I've just made my peace with the idea that most clothes I wear will never fit me correctly. Looking like a kid isn't so bad, if you can leverage it properly.

Like Digit-Aria said, apologizing would be a good first step.

I'm not jealous of Cassandra Clare and I don't understand why I would be. I do dislike her as I tend to dislike bullies, as do many other people. Frankly, I haven't heard the "You're just jealous!" argument since middle school.

I'm not saying that she didn't write the books. What I'm saying is that other people have said that her books are conspicuously similar to some of her own fanfics. That's certainly not illegal, but it's bad writing.

Has she ever apologized for her plagiarizing and for harassing other members of her fanfic community? I don't see why they (or anyone else) need to get over her misdeeds if she didn't.

Did she really create it? I mean, I suppose we can trace this back to our culture's willingness to excuse/overlook the wrongdoings of attractive people, but was she really the one to first do it for Draco?

I don't care for her, but that's impressive in its own way.

Some chatter says that the Mortal Instruments series is basically the Draco trilogy with names changed.

Uh, she plagiarized and harassed other members of her fanfic community. That's not exactly worth lauding.

(If you have any evidence that she ever apologized for either, I'd like to see it—not sarcastically, I really do hope that she did that somewhere down the line.)

"Bloodsucking as sex" is a pretty common trope in vampire lit. And werewolves are often read as "the struggle between your instincts and intellect/soul/whatever."

So at least some of them (don't know about angels and demons) are traditional teenage problems, but they're way cooler and come with superpowers.

They have to follow you as a poster, and this varies from blog to blog; someone might be black on Jezebel but gray on Deadspin, for example. I believe that if the author of an article recommends your post in that article's comments, that'll do the same as many (don't know the exact number) recommendations.

If you look at your own post (and mine) in the conversation, you'll notice that both the background and the text are gray—you and I are "in the gray". Most of the other commenters have posts with white backgrounds and black text—they are "in the black." We will be in the gray until a Jezebel author follows us;…

But then you run the risk of one of them snapping and murdering the nonwhite people.

If you kill them, you can't be sure that they're suffering.

I hope you never complain about, criticize, or try to change anything. There are people who've had their faces chewed off by rabid wolverines, so therefore none of your problems matter.

I never knew that. It's so...sad.

Okay, I get you. I'm a little sensitive about this because Orthodox Jews in my hometown keep getting blamed for stuff that the nearby shtetl does. Like hundreds of people recently turned up to a town meeting to try to keep an Orthodox family from moving into a particular area :-/

Sorry for pegging you as a Gentile, by…

our new agey church board didn't want to put in wheelchair ramps because that would somehow attract the idea of disability

Do you mean Orthodox or ultra-Orthodox? It's one-half of a word, but there's a hell of a difference.

Ah! Thanks for making that clear!

Not to mention, his fanbase has a signficant amount of preteens and teenagers. Making fun of kids who like you is a jerkass move.

Nothing tells me that you care about mental health like suggesting meds as an insult!