Happy that the bastard who plagiarized seems to be rewriting the chapter... so sorry that this happened to you :( Hopefully it’s completely different now...

I am not sure that the writer fully understands WHY what they did was wrong, but they seem to be listening to me and the crowd, and I doubt they’ll use someone else’s work as a baseline again.

I also believe that they weren’t trying to maliciously steal, they honestly didn’t understand that changing some of the work doesn’t mean it’s not plagiarism.

There ARE ways to “steal” someone else’s work in a good way. Take ONE nugget from a work you admire and craft a whole story or world around it. I’d love to do that with Clexa someday… The nugget I’d take is the “enemies to friends to doomed lovers to enemies to actual lovers” romance arc.

Like… Clarke & Lexa are on opposite sides of a war => they become allies => they kiss => Lexa betrays Clarke through circumstances beyond her control => Clarke hates her => they impossibly find their way back to each other. That arc is one of the most amazing rides I’ve ever been on. If I could find a way to get two enemies together, then break them apart, then bring them together again… holy shit. It’s amazing. But you have to do the work of building your own world, your own characters, your own situations.