Channeling the Dead....Sorta

[forchancookie]

You know how something happens and you just can't look away? Yeah, doing that now.

Once upon a time, there was a slash writer named thamiris. I didn't know her, but I'd read stuff she wrote. She was one of those people you just encountered if you were in slash so many knew of her. She died of breast cancer in '07 and lots of people were sad.

Fast Forward

There's this guy called boyan_fraser who has apparently decided that no one will notice he's plagiarized the words of a dead woman. Not only has he been copying her fiction, but he's been copying her entire journal! That's right, from daily life posts to fandom commentary, hell, even down to his replies to other people! He's taken them all from thamiris' mouth! WTF person?! WTF!!

I'm watching the situation roll downhill with the momentum of a speeding train here and watching the angry comments added by the moment over here. with sick morbid fascination. What kind of sick attention seeking fuck do you have to be to lift that much material from a woman who isn't even around to defend herself anymore?

Update
The LJ team is claiming that they can't do anything about the situation unless a family member comes forward, but Thamaris was very careful to keep fandom and real life separate and that simply isn't possible without disrespecting her wishes.

The thief, after being flamed to hell and back, has started to lock and/or delete his posts.

He has also gone on to claim that he knew Thamaris (whom he calls by her real name, just going to show that he couldn't have possibly been her friend given her strong separation of her two lives) and that this was a plan the two of them cooked up, but he cannot spill the details because it would be against her wishes. He is now blaming all of the people that are flaming him for misunderstanding the situation. Uh huh...way to dig the hole deeper you jackass.

So is anyone else having thoughts of what to do with their journal when they die? O_o

Update Jr.
The asshole has made a public...well, I can't call it an apology really. It's more like a cry of martyrdom than anything else.

Comments

[lennoxmacbeth.livejournal.com]

Man, these situations suck. :/ I wasn't even aware of either thamiris or boyan_fraser until today (as I'm not in the fandoms associated) but it seems to have exploded all over my FList overnight.

Could you either add to the Fan History pages related http://www.fanhistory.com/index.php/Thamiris or pass the link on to someone who's level-headed and can? Generally speaking, having a historical record not only helps nail plagiarists, but it saves the records for the future in case boyan_fraser or a puppet of his decides to try again.

[forchancookie.livejournal.com]

It really does suck. Since I read slash back in the day I encountered her works. She was just one of those people that you had to hear about, her presence was that big. The fact that this little assclown thought he could get away with this is ridiculous! The fact that he did it for over six months is disgusting. What kind of sick person does that?! Ugh ugh ugh! I could never go around lifting other people's journal entries, their thoughts, their comments, their life! And passing it off as my own like that! I am just so damn boggled.

Anyway, someone's already gone and edited the wiki....good, cause I suck at wiki editing x_x