Are you aware that @rmeisel plagiarized at least two of your famous poems, changing just one word and calling them hers? The "How cruel it is..." and the "No one has ever loved...", you can find them in her blog. And it's not the first time she does. I thought you should know.
anon, you totally found me in disbelief, especially because @ibuzoo (aka @rmeisel) and i have been mutuals since forever and in pretty friendly terms.
but i have to admit i checked and found to my dismay that this one she recently posted (source x):
sounds a lot like my (source x):
and also this one that she just posted (source x):
is my (source x):
that i had both posted on @mostruositas, my writing blog, a few years ago and that i periodically reblog - but that i had written almost seven years ago for @thedeadanonpoetssociety when i first founded it under the pseudonym of “anonymous”, my society pen name (source x x) - and i’m really not okay with it. thank you anon for letting me know.
ramona, i’m sorry if i’m addressing this publicly. yet, since you posted those without first asking me if i was okay with it and tagged them as yours for everyone to see, i think this issue must be addressed as publicly as you made it.
i am flattered that you found inspiration in my words, i really am, and i know writers and artists constantly joke about “stealing” from each other to perfect themselves and grow in their art, but this is something different entirely and quite too far. this is not a blurred, fine line you crossed. you basically took my poems and changed one or two words and called them yours - especially the second one, which is nothing close to a common say.
i felt it, deeply, when i wrote it. even if it’s just few words, their meaning and placing and using and structure were calculated for hours. you cannot just take that as you please and think it’s okay.
again, i’m glad you saw yourself in them, that’s writing’s aim and what one wants when creating art in the first place. but you didn’t write that and you cannot post it nor call it yours, and i’m honestly really let down by the fact you thought it was okay to do such a thing, disregarding another writer’s art completely.
please take them down and write a post that explains to your followers that those “thoughts” were inspired by my poems - or reblog this one. also, i know you have books of yours you sell, i really hope my poems are not in there as well? or the issue would become really serious.
writers should protect other writers, especially online, not disrespecting and stealing from each other. plagiarism should never be permitted nor excused.
i wish you never have to experience the horror of finding out your words taken, used and signed by someone else.
