ludovica elisabetta enrietti ©

no anon, plagiarism is never okay. yet, hearing your ask (and i’m sure many others may think similarly), it seems to me people in general are actually quite confused about what plagiarism even is.

i'm honestly quite surprised i even have to explain this, but the difference between what i did (on purpose) in that quote and what ibuzoo did (behind my back) with my poems is really enormous and quite blatant.

with my "i write, therefore i am and i am, therefore i write" i'm actually very openly quoting descartes playing with his famous line, which is coincidentally one of the most famous philosophical quotes of the modern era. the trick of that little poem is precisely to twist it and play with it and somehow reinvent it, all the while crediting descartes the whole time, since pretty much everyone knows the original quote and where it comes from. many authors did similar things with famous quotes, the first example that comes to mind is the "art is stealing" line by picasso, line that was playfully stolen by many after him. but the list of similar instances is very long, i saw it happening throughout literature many many times. this is not plagiarism, but a form of artistic tribute. i'm obviously not pretending the "cogito, ergo sum" quote to be mine, i'm using its cultural impact as fundamental part of my echoing poem. it's obvious that's a quote from descartes. it's obvious it was twisted to mean something to writers.

what ibuzoo did with my poems on the other hand, is very different. i am not descartes (yet lol). i am not a famous dead author whose quotes are basic worldwide cultural knowledge. she didn't take shakespeare and wrote "write or not to write, that's the dilemma". she unapologetically plagiarized a fellow emerging author. i was a mutual of hers on tumblr who, over the years, tagged her in the few poems i felt like posting, as she used to tag me in her edits. she took two of my personal poems, changed a single word each and posted them as her own and one right after the other. once questioned, she denied the obvious, refused to take the poems down, played the victim, painted me as the villain and blocked me. that's plagiarism. that's not acceptable. she wasn't trying to pay me any tribute. she denied the obvious connection altogether. i am not an easily recognizable cultural icon. the two instances are wildly different. one is art, the other is simply disgusting.