Where fiercelydreamed pulls me up short and makes me think.

fiercelydreamed is a hell of a writer, and "Unidentified" is one of the two best SGA stories of the year. Two months ago I would have called it the best story of the year, but then cesperanza blew me away with "Written By The Victors."

Now fiercelydreamed was plagiarized Saturday (or rather, the plagiarist was caught Saturday) along with a dozen other writers.

What does fiercelydreamed do? First she tells people not to flame the plagiarist -- she doesn't like it when fandom turns vicious -- just to please notify the archive to have it taken down. Then when the plagiarist apologized (not very contritely, but we'll let that pass) and took down all the stories of her own accord, fiercelydreamed said that once she's taken down all her plagiarized copies on other archives, "you're square with me." Then fiercelydreamed encouraged her to write her own stories.

I would have gone for the kill (I'm not proud of that).

fiercelydreamed has class.

Stemming the tide of anger, fiercelydreamed launched the Mad Libs Plagiarism Party. You see, our latest plagiarist took SGA fics and just replaced the pronouns and names from the One Tree Hill fandom -- with some really weird results.

How to play, in three easy steps:
1. Pick a favorite scene from one of your own stories. (Please, please, your own stories. I'm not encouraging actual plagiarism here.)
2.Pick a fandom (the more it makes you want to spork your eyeballs out,the better), "recast" your story for that fandom, and use find/replaceto change the character names in the story. (Not up for the effort of fixing pronouns and physical descriptions? Why bother?)
3. Post your retrofitted story snippet, or a link to it, in the comments here.

( My entry (or entree): Pavlovian, originally SGA John/Rodney, now with Frodo Baggins! )

In other news, hello to katmaxwell. I now know at least 300% more about anime fandoms than I did 24 hours ago. *g*