I met her once, for a total of two minutes, during which I thought she was being rather a prat.
But I think the reason people plugged the DT - or, to be strictly accurate, DD and DS was that it was actually good - which most of fanfic then and now is not - and, more to the point, that she has a knack of capturing the public mood just a little ahead of the surge - as she proved with the VSD. Draco as the sexy hero in leather trousers has become a fanon cliche, but when I first clicked on DD what I thought was "A novel length fic with Draco as the hero? Well, I'll take a look because there's always the backbutton, but frankly -"
That point is something which gets lost in all the kerfuffle about the plagiarism, but the fact is that ironically the profile she had originally was because of her novelty, but novelty which managed at the same time to be an idea whose time had come.
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But I think the reason people plugged the DT - or, to be strictly accurate, DD and DS was that it was actually good - which most of fanfic then and now is not - and, more to the point, that she has a knack of capturing the public mood just a little ahead of the surge - as she proved with the VSD. Draco as the sexy hero in leather trousers has become a fanon cliche, but when I first clicked on DD what I thought was "A novel length fic with Draco as the hero? Well, I'll take a look because there's always the backbutton, but frankly -"
That point is something which gets lost in all the kerfuffle about the plagiarism, but the fact is that ironically the profile she had originally was because of her novelty, but novelty which managed at the same time to be an idea whose time had come.