ooh Did Cassie rip her off too?
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
askye - Feb 10, 2016 12:36:24 pm PST #9799 of 10434
Thrive to spite them
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 10, 2016 2:10:20 pm PST #9800 of 10434
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Apparently the Mortal Instruments stuff has a similar premise to her 90s Dark Hunters novels, and the marketing push that rebranded it as Shadowhunters for the new TV series was close enough to cause confusion.
Dana - Feb 10, 2016 4:00:57 pm PST #9801 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Official-ish article: [link]
The ONTD post, which is a combination of "Aren't most generic crappy YA novels kind of identical anyway" and "Finally! Burn the witch!": [link]
askye - Feb 10, 2016 4:58:11 pm PST #9802 of 10434
Thrive to spite them
I think it was Cassandra Claire (but I may be wrong) who had a fanfic story where every line (or almost every) of dialouge was ripped from a tv show, movie, or book. There was stuff from Red Dwarf and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and all kinds of things. Not obscure quotes either but recognizable ones.
Someone found it and there were claims of "oh I must have just heard them and absorbed it and not realized it" and then later a author's note about how it was a "Game" for her readers to find the quotes and she listed the sources.
Dana - Feb 10, 2016 5:02:33 pm PST #9803 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yep! That's her. Also, she lifted stuff wholesale from Pamela Dean.
P.M. Marc - Feb 10, 2016 5:10:59 pm PST #9804 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
The real gold, as always, is gonna be the FFA threads. Dememe doesn't seem to catch the first one. I will grab links.
P.M. Marc - Feb 10, 2016 5:13:25 pm PST #9805 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
[link] on my phone, but there's a link at the top to the first thread from yesterday.
askye - Feb 10, 2016 6:00:37 pm PST #9806 of 10434
Thrive to spite them
I remember how weak it was and actually it's pretty much the same argument that she's making now. I read it and forgot it and then I saw something and it reminded me and blah blah.
shrift - Feb 13, 2016 6:01:31 pm PST #9807 of 10434
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I think Fanlore has good documentation for those who didn't live through all of her shenanigans: [link]
SailAweigh - Feb 22, 2016 12:49:46 pm PST #9808 of 10434
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
A Small War. They've chased each other across battlefields, across borders, across decades. Peggy/Dottie (Agent Carter). Hawt.