According to Cassandra Clare, John Green, Holly Black, Sarah Rees Brennan and several other popular YA writers, stating the plain and simple fact that Cassandra Clare is a plagiarist is a “vile” thing to say and makes you a cyber-bully…even though it is an indisputable truth.
Anyone who criticizes her is condemned as a bully and a liar, meanwhile the endless circle-jerk of writers praising and sucking up to her goes on. Frankly, it’s all a little bit high school. And it’s a lot pathetic. So today I bring you the truth.
The screenshots above are only the tip of the iceberg. Here is the whole account. Make sure you have a few hours to comb through all of this, because it’s lengthy. (It has to be viewed on the wayback machine because she has a tireless regime of having all records of her plagiarism and shady deeds deleted)
A list of authors she’s plagiarized:
- Pamela Dean
- Terry Pratchett
- Bram Stoker
- Tanith Lee
- Diana Wyne Jones (there’s also a line in City of Bones that’s uncannily similar to a line from Fire and Hemlock by DWJ)
- Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
- Brian Jacques
- Elizabeth Marie Pope
- Douglas Adams
- Roger Zelazny
- Neil Gaiman
- Christopher Stasheff
TV shows she’s plagiarized:
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Black Adder
- Red Dwarf
- Babylon 5
- Newsradio
- Friends
- Frasier
- Real Genius
- Malcolm in the Middle
- Veronica Mars
Despite the overwhelming proof, all mentions of it have been purged from her wikipedia page. (You can still see it in the talk page though.)
Keep in mind that she was a grown ass 30-something year old BNF when this plagiarism was going on. She was not a young girl who had not yet learned better. According to my research she was a published journalist at the time–not someone who is usually ignorant of copyright law.
Her fans claim that there is no plagiarism in her published works, but do we know for sure? When you look at the full extent of the plagiarism account on journalfen and see that she pulled quotes and prose from somewhat obscure books that were no longer in print, can you be 100% sure that she doesn’t still “borrow” from other places, and is just better at hiding it now?
The stolen Black Adder line that Draco says in the screenshots above actually sound similar to this quote from City of Bones
© (P.S. ho don’t even try the copyright shit because I am not the one to fuck with, P.P.S. I am not the one)*
“Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?’
Jace said, “Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself.”– City of Bones
It isn’t exactly the same words, but it certainly seems like she stripped it down and changed the structure of the joke but kept the meaning the same so she wouldn’t have to get rid of it. And as we all already know, Jace is clearly supposed to be Draco, just as Clary is Ginny and Simon is Harry.
Even if there wasn’t plagiarism in her published books, she still owes her entire career to the fact that she lied and stole the words that other writers worked hard on and received no recognition for. She has several seven figure book contracts, a movie deal and now a TV show all because she plagiarized better writers.
* Cassandra likes to report people for copyright infringement if they quote passages from her books in order to criticize the problematic parts of them, even if you properly cited her and didn’t violate any copyright laws. * (Those screenshots were from the fallen nastyclare and clarewitchproject blogs r.i.p.) So if my blog disappears after I post this, you know who got me! I can only hope you all will back me up if the time comes.
Ah Cassie Clare, an internet classic.
I still don’t get how so many good writers are friends with this asshole? Like, Sarah Rees Brennan, you can do so much better.
#i’m always here to drag cassandra clare (via missparker)
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