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

[noblerot.livejournal.com]

ZOMG U PLAJERIST!!121

*callz ur publisher*
*callz ur hubbie*
*callz ur motha*
*callz teh police*
*callz jerry springer*
*haz lunch*
*takez nap*

[ncp.livejournal.com]

*snerk* Somehow I don't think she'll mind.

[libitina]

That's really rather excellent.

[sarka.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

*dies from irony*

[florahart]

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

...yes she will.

Isn't that the thrust of a whole bunch of other Cassie-related wank? That she did all this but threw a fit when Aja used a similar idea as her? Maybe I'm confusing wanks. Heh.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

... as for the SG:A fic modelled on The American President which trinityofone mentions, I wish it were still up - I'll read any amount of Sorkin, anywhere, anyhoo.

[dkwilliams.livejournal.com]

This whole mess has got me unnerved, I can tell you. I mean, I can definitely understand the upset about taking pages and pages from other people's work and claiming it as your own - that's definitely plagerism. No if-ands-or-buts. But now it's branching into talks about crediting even one line taken from somewhere else, and crediting everything specifically line by line - we're all getting so paranoid that pretty soon, the author notes will be longer than the stories!

And then there's the whole fusion thing of putting together a book or movie together with a show. I've participated in those in the HP fandom, have 3 fused stories written, and there was never a problem with anyone writing the challenges or reading the stories anyone read. I know that when I write fusion stories, I read or watch the source a half-dozen times, absorbing it, and then write my version. Sometimes lines from the source are incorporated, or paraphrased, but I've always credited the original and never thought anything about it. Now I'm paranoid and I've gone back to add even more disclaimers, and I'm worried about the new story I'm writing - which actually doesn't have any lines from the original movie which was pretty dated, but it does have dialog from SGA and I don't know how much I need to put in my notes about that. Is it okay to say "some dialog from 1st Season episodes included" or do I need to say "in Chapter 6, the dialog between Rodney and Carson comes from the first scene in 'Hide&Seek'"? Frankly, I'm confused.

[faithfulreader.livejournal.com]

I had a worse case :D I started my own fic, wrote half of it and then read other person's fic... which contained all the major ideas of *my* fic. I had a sudden deasire to accuse myself of plagiarism :D