You're a plagiarist becase *I SAY SO*!
A certain well-known person in the Hikaru no Go (Aja aka bookshop, whom you might remember thanks to other kerfuffles she's been in) claims that some BNF's had their fics plagiarised. And posts about it in her journal. Citing excerpts of the fics by both "victims" and "culprits" (which, in this repoter's opinions, aren't THAT similar) and a *very* wanky call to fandom.

So, yeah, SHUN HER, discredit her, go forth and spread the word. Let the trumpets of indignation sound!

And people start commenting about it. Some excerpts are here:

- What a skeeve. Can't you use your BNF to make ppl troll this journal?

- "She deleted her DW!" "that's the power of the BNF lol"

- The author tries to defend herself. And is hatepiled on. Errrr...

- "Please understand, I'm not implying that *any* of these fics are plagiarized, I'm saying that I'm not sure but I suspect..."

- A post on it by one of the supposedly plagiarised authors

One of the so-called "culprits" accused has had it, though! And she's NOT gonna take it! Watch as Aja keeps insisting that there was plagiarism, pretty much making an ass outta herself, and people come to umareawareru's defense.

... And finally, Aja snaps. And SCREAMS.


Final final edit, 7/30: I am done having this debate. I have explained my position and given a full run-down of the direct lifting of passages from my fic here. two_if_by_sea has done likewise here. I will not be responding to further comments about this, on this post or elsewhere. If you are lundi and you wish to contact me to apologize, you may email me. If you are an author who has been plagiarized, you may email me. All other comments, IMs, emails, or other attempts to contact me about this issue will be ignored.

I sat in a fandom chat last night in which Lundi participated. During that time, I was told that I was a reactionary hypocrite who should learn to better control my "minions," that "all fanfic was just plagiarism," and that I should have known better than to publicly post about something so serious as an accusation of plagiarism. Not once was Lundi invited to speak for herself, or questioned about anything she did. The writer in question, [info]lundi, has now restored her journal *and* reposted her plagiarisms of my fic and Cathy's, with no credit to myself and only a "recommendation" of Cathy's fic. She has yet to give any detailed public defense or explanation of her actions, while I am still being flamed by people who are outraged on her behalf. I am disgusted, I am disheartened, and I am done.

To the whole of Hikago fandom, and especially Aishuu, Issen, and Maaya, I wish you would very kindly fuck off and leave me alone.


Thank you so much, mousies from wank report!

ETA: mischif tells us that Aishuu has written about the subject. Thanks to ya too!