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⌈ Secret Post #1998 ⌋

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[Peter Gabriel]

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10. [SPOILERS for the Hunger Games]

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[Hetalia]

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[Avatar: the Last Airbender]

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[American Horror Story]

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So there's this fic I've been writing and publishing under one account. It's gotten far enough for all the major details/elements of the setting to show up. For personal reasons, I want to deactivate this old account and create a new sock account that will have nothing to do with the original one. But I still want to keep the fic going.

I've been rewriting it from the beginning to see what I can change while still telling the story I want to tell, and there aren't a lot. I really want to publish the rewritten chapters, but I'm afraid of being accused of plagiarizing what is actually my own work. The fic wasn't huge when it was first published and only had about six regular commenters, but what it if one of them show up? What should I do?

To be honest, I think you'd be somewhat of an asshole if you don't plan on telling those six readers of yours that you plan on continuing the fic elsewhere.

But aside from that, I don't see a problem with it. If anyone ever calls you on it, just privately contact them and explain that you had to create a new account for reasons of your own.

Thanks! I'll definitely be PM-ing them later.

Cool, I'm sure they'll be happy to hear from you :) Good luck with the move!

Why not be upfront? 'This is a reworking of an older fic of mine so if you recognise any of it, that would be why.' A lot of people have done stuff like that and I doubt it would attract any kerfuffle.

Yeah, but I want this account to not be associated with my older account in any way.

If you really don't want it to be connected in any way at all, posting a fic from another account is not a good idea.

If you are making a new account to shake a stalker re-posting fic is not going to work.

Edited 2012-06-22 23:58 (UTC)

Ah, ok :(

Sorry! I speak from experience. People will copy paste lines from your old fic into google to find you or go on storyfinders and ask people if they know where you are.

I don't think saying that you're reworking an old fic creates an association, not unless someone is doing some kind of hardcore stalking that leads to them finding deleted content in googlecache, but that seems pretty unlikely to me. All it says is that you had an old account; a lot of people do, it's no big deal.

Is there a reason you can't simply publish the fic on your old account, as a final work of sorts, and then just resume all regular activity on the new account?

You could also have an extra sock for that specific work, and just point your readers to the new bookmark location. (Look up how to orphan work on ao3 if that's also an option?)

Create a separate sock just for that fic (and other fics from the old account, maybe) and keep everything else on the new sock.

I've seen a fic on AO3 where the author name and link is replaced by the word "Anonymous", and the author was still able to reply to comments as "Anonymous".

Or don't deactivate the old account until the fic is complete.

"Create a separate sock just for that fic (and other fics from the old account, maybe) and keep everything else on the new sock."

This is the best advice, I think.

I'd even go as far to suggest that you use different e-mail accounts for each, and definitely use different personal information for those e-mail accounts. I'm vaguely aware that there are ways to track that sort of information across accounts, so if you're trying to shake off a stalker or something like that, take all that into account.

You might even want to use a proxy to post, depending on how determined a stalker we're talking about here, but that might be me misreading the situation.

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