Here's a Dilemma That I Face

[cyberpaladin85]

*Sigh*

Where to begin, where to begin...

At Further Confusion, I met a nice fellow furry artist that I have been admiring for a while. She was quite nice, and I bought a print of one of her characters that she had drawn herself a while ago. Hoping to find out more about her, I read her Live Journal. Appearently, after I had left, she was thrown out of a hotel, for reasons that I wans't quite aware of as of yet, but relating to one of her friends. So, I put that aside in my mind.

Later, as I was looking tat the updates of another website, I read that there was an art thief taking material from that website, and making it available on his site. This had been going on for some time now. From that new info on the site, I read the thief's screen name ...it was the same as one of the art lady's friends.

I read more. Appearently, they described this character's fursona, and on the art lady's website, she has a badge for that person, matching that description and name. This is the part that spits in my face: On the badge, are the words "I stoled ur artwork."

And more spitting in my face happened: The Live Journal of the art lady and the sample of the Live Journal of the art thief that was shown detail the same event of what happened at the hotel.

*Sigh*

Since I believe that the art lady might be innocent, I will be contacting her before I report in what I know of this thief to the proper people. Hopefully, she is innocent in this matter, but, if not, I will have to give the full report of what I have found out.

I am currently figuring out what to say to her via e-mail, and tomorrow, I will be discussing this with my psychiatrist, with the hopes of finding out how to best go about this dilemma that I face.

I know that this is supposed to be a fun site, and not a place for things like this, and I'll understand if you want this topic removed, but I really need the support of friends now, for this dilemma is taking its toll on me.

[Nik Vecto]

Hey, think nothing of it. As Marcus wrote for this forum's description, you can talk about anything here. We're here for each other.
As for your situation, I suggest that you do not alert the "theif" that you know of her crimes. If she is a theif, she will put as much distance from her former fursona and herself as possible. Just inform the proper authorities, and if she is innocent, they will find out.

[cyberpaladin85]

Actually, the thief is a man. The person I met at FurCon was a woman who is friends with that man. She herself (hopefully) had no hand in the stealing of the art.

I'm just going to send an anonymous report to the site that the thief is getting art from, saying I think I saw the thief at FurCon, and that he was at the independant dealer's area, and that he will probably be at similar places during the next major convention. I will not be mentioning the lady in my report.

On a side note, through either careful deduction or sheer luck, I found the thief's Live Journal; I don't know whether to feel sorry for him, or dislike him even more.

I have also decided to not alert the thief's friend. The main reasons are:

She most likely would alert her friend of this.

I could possibly scare a innocent person into thinking that I am a stalker of some sort that's targeting her.

I would most likely be the target of "improper behavior" from the thief's (many?) friends.