#they would see ‘main blog for @/tomuras’ on my nav

[erikatsu]

okay, i had my laughs last night but i feel like this needs to be said because im still a bit irate and this is serious. rant about plagiarism under the cut.

if you are going to accuse someone of plagiarism, you need to be 100% sure they actually did it. you need to have your proof ready before you even say a word. as someone who has had 4 different blogs + 29483929 urls, i have reposted some of my own works at least twice.

receiving a comment asking people to report my work as stolen nearly sent me into an anxiety attack my mind was thinking, “i wrote this fic a year ago and bc im just now reposting it, im going to be the one who gets the hit for plagiarism… not on my watch. i’ll call them out before they do it to me.” so i scoured ao3 for any trace of this fic and found nothing besides a toji fic with the same title but different premise, because the comment was made that it was originally on ao3. so i figured “what are the odds this ao3 poster has a tumblr” and went to the accusers blog. low and behold– and only after two minutes of scrolling– i find they had reblogged it when i had posted it on this account for literally an hour. i don’t even rmr why i posted and priv’d it that quickly but i did.

i originally posted this fic on. april 24th 2022 on my blog first nsfw blog, touyaphoria. reposted here when i was tumblr user bladiez, for a split second on august 1st 2023 (which i forgot until i saw their rb). i reposted and left for good on the 8th of this month on my now writing blog tomuras. it was stated in the final repost that it was a repost (i have since changed the note to specify which blogs it was posted on beforehand). and it would’ve taken them less time to realize both fics were posted by the same person had they scrolled their own blog instead of me figuring it out myself. it could have been totally avoided.

now, i do appreciate someone looking out for my work like that, i really do. but on the other hand it felt so shitty to be somewhat publicly accused of something that i didn’t even do. and it felt even shittier that i received no apology for it. i didn’t even send them the pictures i posted here as proof, i sent them proof straight from google docs + my initial idea being discussed with a friend of mine and that seemed to be enough because they never responded and they never made a callout post like they said they would. the usual tumblr drama and discourse i can let roll off my shoulders. but an allegation like that is heavy and not just on tumblr. if an actual published author was accused of plagiarism the backlash would be outrageous and have extreme consequences.

tdlr: please heed the notes on posts, not just warnings. do your research before falsely accusing someone. or, if you can be bold enough to accuse someone, at least have the decency to apologize for it if you are wrong.

#tw rant #tw vent #sorry ndidnsos i was howling over it last night #but now im rlly 😐 about it #like. idk i feel like you shouldn’t just be throwing out allegations without at least doing looking into it first. #if they had gone back to their rb of it #and went to my blog #they would see ‘main blog for @/tomuras’ on my nav #again i do sincerely appreciate being looked out for like that #but they could have sent an ask to my side like hey #i think this work has been plagiarized. i dont remember exactly where i saw it but i have read it before #would have been so much better than a comment #like. oh yeah well i have had 4 different blogs and have reposted that work once or twice. here are the blogs ive used #an easy and private clear up vs a threat to handle a situation like this on the authors behalf… without even telling said author about it #AND THEY DIDNT EVEN BE LIKE OH IM SO SORRY I DIDNT REALIZE #THEY JUST. IGNORED ME?? #considering i sent the dm literally four minutes after they posted their comment #i think its safe to assume i was ignored #and i stayed up for two hours waiting for at least some form of acknowledgement not even a sorry #i didnt want to govto sleep until it was resolved