Peeking into the rock

In my unfinished series of essays on the "young man stories" genre one of my favorite examples is Dominic Luka. This is partly because his work is good, his characters likable, etc., but also because he's sort of an exmplar of the genre and the writers of it (one of the characteristics of the genre is that, unlike things that you would point to and say "this is yaoi," the authors are fairly likely to be young men and very young men --teenaged boys themselves -- not always, but very likely). Now the peculiar epidemic of cyberfan plagiarism has touched him.

I have nothing to say about it, just that it's interesting that the plagiarism of an entirely original story about American high school students with no manga/movie/anime/comic/series characters or characteristics (no uke/seme, for example) is plagiarized on a site called fanfiction.net. (I can't find it there, but that's where it is apparently).

The story that was plagiarized is "Desert Dropping." It's as much about family and friendship as it is about coming out and first love, and that's a characteristic too.

On another front, the nice fellow found my real glasses in a stupid place I had checked three times at least before. I wore my emergency backup glasses for two days.