#i feel like my answer here is incoherent because i just liveblogged reading my immortal to the group chat

[n7punk]

If there was catradora fic out there that was pretty blatantly copying your work would u wanna know about it?

uhhhh this is a stressful leading question. There's not much I can do about it except ask them to stop and I doubt they would care if they're really "copying". But also like, there's a lot of similarities in AUs, tropes, etc so there's a lot of things I wouldn't consider copying that maybe you could be picking up on (I hope, because it's way better than the alternative). Like when I knew I wanted to write a celebrities AU I avoided reading those AU fics until after, and after DITM I read R&B and realized me and Mal just happened to have a lot of similar ideas about the characters just because of how we interpreted them. And that was basically what kicked off our friendship lol

Anyway if it's like, blatant theft then I guess maybe you can report that to the archive(?) if it's reposting-level but otherwise I don't think there's really anything I have the power to do. It's just a major downer that someone would do that. Which like, I assume they have since you're asking. I don't really go in the tags since I have bookmarks I can go to that I know are good so idk what the general Catradora fandom has been up to on AO3 for a while.

Edit to clarify: like, if someone else writes an AU with a similar premise (and it's not like, as wildly specific as Knifepoint or something), or there's some small details in their fic (like idk accepting the headcanon that Adora hums to purr or whatever) that could have been inspired by me, that's not copying. If they follow my plot beats, use my prose, copy lines etc then it is and that majorly sucks.

On one hand I want to know because I want to see it and go "oh this is fine actually" and on the other hand I don't want to know it's not fine lmao