[ SECRET POST #4003 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4003 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

As someone that has 100% had a fic ripped off, a few points:

1.) You may not be as good as you think you are at reworking an idea
2.) It's fine to do, as long as you do something unique with it that makes it yours (i.e. not wholesale lifting the whole damn thing and just changing the people involved)
3.) It is a little bit of a dick move and it's seriously discouraging as an author. It genuinely makes me want to stop writing.

[takaraikarin]

If there's wholesale lifting and just filling off serial numbers, that's plagiarism and you should probably confront that author, anon.

If it's just reworking ideas, sometimes the point isn't to do it better, but just wanting to see other, say, other ships in similar premise, for instance.

[(Anonymous)]

Definitely agreeing with point 2, sorry that you ended up feeling that way, anon, you should keep writing!

Aside from the blatant ripoff, how would you have felt if the author linked your fic, stating that it inspired this fic that they wrote? More over, would you have liked the author to have contacted you to let you know?

[(Anonymous)]

OP listed some of their reasons to be 'including their NOTPs or the fic not going in the direction they wanted', so my take for #1 of your point? They've already done a 100% better job at reworking the idea. It's not personal, just people liking different things.

Imo writing a fic to 'fix' another fic is only dickish when it's my actual writing voice/narrative style that's under attack. If it's just because of some silly reason like 'I don't like this pairing' then they can have it.