Plagiarism! FUN.
Hey guys! Remember last summer when 
verbyna wrote me Ryan Ross/Ellen Page hipsterfic for my birthday? It's cool if you don't, it's a random-ass pairing and neither she nor I really expected anyone else to read it. It was just for us.
Turns out somebody else did read it, though! And find-replaced all the names with One Direction members, and took out all the capital letters, and changed a couple phrases to make way less sense, and posted it as their own! And posted it to a 1D comm with the same summary as the original. So we can safely conclude that ruinswood is not the sharpest cheese in Wisconsin.
Some handy links relevant to this incident:
- The LJ post in which I prompted
verbyna to write wacky-metaphor-filled hipsters-in-love fic about Ryan Ross and Ellen Page, dated June 17th, 2011
-The resulting fic V wrote for me as a birthday present on AO3, dated August 16th, 2011
- The same fic on LJ, dated August 17th, 2011 (with appropriately dated comments, which cannot be backdated)
- The post that
verbyna wrote about the plagiarism
-A screenshot and full text of the ripped-off version, in case they take it down
Some more links relevant to the plagiarizer's other work:
- This entry has been suspended; it contained a fic called "until you come home" that was plagiarized from We Spent Our Darkest Days Howling at the Moon, a Thor/Loki fic by lifeasacloud.
- it's not hard to fall; compare with All Our Wires Got Crossed, a Saiyuki fic also by lifeasacloud, posted a year earlier.
-The other fics on ruinswood's masterlist: you need everyone's eyes just to feel seen, when we were high it was fun, fun, fun, coda: until you come home. Let me know if any of them look familiar; the other three were from three very different fandoms, so they could be lifted from anywhere.
And since the plagiarizer seems to like stealing hipsterfic best, I'm just gonna put this in terms they can understand: hey, poseur, I've been reading this stuff since it was bandom.
This entry was originally posted at http://jedusaur.dreamwidth.org/69240.html.
verbyna wrote me Ryan Ross/Ellen Page hipsterfic for my birthday? It's cool if you don't, it's a random-ass pairing and neither she nor I really expected anyone else to read it. It was just for us.
Turns out somebody else did read it, though! And find-replaced all the names with One Direction members, and took out all the capital letters, and changed a couple phrases to make way less sense, and posted it as their own! And posted it to a 1D comm with the same summary as the original. So we can safely conclude that ruinswood is not the sharpest cheese in Wisconsin.
Some handy links relevant to this incident:
- The LJ post in which I prompted
verbyna to write wacky-metaphor-filled hipsters-in-love fic about Ryan Ross and Ellen Page, dated June 17th, 2011
-The resulting fic V wrote for me as a birthday present on AO3, dated August 16th, 2011
- The same fic on LJ, dated August 17th, 2011 (with appropriately dated comments, which cannot be backdated)
- The post that
verbyna wrote about the plagiarism
-A screenshot and full text of the ripped-off version, in case they take it down
Some more links relevant to the plagiarizer's other work:
- This entry has been suspended; it contained a fic called "until you come home" that was plagiarized from We Spent Our Darkest Days Howling at the Moon, a Thor/Loki fic by lifeasacloud.
- it's not hard to fall; compare with All Our Wires Got Crossed, a Saiyuki fic also by lifeasacloud, posted a year earlier.
-The other fics on ruinswood's masterlist: you need everyone's eyes just to feel seen, when we were high it was fun, fun, fun, coda: until you come home. Let me know if any of them look familiar; the other three were from three very different fandoms, so they could be lifted from anywhere.
And since the plagiarizer seems to like stealing hipsterfic best, I'm just gonna put this in terms they can understand: hey, poseur, I've been reading this stuff since it was bandom.
This entry was originally posted at http://jedusaur.dreamwidth.org/69240.html.