#because when the plagiarist made an Ao3 update showing my message to them and yelling how I was being mean

[twinklecupcake]

Conversation with a friend the other day led to some thinky thoughts but like

I've been plagiarized a few times now. And man, it... It always sucks, don't get me wrong.

But I find it so bizarre and baffling how like. It'd be one thing if the culprits quietly panicked and took down the copy-pasted fics. Even if I never got an apology, it'd be like "Okay, they knew they fucked up. They're panicked now and took it down. Alright, that's the end of it."

But I'm two for two now for someone being confronted with the evidence of it, and when they take it down they go full ham with insistence that "I didn't copy you! It just looks a little similar!" and "Fine, I'll take it down if it'll make you feel better." And then they go on their profiles or the fic in question and rant about "a troll" who accused them of plagiarism, which they totally are not, GOD, and both times I got blocked??

It's just such a funny case of "I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice."