Wow...it makes you want to stop writing, doesn't it?

[elvenwine]

Up until now I'd had absolutely no clue what was going on with the whole Cassandra Claire thing. I'd read the second and third parts of her trilogy (because I didn't want to read any of the D/Hr that's in the first part), and was waiting for the last few parts of the story to come out. I'd caught onto her much later than a lot of people - only last

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[uponplains]

Holy shit! Look at all that stuff she plaigarized! OMG. I am in total shock. I knew a few lines from one of her fics were from Blackadder but I didn't know she took whole PASSAGES... wow. That is so bad. So bad. I understand maybe a line or two and citing it but something as huge as that is just so blatantly plaigarism I can't even. That is so disappointing.

[elvenwine]

I'm actually freaking out a little. I'm still reading it (it's incredibly long), and the more I read, the more speechless and almost sad I become. People tried to turn it into a war over the fact that "she was so popular and so people are jealous", but it isn't that! She was wrong!

Keep reading, and it makes you feel like you'll never want to write fanfiction again. She skews the lines (and so do her obnoxious fans) so badly that you almost start to suspect yourself, lol!

And then you start feeling stupid for ever having written fanfiction at all - a contentious topic in itself, since there are those who believe fanfiction is perfectly fine, and those who believe that it's ridiculous, silly, and embarrassing.

And if people didn't really believe the second one so much, they wouldn't be so ashamed to tell people in RL that they DO write f.fiction.

[uponplains]

The thing with fic, like okay, I got an email a few days ago from out of NOWHERE like "here's my DBZ fic, read it?" and I freaked out and then I was like HOW COULD I EVER HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THAT. And that made me second guess everything from HP to Prison Break. But I'm just treating fic writing now like writing exercises (better to be writing fic than writing nothing at all, and you can come up with some pretty great stuff). There's certainly nothing wrong with it at all. I've actually always thought actors were sort of like fic writers in that they have to invent a backstory or possible stories for their character that someone else has created in order to flesh them out. But seeing such awful copying is a major downer. I stay out of fandom wank and actually I don't think I'm very involved in fandom in general, icons and fic aside, so I don't usually have to deal excessively with idiotic people. This takes the cake though. It's not stupidity, it's just... I don't know what it is. It's upsetting.

[imelda72]

I can't believe I've never heard of this! I can't believe that I've been reading the CC trilogy--since 2003 or 2004, mind you--without knowing.

I'm disgusted, too. I don't care that it's fanfiction, I don't care that Pamela Dean gave CC a posteriori permission (why, incidentally????) CC is supposed to be a writer, and like Halia says above, plagiarism is really unforgivable, for people who call themselves writers most of all

[imelda72]

Hey, you know what else? I don't know if you noticed this, but it turns out Cassie Claire and her great defender Heidi Tandy are the ones who founded FictionAlley. It was founded with the sole purpose of posting their fics that were kicked off of fanfiction.net.

I don't know if I have the willpower to entirely boycott FA, because so many great fics are posted there. But it is certainly coming off of my list of links, and the trilogy is leaving my recc list.

Yeah, I really have zero tolerance for plagiarism; I think you understand. I know my actions will have little to no effect on anything, but it's the sentiment that counts.