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Whoops, sorry Z xD! I accidently got on the wrong tab when I had both of your retrosprings open lmao.
But I luv you and your fics, too :D! Have a nice day~
Hi May :)
Thank you (and keres) for taking care of the recent t1/genshin plagiarism case.
I'd like to ask how did you exactly found the original fics. I was also really suspicious when I read the plagiarised stories but could not find the original stories, so it was not possible for me fill a report. I mean, I immediately recognised that the original story was from the genshin fandom because of some used terms, but since I do not play the game, I did not even know which character names were replaced....
Any tips how to find the original fics? I'd like to help with the reporting if something like this happens again in the future (hopefully not)
Oh man... this is awkward... but I'm not May LMAO. Idk I guess you thought I was may based on the screenshots I posted of our DMS, but I'm Z (XiaZia on Ao3 and twitter).
Uh, in terms of figuring out which fics were plagiarized and stuff, Keres google searched passages of the fic with quotations (used to search specific stuff), and it brought up matching results, and then they just compared the two.
I also hope this stuff doesn't happen in the future 😅 as a fic writer I can understand the amount of effort and time funnelled into fics, and it's disheartening to see people think it's okay to steal months of effort for themselves. If you want to tell a story it's always better to do it yourself, regardless of what quality you perceive the result to be. An original is a thousand times more precious than a copy.
Hope this answers your question :)
I think I’m starting to like my oomf..
would you sink the ship to kill the captain?
sometimes I see you and may as onerzeus. besties as a package deal kind of things, “don’t buy separately”
Heyo! Hope you’re doing okay Z! Whatcha up to?
I think I’m falling for you.
Save one person from drowning and let the ship sink or save the ship and let the one person drown?
Well, I mean I'm assuming this is asking me from the context that I'm saving someone emotionally close to me? Because if it was just 1 person vs. multiple people my answer would be the boat.
In the context that it is someone emotionally close to me, I would go with the boat anyway. I love my friends as my closest family but y'all I'm sorry I can't let a ship with dozens of people on it die in sacrifice for one person.
In the most ideal scenario, among the people on the ship, a lot of them can swim. Hopefully some of them can rescue the others while I rescue my friend, and then we can all idk fucking float until 911 boat edition comes to get us.
Do you open up to open easily or fast?
lose all of your mutuals and keep writing OR keep all of your mutuals but never write again :D
If you had to delete all of your works except for 1, which work would that be and why?
Oh man...fuck uhhhhhhhhhhhh this is actually a hard question considering the amount of works that I've written...
Honestly, I would choose to keep either "stars in your eyes (I've never seen them before" or "little deaf boy". These are both fics that are very dear to me and that I had to take a lot of time to think out and outline and plot. Ty for the question anon :) very fun to think about
Hey Z! What fic are currently in your works? Care to share?
Oh man...so many fucking WIPs...Okay well:
"Welcome to the Heist" - this is my main prio rn because I'm hyped tf up for it
"Little Deaf Boy" - I'm gonna funnel all my effort into this thing the second I finish with the heist fic
"Elven Tradition" - for the love of god give me strength to dissect this thing and figure out what I want with it. This is why I should never post unfinished fics 😭
A couple NSFWs - if you wanna see updates on those you can follow my NSFW account (XiaZia_NSFW)
Literally everything else - I have so many ideas in my Gdocs I don't think I'll ever get through them all 😭😭😭 but I will be trying my best
MAY CLEANSE ON YOUR RS <3333 HI ZIZIIIIIII MY OZ BESTIE FOR LIFE MWA
Not May's ex but you tried it Lmao.
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