hbomberguy’s latest video on plagiarism has made me completely rethink literature and writing. I have never once so much as considered intentionally plagiarizing anyone or anything, but I think there’s something more that has come out of this: the names of the people who created the works Somerton (and others) ripped off.
Plagiarism isn’t only bad because it is lazy and disrespectful, it’s bad because it buries the truth. If you can’t find a source, the conversation is over. Somerton’s sources are fairly easy to find by simply searching his plagiarized lines, but that isn’t true in most cases. Most of the time, the line from statement to source is a lot less clear.
Today, I was writing a report on English Ivy, which is an invasive species here in the US. I wanted to know when it was introduced and I at last found a source claiming it was introduced to the Americas “as early as 1727” on a .net website that seems quite reputable (it has multiple major universities credited in its home page), but there is no citation for where this date came from. I dug deeper and found a pamphlet created by a city government in Virginia that made the same claim, only to discover the first source linked in their bibliography. Another website (a botanical garden’s page) gave the same date with the same source hyperlinked. Of course, I have classes to attend and things to do and probably not enough time to follow the lines back to where this 1727 date came from, but if I had not just watched this video, I wouldn’t have given that date a second thought.
Of course, it doesn’t matter in the long run exactly what year hedera helix was introduced to the Americas, but it makes you wonder how many facts have been so vaguely attributed that it becomes completely impossible to figure out where they originated (and further, whether or not they’re true at all).
proceed at your own risk, since this post mentions eden's history of harassing people until they deactivate, sending death/rape threats, plagiarism, her history of writing incest, stepcest, rape, etc. do NOT @ or harass anyone who is tagged in this post, do you want to be just as bad as eden's goons? I didn't think so. This blog isn't associated with any blog linked below, I'm only a public writer for the bllk fandom. Not jjk.
Eden, sweethearticism, or satorusstupidgirl, or cherry, whatever you go by now, don't ignore this post as "anon hate" as I just want you to address and clear the room for these accusations. Everyone had room to grow from past mistakes, and that can be YOU TOO! Growing comes with TAKING ACCOUNTABILITY. Some of the things listed below are just speculations, but some things are PROVEN TO BE TRUE.
if any of the links do not lead anywhere, please check my blog as I have every resource I linked reblogged.
Her secret "dark" content side blog.
she, along with some of her mutuals like @/satorucest have secret side blogs where they post incest, rape, pedophilia content about the JJK characters. This is ALLEGED so far, as she has not admitted to this blog.
The blog in question is @satorusstupidgirl and was called out first on this post.
which made eden deny the allegations in a now deleted post/comment, as you can only see anons mentioning that she denied it was her from this post. These are allegations and cannot be proven to be fully true, but taking just one look at the Satorustupidgirl (SSG) blog and you can see that it's EXTREMELY similar to the way eden pastes her layouts. See below; 1st pic is old layout, 2nd was recent layout, 3rd is SSG layout.
Layouts alone don't prove anything, so look further into the comments of SSG's pinned post and you find @/torucest. This post isn't made to call out aomi, because torucest is in fact @/satorucest and is proven by their own post here. Satorucest is mutuals with eden and on their side blog, torucest, they mention their mutuals having secret side blogs as well, on this post.
This leads to the bigger theory that eden IS cherry, connecting the dots between their main accounts being friendly AND their secret side blogs. Eden is Cherry/Satorusstupidgirl, not that eden is aomi/torucest/satorucest. Further proof. torucest is not eden, but is admitting to being satorucest/aomi. link
update, after eden's addressing post: oof. more proof that eden definitely has a dark side blog, even if it isn't SSG.
^ after your post eden, it's more about you continuously lying about satorusstupidgirl not being your account. "It's just fiction" then why aren't you owning up to it? There's so much to say that SSG isn't you and yet. You stated in a post that you didn't support incest but you write stepcest?
making a dark content side blog isn't what this section is focusing on though, this section is focusing on the fact that eden prides herself on being uncomfortable with incest, but having a secret side blog like this. <- READ THIS since some of you guys think this section is just me being "ewww she writes incest"
Eden posts about her OC Satoshi (not getting into the whole "eden doesn't own the gojo twins because I frankly dgaf, but she does accept compliments about people saying she's the creator and doesn't correct people... ahem. she does give credits when people straight up ask though ig, link) but when she was asked about marking her gojo twins posts with "tw incest," she was incredibly defensive and said it made HER uncomfortable so she wouldn't do that because it's not incest. Seen here.
