{"id":24968,"date":"2013-09-10T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/09\/10\/dduane-drabblemeister-ahjareyn-oh-man\/"},"modified":"2015-02-21T02:56:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T02:56:24","slug":"dduane-drabblemeister-ahjareyn-oh-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/09\/10\/dduane-drabblemeister-ahjareyn-oh-man\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-24968 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/09\/10\/dduane-drabblemeister-ahjareyn-oh-man\/attachment\/24969\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2013\/09\/tumblr_ms4685dDTV1qi58r9o1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/dduane.tumblr.com\/post\/60838967095\/drabblemeister-ahjareyn-oh-man-theres-this\">dduane<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/drabblemeister.tumblr.com\/post\/59449576861\/ahjareyn-oh-man-theres-this-post-thats\">drabblemeister<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ahjareyn.tumblr.com\/post\/59352944039\/oh-man-theres-this-post-thats-floating-around\">ahjareyn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Oh man, there\u2019s this post that\u2019s floating around tumblr that sums it all up so beautifully, and I thought I had faved it, but I can\u2019t find it.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, she\u2019s a horrible person who doesn\u2019t deserve an ounce of the fame and success she\u2019s received.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve got time for the whole oak tree, well, gather \u2018round.<\/p>\n<p>She started off as a Harry Potter author, and was a BNF thanks to <em>The Draco Trilogy<\/em>. Now, I didn\u2019t follow her work personally, since she was a tad before my time, but from what I understand, she was first caught \u201cplagiarizing\u201d various lines from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When readers called her out on it, she laughed it off and said that was her way of paying homage to her favorite show. Which, okay, understandable. I do that on the very rare occasion myself, but only when the scene leads into it and I can\u2019t stop myself from using the line.<\/p>\n<p>From then on, she turned it into a game. See how many lines you could find in each chapter and get mentioned in my next update sort of thing. I\u2019m leaving my opinions out of this one, but you can probably guess what they are by my use of the word \u201crare\u201d in the previous paragraph.<\/p>\n<p>The proverbial shit hit the fan when someone realized that large chunks of C.C.\u2019s work were nearly word for word copies of this small-time fantasy (sci-fi?) writer whose name or work I don\u2019t remember off the top of my head. And when I say large chunks, I\u2019m talking whole paragraphs that she just up and stole and put into her stories.<\/p>\n<p>When people started calling her out on <em>that<\/em>, she turned to cyberbullying. To. The. EXTREME. She would attack you. She\u2019d get her fanbase to attack you. She went as far as to find out your personal information and make your real life a living hell if you got on her bad side. She tried to get one chick expelled from her university. She was straight up cray-cray.<\/p>\n<p>Time moved on and she landed herself a publishing deal. While her Mortal Instruments series isn\u2019t The Draco Trilogy revamped, it does contain heavy chunks of her fanfic placed within where convenient.<\/p>\n<p>Which, hey, that seems to be a bit of a trend with her.<\/p>\n<p>But then, guess what? She never actually stopped cyberbullying. After her books were published, a few people tweeted C.C., one with a link to an article that called her out on her bullshit. Her reaction? To make herself the victim and allow her followers to bully the poor soul until they figured everything was their fault, apologized, and deleted their twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>The cyberbullying accusations never stopped. Unfortunately, fandom is only just starting to get a voice as far as mass media is concerned. But they were getting loud enough for C.C. to grow nervous. She\u2019s friends with a lawyer, and with their help, started to silence anyone who spoke out against her with threats of lawsuit and slander.<\/p>\n<p>Slander\u2026is that the right word?<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, because of all that, a large chunk of us in fandom are tickled pink that her movie is failing so spectacularly. She\u2019s achieved the ultimate dream of a lot of writers out there in fandom, and she did it through plagiarism, cyberbullying, and basically stomping on anyone who got in her way.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a few links (that contain more links within) that have solid sources, and can tell her story far more accurately than I just did.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thatferrybroad.tumblr.com\/post\/59064238317\/zadgooks-said-may-i-ask-why-you-feel-this-way\">http:\/\/thatferrybroad.tumblr.com\/post\/59064238317\/zadgooks-said-may-i-ask-why-you-feel-this-way<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alli6.tumblr.com\/post\/47193982199\/cassandra-clare-and-things-you-probably-dont-know-but\">http:\/\/alli6.tumblr.com\/post\/47193982199\/cassandra-clare-and-things-you-probably-dont-know-but<\/a> (Hey! I found the link!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/fandom\/fandom-guide-cassandra-clare-mortal-instruments\/\">http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/fandom\/fandom-guide-cassandra-clare-mortal-instruments\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be sure you have a few hours of spare time if you\u2019re curious enough to go into this. Because her evil, evil roots go deep.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When I see how many people don\u2019t know about all of this, I realize how old I am, and how long I\u2019ve been in fandom. ;__;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One note here in passing: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pamela_Dean\">Pamela Dean<\/a>\u00a0is an old associate of mine and a gifted writer. She may not be insanely prolific, but in no way does she merit the description \u201csmall-time\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalfen.net\/community\/bad_penny\/8985.html\">Other<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalfen.net\/community\/bad_penny\/9422.html\">useful<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalfen.net\/community\/bad_penny\/9489.html\">posts<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalfen.net\/community\/bad_penny\/9989.html\">of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalfen.net\/community\/bad_penny\/10481.html\">information<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalfen.net\/community\/bad_penny\/11003.html\">here<\/a>. bad_penny is full of that discussion, actually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dduane: drabblemeister: ahjareyn: Oh man, there\u2019s this post that\u2019s floating around tumblr that sums it all up so beautifully, and I thought I had faved it, but I can\u2019t find it. In a nutshell, she\u2019s a horrible person who doesn\u2019t deserve an ounce of the fame and success she\u2019s received. If you\u2019ve got time for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/09\/10\/dduane-drabblemeister-ahjareyn-oh-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3049,3048,3050,3051,3047],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24968"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24970,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24968\/revisions\/24970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}