Right, exactly. "I had the money to enable my friend to do X cool thing/have X thing/eat something other than baloney for the next three months and so I gave it to them" is totally fine--it's a gift. Feels different.
I keep seeing the Cassie thing referenced but I'm not sure I remember the deal.
The plagiarism thing or the computer? The computer was when... she and her roommates' apartment was broken into, and their computers were stolen, and a friend took up a collection to buy new ones? Collected thousands of dollars, if I remember correctly. And then there was an iPod involved somehow, but I didn't really follow it closely enough to be able to describe that bit.
Hey, my friends bought me an iPod. But that's okay, because I did absolutely nothing in return ("I am not a prostitute, mister! I'm a housewife. I have sex for free!"). Oh gee, you think it was a subtle hint to finish that Smallville WiP?
Aw, crap. Well, at least there's a soundtrack, now. Although I'm not sure how the angsty aliensexness of it will be affected by the accompaniment of Skee-Lo's "Mr. Morton" or Blind Melon's "My Hero Zero."
(Or Pizzicato Five's "Twiggy Twiggy" which I just ran across in a box under my bed, much to my delight.)
Is she...like, very stoned?
And if I declared that I was founding the Church of St. John The Munchkin and that haj was one of its tenets, and I'm very impaired and haven't been to Fell's Point and wish to pay my respects, could I get to visit the Balmeristas?
(if so, I'm too fucking honest.)
What's the Cassandra Claire plagiarism deal about?
Emily, here's a link to the RWA kerfuffle
Awards ceremony involving footage of Tiananmen Square set to "Don't Worry, Be Happy."
Cassie Claire: Long HP epics which lifted lines of dialogue from Buffy without attribution.
I forget what else, if anything, she got caught taking, but it got her kicked off ff.net. Yet her supporters are legion.
CC retyped in LENGTHY sections of Pamela Dean, merely changing the nouns. Pamela Dean has forgiven her, but I haven't.
For the record, all of the RWA board but three (the holdouts including the President) have issued a formal apology for the ceremony.
