The Irony Knows No Bounds.

[icarus]

The Irony Knows No Bounds

You know, reading trinityofone's recent post, I'd like to say in a note of complete and utter irony, I have only one quote that I've borrowed:

In the Harry Potter AU, Beg Me For It, I refer to "Lucius and the Death Eaters" sounding like a rock band.

Where did it originate?

Cassandra Claire.

I thought that I'd read the Draco Trilogy after I wrote Beg Me For It. I wasn't a Harry/Draco or a Gen fan, preferring Harry/Ron and Harry/Snape. If it was Gen, I wasn't interested if it didn't have Snape. I know I finally read the DT somewhere in Jan-Mar of 2003 (after people complained about it... and I saw the quote "I dreamed I was a slice of lemon is a giant martini" on Fiction Alley and couldn't resist). I wrote Beg Me For It in Feb 2003.

Three years later I'm a wee bit fuzzy. *head scratching* Maybe the quote just stuck in my mind? Readers have pointed it out to me and while I've stuck with my original belief, I'm actually not quite sure any more.

At any rate, if there's anyone who won't complain, it's Cassandra Claire. *g*

Comments

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is a really scary concept.

It is.

From Aja's report, I'm getting a sense of a BNF ego inflation, that "I can do no wrong" and misuse of power to get Aja's story taken down. Aja meekly complied for the sake of friendship and also because.. well, I think she had to, in order to avoid a huge stink.

But coupled with that is a deliberate manipulation of Cassandra Claire's image by Cassandra Claire, herding and nudging the crowd. Even when what the crowd says wasn't true, if it was useful she encouraged it with brief supportive statements that didn't exactly lie.

It's fascinating.

The more I read of Aja's report, the more disappointed I am that white_serpent wasn't a journalist. I think if we got a really good journalist on this we'd get a picture of Cassandra Claire and the whole scandal rather than just a tedious "it was plagiarism and that's wrong-wrong-wrong." Yes. We know that. Plagiarism bad.

I really want to see a report from someone who sees through the bullshit and can line of patterns of behavior that tells us more. msscribe you got a feel for her attention-mongering and hunger for more.

Cassandra Claire there's something more subtle going on. Perhaps it's just ambition.

Icarus