I've been ripped off :D

[dear_tiger]

YOU GUYS I AM LOL'ING SO HARD I'M GOING TO COME OUT OF LJ RETIREMENT AND BREAK THE LOCKED POST RULE JUST FOR THIS EXCITEMENT.

LOOKIT, House of the Rising Sun. So some dumb bunny on Tumblr entered an AO3-based case fic challenge and thought the way to do these things is to rip off my work. In the same fandom even. In the same SPN case fic category

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[amberdreams]

Whoa, haven't you just! Actually, writing fanfic based on your story would have been flattering, regurgitating it twice as long and not as well written is just fucking rude.

Nice to see you posting though! Don't retire forever, will you.

[dear_tiger]

IKR? Always wanted my own fic one day! :D Never thought it would come so soon.

But for real, what is this dumbfuckery? Just write your own thing. How can you drag this crap into a challenge, get some unsuspecting artist spend time and effort on you, and then what, feel proud for ~creating something? In the same fandom and category even?

LJ is hard to quit :D It's been a bit too empty here, sadly. But hard to quit!

[indiachick]

I'm still LOLing hard over this. But good for them to apologize. Hopefully it helps them write better in the future.

[dear_tiger]

Maybe it'll inspire her to keep learning the craft, and I'm sure it'll reinforce the ethics in her head. Could grow up to be a good writer and a good person. And stupid shit we've all done at 17. (And I'm still laughing, too.)

[ephermeralk]

That is amazing and I love it! Being ripped off in the same fandom is a++. How is life? I've acquired a 7 week old kitten. I've named him Wilbur and he's the most adorable. I also now own a small house in Corvallis on 1/3 of an acre and it's the best thing ever. Wedding is sooooooon!!!!

[indiachick]

Just flying by to say HI BB. ALSO KITTEN. ALSO HOUSE. ALSO WEDDING. :D

[ephermeralk]

Hiii bb! It's been too long but I've been soooo busy. And now I'm snuggling baby cat. He is so adorable. I hope life and job are going well for you!!

[dear_tiger]

Hiiiiii :D Kitten! You got a zoo, how adorable. If I drive by there, I demand to meet everyone. And a house! And a wedding! Look at you :D I wish you absolutely all the best and the greatest happiness.

I'm gonna try hard to get a fellowship at OHSU, so maybe we'll see each other more!

[tsuki_no_bara]

my takeaway from this post is WAIT, WHAT, YOU WROTE TENTACLE PORN? AND IT WON A CONTEST BY POPULAR VOTE? FANTASTIC! i love that. *waves tentacles at you*

also, props to the girl for owning up to plagiarizing and not trying to excuse her behavior. i don't think everyone would do that.

[dear_tiger]

I did, it did, that happened :D *waves tentacle back at you* That was the first fic I wrote that was entirely my own.

That's what I think, too. I want her to keep writing and be a good writer some day and remember this as one of her big learning moments. Good for her.

[quickreaver]

I MISSED ALL THE DELICIOUS DRAMA. But on the upside, they owned up, which takes courage. Off to catch up with your other posts!

[dear_tiger]

You did, lady, you did :D That was my day yesterday. And I just heard from the artist today - which, how fucked up is that? How pissed would you be if you got misled into doing art for plagiarism?

[quickreaver]

It's happened to me ONCE, years ago. I was hired to paint a character portrait of what I was told was this writer's original character, but turned out to be plagiarized from a waaaaay old Harlequin Romance, ha! (The portrait ended up being super popular on the internet and if you google "Anne Bonny", it still pulls up, even though the portrait is not of Anne Bonny. I have no idea.)

After doing a little poking around, I realized I've seen that little tumblr user here and there. What a shame. But better she learn now, in a way that won't get her in legit trouble. Makes one wonder how many of her other fics are equally 'borrowed'. (She's back up on AO3 as pinupdean. I sure hope this is the only instance of blatant plagiarism.) What was her rationale? Did she just run out of time? Felt too much pressure to perform?

[dear_tiger]

WTF even, people :/ I'm not sure if them paying you makes it any better, because they still made you complicit in plagiarism. Fuck that so much.

Uuuugh. She said she had no excuses to offer, which I'm okay with. I don't actually want to hear excuses. I think when I was a teen, I'd copy something, then my own whole story would start growing around it, so I imagine it was something like that, but ugh. I didn't get a sense that this was some malicious serial plagiariser, and I should hope that, since restoring her AO3, she'd think carefully about where her ~inspiration for each story came from. I'm trying to be graceful toward stupid kids, but I'm still really pissed.