So it's all come full circle...

[skull_bearer]

Something I always take a certain amount of perverse pride in, is that while other fanfic writers' shameful beginnings usually entail bad spelling, Mary Sues and shite plots, mine involved actually being banned from ff.net.

Which sounds cooler than it actually was. Actually, I was banned for plagarising someone else's story (which has since vanished from the 'net, but then it was ten years ago). I won't go into detail, it was kinda shitty, but I didn't know The Rules of the Internet and to be honest, the resulting story is still not horrible enough for me to be too ashamed of it. I dropped that account, started a new one under the cool goth name of Skull Bearer, and the rest is history.

Only things have a tendancy come around again, and now I've been plagarised. Seriously, someone was so bereft of creative spark they basically nicked Of Needles and re-wrote the first chapter. Badly. Like, really badly. So badly I wanted to claw my eyes out because dead god it was crap. So bad I'm not posting a link here, because I don't want one of you innocent grasshoppers going in and seeing what cannot be unseen.

So I reported it to ff.net and told the author to please take it down, because I've been here before, and I know how embarrasing it'll be for them ten years down the line.

You know, I'd always thought I'd have to wait until I was, y'know, published, for this kinda stuff to happen. Huh.

(next Needle installment tentatively titled Love and War, like I hadn't ripped off enough song titles already)

Comments

[citizenjess.livejournal.com]

LOL welcome to the Internet? I uh, I wrote some pretty gnarly Star Wars pr0n a while back, and someone randomly reposted the entire thing to a brand new deviantART account several months after the fact. I laughed, but was like 1) That is not yours, thanks, and 2) it is not wise to post hardcore Clone Wars smut to dA. I think their excuse was something like, "I just wanted other people to see it." I chalk it up to them Not Knowing How the Internet Works, but man.

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, The best form of flattery etc,

Happened to me twice last year.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm....yes. Some of my tenured academic 'colleagues' are more than a little good at this sort of thing and they can't blame teh intarwebz for their dodgy behaviour............