my own opinion but I don't get how you're uncomfortable with labelling twincest as twincest when you write rape and incest on your other blog Eden... I don't get why she even got so upset, the anons weren't even that rude, she got pissy and started calling them "a bunch of whining c*nts", you could FEEL her seething from the screen. Crazy for someone that literally states they don't talk about fandom drama in their rules...
update: submitted though anon dms but sweethearticism did have this problem before, as someone was calling out another writer for writing incest between gojo x tsumiki x Megumi, and sweethearticism was quick to defend them. This update isn't marking how eden is gross, but how she is comfortable with incest writing and defending it but... she isn't comfortable marking her work as incest? See below.
Lying about being uncomfortable with taboo topics to gain a large audience, and then having secret blogs like this is harmful. You are deceiving people of who you are Eden. If you wish that people respected your rules, why can you not respect theirs? Speaking form experience, I was once mutuals with eden. I had clearly stated that I was uncomfortable with proshippers and anyone who wrote or liked incest, rape, or taboo fanfiction, and clearly stated in my rules for people of that nature to block me and not engage with me. Eden followed me anyways and acted as a sweet friend, deceiving me and many of her other followers.
Anyways, multiple creators have called out the gojo twins having sex at the same time as twincest, such as this creator. Twins getting off to the idea of the other one having sex in any sort of way is inherently incestuous behaviour, not that twins dating the same person is incest.
Her response to mimuju getting an anon ask about eden writing twincest was to say that she was going to blacklist people that thought it was incest. Yes. You read that right. She, someone with other 20k+ followers and a huge influence, was blacklisting smaller writers just for DISAGREEING WITH HER. Seen below.
This section was made to call her out on hypocritical behaviour and how she blacklists people, not to say that she is disgusting solely for writing dark content.
2. Plagiarism
This section is not allegations, as Eden has stolen multiple ideas/fanfictions and when getting called out, has promptly deleted her work with no explanation or simply deletes comments calling her out. An innocent person wouldn't delete a random ramble of a potential fanfic if they knew they hadn't stolen any ideas.
This fic about Gojo's body being taken over by Yuta, and Yuta having intercourse with reader, is stolen from AO3 from this creator. The idea isn't popular and is incredibly different but was written before eden, and yet Eden pops out with a generic smut drabble about Yuta having intercourse with reader that reads like an ai version of CtrlAltDelilah's work.
^ update on above: this allegation was NOT correct, as eden has spoken about a similar idea previously. The similarities between her and CtrlAltDelilah's work are suspicious but can be chalked up to two people working on the same idea. Yet there's still scary similarities and weird moments, LINK.
Despite being someone that often replies to hate anon's and constantly is in drama, she never replied to any of the accusations that she stole this fan fiction. Multiple anons in both the tojioffline accounts have admitted to sending her asks as anon, asking about the stolen fan fictions, but she never replies to them and focuses on her fans.
Another note she copy and pasted was from a gojo x megumi account, where the author themselves called out eden and instead of apologising, she just deleted the post and acted like nothing happened. pic on the left is original, pic on the right is the copy (tw for gofushi).
Mind you, she never apologised. She just quietly deleted it. That's not okay in any world. This part is important because it's not the fact that she "stole" an idea, as you can't steal fanfic ideas in a literal sense, but that she copied it word for word, no credit, and when called out by the original creator, she didn't apologise or own up to it, she just deleted it like it would go away forever. You may think that she privately apologised but the original poster clearly stated that they called her out and blocked her, only realising she deleted the post a day after when an anon informed them.
^ update from above; eden has apparently tried to reach out to the blog owner again, even after she was blocked. We don't know what for, and it could possibly be to apologise. This is important to note that she didn't apologise, and we don't know if she even has.
This begs the question, how many past times has this happened and went unnoticed? How many times has eden stolen from smaller blogs and either gotten away with it, or been called out and just quietly deleted it?
