#anti plagiarism

[manikas-whims]

“i could care less if she's copying whoever”

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Imagine being so disgusting and supporting a literal thief. Imagine defending a stolen premise and straight up copied paragraphs over moral values.

BOTH THE AUTHORS (@/explorevenus and zombie ), WHOSE WORKS GOT STOLEN ARE GENUINELY HURT!

I don't know when fandom spaces became so rife with rude, insensitive and disrespectful people. But please fuck off from my blog if you are fine with plagiarism 🤬 and with @dollgxtz’s actions.

i didn't know LADS had such insensitive people in the fandom.

[reikomizuao3]

Calling out a Plagiarist *I HAVE SCREENSHOTS*

We do not support plagiarism on dis here tumblr, so I'm calling you out!!

The user Loves2Write on the website Archive of Our Own, in their story "The Snow Queen" has plagiarized paragraphs from the story "The Joy Of Vengeance" by dearly departed TheCuriousCalico. I have reported them, but I'm posting screenshots in case they scramble to cover it up

This is the original text:

This is the plagiarized text

As a writer, nothing pisses me off more than plagiarism, and any time I see it happen, I'm calling it out!!

[thetruthisoutthereandbeyond]

The Truth is Out There

Looking into Plagiarism: Reunification and MrsFizzle-a case of Boy Meets World Plagiarism or not?

Many of the complaints I found on FFN’s community for reporting plagiarism are typical copy/paste/change names stories.

But let’s look at these two points: 1) That is, both imitation (or outright copying) and failure to be truthful about that imitation are necessary attributes to call it plagiarism. 2) it is the lie (of commission or omission) about sourcing that makes it plagiarism.

The story I was most curious about was this claim against a story written by MrsFizzle in the Boy Meets World fandom. I started to reach out to the author who made the claim, Mercedes Aria, to ask about the details she mentioned in her Author’s Notes. Then I read her Tumblr post, Why Am I Blocked: A Tumblr Ask Answered and decided not to.

This is a case that goes beyond plagiarism and into harassment big time.

I started to examine this case by reading the stories in question, however, it will take me some time to do that. While MrsFizzle’s story is relatively short, Mercedes Aria’s series is not. It’s extensive and according to what she’s said on her Tumblr and in ANs, the stolen works span the series. I finished MrsFizzle’s story and have only gotten started on Mercedes Aria’s main story. But the similarities are there and obvious.

Given the length of Autumn in Philadelphia, I’ve been taking breaks to investigate the public claims against MrsFizzle who also goes by Kaylie Night and, according to her FFN profile, is a published author. However, it’s hard to fully investigate the claims since Mercedes Aria, though highly active, is unwilling to share the document detailing her case against MrsFizzle. She says on Tumblr and Reddit that she has been approached by people claiming to want to help her then demand to see the link.

MrsFizzle, on the other hand, appears inactive across all her sites since at least September 2024 except for one site with the last activity being December 12, 2024. As of this writing (January 2025) even her author’s website does not work.

What I can look into raises a lot of questions.

Specifically, the comments she left on Mercedes Aria’s stories. You can look at these comments yourself on Autumn in Philadelphia and Flashbacks (on AO3). MrsFizzle was very into the story and the OC Mercedes Aria wrote, however she also seemed terribly upset that story did not go the way she wanted and proceeded to go into detail about it even though she admitted to not reading the summary or tags and that she shouldn’t leave the comment at all. Mercedes Aria seemed upset to have caused any distress (MrsFizzle claims in her comment that she “cried for three hours. Fell asleep, slept through the night, woke up crying again” over the story not turning out the way she wanted. MA seemed extremely sweet and sincere, and the exchange that went on for a while over a couple of chapters ended agreeably.

I checked MrsFizzle’s Boy Meets World stories and could not find any comments by Mercedes Aria. Because I already see similarities in her story Reunification with Autumn in Philadelphia, I read the comments Reunification had. The comments are what sparked my curiosity because they are so strange.

