For the fanfic Iron and Ice, by SkilledWarriorKiwi / @swimmingferret
In which Kanao is kidnapped/adopted by Douma rather than the Kochou sisters because he thinks she's funny and relatable, so she ends up growing up in the cult, being weird and offputting, raising her new little brother Inosuke, and defending her dad from those evil demon slayers out to get him.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
I've been reading this one for a long while now and I love it so much. I wanted to draw something for it before but just couldn't come up with anything. Recent chapters resparked that.
Read @mayakoroz fanfic: Dog Eat Dog - its about bjorn helping the angry nugget (thorfinn) survive and its exactly my kinda shit!! And hadta draw the botany lesson bit :]
the fic is 1 chapter- just over 5000 words, go check it out
I tried to solve this quietly. This now seems like my only option. I'm about to head out, in all honesty, but it still rankles to think of my name being smeared, and how much worse it could get in the future when I'm not around. Link to this post if you want, but I'm going to do my best to cut off any form of notification I could get on this account. I've had it here.
In summary, over the past six months I have felt increasingly like a certain person on Twitter was stealing a few of my tweets and opinions, and passing them off as her own to a much larger following than I have. I also was afraid that some of her followers would find my account and bully me if she interacted with me too much. When I finally softblocked her, trying to avoid drama, this person seems to have stalked my locked account on a near-daily basis for weeks, trying to sneak back in. During this time I rejected a request to refollow the locked account. It creeped me out how quickly it was sent, considering I was barely active on Twitter at that point.
When I mistakenly thought the coast was clear and unlocked, she sneak-refollowed very quickly, and apparently used that brief time I was unlocked to see a set of very general vent tweets about her behavior—things I can post proof of. She is now smearing me and making false accusations (with zero evidence) to a large audience, from whom she had previously hidden my existence because she didn't want them to know she followed a proshipper. She blames me for damaging her account's reach by hardblocking her. Which I only did as a last resort after I tried to get rid of her several times, and she violated my obvious wishes.
More details and evidence under the cut. (More about the plagiarism)
The Longer Version
First, I am Vincestsaga, the evil incest shipper everyone hates. I know this fact alone will make a lot of people see me as the bad guy or think they don't care even if I was wronged. I can't fix anyone's heart, and I'm under no obligation to talk about what I've been through in my life. But I don't want people to automatically judge me as right just because they know and like me, either. I can only give the facts as I see them, and hope my perception of reality is convincing.
On the left is what I posted about the person in question. (While I was locked and after I softblocked her.) On the right is her version of events (garnered after she snuck back onto an account I tried to remove her from repeatedly). Can you spot the difference?
I didn't mention Olmar because this wasn't even about him. I was actually talking about things like this:
Notice that she uses the exact 3 examples I did, and that the 2nd screencap has a smaller screencap inside, showing she originally posted about the idea just a day after I did. In her thread she continually used the exact phrase I did, "nominative determinism", which isn't a necessary part of the explanation. The fact that she seems to consider those words so important (and wrongly describes it as "the Norse belief that") made me feel like she didn't fully understand the idea, and just wanted to copy something she saw from me. She uses Wulf as an example purely because I did, even though he doesn't fit into her version of the explanation, where she says the names describe how the characters act or fight. Bjorn's name does fit, because it references the theory that "berserk" comes from "bear " + "shirt". Wulf doesn't act like a wolf at all. But I mentioned him, because I had something else to say about his name that she didn't.
How do I know that she even saw my posts? Because she liked a lot of my posts in that thread. If you see a single Like on one of those posts, it's from her.
I do have a few screencaps of other times this happened, but I didn't take one every time. I wasn't paying close attention for a while, and after that I tried for a while to believe I was being paranoid. I can't include them all because you can't post more than 10 pictures on mobile, and I'm not strong enough to get to my PC right now. But I think her reaction to being blocked proves that I was right to see her as a dishonest person whom I could not trust to resolve this in a normal way.
For example, she would also repeat things that obviously came straight from me as the only possible source, while erasing my existence by claiming "someone" said it, or she "couldn't" link to a source. In this one case, the Thorgil-coming-back statement, she also repeated it on another occasion. At that point, she began inventing her own version of what Yukimura's idea could have involved. In the screencap above, the first time she did it, she says her claim "might not be right", even though I said that I translated this interview and obviously would know the details. Speaking of vaguing? Is she saying I could have lied? I have the strong feeling that she didn't want to cite me or @ me for the actual facts, because that would involve people seeing my username on the account she uses to knowingly befriend antishippers against their stated boundaries.
