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farla ([personal profile] farla) wrote2005-04-25 08:44 pm

Jesus Fucking Christ! What is it with this category?

Okay. So the repost of Desiring a Friend popped up under a new name with a profile that's nothing like the last one (as well as predating it) and I kept quiet because I was hoping it'd be interesting in a train-wreak sort of sense. See, the summary is now During a visit to the Pokemon Center, Pikachu is stolen by a lonely vicious girl and her charmeleon, for apparently no reason at all. With her just a step ahead of him all of the time, what will Ash do? which is completely different in tone and intention that the previous story. Then clicking on the story there's this gem of the author's note:

Lilpip- I’m re-posting this (I wouldn’t have if it wasn’t for a wonderful reader and reviewer) and this time, I’ll make it how I want, and more to the story line. I hope everyone likes the new re-made version of my fic. I’m also re-naming it and changing it just a bit. Enjoy.

So I figured, hey, why not leave it be for a little while, see how she crappily changes the story, it's all good (please, dear readers, don't trot off to try reporting her...I'd really like to see this first, okay?).

But then today I see, well...

Barely Starting Out by SpactroDragon. It's Vulpix4Life's story Barely Starting up to getting the first pokemon with changed the names (and the two then meet up with the two characters in the other story). The weird thing is, though, it seems like SpactroDragon. actually retyped the story considering this version is simply crawling with typos that aren't in the original.

Preserved in the oh-so-likely event of an account removal:





Vulpix4 life i borrowed some of your stuff.


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A/n 1: The region my people are in... there are new pokemon just not native to Colcomunga(The starting town).
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Pronunciation: Zackeriya- Zack as in back , e as egh, and riya as in riya
Sara- as in sarah


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Jacen- Jac rymes with vase, and the en sounds like weaken.
Clara- Claira like Clair with an a at the end.


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Disclaimer: I don't own pokemon, the region of Keo,Clara, Jacen, are Jack-in-the-Box.
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Chapter1: " Zackeriya! Get up!" Cried a voice. "What?" I snarled. I was in bed having a wonderful dream about what my journey was going to be like and here... someone comes in and starts bouncing on my bed! Isn't that annoying?
I fanally opened my eyes to see my twin sister Sara, jumping up and down on my at the foot of my bed. Before I started yelling at her, I decided to check the time. I could use how early she woke me up agianst her when Mom came in. Hehe...

It was 6:23 am. Yes!

"You're in big trouble Sara!" I yelled, "You know it's too early!"

Sara yelped and ducked as I swiped my pillow over her head narrowly missing her light Blond shouledr lengh hair.

She hopped off the bed and raced down the hall, quickly avoiding my mother's pokemon Vulpix, who went with her on her Journey.

"Mooooommm!" Sara yelled and began to pound on our mother's bedroom door across the house. "Zackeriya tried to hit me with his pillow!"

I smiled to myself. Now she was going to get in bigger trouble for waking up Mom too!

I jumped off my bed and padded barefoot down the black carpeted hall. I pased trough our large kitchen to another hall were my Mom's and my sister's rooms were.

Sara gave another yelp as I walked up to her.

Suddenly the door swunfg open throwing back my low-cut dark brown hair. A nice black haired woman stood at the doorway, fully dressed in sporty jeans and a T'shirt. A sweat-jacket was hanging of her shoulder and dark blue K-swiss shoes were on her feet.

I quickly glanced at my sister and realized she was fully dressed too. She was wearing blue jeans as well with a grey sweat jacket. Her firiey red eyes, which were one of the only traits my sister and me possedssed as twins coming from our mom, were glinting with excitement.

I realized it was my birthday. I forgot my birthday!

"Happy birthday, Tiger!" smiled Mom. Vulpix padded down the hall and leaped agently onto my mother's shoulder, it's golden-bronze eyes glenting almost exactly like Sara's.

"Hey! Say happy birthday to me,too!" creid Sara. OK, I admit we were being a bit immature for 11 year olds, but our mom teated us like royalty and we sucked it all up. Luckly for my mom we were mature eough not to act up like this in public and never do it in front of our friends.

"No! You're birthday is not not till tomorrow!" I snapped. "Why are you guys dressed? Whats going on?"

Did I say We were twins? I still mean it. I was born on the last minute of today and Sara was born on the first minute of the next day. We're almost as different as the fact that we were born on different days. I have brown hair, Sara has blond. I absolutly hate caramel ice cream... and Sara loves it. OK, so ice cream has nothing to do with i but it helps right?

"Happy birthday Sara," said my mom. I shrugged it off, too worried about what was happining today. "What did you want Zackeriya?"

"Why are you dressed?" I demanded pointing from their casual clothes to my Magby and Charizrd PJs.

"Didn't I tell you? Since you two are starting your journey in two days... I decided to let you get your own." She said. I rasn to my room putting on the same clothes as Sarah.

We went to the store and some food leaving the town of Colcomunga and entering Stalantan. We met up with Clara and Jacen our two friends. Clara chose an evee at Barry's Starters. And the rest chose Magbys.


I've emailed Vulpix4Life to see what they think of this already.

[identity profile] actonthat.livejournal.com 2005-04-26 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
You think there is an actual low for the Pokemon category? No, of course not. People can always invent new ways to be stupid, silly.

...amazing, ne?

[identity profile] farla.livejournal.com 2005-04-26 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, but why must they do it so *often*? I always thought plagiarism was a rare thing.

[identity profile] actonthat.livejournal.com 2005-04-26 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
We're being taught otherwise as of late.... I thought so, too.
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[personal profile] wintersheir 2005-05-08 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
It drives me crazy, personally. Do they think that people won't *notice*?

[identity profile] farla.livejournal.com 2005-05-08 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
You know...maybe people don't. Ultimately we only know it's plagiarized when someone notices, so if we only see it occasionally, that may just mean it's often unnoticed. (Zanna Taru did manage to post a full story, after all...) I've heard people say before that plagiarism is usually rare, popular stories, and that it's usually found pretty fast, but who's to say it's not that we only *notice* stories like that? Especially if the story is posted on a different archive.