imma go ahead and ruin a perfectly “good fic” for all you guys
So we all love that fic “From Cat Noir: An Adrienette Story”, right? Yes. I loved it, too. It filled me warm, fuzzy feelings and a generous helping of giggling at the hopelessly smitten Adrien Agreste Ladies and Gentlemen. Yes. It was a good read, and it shot into my favorites list.
Until, that is, I found out that it was plagiarized from this Percy Jackson fic from 2013, “From Him”. There are some aspects that were adapted to the Adrienette context, but the work is literally plagiarized as in it’s not just the concept, it’s the dialogue and the narrative and all the feels. It makes me sad.
@ramenrulz8p pointed this out before, and @catnoirism shared an anon message about it, too. I think there were other people who pointed this out, as well. I’ve since deleted my reblog but didn’t say anything about it before. I’m also aware that people have reblogged my reblog before I deleted it.
And now I’ve been seeing the fic on my dash a lot the past few days. As seemingly beautiful as the current state of the fic is, now, it’s still plagiarism and it hurts. I imagine if this happened to my work, and IT HURTS.
SO PLEASE LET’S STOP THIS THING. The person who posted the plagiarized work has deactivated their account, and the fic is now making rounds from reblogs of reblogs. And the only way to stop it is to delete our old reblogs and spread the word until no one sees it anymore. I’m going to put all the ML-related tags on this post because I need people to see this and delete their reblogs.
If anyone feels like this is shooting a fellow ML fan down, PLEASE DON’T. Plagiarism is not okay.
Whether or not you read/watched Percy Jackson, whether or not you like the original work… That doesn’t matter. Plagiarism is NOT OKAY.
If you’re lamenting the fact that this is one less fluffy, happy Adrienette fic, NEVER FEAR. The Miraculous Ladybug fandom is filled with talented creative writers WHO ACTUALLY WRITE THEIR OWN STUFF, and you can just browse ML fic rec tags to get your fix.
PLAGIARISM IS STEALING. IT IS NOT OKAY.
A side note: I looked up the original author of the original fic, @maydayparade8123, and it seems like they’ve been plagiarized a few times. THAT HURTS, guys. (I’m wondering now if we can just pretend that May wrote the Adrienette version, too, and thank her? No? Okay.)
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