HI, LET'S TALK ABOUT ART THEFT
Hello, my name is Luna; I have gone by Luna for ages and have been friends with some fantastic artists here on Tumblr. One artist is @heart-of-the-morningstar
A few days ago, it was brought to our attention as a friend group that someone had reposted her entire work, and only in the small author note pointed out it was hers, and they were only doing this because the account has errors (Which it doesn't but we will get into that later)
The account in question for doing this is known as @luna-naoffcial
Now, from one Luna to another, stealing other authors' writing, purposefully taking art, and getting rid of the artist's watermark is wrong.
I have compiled a long list of proof of all the transgressions and my own personal grievances regarding what has happened and continues to happen in the artist community.
First off, story stealing:
To accomplish this, I went through every single story and copied not only the summary that this person wrote on their master list but also the first few lines of the text.
With this, I placed it in a Google reverse engine search and managed to find the accounts with the actual stories, all of which, from my understanding, do not belong to @luna-naoffcial.
Masochism Tango: https://www.wattpad.com/story/365788359-masochism-tango-alastor-lucifer-vox
Molting Season: https://www.wattpad.com/story/365592419-%F0%9D%90%8C%F0%9D%90%8E%F0%9D%90%8B%F0%9D%90%93%F0%9D%90%88%F0%9D%90%8D%F0%9D%90%86-%F0%9D%90%92%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%80%F0%9D%90%92%F0%9D%90%8E%F0%9D%90%8D-radioapple
To Love A Killer: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46501777/chapters/117090241
Insanity: https://www.wattpad.com/story/361200644-%F0%9D%90%88%F0%9D%90%8D%F0%9D%90%92%F0%9D%90%80%F0%9D%90%8D%F0%9D%90%88%F0%9D%90%93%F0%9D%90%98
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These are all stolen writing works, not to mention the one stolen from @heart-of-the-morningstar
We will move on to stolen artwork and the watermarks intentionally cropped out of view.
I opened a Google engine bar and an image search to find these. You can then download or drag and drop the image you are looking for.
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I would like to dive into the 'apology' given out and the oddities I have found.
I don't know how many people on Tumblr are familiar with the Cait Corrian drama that happened a few years ago.
She was found creating many fake accounts on GoodReads and trying to ruin the chances of her other YA Authors' getting accredited.
She is also notorious for making fake discord messages to try and cover up her deciete
I post this specific account of the story and these screenshots to highlight the oddities of the following messages shared between @luna-naoffcial and her 'friend' @lia65lana towards a third individual named Kate. What is off to me is that there are a lot of odd things involved in this message exchange
For example, Lia is messaging Kate off Luna's account. Why not off your own account? On top of that, why is Kate on Luna's account? I trust many of my friends but would not hand over my account.
This conversation thread looks very similar to the Cait Corrians. Not only that, but the people in the conversation sound and talk very similarly. The grammar, spelling errors, and odd placement of some nouns and verbs are fluid between all 'three' people.
However, I am willing to step back and say it could be a dialect thing, as when I look at the @luna-naofficial account, my Google Translate automatically wants to translate from Mandarin.
What really struck me as odd however was the responses that both accounts posted as apologies
Lia's account is red, and as we have seen, Luna's is green.
Both accounts posted the EXACT SAME MESSAGES. Only Luna's had an additional ending.
As I was investigating for my friend, it changed again
Again, many of these messages don't fully make sense. There are many grammatical and spelling errors, all very similar to the original picture I added first. All of these 'three' people sound, talk, and make the same errors in all the same ways.
I would like to play the benefit of the doubt. In these messages, there is talk of depression, death, and anxiety, all things I personally also struggle with and I understand are hard. However, they are not excuses for purposefully stealing other people's hard work and taking credit for them.
You blatantly take credit for others' work, which is wrong and disheartening.
Side note @alastorsmiles1930: The response and messages are also odd and read the same as all these others. This account is also the ONLY account that followed @heart-of-the-morningstar and the others in my friend group. I want to point this oddity out however I hope you are just an innocent bystander
From one Luna to another, please stop this and apologize. Not just to @heart-of-the-morningstar but to everyone you have been stealing from.
Thank you for listening My Moons