@sweethearticism is stealing fics and copying and pasting very pro intellectual?
in regards to her deleting anon asks, take it from the owner of this blog, I sent multiple kindly worded asks, just asking her if she truly stole those fanfic ideas. She never answered those asks, despite her claims of never ignoring asks. link
The thing is, she literally responds to hate asks as well. She screenshots them and calls them out on her blogs for being false or being rude. So... why did she ignore the plagiarism accusations? Is it because they were true?
This stuff is even more annoying because she feels protective over ideas that aren't even hers to begin with. The portal pussy concept she got upset about? It's been done and written a million times before, yet she acts as if she's gonna be the first writer to do it and that other writers shouldn't write a portal pussy concept before her. LINK & LINK
UPDATE: Despite eden being so protective over ideas she doesn't own like the portal pussy idea, she steals dividers from authors and reuploads them without any credit. This was submitted anonymously by someone who had made a divider from already existing gifs for themselves (they didn't own the divider but they did make it for their blog) and eden stole it. LINK.
This section has extreme importance because it is her blatantly stealing ideas, not just petty drama that you can excuse. You can be proship and STILL acknowledge that stealing fan fictions is WRONG. Not even Saetoru did this shit, saetoru could actually WRITE.
3. Sending hate as anon
This section is alleged. Nothing in this section has been proven factual, but multiple people have come forward that eden has either sent hate, or has encouraged/done nothing to stop it.
This section is a collection of anons that have all alleged to some type of harassment faced after disagreeing or having a fall out with eden. This section is not to say that everything is 100% true, but to say that there is an overwhelming trend of anonymous hate asks being set after eden faces something negative. This could be the doing of sweethearticism, or just be one of her fans, one of her friends, or not even her at all. THIS SECTION IS ALL ALLEGED.
anon 1
(anon 2 was removed because you guys kept sending rape threats to the user in the post. Seriously, don't do this or I'll have to remove more than half of the links/proof in this post.)
anon 3 (has pictures)
anon 4 (picture below)
anon 5 (picture below)
4. THE BLUUKIVE INCIDENT
I've made sure to put this incident second to last, and I will not be summarising or explaining anything as the people involved did not want to be tagged or harassed. Though, I am mentioning it because it IS important to discuss in regards to Eden's problematic actions.
PLEASE DO NOT TAG OR MENTION BLUUKIVE. DO NOT SEND HATE OR EVEN BRING THIS UP TO THEM, AS PER THEIR REQUEST.
bluukive's response exposing eden and kali
sweethearticism's response
the fall out
anon 1. anon 2.
what happened (seen in picture below)
4. MONETISING FANFICTION
btw monetising fan fiction is literally illegal, so much for the intellectualism that eden prides herself on.
taken from reddit -
"Writing as a hobby for fun and to share my ideas with other people is completely different from writing for a job for profit. I'd never paywall my stuff, even if I could, because it defeats the entire point for me. I'm having fun! I'm sharing! Putting a paywall reduces the ability to share!
Also it just feels icky and arrogant. "Only those willing to give me money are worthy of reading MY writing." Now, do I think it would be nice if fanfic writers were allowed to have the equivalent of a tip jar? Sure. But paywalling specifically just feels wrong to me.
That said, I personally never subscribe to a Patreon unless I specifically want to support that creator, regardless of what 'bonus incentives' they might offer. I could get exactly zero personal benefits as a subscriber, and would still be subscribed to all of the Patreons I already support. So I know that's a personal thing, not a common one." - LadySandry88.
taken from quora -
"Fanfiction is a thing. Fans so love a story that they just can’t get enough of it, so they create their own storyline from it. Honestly, it’s good writing practice! But it isn't original work, it is derivative work. It can’t be legally sold because derivative work without proper licensing is a copyright violation." - William D. Richards.
All this information and how monetising fan fiction WILL bring the death to fan fiction culture (AO3 getting paywalled, ads, having to pay for EVERYTHING nowadays) and yet eden doesn't address this and sell patreon exclusive fan fictions. link
What does Eden's patreon provide? Fanfictions that we don't know if they were stolen or not, and access to a discord server with her if you pay 10 dollars a month. I wouldn't even be hating on the discord server thing as much if it wasn't for multiple people coming forward that eden DOESNT TALK IN HER OWN SERVER. Her mutuals check in on people, and Eden herself is barely active, despite being on Tumblr 24/7. This is literally just scamming your fans for a below average experience. anon saying she's not active 1, Anon calling eden out on not being active in the discord 2, anon calling her out 3
Paying ten dollars to talk with your favourite writer and instead having to talk to her mutuals like @/howlsmoonhaven isn't worth the money. Stop charging for a patreon that you cannot run properly, Eden. Mind you, this is coming from people who were obviously fans of her to pay money to interact with her. The fact that PAYING fans have come forward to say that they felt scammed is valid criticism that doesn't come from people who hate eden.
