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I am so sick and tired of watching my favorite authors leave the COD fandom because of plagiarism and it's stuff like what @/porcelian is doing that's going to continue to drive people away and it needs to stop.

Disclaimer: do not harass this user, or any other users. Porcelian is a minor (as stated in their bio) so it's best to just block and move on. The purpose of this post is to bring attention how harmful it can be to plagiarize works (even if they are "just fan works"). Saying "this work was inspired by [user]!" is not enough of a credit for what I'll share below the cut.

Now, Porcelian came out with this story called Peach Black Descent (also on AO3) which is a blatant copied version of @/yeyinde's Bos Taurus (also on AO3). Here are some of the more glaring instances of near blatant copying and pasting that I was able to find while skimming through the stories side by side.

Everything on the left is yeyinde's work, and everything on the right is Porcelian's stealing.

And these were just the photos I could get combing through the near 25k long total words I had to read for both stories. Not to mention, the first few paragraphs sound a LOT like @/alnilaem's coyote head and the body of a man

alnilaem's:

Sometimes, you believe you were born in the centre of a dying star. 

Born on the crest of death and fated for a bleak life. Dead, before you even had a chance.

The universe sweeps before you. Infinite. Expansive. Hungry. You float at the mouth of the galaxy and it swallows you whole, but doesn’t seem to like the taste of you—too bland, too trite—so it spits you back out and sends you tailspinning. 

You land with a lack of courtesy. Tossed between trees and dropped in a basin. You find yourself in nowhere, Oregon. In a town flecked by a lake inlet and a clement fjord, where the moose population outnumbers the people population. It has a maritime allure but strangely enough, isn’t commercial enough to be a tourist hub. It’s too hidden in the thicket. Too deep in a borehole.

and porcelian's:

You feel as if you were born in a galaxy slowly being ripped apart at the seams. Stars colliding, crashing; kaleidoscopic colors mix into together as they lose their golden ichor of life and dim into nothingness. A black hole drinks it's ichor. The unforgiving crooked teeth bites in the stars and they give into the hold.

A dying nebula. Hot and scorching as it brands your skin because of your sins. Engraved into your soul. It is dirt under your finger nails. Forever stained.

Stained—you think—you'll have to figure out how to clean up the sign perched near the motel wall—Highway Inn. A ironic and obvious name, considering it's situated right next to a highway. The road turns and twists, contorting into something akin to a labyrinth only a few unlucky ones can pass through and make it to this brick fortress.

(note: alnilaem's fic has reader working at a hotel, which was another thing that tipped off a bell in my mind besides the whole very similar beginning. It could very well just be me though, but considering everything else, I'm not optimistic.)

The most interesting thing here, is that porcelian didn't even bother to credit yeyinde for the stolen work until she was confronted!!

I find it interesting that you would block someone that "inspired" you to write a story that was basically their work word for word. It legitimately looks as if you had your writing document up, and yeyinde's work side by side, and you blocked her hoping that she wouldn't find you out.

Unfortunately for you, people still saw it and sent it to her, and then you backtrack saying that you want people to read yeyinde's fic as if you weren't planning on just trying to block and hope no one would notice.

Anyway, at the end of the day, don't do this? To anyone? You guys are going to run off all the amazing authors on this site, and who are you going to steal from when they're all gone?

(Once again, I reiterate, just block and move on!!! Don't harass anyone on here but don't do this with people's works either!!)