[ SECRET POST #2582 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2582 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

" But complicating the matter is that Clare recycled parts of the Draco Trilogy and worked them into her first novel, City of Bones. Fans with long memories will realize that an entire involved backstory of the main character Jace is a word-for-word copy of the backstory Clare gave Draco in her fanfiction; and the final line of the book is—wait for it—a line that was originally used to describe the deep love that Harry and Draco had for one another. In its new form, it's a testament to the love between Mortal Instruments soulmates Clary and Jace:

He [Jace] made a sound like a choked laugh before he reached out and pulled her [Clary] into his arms. She was aware of Luke watching them from the window, but she shut her eyes resolutely and buried her face against Jace's shoulder. He smelled of salt and blood, and only when his mouth came close to her ear did she understand what he was saying, what he had been whispering before, and it was the simplest litany of all: her name, just her name.

It would be unfair to suggest that the Mortal Instruments series is a Harry Potter fanfic in the same way that Fifty Shades of Grey is a Twilight fanfic, because there’s that extra degree of separation. By the end of the Draco Trilogy, most of the main cast of Harry Potter characters were almost unrecognizable (e.g., Draco as a romantic hero rather than a cowardly racist bully), and Clare had thrown in plenty of her own worldbuilding—which was developed much further in the Mortal Instruments series. Does it really matter if City of Bones’ Clary and Jace resemble the Ginny and Draco of the Draco Trilogy? If anything, the Mortal Instruments books are a fanfic of her own fanfic, and thus have effectively become an entirely original work."

"She also had a cafepress where she sold merchandise for her Very Secret Diaries Lord of the Rings fanfic…using Tolkien’s characters. I hear his estate had to tell her to stop it at least twice before she finally closed up shop for good."

Yeah, I hate the dogpiling too. Reminds me of a clique of mean girls.

[dancing_clown]

That's not the same as plagiarizing other writers, though. It's just a hack job, in a couple senses of the phrase.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah!

[(Anonymous)]

Depends how much she kept from 'The Draco Trilogy,' which is the set of fanfics that contained plagiarized material. Most likely, she excised those bits, but the possibility does exist that some of it wound up in the final product.

[dancing_clown]

Which was pretty much the entire point of my first question. Seems to me if that had been retained, ir wouldn't have gone without notice. Even if writers she plagiarized hadn't picked up COB, you can't tell me no one was hate-reading looking for offenses.

[(Anonymous)]

The point is that she plagiarized unapologetically while in fandom and then used her fandom fame to get book deals. That leaves a sour taste in peoples mouth.

[(Anonymous)]

Hadn't heard all of this before, and I'm hugely side-eyeing the CafePress selling fanfic/Tolkien-related merchandise.

[(Anonymous)]

SO TACKY! My jaw is dropping! JFC can't you stop stealing intellectual property? Unbelievably tacky.