There's 15 books on there now, with 5 of them being random cook books.
I really hope the rightful authors of those books discover this problem ASAP.
(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)
An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:
(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)
I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:
You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:
First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.
Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.
Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.
In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.
In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:
I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.
In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.
Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.
Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!
NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!
"Have I met you anywhere?" Dazai smiles a smile of no personality. "No. This is the first time we met."
- The Day I Picked Up Dazai (Side B), Kafka Asagiri
Cause Iโm a โจFANFICTION WRITERโจ
lol please enjoy this stupid little video I made about fanfiction. No thoughts at all. Just silliness.
Youโre welcome.
"people who stay up at night are either insomniac or In love" people who stay up at night read gay fanfiction on AO3 what are you on about?
โขMature Audiences 18+ - TW listed on Wattpad & Ao3 summary (links below)โข
[WIP]
Bungo Stray Dogs Fanfic with skk & sskk + RanPoe set after season 2 with various spoilers
~summary~
"What is love, and how do you get rid of it?"
Dazai doesn't typically feel any emotions, at all- or at least he can't understand them. He hates that Chuuya makes him feel emotions, specifically the emotion of love, so he in turn despises Chuuya for it instead.
And it's driving him crazy.
"I won't let you get away this time."
Chuuya is doing his best to get over Dazai, but as usual, nothing goes according to plan for him. No matter how much Chuuya tries to deny it or change them, he can't get rid of his feelings.
So he finally does something different about it.
Or:
Dazai struggles with the concept of love, and his past catches up with him from how he chooses to deal with experiencing feelings and things he thinks he doesn't deserve as someone outside of humanity; and he makes it everyone's problem.
Links:
Original:
Prologue: complete
Part 1: complete
Part 2: updating
Rewrite:
Prologue: Complete
Part 1: Unreleased
Part 2: Unreleased
Mistaken again! I thought, for just a moment, I saw my loverโs face- but mischievous, capricious, all the little gods of love.
Yosano Akiko, River of Stars: Selected Poems of Yosano Akiko
I craved desperately some great savage joy, no matter how immense the suffering that might ensueโฆ
Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human
Just a psa for fic writers who use the โtrauma bondโ tag, please make sure youโre using it correctly. A trauma bond is not two people who experience similar trauma and bond over it. Itโs a carefully curated, manipulative bond between abuser and victim to keep the victim coming back because of the addictive highs and lows that come with abuse.
If you want to tag two characters bonding over shared trauma, a good substitute tag would be โbonding over shared trauma.โ Trauma bonding is, by definition, an abusive relationship and may steer people who have experienced it away from your fic. Please spread the word and happy writing!
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"So, where did you go yesterday?" Chuuya asked through crunches as he ate some cereal. He looked up at the brunette across the small table from him, who began to grin. "Dazai?"
"Hehe, don't worry about it." Dazai continued to curl his lips as he took a bite out of a piece of toast.
"That's only making me worry about it more. Please, where were you?" Chuuya whined. He put his spoon down to look at Dazai, now getting concerned as well as annoyed.
"It top secret Chuu-Chuu!" Dazai yelled as he dramatically grabbed the butter knife and held it in the air as if to prove a point.
"Don't call me that and answer my question, jackass."
Dazai dramatically gasped. "My heart! I've been wounded! How could you call me such a foul name!" Dazai grabbed his chest as he flopped back in his chair, and Chuuya did everything he could to keep himself from slamming his own face onto the table and into his food, he had just gotten out of the shower after all.
"Damn it Dazai, just tell me." Chuuya said with a sigh as he rubbed his temples, and wondered how the hell he fell for someone like Dazai.
"Fine fine." Dazai said as he calmly sat back down like a normal person, putting the jam covered toast down on the elegant plate in front of him. "I was doing some research." Chuuya raised a suspicious eyebrow and questioned, "About...?"
Dazai then dramatically threw his arms in the air as if what we was about to say was the best, most revelitional thing ever. "I wanted to find a way to make my Chuu-Chuu happy! And I found it!"
Chuuya sat up straight and looked at Dazai attentively, now more curious and slightly confused than anything. He knew the younger man wouldn't stop with the nickname, and that wasn't the battle he was choosing to fight at this moment. "Go on...." He prompted tentatively.
"One moment!" Dazai sang as he got up and went to the fridge, leaving Chuuya unable to see what he was doing behind the silver insulated refrigerator door, but he didn't take long. As he walked back to the small table, he held whatever he grabbed behind his back, and as his wicked grin grew, so did Chuuya's suspicion. "This!" Dazai said as he slammed the milk carton he was hiding behind his back down on the table. "If my Chibi drink's some of this every day, he'll get taller, and he'll be happier!"
Chuuya's aura grew dark as he slowly stood up, his piercing blue eyes downcast and hidden from sight. His silk purple robe began to float slightly with a scarlet hue as he activated his ability. The spoon in his hand snapped in half with a grudge before it flew towards Dazai with such force, that after Dazai smoothly dodged it, it stuck at least half way into the wall. "You little shit!" The redhead snarled through gritted teeth as he threw the milk at Dazai, and again Dazai dodged and it, making a mess on Chuuya's sparkling kitchen floor.
The brunette began running to avoid Chuuya's wrath, laughing all the while. "Haha, no~ you're the little one! AHH- ANGRY CHIBI!"
"GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE!!" Chuuya screamed full of rage, while arming himself with more food floating behind him like bullets aimed directly at the cackling brunette as he ran around, dodging the oncoming assault of dairy, grain, and produce based bullet hell attacks.
โWhen I describe Dazai to the staff, there is a phrase that I always use, โan unworldlyย being with a mental age of two thousand years.โ Dazai has far surpassed the mental dimension that human can reach, thus no-oneย can even tell if the emotions he shows are the real things or not.
There are rare moments when that Dazai shows his very โhumanโ side. That is when he talks to another superhuman who is on the same level with him. The other is when he talks about his old friend who has passed.
This is the scene when Kyouka wondered โMaybe Iโm, after all, just a murderer at heart.โ and refused to be saved. And Dazaiโs reaction to that. When he said โDonโt give me any of that!โ here, he really meant it. That was an outburst from Dazai, as a 22-year-old boy, in this scene.โ
(Bungou Stray Dogs Chapter 35 - Easygoingscanโs version)
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TN: I went to the BSD exhibition in Ikebukuro today and they have Asagiriโs comments on each character and their important scene, that I find very nice so Iโm gonna find time to translate them little by little.
โ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐.โฐ๏ธ โ ๏ธ๐๐๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ : ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ข๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญโ ๏ธ โงผแดแด แดสแดโงฝ โณ โ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐จ๐ข ๐ ๐ค๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ก ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฅ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐ก ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ซ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ช ๐ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐ช๐๐ฃ: "๐๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ค๐ช, ๐๐ค๐ซ๐ ๐๐ค๐ช" [๏ผณ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ โ ๏ผณ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ ๏ผณ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ] โโ ใ๐ด๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐.ใ - ๐ณ๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐๐, ๐ฝ๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐
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