A Glimpse at my Emotions

copy paste, what a waste

2017-01-10, 4:45 PM or so

Yes. I have a rant. Another one. And I don't even know what to even make of the situation in which I'm in right now because as much as you guys don't want to see me be a bad cop, here I am. A bad cop. And yes, I try to be reasonable and understanding, but not when people try to guilt trip me and make me regret what I said.

Okay, so this is in regards to a work that I have put away for a long time: "Last Hope" (Cato X Reader). I haven't touched the book for a long time now--over a year now--since my focus had been on other ideas and other works that I wanted to pursue.

One of my followers who was actively reading my Peeta X Reader, "Never Yours," asked after I posted a thanks on their message feed if they could post the work on their profile and continue it (and possibly collaborate with me for ideas and everything). I said okay.

So we talked over Skype, and I eventually sent them a document of the story I had so far. Not too long after, they posted it...and not only did they change the synopsis, but they posted the story without giving me credit. At all.

That's basically the equivalent of taking someone's story and copy pasting it directly to turn the work into their own.

Or even plagiarizing, for that matter!

Seeing that made me so uneasy. I mean, here I am, sitting behind my computer, reading a work that I wrote that someone else posted and basically took as their own. How do you think you'd feel if, even with prior arrangements, someone did that to you?

Eventually I told them to take the work down. I was as nice as I possibly could have been about the situation. And how did they take it?

They put up a post in their book saying that I was the reason they're no longer in the Hunger Games fandom. And the reason they would not touch any work that is related to the Hunger Games fandom.

Me: What?!

I mean, that was not my intention! The only thing I asked was to take the work down. The lack of credit made me seriously uneasy. I mean, that basically means I have no more control over what once was mine, and who knows what would happen when it falls into another's hands?

Especially in this case when they didn't give me credit. And made it look as if the work was something they wrote on their own.

I was scared of what would possibly happen. It's basically asking someone to help you take care of your only fertile chicken egg without knowing whether they'd actually take care of it or smash it on the ground or even eat the whole thing raw.

Seriously, though. If you agreed to collaborate with someone, and continue the work they started, at least give them credit for what they have done so far.

See, this is why I never let anyone touch anything that clearly belongs to me and tamper with it to create something completely unrecognizable. I'm only okay if we had prior plans to collaborate and we actually do collaborate and work on the story together, but besides that? Nope.

I'm sorry. I'm just this insecure. So don't try this with me again or I swear...