6. ETC (COLLECTION OF ACCUSATIONS/CRITIQUES)
Sweethearticism is mutuals with a raging pro shipper, and someone who constantly reuploads art without the original artists permission (like a content farm) link
She reblog things like this but never addresses any of the valid accusations against her. She also states that she doesn't interact with fandom drama in her rules but I think we all know that's a blatant lie.
borderline pedophilic fanfics that have no warnings given despite bordering on the line between grooming and abuse. (callout because there's NO warnings) link
she was ran out of the diabolik loves fandom because of drama (guessing she stole a fic or acted entitled again.. smh) link
somehow blames the rising drama from people being neurotypical? As if there wasn't drama before with saetoru, before she was even a blog. For someone who's to intellectual, you'd think she'd come to a more smarter conclusion on why and what the cause is for these anon blogs. link
her trying to make many many mutuals because she had a falling out with another creator. link
she's fake & supports small blogs so that they're dedicated to her, but unfollows if you aren't on her side immediately after. link
she's mutuals with a minor despite being a mostly nsfw blog, and the fact that she is a dark content friendly space. Why are you letting minors interact with such a space? link
update: anon regarding sweethearticism. This was someone who was mutuals with eden and felt weird about their behaviour. Please read to gather your own thoughts and opinions. The weird stuff the user has mentioned is private but relates to eden being a bit... obnoxious and not reading the room.
If you have read this and want this information to be more publicly know, please reblog this post and tag your mutuals NOT random big writers.
7. UPDATES
UPDATE 1: She blocked me in a record breaking 55 minutes of this post being up.
UPDATE 2: Thank you for the kind asks about this post, we will not be answering any asks publicly as to not put a huge target on your back. Both the tojioffline's saw this post and I've gotten some asks to reword my plagiarism section due to one of the authors being uncomfortable with it. Please do not harass anyone mentioned in that section especially.
UPDATE 3: My inbox has been spammed by multiple people thanking me, and because of the support, I've decided to let the comments be open. To answer some asks, she has not blocked this blog on all her blogs, but I fear that if I leave any asks on her other blogs, she'll just block me there too without taking any accountability. There has been rumours that eden is also aomi/satorucest, but these allegations are baseless because why would eden even make 2 different dark blogs if SSG was already a secret? ALSO: PLEASE DO NOT HARASS @/SATORUCEST, harassing people like this reflects badly on this post and @/tojioffline2, as it makes blogs like these that are meant to call out writers be associated with hate trains. DO NOT HARASS ANYONE MENTIONED IN THIS POST, either block and tell your mutuals to block, or follow them if you want to support them (like the authors that were harassed by eden).
UPDATE 4: OH MY GOD. STOP SENDING RAPE THREATS TO PEOPLE MENTIONED IN THIS POST. I don't think you are getting the picture, but if you send these threats, this reflects badly on THIS post and allows for people like sweethearticism to get away under the umbrella of "they're sending me threats." STOP. IF YOU DO HARASS PEOPLE, THIS POST WILL BE FOR NOTHING.
UPDATE 5: More allegations of her copying and of her defending incest posts came through so..
FINAL UPDATE: I'm not gonna be updating this post anymore, so form your own opinions on eden. Some of you guys are being a little insensitive to her, please make sure to keep your critiques against her with a truthful intent and don't harass her.
Also, to whoever this idiot is;
if I was that author don't you think I would've gone into more detail about the situation??????? Don't assume I'm anyone, ive said this time and time again, I'm not a writer for JJK anymore. I've been a bllk centric blog for the past 5 months now. Don't assume I'm anyone and spread hate to them. Any critiques go directly to me, don't hate on anyone else for this anon post. DM me if you have any problems, thanks.
