Plagiarism!! Guys, please help me!
Dear readers, writers, fellow ELFs, I need your help.
I've been plagiarized. Not just once, but TWICE. YES, TWO ING TIMES, and that's just as far as I know, so there might even be more of them out there.
BOTH Masquerade and The Last Bet were taken from me without authority and posted somewhere else (obviously less public than AFF) by someone who apparently indicated himself or herself as the author.
To tell you the truth, I have witnessed the plagiarized version of The Last Bet with my own eyes a couple of days ago when I was cruising through some blogs to read fics. The person who posted it pretended to be the true author, and even translated it into what seemed like his or her own language so that only those people who speak that language may read it. I had my doubt when I first saw the title 'The Last Bet', and merely thought 'oh well, I'm pretty sure it's just a coincidence that someone wrote a different fic just with the same title as mine', but I decided to check by using Google translater anyway, and what the hell, it turned out to be MY STORY!!!! I didn't know what to do so I just ended up not doing anything about it + now I forgot where I saw it.....sorry, me and my pea brain just don't work together sometimes...;;;;;
But as for Masquerade, I didn't find out about plagiarism until today, when a new reader commented "either the other person or you stole the idea, someone else wrote that story." WTF seriously, I stole the story? Well, I don't know about stealing, but does stealing a story usually take a couple of months, because I spent ing months writing and fixing Masquerade!! I don't even know where this plagiarized version of Masquerade is floating about, I don't even know who's doing what.
Why would people do that? I don't understand, I didn't even think that stuff like this would happen to me. My stories aren't that good either, so why waste precious time in stealing them, huh??!!! (I'm not saying good stories deserve to be plagiarized, of course!)
I hate to be misunderstood as the stealer, when I really am the original author!! How do I prove it?
What can I do about this?
Please help me, guys!!! (excuse my language btw)
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