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[sylviavolk2000]

Well. A very kind person named marbleglove has just written to tell me that some yoyo named Alexaviera J. Raven's swiped my Highlander story The Good Student, arguably the best-known story I've got online, and available through my webpage for the last ten years. The story's just been posted on fanfiction.net, as Alexaviera's own work. Cute.

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[bnbalder]

Will go and bash her! The cheek....

[sylviavolk2000]

*smoooch*

[avidrosette]

So sorry that happened to you! Have you reported it to stop_plagiarism, by any chance? They investigate and keep lists of plagiarists, acting sort of like a consumer watchdog group. Hope the stolen fic gets removed quickly.

[sylviavolk2000]

I think it's already been removed, which is great. (I've just tried to check, but couldn't get on ff.net.) I'm hoping all of Alexaviera's stories there have been deleted, since they apparently show wide variations in style and quality ...

[sylviavolk2000]

There, I retried. The Good Student's been taken down, but the other stories are still there. I did a little more digging via google and Alexaviera also has a webpage under the name lindsey_mcdonald6969, with Buffy and Angel stories posted to it.

[dorothy1901]

I took a quick look at Alexaviera's other stories on FFN. The quality varies widely, and I suspect that those stories which were competently written were written by someone other than Alexaviera.

I've posted about this on Fandom Lounge (here), in the hope that someone will be able to identify and alert the true writers.

[sylviavolk2000]

Thanks, Dorothy!