big time plagiarism

This is making me feel all kinds of bad...both for fandom, for the original author, *and* for the plagiarist.

Apparently, "boyan_fraser" didn't just plagiarize her story (which would have been bad in itself), but he apparently *plagiarized* her comments and journal entries as well.

Ok, I can *understand* copying her story and passing it off as his own, but her journal entries and comments?

What makes it all even more worse is that thamiris died sometime ago in 2007 because of cancer, and now people are feeling betrayed and angry that "he" is disrespecting her in death. (Serious way to not get *good* attention, bub.)

I-I honestly don't have any words for this. WHY? (And apparently "his" excuse is that he's doing it on her behalf! Someone please explain *that* to me?)

Just when I think fandom is *better* than real life, and scumbags are rare, he comes along and proves me wrong.

I seriously want to believe in the good of people, but when you encounter things like this? It's just not possible to not think cynicism is a good thing.

(I didn't know the original author personally, and I don't claim to know how the people that did know her, and were friends with her, feel right now. I can't imagine, but just reading about it makes me so damn angry and horrible.)

Gay Rights

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines

We would like to know who really believes in gay rights on livejournal. There is no bribe of a miracle or anything like that. If you truly believe in gay rights, then repost this and title the post as "Gay Rights". If you don't believe in gay rights, then just ignore this. Thanks.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

Taken from herbeautifullie