[bitstitchbitch]

the main thing AI has proven is that the majority of people are perfectly okay with plagiarism as long as they can blame someone else for it

[fandom-hoarder]

Watching the 4 hr hbomberguy vid about plagiarism, to cap off a week where I was deciding what to do about a plagiarized wincest fic. Interesting juxtaposition. 😂

[fourdramas]

Bill Ackman single-handedly taking on anti-plagiarism algorithms in academia on X 👀👀

[gayhenrycreel]

something i would like people to note is the difference between piracy and plagiarism.

plagiarism is taking someone elses work and claiming it as your own, often to make money off it.

piracy is illegally stealing something, without making or spending money. every single pirated copy of anything that ive ever had still credits the creators correctly. books still say who the author is and shows and movies still include the end credits.

people plagiarize because they are assholes.

people pirate because they are too poor to afford all these expensive streaming services, because such services can take media away at any time (piracy is a great way to make sure media does not become lost, google The Mysterious Benedict Society), or because the company that made it is awful and dont deserve money (disney, bbc, netflix, amazon).

both are legally stealing, but law and morality are not the same thing. piracy and plagiarism are very different, and should be treated as such.

[marzipanandminutiae]

hey AI image blogs that turn replies off on your posts

you're not just plagiarists- you're cowardly plagiarists

if you don't think there's anything wrong with what you're doing, why not let people warn others on the post? or are you hoping nobody notices because, deep down, you DO know that you're full of shit and unwilling to get off your ass and actually create something yourself (or at least promote the work of real artists, not steal it)?

"well it's on my page! well it's in my URL!" shut up. you KNOW people reblog absentmindedly on here all the time, and they look at the notes before they look at OP's blog. don't give me that drivel

[acatwithstockings]

Plagiarism does NOT hurt big companies!

Plagiarism isn't sticking it to the "big guys"

Plagiarism is NOT a brave stance against creative monopols.

I repeat Plagiarism is NOT a valid tool in the fight for better creative outputs.

Palworld is a prime example of creative bankruptcy and how people will fall for the marketing out of frustration with the original source. Having a remix of certain games as base concept is fine and is, in fact how many great games got their start HOWEVER never putting in the effort to make it something else than a remix speaks of laziness and disregard for the project as a whole.

Palworld didn't have to plagiarize Pokemon by just mashing some designs together and calling it a day. It was just for marketing.

Palworld didn't have to copy UI elements and progress systems from ark but it did because putting their own spin on things means work.

And most importantly Palworld didn't need to go the human trafficking route to keep the edgy spin of "Pokemon but with guns". That's just a testament to how little the devs behind it care and how ethically bankrupted they are.

Palworld is, just as their other games a passionless cash grab playing on what's popular!

People crying about how it's sticking it to Gamefreak and Nintendo are just delusional.

If you really want to 'hurt' the company, keep pirating and emulating their games, keep playing other titles that don't rely on blatantly plagiarizing Pokemon with their designs and stop engaging with the company and their titles publicly!

Plagiarism and lazily thrown together slop are not the way to go!

Also please stop spreading that they used AI for palworld. We simply don't know and can't prove it! It's enough that they obviously ripped meshes and plagiarized we don't need to blame ai for that. PLUS that the CEO supports Ai should be enough to not want to support the company we really don't need to accuse this specific product (and I am not calling it game, it was thought off and produced as a product and easy to pedal piece of content) of being produced with it, if we can't prove it conclusively.

Gonna say this as someone who has been critical of Game Freak both as a fan and as someone with a Pokémon SPIN for a while now:

Do not support Palworld.

The CEO of Pocket Pair, the game’s studio, openly supports AI and even made a game where making AI-generated art is its main mechanic.

Palworld is not Pocket Pair’s first instance of plagiarism, either. Their previous game, Craftopia, plagiarizes Breath of the Wild, whereas as its upcoming game, Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse, plagiarizes from independent developer Team Cherry’s game, Hollow Knight.

On top of stolen character models and concepts from fakemon artists, it’s already known that you can put Pals through what is basically slave labor BUT what’s been recently discovered is that the game allows you to capture and sell humans. This has been raising some red flags for black gamers looking into these mechanics, me included, considering this factors into the established slave labor system of Palworld.

