It's official

[ladysophiekitty]

I'm definitely an author. Because I've just caught my stories being plagiarized on this Harry/Hermione site. Same name, all of my Harry Potter stories posted (minus one of them) posted there. The site glitched for a moment giving all of my stories the same posting date which creeped me out for a second because it told me that Missing Her was posted before it was ever written. Then I pressed refresh and the dates made sense.

They say that imitation is a form of flattery, and it could be because I'm already having a shitty day, but fuck, I'm pissed. I contacted the site, so hopefully eveything turns out okay. 

Comments

[night-sky99.livejournal.com]

I've always hated when people brought up the "imitation is a form of flattery" and all that jazz. In elementary school, kids were always copying me (mainly in creative things like art or writing) and once I even cried after my teacher said that the kids were complimenting me by copying my artwork.
It's flattery, it's just plain rude

And it sucks when fan things get stolen since they tend to be a bit harder to get removed from sites. Best of luck, though.

[ladysophiekitty.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess I have too. Though I'm going to quote one of the below comments: "Imitation is a form of flattery. Somone who is inspired to write something similar to you or based on something you wrote, but making it entirely their own. That is not imitation, however. That is STEALING!! Not the same thing."

It's a shame, huh? I never thought it would happen to me since my Harry Potter stuff isn't the best (most of it is from when I was just starting out) and if anything, I thought it would be my Bones stories if anything! At least I can look at most of those without cringing.