Sean Gaffney
24th December 2002, 12:33 PM
A story on FFnet, Destiny Changes for Better or Worse, by Jay Scolic, has
entire paragraphs copied from my fanfic Made of Stone. The author thanks
me for inspiration in his notes, but I don't take kindly to inspiration
when it's plagiarism.
His fic can be found here:
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=944455
And my original here: http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=157268
An example: from Made of Stone:
Hotaru gave Setsuna a penetrating gaze. "But not yours?"
To Hotaru's disbelief, Setsuna blushed slightly. "It hurt a lot. What we
had to do, what was necessary to save the future...it hurt a great deal. I
had the knowledge of our success, and the bright future ahead. That made
things a little better. But I also had the knowledge that it could fail,
that you might give in to the blackness once more and destroy everything.
There was almost an even chance of either event happening."
Hotaru looked back at the spot by the throne where Sean had lay. "And Sean
was the difference?"
"He was present in both futures. What mattered was the way he treated you.
Sean has treated all of us, everyone in Crystal Tokyo, as fictional
characters. If he had been that way towards you...acted as if you weren't a
real person...then you would not have had the confidence to win that first
battle. The blackness would have engulfed you, and the world would have
ended."
And from Destiny Changes:
Hotaru gave Setsuna a penetrating gaze. "But not yours?" To Hotaru's
disbelief, Setsuna blushed slightly. "It hurt a lot. What we had to do,
what was necessary to save the future...it hurt a great deal. I had the
knowledge of our success, and the bright future ahead. That made things a
little better. But I also had the knowledge that it could fail, that you
might give in to the blackness once more and destroy everything. There was
almost an even chance of either event happening."
Hotaru looked back at the spot by the throne where Jay had lay. "And Jay
was the difference?" "He was present in both futures. What mattered was the
way he treated you. If he had forced down his emotions eventually you would
have grown fast enough that you would have been able to fight back and then
killed all 3 of them in an ambush in your next reincarnation."
I've reported this to FFNet, so hopefully soon the link I gave won't work.
I did want to mention it here, however, as I loathe plagiarism, especially
when authors thank me for allowing them to do so when I did no such thing.
--SG
entire paragraphs copied from my fanfic Made of Stone. The author thanks
me for inspiration in his notes, but I don't take kindly to inspiration
when it's plagiarism.
His fic can be found here:
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=944455
And my original here: http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=157268
An example: from Made of Stone:
Hotaru gave Setsuna a penetrating gaze. "But not yours?"
To Hotaru's disbelief, Setsuna blushed slightly. "It hurt a lot. What we
had to do, what was necessary to save the future...it hurt a great deal. I
had the knowledge of our success, and the bright future ahead. That made
things a little better. But I also had the knowledge that it could fail,
that you might give in to the blackness once more and destroy everything.
There was almost an even chance of either event happening."
Hotaru looked back at the spot by the throne where Sean had lay. "And Sean
was the difference?"
"He was present in both futures. What mattered was the way he treated you.
Sean has treated all of us, everyone in Crystal Tokyo, as fictional
characters. If he had been that way towards you...acted as if you weren't a
real person...then you would not have had the confidence to win that first
battle. The blackness would have engulfed you, and the world would have
ended."
And from Destiny Changes:
Hotaru gave Setsuna a penetrating gaze. "But not yours?" To Hotaru's
disbelief, Setsuna blushed slightly. "It hurt a lot. What we had to do,
what was necessary to save the future...it hurt a great deal. I had the
knowledge of our success, and the bright future ahead. That made things a
little better. But I also had the knowledge that it could fail, that you
might give in to the blackness once more and destroy everything. There was
almost an even chance of either event happening."
Hotaru looked back at the spot by the throne where Jay had lay. "And Jay
was the difference?" "He was present in both futures. What mattered was the
way he treated you. If he had forced down his emotions eventually you would
have grown fast enough that you would have been able to fight back and then
killed all 3 of them in an ambush in your next reincarnation."
I've reported this to FFNet, so hopefully soon the link I gave won't work.
I did want to mention it here, however, as I loathe plagiarism, especially
when authors thank me for allowing them to do so when I did no such thing.
--SG