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hazardousliquids asked:
swingsetindecember answered:
Her Mortal Instruments series is a revamp of her Harry Potter fanfiction and entire excerpts, dialogue and plot were plagiarized from:
All of which were published books. And I suppose you can say:
because Mortal Instruments was an off-shoot from a Harry Potter fanfiction (so you can recognize a lot of characters personalities from Harry Potter). And let’s not forget either paraphrased or straight up copy paste of dialogues from TV shows such as:
At the time in fanfiction, she ignored these allegations because it was fanfiction. But she is now published off this plagiarism and making money off others creativity. Other female fantasy writers.
Cassandra Clare (or Cassandra Claire, she changed her pen name) also harassed and bullied a number of people who brought up her plagiarism, including the authors that she plagiarized from. Her friend was a lawyer, so she basically bullied a lot of people.
As of right now, she is trying to get her litigation team to erase the internet history of her plagiarism and misbehavior.
Cassandra Clare and her loyal fans also ruined a lot of peoples lives through real world harassment. They tracked down IP addresses and threatened them for even talking about how Cassandra Clare plagiarized. Even tried to get a girl expelled from university as well as called people’s relatives and harassed them.
Cassandra Clare is not a nice person. Cassandra Clare stole creative works of others and has turned a profit from it and has not acknowledge it. Good chunks of text are from a lot of other stories. Those authors will probably never get a movie deal. But Cassandra Clare did because she is a literary bully as well as a real one.
Some people have sent me asks asking if I like Cassandra Clare’s work. The answer is no, and this is why.
https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Cassandra_Claire_Plagiarism_Debacle
Losing journalfen was a major blow to fandom history, but the wayback machine has a lot of the deets saved. Even if you don’t particularly care about Claire one way or another, the original expose is some gripping reading.
It’s a measure of how much fuckery Claire was involved in that no one has even mentioned yet that her fans attacked a woman with cancer when the woman’s daughter dared to ask for a link to her fundraiser. I don’t recall how long it took for Claire to call off the dogs, but I remember watching when it was happening, and I know it took too long for her to speak up.
To be fair, a lot of the bad shit that happened around Claire was done by other people who were trying to curry favor with her. She was a BNF in the then-hugest fandom, Harry Potter, which was full of young people seeking attention and validation, and for a number of years, a nod or a link from Claire could drive serious traffic (by the standards of fandom at the time). That created a poisonous environment of people kissing her ass and attacking her “enemies” in an effort to get recognition from her.
Claire didn’t create that mess, but she did profit from it. Her fans organized a fundraiser to replace her laptops and electronics when Claire was allegedly robbed, and I’m sure her HP following was a factor in her book deal, given that her first books were based on her HP fic. Yet a lot of people following her weren’t there for her writing, but for her pull within HP, or to keep up with gossip, since she was involved in so many crazy episodes in HP fandom.
I don’t love Tumblr as a fandom platform, but LJ was no picnic either.
