#fan history
I heard that Cassandra Clare’s lawyers are trying to take down any pages that reference her history of plagiarism…so here’s some fandom history: Cassandra Claire is a bully and a plagiarist.
Oh hell no, she does not get to be one of the most (in)famous cases of fandom fuckery in the history of modern fandom and then just make it all go away because she made money doing exactly the same damned thing to an already published author.
Oh, damn, the law clearly indicates that now that I’ve seen this post I must re-read her story. Sorry, everyone.
The plagiarism link no longer works - she got to them guys :(
Remember when she was kicked off fanfiction.net because of plagiarism? Because that was fun. Because that was still the era when hardly anyone got kicked off ff.net. That was when they still allowed all sorts of shenanigans. Remember how her friends had to club together to make a website that they controlled so she could post her fic unrestricted by morals and/or the law? And used her plagiarised quotes (such as “cold-blooded piece of toast”) as one of the markers of your posting count/user level on their forums? That was such fun as well!
Oh, how she denied it. Oh, how she said it was purely ‘pastiche’. Oh how she unleashed her winged monkeys by saying “these people are saying I’m a plagiarist wah wah wah!” and standing by and watching as those winged monkeys ripped innocent people to ribbons. There was doxxing. There was harassment. There was baiting.
We who lived through it, we do not forget.
Also she didn’t get to journalfen, the whole site just died a while ago.
pro tip: put the journalfen link in the last few words of the original post and paste it into archive. org so you can see the page a few years ago with the whole saga written up
Fanlore has got you covered with all the dirty laundry dear old Cassie wants us to forget:
I used to read FandomWank religiously even if I didn’t post there due to fear of voles, and thanks to FandomWank I know lots of things I sometimes wish I didn’t like “his wife? A horse” and “snapewives” not to mention the “self lubricating” butthole and outwalking a hurricane…
And of course MsScribe.
But Cassandra Claire? Yeah, that I’m grateful to FandomWank for because they put a big fat red warning sign out there about her and I was able to avoid her and her works altogether.
And in conclusion: bartending in leather pants. In the dark.