ANOTHER UPDATE: oops. Eden. Why did you lie about SSG not being your account? More proof has been added. Sorry. Truly final update unless there's proof of her doing even more insane stuff. BEST REBUTTAL AGAINST HER POST
The best part of Todd in the shadows video is it unintentionally proves Hbomber’s point. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with being inspired and cites YouTubers who openly give credit and the wonderful content that comes from it.
Todd had the video idea, reached out to hbomber even though he wasn’t even stealing the idea, he just wanted to be courteous and respectful. Hbomber blessed off and asked Todd to wait to post and we got two wonderful videos. Art is better when we work together and respect each other.
I’ve received a number of asks seeking my permission for fan fiction and fan content. This post is not directed at anyone in particular, but I feel the need to make a public statement explaining my stance. I will link this to my pinned post.
When you write Cantata or Viatica fan fiction, it’s my intellectual property you’re using—my setting, my characters, my concepts. I have no issue with linear, non-interactive, not choice-based fan fiction as long as you:
Credit my original work
Do not write/publish it for commercial gain
Exploring my world and characters through fan fiction on AO3 is permissible, even encouraged, as long as you adhere to the rules above.
What I do not permit is taking my ideas and creating a similar game out of them. This includes interactive fiction, visual novels, and/or any form of media in a similar market. Whether you monetize it or not, you’re still using my intellectual property without my permission and creating a competitive game in the same market, which is detrimental to my original work.
If my ideas inspire you to write your own world with your own cultures and your own characters that aren’t recognizably mine, then that’s perfectly fine. But if you’re just reskinning my creative property without transforming it into something uniquely your own, then I am not comfortable with that, nor do I permit it.
Remember that I am not a AAA game developer, not a corporation, not a member of a larger team. I am one woman who thought up all these ideas in my own head. Copycat material harms me on a personal level.
Fan fiction can be an excellent way to hone your writing craft and explore worlds and characters that you love. I am honored to know such fan fiction, made respectfully and responsibly, exists of my works. I would also encourage you to take it one step further and explore your own extraordinary ideas.
James Somerton’s out here saying shit like “ I want to keep making videos about queer history.” Girl you said that only “boring gays” survived the AIDS crisis not only are you not seeing the pearly gates but no one in their right mind wants you to touch any form of social media with a ten foot pole.
The good news about Hbomberguy's plagiarism video for everyone who used to like James Somerton (I recently discovered him and hadn't got to any of the misogynistic shit yet), is that the queer analysis we liked is still out there - just not written by the thieving little shite. Great place to start is the playlist Harry created of plagarised or otherwise hardworking (but underrated) creators:
Also, as he's gonna send the profits to the writers James yoinked (without the twist) from, if you wanna help financially, you could always just... Put the video on in the background on repeat...
Tangentially, I met Harry a few years back at WorldCon in Dublin, and thanked him for his videos. He gave me a hug. The guy is just as sweet and lovely, and delightfully wild-eyed*, in real life.
*Seriously, the magnificent bastard has beautiful eyes.
Making a post because I have detected TWO plagiarizers of my work 😀 TWO. Which is crazy because when did I ever allow you to use my story, Muzzle? Man, no one ever asked me for permission to post my shit onto CHARACTER AI, when I’m so obviously against AI. Sadly I can’t message one of these people, so if you see this, then please take my character Kieran down from your bots. I don’t care if you credited me, I don’t like my characters and works being fed into AI and being used by AI. And to the other person that I found and messaged (thanks to a lovely person on my Discord server who informed me of you), please delete your mafia bot that you copied and paste from my writing. And if anyone else knows about plagiarizers on character ai, any other ai platform, or on a writing website- tell me now. Thank you.
IMPORTANT! ART THEFT!!!
hi friends!!! i wanted to let you all know that there are (at least) two listings on etsy that are selling my project hail mary sticker design THAT ARE NOT BEING SOLD BY ME. i have already contacted both of the sellers in hopes to get these listings taken down but if you happen to see these in the wild, please know that i have no affiliation with them whatsoever. here are the listings in question:
THIS is a link to the first one, and THIS is a link to the second one. (update: the second one has been taken down! yippee!)
if there are anymore listings stealing this design i am currently unaware of them. if you find one please bring it to my attention and i will contact the seller and add it to this list.
if you are looking for the actual listing that is made by me, here it is. thanks so much for your time and PLEASE do not buy from these listings, they do not support me in anyway!
