Referring to entry of June 1st, on possible poached concept

I wanted to send a note to the person who wrote the two fics referred to in my last post - "Visionary" and "Bane of Anubis" - and nudge them over where the concept of the "Tarith'na" came from.

But I don't dare do it.

See, when I read them, I did mental comparisons to fics I consider to be good - from people like taraljc, yahtzee63, rheanna27, the HC's, and a slew of others - and those two fics came up seriously wanting.

And I don't want to come across as conceited - asking everyone whose fic I read to measure up to those standards, the way I push myself to measure up to those standards. Plus which, the huge problem is that the point of comparison which I have is my own work - and to castigate someone for not measuring up to what I do is the height of conceit.

Not to mention, I don't know if I have the right to lay claim to a concept that, if one merges the Buffy and Stargate canons, seems to be self-evident. Even if I did manufacture a name for it, which got snurched.

But on the other hand, it feels like I've been stolen from - and it seems to have diminished the impact of my work, when people say that it bothers them that they'd seen the concept used elsewhere. It bothers me.

But I don't feel like I can really give the answer that it needs.

Does that make any sense?