The Stupidity of Some People...

...never ceases to amaze me.

Thanks to Tytania Strange on fanfiction.net and evendia here at LJ, I found out today that some twit on ff.n has lifted whole sections out of No Return and has pasted them into her own fic. To my knowledge, this is the first time I've ever been plagiarized. At first I was sort of grimly amused, simply because I looked at the story in question, and (to me, at least) it's painfully obvious which sections aren't her own, since her writing is, shall we say, somewhat unpolished. Looking at those bits and pieces of my own work grafted onto her clumsy prose brought to mind an awkward attempt at grafting a ballerina's hands and feet onto a construction worker. The result isn't very pretty.

However, the more I think about it, the angrier I get. You know, those are MY words she took -- sentences and paragraphs I sweated over. And reviewer, when you said, "I loved your description of the white roses with the red rose look like it waiting for a kiss. Very descriptive and a lovely vision," those are my words you're praising, not this thieving brat who stole them and hoped no one would notice.

Well, people have noticed. She's already been reported to stop_plagiarism . I'm waiting to hear back from them, because it always helps to have experts at your side in situations like this, but if I don't hear anything this afternoon, then I'm going to start my own campaign against this annoying bint. To quote Wyatt Earp:

"I'm coming...AND HELL'S COMING WITH ME!"

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Don't fuck with the Grand Admiral.