Let's make this clear, shall we?
I was saddened of my recent review in Pick-up so I needed to straighten things out. I had no way of replying to the reviewer unless I publish another update so for now I will post this in my journal.
Reviewer said:
I love the Saki-chan Universe that Asuka Kureru writes about in Lace and Strawberries. There are many stories and art dedicated to Saki-chan, my vary favorite was written by Toffee it is called Tangled Up in Lace and it is very similar to yours. In that story Sasuke suffers from an identity crisis as well.
I was in the middle of reading your story but the similarities to Toffee's story are very striking you might want to give credit to her story in your author's note as well....after all she is the one that came up with the identity crisis concept for the Sasuke/Saki character.
I am really sorry but I cannot give credit on Toffee on my story. I cannot even begin to compare myself to her, or to her writing talent. She is really good in getting the emotion of her story across the reader. And I am nothing but a simple artist that wanted to express myself. She might have published the story earlier than mine but this story is NOT borne out of my inspiration of hers. As I have said in my original A/n, I have been working on a plot of a graphic novel I wanted to do and I have found out that the story could work with Saki and Sasuke.
The ORIGINAL inspiration and reason why I created this story is from a real-life scene.
They picked up the phone when it rang.
It turned out it was the Lover. Person said “Hello”
The creepy thing is that; the Lover mentioned another name, which incidentally is the name of the person that is residing inside that person. And the Lover has NO idea about that other personality. But how would the person know?
Confusion. Shock. Fear.
Then: “Who am I now?”
And so a story concept was born. It started as a graphic novel idea. I began laying out the structure of the story. Months passed and it started having it’s form. And of course, let’s not leave that I am such a big fan of Naruto that time. So one day I’ve thought; hey, if Detectives could cope (the story is originally about detectives & criminals) then why not ninjas?
So how I started linking it to Saki-chan’s case?
Well, as I have said, I have been writing the plot in some notebook for a while and then I came across Asuka’s fic. and I LOVED it. The part that had impressed upon me the most is the time when Naruto had thought that one day he will test that boundary between Saki and Sasuke. It burned on my heart for some time. That time. I did not take any action on it because I was busy with my very first serialized NaruSasu fanfic, Reincarnation. But unexpectedly, that RL thing (*points above) happened and the line from Asuka's burned all the more within me so after some more months I finally relented and started Pickup thinking that it will only be some short four-shot story.
(Then 40 thousand words later, I realized I was terribly wrong)
Why did I go on? Why did I pushed on this story even when I have discovered that somebody has already published a story ahead of me that I know one day will be compared to mine?
Let us go back to that graphic novel that I wanted to do. It is because I wanted to explore the experience of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Of sad and scary it could be. So this would be like some study of some sorts of the case... in fantasy/fiction form. Not exactly an exposition but it would at least make people aware how it happens. The case varies with individuals but there should be some general similarities. Pick-up is MORE than a simple self-denial. How about an identity crisis gone bad? LOL.
And that is why I wanted to push through this story, even though I know that not a lot of people enjoys psychological horror like I do. Even if I will be compared to a similar story of a way better writer. I just want this idea to go out in the world since it has a special place in my heart.
And once again, I wanted to apologize if there are similarities of my story to Toffee but it was in no way related to Tangle up with Lace. I considered the suggestion of the reviewer over AFF but I just can’t give credit on something that has nothing to do with my story, even if our fanfics are strikingly similar. I just wished a continuity of Asuka’s story on my own in the world I twisted and adjusted according to this story’s taste.
So with this, I hope you try to view my story more from my perspective. I based mine off more in Asuka's first two shorties, more on the second part while toffee based hers on the last episode I think. And oh, if it's about timeline and all, my fic will fall in the middle if you are going to ignore our different universe setups.
sort of...
{{ Lace - young teens? > Pickup - late teens > Tangled - adults }}
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Of course I had read Toffee's fic. (That time, I was polishing the plot of chapters one to four.) And when I did, my eyes bugged out and I thought ho~ sheeet, it's sorta similar to mine! What am I going to do! that had me doubting whether I have to continue publishing my own work because I was worried that people might not take it kindly because her story is published earlier than Pick-up. I was scared that people would think I was using the idea. But well, as I have stated earlier, I still continued publishing pick-up online because I wanted to release an intelligent fic and I wanted to at least publish something I had a passion on. I like stories that make me (and other people) think. I know it will not be as popular as your next door romeo and juliet love story but I just threw it all those worries away and published it anyway.