TL;DR: I completely understand being tired of Game Freak and the Pokémon Company’s lack of polish over the years, but supporting something that is just as devoid of polish and even more devoid of ingenuity is not the way to make those criticisms clearer. This will only encourage more soullessness in the industry.

I implore you to support other creature collectors with some real passion behind them; I will reblog this post with recommendations shortly!

[manikas-whims]

thats fucking wild. what other fics were stolen bc i checked zombies blog and i didnt find other fics. Unless thats just me xD i read both fics side by side and just yeah my jaw dropped it was 1:1 verbatim

I'm not sure because the person who informed didn't drop names of the other fics. But acc to them, they've stolen the premise for a Zayne and a Sylus fic from their other Leon fics.

As for His Watchful Eye, yeah..it's as you say, word for word copy-paste 😒

[vexwerewolf]

If you do not support artists and authors in their fight against generative plagiarism, it will be your industry next.

[thetruthisoutthereandbeyond]

Looking into Plagiarism: Reunification and MrsFizzle-a case of Boy Meets World Plagiarism or not? Part 2

On chapter 41 of Reunification there is this exchange in 2023:

A little snooping on Wayback Machine produced this:

According to tags, Ashley is non-existent as late as October 5th, 2022, well after her September comments on MA’s short stories that featured Audrey.

Knowing that she was not planning a long fic involving Ashley in August, but a month later indicated she had read MA’s stories and was now writing her own long fic certainly sounds like inspiration hit her while she was reading Autumn in Philadelphia and Flashbacks. A month after her long fic began, she commented indicating frustration that her “Jon’s wife” was not as good as MA’s. Ashley is introduced a month later in November and now Reunification with Ashley sounds a lot like Autumn in Philadelphia with Audrey well after MrsFizzle admits to reading MA’s work.

Also, I looked up GMW and it states that Jon met his nurse wife while in the hospital after his motorcycle accident in BMW. MrsFizzle’s story is an untagged AU and does not follow canon events (Shawn is the one in the hospital; Jon’s accident does not occur making the canon timeline she mentions moot). However, since she is now presenting Ashley to readers as a canon character with no caveats (keep reading), this makes her statement confusing at best.

But, by this point (August 2023), MrsFizzle was mixing truth/untruth, canon/head canon together in her responses to readers without distinguishing between them like she previously had. I’ve mentioned before that many of her commenters do not seem to know anything about the fandom and therefore would be relying on her for what is canon and what is not. Given the situation between her and MA, this dishonest approach to make her head canon appear to be canon to those not in the fandom is more than a little sus.

The issue with misleading fandom-blind readers like this is it would then make characters like Audrey and other OC love interests for Jon appear to be based off MrsFizzle’s “canon” wife and could potentially cause other writers to be harassed on MrsFizzle’s behalf for plagiarism as has happened to writers in other fandoms when readers become too passionate. If we are serious about crediting inspiration, then responses like the ones MrsFizzle gives could make readers think these other writers need to have an inspired by link to her work as they are writing their version of Ashley or that Ashley Enns needs to be added as a canonical tag. For MrsFizzle, either one would thwart plagiarism claims against her and potentially deflect them onto others.

Another issue is if enough people believe most of what she writes is canon, then plagiarism would never occur to readers who also read Autumn in Philadelphia because they would likely assume the same scenes in both stories are derived from canon.

Curious.

And so is the very rushed ending to Reunification.

While she got glowing comments for it, I was honestly confused. The Europe trip that was so built up suddenly ends. The OC is suddenly dropped and only brought back at the very end and the story just… ends with earlier plot points dropped. The adoption that was the whole point of the story is over in a few paragraphs in the epilogue all of things. It was vastly different from the way it started.

