My work has been stolen.

Shame shame shame. This is why people are afraid of posting their creations online. The person who plagiarized my work sent me an apology message, but then I found out she was using it on a different website! And called her out on it.

Whyyyyeeee...right? She told me she took the other one down as well, but how am I supposed to know for sure? She's claiming she left it up on the other site for me to see, so I could determine whether her revised version of my work was appropriate to keep...*sigh*

And why would I allow for her to keep the revised version of something I wrote? *facepalm* There is something wrong with that excuse. Anyone want to guess what it is...? Here it is folks:

She never told me it was uploaded on another site...I found out she posted it on another site by myself.

She STILL has it posted on 'Yahoo! Groups', she just made it private so only certain people can read it. It's like she has no pride or shame...

And she may have it posted somewhere else too. Who knows who else she may have stolen from? If she wanted attention, she surely received it. It's funny and quite sad at the same time...

And I'm sad to say that I will not be continuing any of my fanwork because of it. My major is Creative Writing, and maybe this was the push I needed to get out of the fanfiction world and do more with my own characters. That way I can copyright and kick bootay when people try to steal from me(:P)!

Don't get me wrong! I LOVE ET LOTS! But maybe this is my sign, ya know? I was addicted to writing fanfics almost as much as I was addicted to reading them. It was good fun. And the readers have made me sooooooo happy! You guys just don't know. And I would LOVE to write more, but there are thieves in the temple...

SWIPER NO SWIPING DAMMIT!

Anyways,

I don't think anyone will ever be able to understand how much I appreciate every review, every visitor, and every hit...you guys are so awesome(:3)!

Things have been rough, and every one of you raised my spirits just by clicking on a pleasebringlumpia story! It brings me so much joy to know that someone had taken the time to listen. It really means the world to me. I love the whole bunches of ya!(X3)!

Thank you so much for reading.

This has been a wonderful experience and I am grateful :]