Plagiarism by Saturn's Heart

[ice_rose]

I would like to report that user Saturn's Heart on Fanfiction.net has plagiarized stories from at least 3 different authors -  Lord Chaos/His lordship Chaos, blue/Blue Jeans, and Raziel12.  She has posted these stories, claiming them as her own, on multiple different archives under the names Empress of Silence and WindGoddessHaruka.  The ones that

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[horustheavenger]

Will take this case since already posted at TaPiR. Report is here.

[ice_rose]

Thank you. I've actually been in contact with RogueMudblood from TaPiR and he has been extremely helpful. I would like to make one update since I made my initial post: I was able to get in touch with Raziel12 via fanfiction.net and she confirmed that the stories posted on AO3 are hers and that she has never posted her stories under the name EmpressofSilence nor has she ever given this author permission to post her stories.

[roguemudblood]

I sent a report in to AO3 as well with the information you provided to me regarding the creation dates of the characters, as well as some other details after researching this a bit.

I also left a review for this lovely, and she deleted it. How unsurprising.

(btw, I'm a she ;) )

[ice_rose]

Sorry! My bad!

I'm sorry to say I'm not at all surprised by the fact that she deleted your review. I'm actually surprised that she hasn't deleted my reviews on her ff.net account.

Thank you again for all your help!

Also it looks like either she, or the admins of AO3 have removed one of the stories off that site (unless there is some way that she can hide it from people who do not have an AO3 account) - Circles of Time:The Messiah Wars is no longer listed as one of EmpressofSilence's works

[afleur_de_lis]

I reported her AO3 account to the site admins. I included the links to her stories and then the links to the original. In my experience, the AO3 admins are more stricter and will actually do something about this quickly if there is enough evidence compiled.

One thing that I noticed about this user is the fact that she claims that she wrote these stories eleven or more years before and says that they were sitting around. I suppose that the original authors must have gotten ahold of her stories somehow and posted them to their accounts then... which is impossible. The way that she is so insistent in her claims is almost laugh worthy!

[ice_rose]

The sad fact is, if I've been able to trace her aliases correctly, this individual has been stealing other people's work (both fanfiction and fanart) for the better part of a decade.

In my search to track down all the places she has posted stories I found 2 additional aliases that she has posted stories under recently.

MikageFyre (which has been changed to SlytherinsGirlFlower) on FF.net and Mikage on fanfic-4all.com. Either she, or the administrators of the sites, have removed all the stories she's posted under each of these names. The ones posted on fanfic-4all have only recently been removed as I was able to view them late last week and all of them had been stolen from other authors.

[afleur_de_lis]

That is quite sad. These sites are meant for an author's creativity to shine through, not to be destroyed by somebody who is a cheater.

In all honesty, she reminds me of a user that I had past dealings with in a beloved fandom of mine. It is not surprising to see what lengths somebody will go to in order to destroy something or somebody online.

[ice_rose]

Depending on the fandom and the name of the user, it might actually be possible that they are the same person. The names that I've mentioned in my posts are just her most recent ones that she's used to post stolen stories. She has done this under many many different names, in many different fandoms. It seems like every time she gets caught plagiarizing under a name, she creates a new one.

This is a link to a site from 2004 with a list of all the pseudonyms she had used up to that point - you'll notice that Sairys Skyewind is on that list which is a name that she mentions on her Saturn's Heart profile as being one she used to go by:

http://forums.fanart-central.net/viewtopic.php?t=14573