Reviewer said:
I love the Saki-chan Universe that Asuka Kureru writes about in Lace and Strawberries. There are many stories and art dedicated to Saki-chan, my vary favorite was written by Toffee it is called Tangled Up in Lace and it is very similar to yours. In that story Sasuke suffers from an identity crisis as well.
I was in the middle of reading your story but the similarities to Toffee's story are very striking you might want to give credit to her story in your author's note as well....after all she is the one that came up with the identity crisis concept for the Sasuke/Saki character.
I am really sorry but I cannot give credit on Toffee on my story. I cannot even begin to compare myself to her, or to her writing talent. She is really good in getting the emotion of her story across the reader. And I am nothing but a simple artist that wanted to express myself. She might have published the story earlier than mine but this story is NOT borne out of my inspiration of hers. As I have said in my original A/n, I have been working on a plot of a graphic novel I wanted to do and I have found out that the story could work with Saki and Sasuke.
The ORIGINAL inspiration and reason why I created this story is from a real-life scene.
They picked up the phone when it rang.
It turned out it was the Lover. Person said “Hello”
The creepy thing is that; the Lover mentioned another name, which incidentally is the name of the person that is residing inside that person. And the Lover has NO idea about that other personality. But how would the person know?
Confusion. Shock. Fear.
Then: “Who am I now?”
And so a story concept was born. It started as a graphic novel idea. I began laying out the structure of the story. Months passed and it started having it’s form. And of course, let’s not leave that I am such a big fan of Naruto that time. So one day I’ve thought; hey, if Detectives could cope (the story is originally about detectives & criminals) then why not ninjas?
So how I started linking it to Saki-chan’s case?
Well, as I have said, I have been writing the plot in some notebook for a while and then I came across Asuka’s fic. and I LOVED it. The part that had impressed upon me the most is the time when Naruto had thought that one day he will test that boundary between Saki and Sasuke. It burned on my heart for some time. That time. I did not take any action on it because I was busy with my very first serialized NaruSasu fanfic, Reincarnation. But unexpectedly, that RL thing (*points above) happened and the line from Asuka's burned all the more within me so after some more months I finally relented and started Pickup thinking that it will only be some short four-shot story.
(Then 40 thousand words later, I realized I was terribly wrong)
Why did I go on? Why did I pushed on this story even when I have discovered that somebody has already published a story ahead of me that I know one day will be compared to mine?
Let us go back to that graphic novel that I wanted to do. It is because I wanted to explore the experience of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Of sad and scary it could be. So this would be like some study of some sorts of the case... in fantasy/fiction form. Not exactly an exposition but it would at least make people aware how it happens. The case varies with individuals but there should be some general similarities. Pick-up is MORE than a simple self-denial. How about an identity crisis gone bad? LOL.
And that is why I wanted to push through this story, even though I know that not a lot of people enjoys psychological horror like I do. Even if I will be compared to a similar story of a way better writer. I just want this idea to go out in the world since it has a special place in my heart.
And once again, I wanted to apologize if there are similarities of my story to Toffee but it was in no way related to Tangle up with Lace. I considered the suggestion of the reviewer over AFF but I just can’t give credit on something that has nothing to do with my story, even if our fanfics are strikingly similar. I just wished a continuity of Asuka’s story on my own in the world I twisted and adjusted according to this story’s taste.
So with this, I hope you try to view my story more from my perspective. I based mine off more in Asuka's first two shorties, more on the second part while toffee based hers on the last episode I think. And oh, if it's about timeline and all, my fic will fall in the middle if you are going to ignore our different universe setups.
sort of...
{{ Lace - young teens? > Pickup - late teens > Tangled - adults }}
-------
Of course I had read Toffee's fic. (That time, I was polishing the plot of chapters one to four.) And when I did, my eyes bugged out and I thought ho~ sheeet, it's sorta similar to mine! What am I going to do! that had me doubting whether I have to continue publishing my own work because I was worried that people might not take it kindly because her story is published earlier than Pick-up. I was scared that people would think I was using the idea. But well, as I have stated earlier, I still continued publishing pick-up online because I wanted to release an intelligent fic and I wanted to at least publish something I had a passion on. I like stories that make me (and other people) think. I know it will not be as popular as your next door romeo and juliet love story but I just threw it all those worries away and published it anyway.