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It's MsScribeCassieeveryone wank!
Oh, here we go again. Enormous explosions of ancient kerfuffle seem to have become a monthly occurrence in Harry Potter fandom. Everyone seems to have broken out into a fit of memoir-writing. This time, someone's gone for the biggie: the entire Inner Circle, guest-starring all their friends. I was surprised to see that I've been in the fandom for as long as Heidi (summer 2000). I've no temptation to write anything though, as I was oblivious of most that went on.
In the entry below, I note that Crystalwank took place as long ago as April 2004. My years are pastede on yay.
And in other news, I'm having a day off. Closing the quarter, what's that? Actually there's no way we're going to get it done on Monday, or possibly even Tuesday. But right now I couldn't care less.
In the entry below, I note that Crystalwank took place as long ago as April 2004. My years are pastede on yay.
And in other news, I'm having a day off. Closing the quarter, what's that? Actually there's no way we're going to get it done on Monday, or possibly even Tuesday. But right now I couldn't care less.
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There's a lot of talent there being... dunno... squandered on something that's really not that important.
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He he.
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As the holder of a government job, I make a hollow laughing. I've had 5 days off this summer.
Er, um
I was also working from my experience of FRENCH low-level bureaucrats...
*backpedalling like whoa*
Re: Er, um
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In regards with the latter... I'm still boggled how Cassandra Claire could inspire such loyalty/fangirling/whatever. Does she secrete special pheromones that work over the internet?
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Implying that everyone in the fandom who has published or is writing a novel was involved in getting CC her contract is silly. There could have been some 'I know people who know people', but—did you even know her online?
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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.
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A novel length fic with Draco as the hero?
I take it that LOP wasn't even a twinkle of your eye at this point :D
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If someone's saying 'Look, this person behaved badly and got away with it, and here is the verifiable evidence to prove it' I'll generally take a look, mostly to see whether anyone involved is actually more batshit than the most batshit people I've ever encountered personally, but I had a look at the table of contents for the latest one and I can't honestly be bothered. Let people who enjoy reading that kind of thing read it and people who enjoy deploring it deplore it; I'll be over here reading the war memoirs of the Countess of Ranfurly.
Which I heartily recommend, by the way. She's been thrown out of Egypt for being an 'illegal wife', hopped ship from a transport in Durban (and a good thing too, as the transport then sank), made her way back to Cairo via train and light plane, got a job in the SOE, realised that the people in charge of the office were being criminally lax at best and double agents at worst, smuggled documents in her bra, had her mail mysteriously opened, and now she's fetched up in Palestine and is worried about her husband who's a prisoner of war in Italy and their butler who she had to leave in Cairo with a dog and an upright piano. Can the 'Inner Circle' or their detractors do better than that?
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She's been thrown out of Egypt for being an 'illegal wife', hopped ship from a transport in Durban
Didn't the girl in Fortunes of War do something like that? It's ages since I've read it, and I don't own it.
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I suppose this is a whole new cottage industry within Potter fandom: the fan ficcer wangst tell-all!
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