I’m sure it made you feel awful about me, but you know what, as a writer I don’t necessarily get paid much, all I get is credit. I have every right to be angry that something was stolen from me, whether by Akane or anyone else. Typing the title of that piece into any search engine leads you directly to any of the places where the article was posted with my name attributed. I don’t care if it gets thrown around the internet all the time, people need to be more diligent and step up. Just because you can copy and paste something doesn’t relieve you of the burden of referencing that information. If I like a piece of writing and there is no author credited, I do a simple search to try to find it. I didn’t call her names. I called her one name. I called her an asshole. Because when you take the credit from someone’s work, that’s what you are, an asshole. It’s just like people taking the watermarks off of images. I’m friends with so many artists that are sick and tired of the general lack of respect for authorship. It takes a lot of work to write these things, make these images, etc. I don’t apologize for being angry or using the word asshole. I thanked her publicly for crediting me once she did. I don’t care if you lost respect for me. I have respect for myself and my work.

