinger.org/topic/31029-raquel-strikes-again/

She posted this on Thought Catalog in 2018  https://thoughtcatalog.com/raquel-z-duarte/2018/10/dont-date-an-aries-woman-unless-you-can-do-these-18-things/

Somebody else posted this on Thought Catalog in 2017: https://thoughtcatalog.com/holly-riordan/2017/06/never-fall-in-love-with-an-aries/?utm_campaign=related&utm_source=thoughtcatalog&utm_term=holly-riordan

Many of her listicles are a lot like other listicles, except when she's giving the ideas her own self-centered twist.

This motivational poem based on Pinterest quotes: https://www.freejinger.org/topic/31029-raquel-strikes-again/?do=findComment&comment=1823146

This worship song that she plagiarized https://www.freejinger.org/topic/32955-miss-raquel-saving-the-natives-one-latte-at-a-time/?do=findComment&comment=1854108

That time that she was not fragile like a flower, rather fragile like Pinterest: https://www.freejinger.org/topic/32955-miss-raquel-saving-the-natives-one-latte-at-a-time/?do=findComment&comment=1916237

This highly original motivational poem:  https://www.freejinger.org/topic/32955-miss-raquel-saving-the-natives-one-latte-at-a-time/?do=findComment&comment=1925593

This biologically uninformed poem about preferring weeds to flowers and the poem that  said it all before ihttps://www.freejinger.org/topic/31029-raquel-strikes-again/?do=findComment&comment=1782079

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A poem about falling in love with an artist and the quote that said the same thing https://www.freejinger.org/topic/32955-miss-raquel-saving-the-natives-one-latte-at-a-time/?do=findComment&comment=1931189

That poem she published in a book that she sells on Amazon that is weirdly similar to a t-shirt  https://www.freejinger.org/topic/32955-miss-raquel-saving-the-natives-one-latte-at-a-time/?do=findComment&comment=1948249

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1 hour ago, formergothardite said:

 Raquel's wrote this on her Facebook page16 hours ago:

 

I am rolling my eyes so hard...

You think it's just a coincidence that she pretends to care about copyright just now that we've been discussing her tendency to steal wield words

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[AmazonGrace]

Her boyfriend chose somebody else because he doesn't understand value. She is the brightest jewel and needs to be treated like a queen, no compromises. 

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Verdict: it's quite possible she wrote this herself.

[formergothardite]

Having read the way she treats guys in her life, it is really no wonder her relationships tend to be short. She expects to treat others like crap while they must make their entire life revolve around her. 

 

 

[Botkinetti]

Each time a relationship ends she is absolutely mystified that her behaviour had anything to do with it. The fault is always on his inability to put up with her crap and treat her as an exalted queen. I wonder if she will ever understand why all of romantic relationships end. 

[AmazonGrace]

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itsjustraquel

What if...
we were blind
but all we could see
was each other’s energy.

What if...
we couldn’t form
a judgement sentence
but instead only utter
something progressive.

I’ve got a theory...
that if we are simply kind
kindness would simply reign supreme
and it would be ready, steady
and the truth of reality.
——
© Raquel Z. Duarte

She's posted these lovely thoughts before, and I have to agree with her way of thinking. If we were all kinder, there would be more kindness. This is a fact, not a theory.

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[formergothardite]

On 9/10/2020 at 12:23 PM, AmazonGrace said:

She's posted these lovely thoughts before, and I have to agree with her way of thinking. If we were all kinder, there would be more kindness. This is a fact, not a theory.

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Pretending like she wrote this is almost like pretending she wrote "Who has seen the wind". These phrases have been going around for a long time and are pretty commonly known. 

It looks like she has moved to Texas and is calling herself an Indie author. 

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made in Rose City, currently residing in TX
indie author of three books 

 

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