*IMPORTANT* Plagiarism

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Hello everyone! Sadly, today I am not posting because I have an exciting new thing I wrote. Instead, I have to shed light on something that has once again become an issue.

On Wattpad, the user going by Loni13344 has stolen multiple of my and other creators' works without permission and hasn't given credit. I notified some of the original authors I could find (currently I messaged 7) but there are most likely some I didn't notify.

NOTE: all of the original creators I found they took from are on Tumblr, so they most likely took stuff from Tumblr not expecting them to already exist on Wattpad.

I tried to reach out kindly by sending a message asking for my work to be removed from their account. This includes:

Crush (Bill Denbrough) [originally posted June 30, 2020]

Bill Blurb: Guilt [originally posted August 6, 2020] (The user renamed this to guilty but it's still the same writing)

Wingman (Bill Denbrough) [originally posted December 1, 2020]

Stanley Blurb: Spider [originally posted July 8, 2020]

Neibolt (Richie Tozier) [originally posted July 25, 2020]

NOTE: all of the originally posted dates come from my Tumblr (good-doctor-imagines) where I ALSO posted these.

However, the user decided to apologize then mute me instead of removing my work. (Side note: I thought they blocked me at first but now I'm pretty sure they just muted me)

By muting me, this means I can no longer message them, comment on their book, or view their profile without being logged out

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By muting me, this means I can no longer message them, comment on their book, or view their profile without being logged out.

I'm posting this in hopes that mine and so many other creators' works can be given credit or taken down from this person's account. I do not want to send hate so no matter how upsetting this is, be respectful, please.

(For example, one thing that you could do to help is comment on their chapter "hey this fic is actually made by [original author]!")

I also want to mention that on Tumblr, reposting and reblogging are two different things. Personally, I'm not comfortable with someone reposting my work even if credit is given. Reblogging, however, really helps me. It still credits me as the author and gets my work spread around.

If you find work that has been plagiarised, please tell the original author. Also, tell others that the work has been plagiarized and give credit to the original author. It is not okay to take something that someone put so much time into and slap your name on it. (To the person who notified me: THANK YOU! I will not name you because I didn't ask if I could but seriously, thank you.)

UPDATE: The Bill Denbrough imagines book has been taken down from their account. But their "it imagines without bill denbrough" book still remains up and contains two of my fics.

For more screenshots of what the person posted that's mine, you can check my Tumblr (or go see it for yourself)! I don't want to spam a bunch of pictures because it can look really weird with the Wattpad formatting.

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