What also struck me as odd about the ending is that in her big chapter 20 comment MrsFizzle says: “…It’s not your fault. You gave fair warning. But chapter 17 absolutely blindsided me. I was gutted. Cried for three hours. Fell asleep, slept through the night, woke up crying again. Every time Shawn had been afraid Audrey would leave, every time he didn’t believe he could have the family he wanted, turned sour in my mind. Some thing I have learned about myself is that I do very poorly with adoption arcs that don’t have the happy ending…

…Meanwhile, I loved Audrey as Jon’s partner, but I loved her 100 times more as Shawn’s mother, and it’s kind of too late for that to happen in the same way…”

From what I gather of the summary and the tags, Shawn does get adopted but as an adult and not a teen. Strangely, Reunification ends with Shawn getting adopted just shy of his 18th birthday rather than as the younger teen that he was before the story switched gears and rushed to its ending. There was no explanation for this turn of events. Considering MrsFizzle’s grievance with MA’s story and her claim that such an ending was enough to make her cry for hours, her choosing to do the same thing makes no sense to me.

[kuramirocket]

Anti stealing and "fixing art"

[lecoindecachou]

In honor of James Somerton being a topic of discussion again, here's a poll I've been wanting someone to do for a while. Please be honest and reblog if you can, I'm actually really interested in the answer.

[loveyazy]

just saw someone say that 3 brothers and 3 sisters can still happen but not with Elain, with fucking Gwyn

You guys wanna self-insert so fucking bad. You want to take all the things Elriel has already done and said and use them for your ship, when in reality, all you want is Elriel, but with a character that is your headcanon version of said character.

The coping. The delusions. It's actually kind of sad at this point.

Also, if you think it's "found sisters" and "found brothers" then Nesta wouldn't even be included, it'd be Feyre, Amren, and Mor. Lmao.

Your own theory has holes.

Everyone thinks Gwyn is this super warrior, but between her and Elain, only Elain killed someone, fought off a beast with her own bare foot.

The only instance of Gwyn being any sort of warrior in a fight, was maybe when she slashed someone's shins. That's it. I went through all of ACOSF and that's the only time she lands any sort of blow during the Rite.

So why is it that Elain who has actually done more, actually killed someone, (sorry, no. Nesta does not credit for Hybern when he would've bled out and died either way.), is probably actually training to be a spy (hello her two closest friends, the wraiths???????) get tagged as the weak one, or someone who can't fight, not a warrior, etc., but Gwyn who almost did nothing the entire rite is somehow the baddest bitch to ever live?

What?

I really try to stay away from all the anti stuff but it gets more and more delusional and I am just appalled.

[crumblinggothicarchitecture]

Taylor Swift: The Lyric Thief- Evermore Edition.

Do y'all know about this?

Swift's lyric "How's one to know/ I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bone" ("Ivy" 2020).

Great, interesting lyric from Swift's own mind, right? WRONG.

Originally, it came from a poem called "Compassion" written by Miller Williams in 1997.

Here is the poem:

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone. (Williams, 1997)

It's later used as an album title "Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone" that Miller William's daughter, Lucinda Williams, published in 2014.

She also used the line, that her father ORGINALLY wrote, in a song tribute to him called "Compassion" on that same 2014 album.

Can we please stop pretending Swift is a genius? When, in fact, all of her most "intelligent" and "powerful" lyrics are lines outright taken from other works in literary, and musical, canon.

She's just a derivative fraud who wants all of her fans to think she's the one coming up with all these ideas.

She stole the line from a woman who used it as a tribute to her dying Father- the original author- who is now passed.

Not only did Swift rip the line out of a tribute album written to the original writer- but she also put the line in a dumb song that romanticizes cheating. She writes, "dare to sit a watch what we'll become/ and drink my husband's wine" ("Ivy" 2020). Clearly, the whole song is about a woman who is cheating on her husband.

The original intention of the line itself is about having compassion for other people, while taking care to have humility and resist the allure of cynicism. It's a poem about caring for your fellow man- and resisting despair in life. Arguably, it is also a poem about mental health issues and respecting those who may struggle. Swift twists the line to describe meeting a clandestine hookup and cheating on her husband.

Not only did she yank the line right out of someone else’s work, with no credit given to the original intention of the line or the original author- but she also made it about such a selfish, sick, thing to do- cheating on a spouse.

The original intention of the line was so kind and empathetic. She ruined it with her endorsement of cavalier attitudes towards moral corruption :(