Hi. I recently came across the case where a certain writer had plagiarized your work. You being the one who was robbed off your creativity, credit and was wronged (in my opinion) addressed the matter very gracefully and maturely. I really admire you for that.

What pisses me off is the way the other writer is looking at this situation. They admitted (in a way) to have done it, taken off the work and yet the way the conversation with their followers is being manoeuvered is annoying me.

I have read the works of the other writer. As must as I would say they too is skilled with writing and language, but they did in this particular case was wrong.

I know it isn't my place, and you probably don't care about such incidents anymore. You have won this anyways, and we are with you. Writing or any other art form, as underrated as it is, deserves the fair share of appreciation and credit, and it always must be the rightful owner of the work.

Love your work.

Please be rested and do not overload yourself, or pressure yourself to write when all you need is a little break.

What Happened

Hi, I am just going to preface this by saying that this is probably going to turn into a long and borderline rant like response.

Everything that you have told me pretty much outlines the reason why I left for three to four days. It was the way that the other author handled this situation that made me leave.

There are a few things that I need to say that I haven’t had the courage too because my heart had been so thoroughly broken and to be honest, I was scared. When this whole situation started I was tired, not upset or angry, but tired. Many of you know that I had dealt with plagiarism a few months ago and that took a huge toll on my mental health that I never fully came to terms with. This didn’t make things much better.

I didn’t think that I would end up talking about this because the other author and I agreed to move past this and I took down my post because I didn’t want it up anymore out of fear that the author could be found and hate would be sent their way. But, the other author continued to make posts about the situation and about myself (without including my name) and engaged with their audience in a manner that made me out to be the attacker. And that was what caused me to fly into a fit of panic attacks for days after.

So, at this point with the encouragement of some of my mutuals, I realized that I have every right to talk about what happened as well.

I woke up to several messages that were telling me to check out a certain work that they believed could possibly be considered plagiarism. The author themself reached out to me as well (which I commend them for) as they had also received an ask relating their work to The Stranger. After reading the work I did inform them that their fic did fit the bill for plagiarism as a large portion of this fic followed the same plot lines as my own and also included the same theme and passages. The author then agreed to edit their fic in an effort to to be able to distinguish their fic from my own which again, I commended them for. This is not an easy thing to do and I respected them for it. They also apologized to me publicly which again was very brave and not easy to do.

So, where did this all go wrong? Well, I read through the edited fic and compared it to The Stranger and I noticed large chunks of text that appeared to be word for word taken from The Stranger. I then sent the comparison images to the author and apologized if it appeared that I bombarded them. I told them that I did find it hard to believe that it was an accident and I just wanted the truth. That was all. In response, they got defensive and accused me of saying that they were not allowed to use the English language.

I have 13 pages of evidence that showed otherwise. There is one page in particular that really cemented that for me and sent off red flags:

There are ways that you can write a fic that’s inspired by another fic without it being exactly the same. I have seen it done well and I have had others reach out to me and ask for my permission to write a fic inspired by my own and have run their ideas by me before writing it. It is possible, it can be done. This was not it especially in it’s unedited iteration.

I never said that I owned the Doctor trope, memory loss, or the inspirations from other movies. But a yandere doctor who kidnaps their amnesiac patient who was in an accident to a remote location in the woods and poses as their husband and has connections to the underground while having the exact same passages from my fic? That’s not inspiration. That’s plagiarism. I have images of the first iteration of the fic which was even closer to The Stranger. It was plagiarism.

With their permission I posted the comparison images and they agreed if my audience found it to be plagiarism they would remove the fic. When responses started to come in I answered them neutrally without voicing my opinion on the matter (this same curtsey was not given to me) because again, I did not want any hate to be directed to this author. And after I answered asks I was met with some pretty mean and nasty messages that had me in tears. But, I said nothing to my audience because I didn’t want anything to come their way and for their mental health to be jeopardized despite the fact that I was deeply hurt by those messages. And reading these messages from someone who claimed to be a long time anon of mine hurt ten times worse. I started feeling like it was my fault, like I had let them down when in reality it was the other way around.

After that, they removed their fic and told me they were going to delete their blog because of me. I urged them not to delete their blog as they were still new and they were a great writer with other great fics. I even said if this was a misunderstanding, then it was a misunderstanding. From there we agreed to move past the situation and leave it be. That didn’t happen. They continued to talk about the situation on their blog and made it out to seem like I had attacked them and that the claims of plagiarism held no merit. I have the chat log, not once did I attack this author. If the need ever arises, I have the evidence to support my claims.

Now, I am going to make something very clear. I do not attack blogs. I am not a “big blog who attacks small blogs.” I would never do that, I befriended some of my mutuals when they were just starting their blogs. I love new writers, whenever I find a new writer who has great fics I reblog their works and I comment and check in with them. I have had my blog for a little over a year now and not once have I injected myself into drama or sought it out. I have never claimed to be a “big blog.” Is it exciting to get new followers and see my blog grow? Of course, I love all of my followers and all of my anons dearly and I tell them that as often as a I can. I never went into this wanting to get a large number of followers, I wanted to share my works and meet people with similar interests. That was all.

This situation put me in a bad place for days, many of my mutuals and friends can attest to this. It got to the point where I had to have my friends talk me out of deleting everything: my Wattpad, my Ao3, and my Tumblr and just disappearing for good. Just looking at the Tumblr app on my phone sent my heart and stomach fluttering in anxiety. At one point I was shaking so badly I couldn’t walk and I had to lie to my family about what was going on with me. I cried for three days when I should have been focusing on school, cheer, and my next fic. It was hell.

The only reason I am able to talk about this now is because one of my very good friends and mutual urged me to block the other author. Morbid curiosity had me going back to their blog and reading things about myself that made me sick with anxiety. I couldn’t stop. I was scared to say anything because I didn’t want to be sent hurtful messages again. For my mental health, this was something that I had to do. I have never blocked a blog that I have corresponded with before and this was very difficult for me. It took me three days to finally do it.

At the end of the day, all I wanted to do was protect to the integrity of my work and I did it in the nicest way I could, trust me I have individuals that wanted to say something and stand up for me and prove what was going on but I didn’t want to drag them down into something that really shouldn’t have been such a big problem and shouldn’t have hurt as much as it did.

If you happen to know who this author is, please, refrain from sharing who they are with others and do not send them hate. They are still a young blog, they have ways to go, and I don’t want their mental health to be jeopardized as well. Ironically, I still want to protect them.

And to everyone who checked in with me, who left me comments, messages, and asks, thank you so much. I am so sorry that I left the way that I did and I hope I didn’t worry you too much. I love you dearly. Thank you for sticking around and being so wonderful.

This post was very hard for me to make but it was something that I had to do so that I could finally feel better and breathe. Tomorrow I will be answering the rest of my asks and trying to get back to writing.

If you have read all of this, you’re amazing. Thank you for your support, I love you with all of my heart.

~ Sammy 💜💜💜

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