every breath you taaaake, every move you maaaaaake

[meimichi]

See, inklane, here's the thing.

When I made my last post about this issue, I didn't ask you to publicly own up to stalking my journal and ripping me off. I didn't ask you to apologize. I didn't leave bitchy comments on your journal. I don't think I was particularly nasty or unreasonable.

I just asked you to do one thing:

STOP.

Is that so hard?

Apparently!



In the previous installment of this increasingly stupid story, shelly505 was stalking my journal like a creeper, copypasting from my LJ and ripping me off in various ways, and I called her out with screencaps and asked her to quit it.

About 24 hours after I posted caps of all the crap she was pulling, she deleted her LJ, her graphics journal, her twitter, and supposedly her YouTube account (the last I didn't even know existed until someone mentioned it later). She made no other public response to my post that I'm aware of.

After she deleted her LJ, someone edited the interests list on her community, clois_daily, to remove the ones that were copypasted from my own comm.

On Journalfen's wank_report I saw after the fact, someone posted a link where other Lois fans claimed that Chloe fans ran shelly505 off LJ. Supposedly the entire Chloe mafia came up with a plot under f-lock to force her to delete her journal, just because clois_daily was *~totally absolutely completely coincidentally~* vaguely similar to some unnamed Chloe community. (Yet nobody referred to my journal or comm by name, or linked my crazy, delusional post with all the screencaps and dates showing how it was about more than just one isolated instance of copying. Huh!)

Except, ngl, I was refreshing shelly505's journal like crazy from about five minutes after I made my post. I wanted to see if she took down the stuff she copied, or apologized (admittedly unlikely), or flounced, or whatever, and so was basically at the computer with popcorn hitting refresh until she bahleeted.

Yet I didn't see anyone commenting on her most recent public posts at all. I guess someone could have been doing it on older posts, or I missed it... But still, where are the caps of all this harassment from the Chloe mafia, with their nefarious plans to throw her off the internets? Because it sure wasn't me, and it wasn't my flist, as I asked them in advance to not take this outside my journal publicly.

I saw two people (who weren't on my flist) call her out on twitter as a plagiarizing bitch. Yeah, not polite, but...less than 400 characters of "harassment" was enough to send her fleeing the internets? Really?

Anyway.

I didn't push the issue, because she had deleted her journal, and why stir up shit if it was over anyway. Right? Right!

Except I wouldn't be making this post if it was actually over.

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On October 27th, the former shelly505 created the account inklane. Since she went right back to modding clois_daily and was still using the same default icon as before, I didn't have to be much of a plucky girl detective to notice she was still around. She put up a public post labeling her new journal as friends-only, saying it was "to stop trolling."

Yes, we get it. You're the victim here. Wah.





But, hey, her new journal was no longer creepily copypasting from my interests or keywords anymore. If she was starting over fresh, cool.

But...

I guess she realized now she could carry on ripping off my posts under friendslock in her new journal. Then she could keep doing what she was doing, and I would never be the wiser.

Except you still fail, inklane.

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For starters, in the last month she's started to post picspams publicly, so we still have more of the same at fandom_picspams...





But her SV posts remain locked. How strange. I wonder why?

Rather hilariously, she posted one SV picspam publicly to fandom_picspams last month, and I coincidentally posted one of my own like five minutes after hers, so we had our posts back-to-back looking humorously identical next to each other on the comm. She deleted her post immediately. And no, I don't have caps, more's the pity; I was on a crappy connection at the time and she deleted too quickly for me to get to it.

But anyway, you can still see some of her picspam material in her scrapbook, which has remained public. This one's my favorite:





I changed my picspam style a bit after she started copying me last time, and since the previous post, she began copying that too. I am aware this is not the end of the world, but seriously CAN YOU DIAL BACK THE CREEPINESS JUST A SKOSH?

And for everyone's who's like, "well there are only so many ways to picspam an episode," please go browse through fandom_picspams and find someone else whose posts look so slavishly identical to mine. I'll wait.

Then we get to her comm banner...





And of course, the icons she's uploaded over the past few months to the new journal. She stopped the creepy keyword copypasting, but decided to go for the gold on creepiness in copying more of my icons instead:





And this is obviously just the stuff posted publicly since the last kerfluffle; who knows what could be going on under f-lock.

Seriously?

It's freaking manips and picspams and icons. Not just that, but manips and picspams and icons from freaking Smallville, a show that only has two collective brain cells to rub together on a good day.

Obviously these things are not srs bzness. Kind of the polar opposite of srs bzness, actually. But none of those things are hard to do yourself without obnoxiously copying off someone else either, as the rest of Livejournal seems to survive without obsessively watching my journal and graphics posts to replicate my stuff.