She's clearly getting more engagement and clout than me on a number of fun facts that came from me. This is not an honest or respectable way to treat someone. I also pour hours of time into my meta and research, all the more so because I have serious physical disabilities that keep me in bed a lot. It took a lot out of me just to gather the images and post the threads she's been combing through, and I basically got no engagement. Why does she get to disrespect my work like this, but I can't say a thing about it? I've had people stealing my translations before, because they wanted to hide the fact that they used me as a source. I tried to believe it would just blow over and stop this time, but I'm not obligated to show infinite good grace to people who treat my work like this.
Remember, she's telling everyone I vagued her "before" blocking her. But actually, I had already softblocked her before tweeting that (in early December, I think). I then locked my account. She quickly sent me a request to refollow while I was locked, which creeped me out and I rejected it. So when she refollowed my unlocked account a few days ago, almost immediately after I unlocked, she was violating a boundary I'd set twice. Of course I didn't want to immediately hardblock someone like that and trigger a huge meltdown. I already had the strong sense she would do something like this. I just underestimated how long she would keep stalking a locked account that obviously didn't want her to be there.
I also would like to point out that she has several followers consoling her, and telling her that they've never heard of me or seen my account, but clearly the other Olmar lover is a bad person who's falsely accusing her. First of all: how would you know? You admit you don't even know what's going on.
Second of all, I'd like to ask these people, and indeed everyone: she followed me six months ago, and has seen and interacted with many of my tweets about Olmar, and my fanfics about him on AO3. But you guys, who have followed her for months, say you had no idea I even existed.
Don't you think it's a little weird that she never mentioned me, retweeted or QRTed my posts about him, or corrected any of the numerous people who called her Olmar's first and biggest fan? I've been in this fandom for six years (obviously hiding from most of you), and she knows that, because she's been through my fanfics on AO3. I even have an Olmar PFP. It sounds like you never once saw her retweet anyone with an Olmar PFP.
Go look again at those screencaps of how she's misrepresented my words and reproduced my posts. Do you think maybe she had a reason for thinking you guys shouldn't know about me?
In addition, how could I, Vincestsaga, accuse someone of stealing "all" their opinions about Olmar from me, when I notoriously ship Thorgil/Olmar and they don't? My reading of Olmar has a heavy focus on Thorgil as his abuser. I have my own ideas and lore built up over 6 years, including my OC version of their sister. This person's reading is very different, as far as I know. She posts about dragons and shit like that. I think we have pretty different reads of him (to put it mildly), so I haven't really looked at enough of her posts to know the details. But how could I possibly believe she stole "all" my opinions about him? She twisted my actual statement to make it sound like I accused her of something fundamentally unbelievable, and moreover, like I did the one thing you can't do in fandom: calling someone a fake fan. Which I never did.
Finally: I'm sorry, but look at our respective behavior and then tell me I'm the one acting like I own a fictional character. Be serious.
So what are her claims?
1. I attacked her love for Olmar, and said she had no original thoughts on him and copied it all from me. Not true. I did not say this, and she won't be able to produce any evidence of it. Here's what I did say:
2. I "told her" the fake statement she invented. Not true. I did not speak to her, and no one could be sure I meant her from what I did say. I didn't say we liked the same character. I didn't even say this involved someone who'd been following me.
3. I vagued about her "BEFORE" blocking her. The implication is that I evilly planned for her to see her made-up version of my statements, as a deliberate attack on her feelings. Not true. I actually softblocked her some days before making my actual statements out of frustration. She then stalked my locked account, seemingly daily and for weeks on end, until she was able to sneak-refollow me against my obvious wishes.
4. I'm "disgusting" for blocking her and causing her account to be deboosted. Too damn bad. People block me too. I'm Vincestsaga! The view counts on my recent tweets are so low that I'm pretty sure I'm deboosted too, and none of my followers have even seen the tweets where I refuted her claims about me. She wouldn't be blocked at all if she could take no for an answer.
5. I think I own Olmar and tried to take him from her out of jealousy. What the fuck ever. You'd have to be smoking crack to look at her posts, look at my posts, and think I'M the one acting like I own him. This is absurd.
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