So, a friend of mine recently linked me to a tumblr page where somebody had submitted an imagine about VIXX. Specifically, about Ravi knitting something for his sister, doing it in the van while they're on their way somewhere, and getting busted by another member who tried to make it look like he was doing something else. Essentially? It was straight out of my story The Noona Upstairs. Chapter 50, to be exact.

I don't tumbl, so I wouldn't have seen it if my friend hadn't brought it to my attention. She was cool enough to also send the admin of that tumblr page a message, and after a couple of hours, I did the same. They were snarky about it to my friend (telling her that I shouldn't have made her the middleman, and should've messaged them myself, except she sent her message of her own accord, and I DID message them), but they did take down the imagine. Unfortunately, they did so after it had been reblogged a number of times.

It's cool that people liked my idea enough to reblog it, but yeah, make no mistake - if you saw that imagine, the changes made to it were very small, and it's definitely my idea, from my story.

Plagiarism , people. And I am thankful that I have friends who look out for me, and alert me to stuff like this. I was nice enough in my message to the tumblr admin, because I realise that they weren't the ones who did it, and I won't be putting the tumblr page who DID do it on blast, but I'm aware of them now, and I hope that perhaps if they're reading this, they'll know that yes, I saw it. Yes, I was kind of offended that my story wasn't credited as either the source or the "inspiration" for it. And yes, if they'd just asked me, I probably would have been way less grumpy about it than I am.

So yeah. Don't steal other people's work. That's basically the gist of it.