Dammit, stop copying me!

There's this person on DA that I thought was an amazing writer before, but I take it back now. On a morning a couple months back (and not unlike this one), I opened my messages page to check out new Deviations. One caught my eye in particular, because it sounded strangely familiar. So I opened it.

As I read the text, I became more and more alarmed. Because it was very, very close to something I had written myself. Coincidence? So I posted on it, "sounds like something i wrote". And I had written, not so long before. Emphasis on the word before. She said, "can i see?" Maybe she already had. I brushed it off, thinking never mind, this is the first time.

A fortnight later perhaps (or this morning), I checked my messages again. Deja vu! The first few lines of her new Deviation caught my eye. I couldn't believe it. The thought, concept, way of writing, whatever you may call it -- same as mine!

Whether this is intentional or not remains a mystery. I am not going to push it until I am 100% sure that this is plagiarism. And, okay, I haven't got as many commenters as she does, but that doesn't give her the right to steal my ideas and phrases, right? Whatever happened to originality and creativity? Did they have to be sacrificed by copying others in the name of art?