24. she/her. gemini. ravenclaw. just a girl with a lot of fandoms. black girl magic. bisexual. a stressed-out city girl who likes to write in her free time. this blog is mainly nsfw, minors PLEASE DO NOT INTERACT.
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what i've been doing lately:
childhoodfriend!simon riley
watched* (jjk universe)
Translated works without permission (mine and possibly other tumblr authors)
3 of my works have been translated without my permission and it is among the 373 translated tumblr fics on this Wattpad account @ Mel_Potter_Black. Based on my case with them, I have a feeling that they also have not approached and asked for permission from a lot of tumblr authors.
Their translated works include: 186 Theodore Nott fics, 40 Percy Jackson tumblr fics, 50 James Potter fics, 25 Luke Castellan fics, 49 Mattheo Riddle fics, 23 Draco Malfoy fics.
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First and foremost, I have explicitly stated on my pinned Tumblr post that I do not want my works translated or redistributed elsewhere.
Long story short, there were a lot of red flags that this account has displayed.
They blocked someone who had questioned them if they had my permission to translate my works.
They have never even reached out to me asking for permission.
They translated my works even though I have stated very clearly that I do not want my works translated.
They never replied to me and even deleted my comment politely asking them to remove my work because they never had my permission and that I don’t want my works translated (though, fortunately they did remove the translated works as asked, so at least that’s the plus side). This once again wiped clean evidence of permission issue on their account, very much continuing a “covering up their track” behavior.
They also translated one of the original author’s usernames into Portuguese too, which is strange and improper crediting because that defeats the whole point of crediting overall, as readers won't even be able to trace back to the original author at all (especially if you are not linking to the original work or the original author’s page, which they are not doing).
Given their highly questionable and suspicious behaviors to my case (did not ask for my permission, translated works from an author who does not want their works translated, attempted to hide the fact that they have never gotten permission from me (the original author), blocked those who question it, shows signs of improper crediting), I have reasons to suspect that many tumblr authors of the other 370 translated works on this Wattpad account also do not know that their works have been translated, and that this Wattpad account have translated without their permission and/or improperly credit them.
I did contemplate for a while whether to write and publish about this too. However, I feel like it’s all too suspicious for me to just ignore and 300+ fics is a lot. Also, the fact that they straight up blocked the person who questioned if they had my permission implied that they must feel like what they are doing is not right.
So…if you are a tumblr writer of any of the characters mentioned above (especially Theodore Nott because 186 is INSANE if most of them don't have the original author's permissions and/or authors don’t want their works translated), just be aware that your works may have been translated without permission. And if the issue of translation without permission is personally important to you, maybe check to see if your works are on their account and ask them to take it down if you want to.
PS. Though, please don’t send them death threats or something like that. They could be a child who doesn’t know any better for all we know.
Horrified to find that SEVERAL of my fics have been stolen by this account despite my explicit disclaimer asking for my works not to be translated without consent.
Furthermore this user has incorrectly given credit to other tumblr users for MY WORK.
hi my loves, if you could reblog this post, i’d really appreciate it <3 it’s a little insane how comfortable people are getting with criticizing what kind of content other people decide to put out.
at the end of the day, writing fanfiction is a hobby. it’s not a job, it’s not something we are rewarded for. it’s something we do for our own fun, whether that be writing fluff, angst, or smut, it’s for our own enjoyment. you cannot complain about the fandom being “clogged up” by one specific genre. for example, if the majority of a fandom wants to write smut, then that’s that. that’s what they want to write, that’s what they feel most inspired by in that moment. you don’t get to dictate what other people decide to do with their own hobby, and complaining about it is just as bad. to be frank, if you try to do that, you are incredibly annoying and honestly very childish.
and another thing that relates here—people complaining about who certain fics are targeted for. believe me, i understand that it’s frustrating to not be able to find many male!reader fics. i understand expressing disappointment about that. but what is entirely different here, is complaining about how other writers don’t write male!reader. how are you gonna sit there on your ass and whine about other people not catering to a demographic they don’t even fit into themselves? many writers don’t write male!reader because they feel they do not know how to capture the male/mlm experience properly and do it justice, while others don’t do it because they simply do not enjoy writing it. either way, that is completely valid. people should only be writing things they genuinely want to write and enjoy, not things that cater to your specific needs. and it really bugs me in the harry potter fandom specifically because this fandom is so big. if you just looked under the right tags, you could find as many male!reader fics or as many non-smut fics as you wanted, but instead you’re out here bitching about how what other people write isn’t up to your standards.
if you want something different so bad, write your own shit. sorry to be blunt about it.
i hope this reaches the right audience but for my upcoming simon fic (childhoodfriend!simon), i’ve been stuck on writing because im not sure which direction to take it.
sooooo, i’m going to ask my simon supporters! cus i don’t want to keep you guys hanging. btw any ending will be happy so don’t worry about that.
how should childhoodfriend!simon end?
smut!
fluff!
smut and fluff!
Voting ended onMar 18, 2025
also, i do have a pending tag list for the fic, if you want to join the tag list then please let me know!!!