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[bronze_ribbons]

ETA 11/7: LJ has suspended the plagiarist.

LiveJournal's handling of the Thamiris plagiarism situation? A whole new class of FAIL.

In a nutshell: some clown has been reposting Thamiris's stories and LJ entries as his own, and LJ has claimed it cannot act against him unless a complaint is filed specifically by "a family member of the deceased user." The writer was not "out" to her family as a participant in fandom.

I never interacted with Thamiris personally, but The Water Horse (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, R?, 11000 words) remains one of my all-time favorite Yuletide stories. If you've not read it before, you're in for a treat.

Although the circumstances are appalling, it's heartening to see Thamiris's fans and friends working to guard her work and preserve her memory.

Comments

[westernredcedar.insanejournal.com]

Oi! Reading that was like watching a slow-motion trainwreck. What a sick person. I feel like I need a shower. *shiver*

Thanks for the rec. I'd like to have a pleasant connection to this poor woman rather than just the ickiness of this incident. Plus, I like Gawain. :)

[rymenhild.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

Oh, bloody hell. Being a rabid Gawain/Green Knight shipper, I love The Water-Horse, and I can't believe someone would steal a dead woman's fanfiction. Why on earth?

[kirasha]

Oh my gods! That's just...

I don't have enough words for how much wrong there is in this whole thing!

[rakina.insanejournal.com]

How low can some people crawl?
That is really despicable behaviour. And LJ? I cannot believe (well, I probably can) their reaction! These people who pretend to take the moral high ground over content are strangely unresponsive over this.
Argh!