Honestly, it's now at the point where I'm less pissed off at the shameless copying of non-srs-bzness things than I am just marveling at how stupid you're being if you're actually attempting to hide it (as opposed to this being a *~social experiment~*).

I mean...you got caught copying, deleted your accounts to cover your tracks, apparently told your friends you deleted because Chloe fans were being mean girls to you, and then made a whole new journal to keep on trucking, doing exactly what you were before?

People who aren't even on my flist have PM'ed me asking if I'm aware of your new journal and that you've continued to rip me off, so you're not exactly being covert here. Not to mention how you still continue to post in fandom_picspams even now with picspams that look like mine. I'm really still baffled as to whether you think I'm dumb enough not to notice you just because you changed journals, or if you're doing this expressly to get my blood pressure up.

You obviously are totally aware that what you're doing is not cool, because your picspam posts for other fandoms are public, while you keep just your SV ones locked (plus bahleeting the one public SV post that looked just like mine last month).

And you can hardly say that you're not still checking my journals, because you've continued to keep icons I've recently posted uploaded to your userpics credited to both this LJ and yumeiro.

And you clearly saw my first post calling you out where I said I was pissed off at what you were doing, so you no longer have a leg to stand on with any possible *~but omg I love your stuff so much and imitation is just a form of flattery~* excuses that might have flown before, if you'd apologized back then.

So I almost feel like it has to be trolling, except you're still making vague efforts to hide what you're doing, and I just cannot figure out what you're after.

I'd obviously (still!) appreciate it if you quit doing this, though considering now you've been steadily ripping me off for almost half a year now, and most people probably would have cut their losses after the first journal deletion, I'm not holding my breath. But hey, it would be nice, as every time I post something publicly to my journal now, I have to ask myself if it's something I'm willing to see you shamelessly rip off. It's not srs bzness, no, but it is not exactly making fandom the fun stress-reliever it should be, either.

I'm posting this publicly, the same way I did before, because I still think you're watching my journal. I'm doing it so I'm continuing to keep everything out in the open.

You know, as opposed to being a mean, mean Chloe fan who plots under f-lock against you and trolls your journal. I know you've had a tough time through this whole ordeal, being victimized the way you have. :(

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And if this somehow all ends up on f_w, I...probably totally deserve it for posting over what is (this time) essentially mostly icon wank. So, if it happens, I just hope whoever does the report is funny, as I don't need any more recipes right now.

P.S. While egostroking from others did not go entirely unappreciated last time, I'm really not posting this so that everyone I know (and some I don't) in SV fandom feels pressured to tell me how *~awesome and original~* I am in the comments. I would rather have inklane stop being a creeper and leave me in peace than get attention, srsly.

If you want to weigh in, cool, but no pressure here to tell me how much you love and adore me for my amazing 100x100 pixel *~ARTISTIC CREATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN SULLIED HERE~*.

Comments

[legendarytobes.livejournal.com]

Inklane/Shelly BLOWS and she's a thief, enough said.

[angryscientist.livejournal.com]

NO THIS IS NOT CREEPY AT ALL, LIKE HOW DARE YOU CALL HER OUT FOR CALLING YOU A TROLL! YOU DIRTY TROLL!



Oh Lois (fans), you always find a way to steal from Chloe (fans), it's pathetic really.

[excelaunt.livejournal.com]

Excellent citation of an important issue. There's so much finger pointing I appreciate the chance to decide for myself. Smallville fans are not idiots regards of who you ship and giving evidence to your conclusions make me appreciate fan contributions all the more.

[char-cohen.livejournal.com]

So this person is pretty much copying EVERYTHING you do but changing Chloe to Lois? WHO DOES THIS??!?!?!?!? craaaaaazy!!!

[summerstar882.livejournal.com]

People like inklane do this apparently. Is this the same individual who ripped your twitter layout? Subject header FTW BTW *snort*

[iliana-1.livejournal.com]

But I do love and adore you for your amazing artistic creations. In all their forms :D

I'm sorry babe. Swiping work stinks. It's happened to two of my oldest LJ buddies in the past and it's never pretty. I hope there's some way to sort this out.

[wwg23.livejournal.com]

Poor inklane. She doesn't have enough confidence in her own stuff to post it but she likes yours just fine. It's very sad, Nyo.

[llenka.livejournal.com]

omg even her icon journal looks like yours. how pathetic.

[marybongiovi.livejournal.com]

Again? Unbelievable.

[twistedlyn.livejournal.com]

I just don't get people like her. Sorry you have to go through all this again.

