Justice prevails

[janne_d]

sassydemon's FFN page is now deleted so all the plagiarised fic are gone, hoorah!

In addition to the plagiarism of my 'And None Can Be Such Kings' she/he also plagiarised:

- a published novel called 'The Immortals: Evermore' by Alyson Noel
- the Merlin fic Fame and Fortune by melusinahp
- the Merlin fic Their Time by vail_kagami

All with the same replacement of the original character names with characters from DW and TW. Needless to say, all were better as written by their real authors... if there was ever proof necessary that characters in fanfic (I'm going to blow my own and their trumpets here and add well-written fanfic) are not interchangeable this was it because, funnily enough, none of the three fanfics plagiarised in this manner by sassydemon worked with the characters swapped. All it did was make Jack and the Doctor seem very OOC and the plots a bunch of crack because a plot that fits with Arthur and Merlin's world, characters and dynamic really won't work in the DWverse with Jack and 10's dynamic.

So I am still confused. Why do this in the first place, and why choose such awkwardly fitting fics to do it with?

Comments

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

She/he plagiarised a published novel? Wow, that's special.

[sally_maria]

That is good news.

It's such a weird mindset - not only will I try to get praise for stories I didn't write - I'll do so very badly.

[mrs-plinks.livejournal.com]

It's sheer stupidity, me thinks. Everyone with two braincells knows that merlin and Doctor Who share a good part of the fan base, so taking a very well known fic from one fandom and plagiarising it to present it in the other is just asking for trouble, me thinks.

As for why...no ego and even less values? It's one of those things where I'm not sure I even want to understand the reasoning behind it, since that would mean I'd be able to follow that twisted logic >.<
No thanks!^^

Glad that got sorted. 'And None But We Can Be Such King's' is actually my all time favourite Merlin fic, so when you were spitting mad I think I was jumping right behind you! *lol*

I do understand that one might feel inferior talent wise when reading really good fic and one self can't write that good. But that's something you solve with practice, not plagiarism. Plagiarism doesn't change the fact that you can't write yourself, after all. That's why I don't get it, at all. oO