[vivamexico.livejournal.com]

I've said this before but, what makes this so unsettling is that it's like this person saw this awesome Chloe fan in you and decided it wasn't fair that Lois didn't have one too. There's something emotional behind this whole thing, and it's scary.

Lock your doors and windows, Nyonyo.

[hoshi-reed.livejournal.com]

Tehehe, just think of it as: Lois STILL doesn't have an awesome fan like nyonyo (that would entail creativity); she only has a copy of said fan.

That is enough to get me smiling.

[massena1.livejournal.com]

Still? Seriously?

Why is she SWF'ing you online?

I'm so sorry you are being stalked by this freaky person. I hope someone talks to the person and gets him/her to stop. If the people who see his/her work reject her plagerism bc it is wrong and cheap to do, then maybe it will end. Until then, yeah, lock your doors and windows. Yikes.

[go-clo.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinking too. Maybe if people started shunning her because of this, she would stop but from the looks of it, that isn't going to be happening anytime soon.

(btw what does swf-ing stand for?)

[go-clo.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you posted this. It should be open that this is happening! It's not fair to do this! Bad enough the first time but even after a warning and a fresh start, she still does it!

It's not so much infuriating as it is hilarious how blatantly obvious she is about it! Like OMG, that Ollie/Lois picspam?!! Identical!!!!!!! How on earth can she seriously think everyone is stupid enough to believe she isn't stealing from you! It's so obvious! Especially with the icons! She doesn't just steal your style, she goes out of her way to find caps that are identical to the ones you used in the icons with the style she stole! At least spread it out a bit! Now it feels like she is actually doing this on purpose just to piss you off!

It sucks, you are so open with your work. You keep everything public and then this happens.

[iliana-1.livejournal.com]

And Nyo has a unique style. I'm not just saying that to big her up. It's fact. She does. It's unique and quirky and cool and different so it's noticeable when it's stolen. The only other artists work that I recognize pretty much instantly are eklipsed and summerstar882

[indefiance.livejournal.com]

Oh for crying out loud. Why is she so stupid?

Remember when she made a post crying about how she was only sixteen and that THE BIG BAD ADULT CHLOE FANS were picking on her? Do you think she'll draw the "WAH I AM SUCH A LAMB!" card again?

[hoshi-reed.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't stress.

Just laugh that a Clois fan has NO imagination whatsoever.

And given others came to her defense I'd say that they are secretly worried about Chlark/Chlois to be keeping tabs on one of us. So much for Clois forever... They see Chlois is end game too.

[savingpeople.livejournal.com]

I'm baffled that this is STILL happening to you.

Major props for screencapping all that crap! It makes me laugh to know that there is nowhere to hide for this person because you have documented everything.

Can't play the victim when the evidence of the lazi/creepiness is abundant.

[brisbanite.livejournal.com]

well, the poor girl does ship something that is a weak imitation of something vastly superior... maybe that explains it?

[hoshi-reed.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHAHA

This is it. DEFINITELY!

[vagrantdream.livejournal.com]

Fandom never ceases to surprise me sd to how creepy it can get.

Changing ONE cap orily?

[pgchan.livejournal.com]

I do not know a fandom that makes it's fans suffer as much as Smallville does.

Also, I heartily agree that it's not so much a rage issue as it is firmly baffling at this point. It'd be different if it were even a more straightforward trolling, but this is so irrationally executed that you can't really guess what's actually at work here. The crazy, it hurts @_@

[babydee1.livejournal.com]

What a psychotic, shameless thief. :-(

[mojotastic.livejournal.com]

So creepy! I just find her balant copying of your style/graphics/everything so super creepy. What does she want exactly? I can't figure it out either. I don't know if this creepy chick is trying to piss you off or if she just legit doesn't have a creative bone in her body. I think it might be some weird combo of the two.

I mean even just looking at her icons that aren't *direct* copies of yours, they are all still adhering exactly to your style. Like I saw an icon that had a picture within a picture effect going on that reminded me exactly of a few icons that you've made. O_O She's obviously putting a lot of work into stalking you, which is probably the creepiest part.

I'm intersted to see if she deletes her journal again and starts a THIRD one.m

[go-clo.livejournal.com]

Looks like she deleted the stuff from her scrapbook and she deleted her graphics comm.

[mojotastic.livejournal.com]

LOL! Hilarious! Well if there ever needed to be (more) proof that she was totally stalking nyonyo this really confirms it.

[kitmerlot1213.livejournal.com]

I am sorry that this happened to you both but at least it is now revealed and you've been vindicated.

[khushiyan.livejournal.com]

Do you think she has a secret society where she worships you? I'm thinking she does.... -_-

Please be locking your windows at night. ♥