I thought latex was WORST. SUBSTANCE. EVER. Penis kryptonite, if you will. Or is that only when arguing about condoms?

It's kind of the pinnacle of male entitlement, isn't it? 'You mean, a stripper might not want my semen on her body?'

I had no idea this was going on, and now I´m even more against this movie series. (You know there will be sequels).

that's another thing, it says something that she publishes under the name CLARE because the plagiarism stuff kept coming up while googling her name CLAIRE. She's also done her best to wipe any trace of her fanfiction misdeeds from the web. Fortunately the internet NEVAR FORGETS.

Sorry — there's two separate issues here (I'm not familiar with TMI and haven't paid attention to CC for years, so I'm going off of other comments on this article). Problem 1 is that, when CC was active in fandom and fanfiction, her very well-known and extensively read fanfictions contained extensive, often…

Plagiarism isn't a "law" it's the act of appropriating another author's language/thoughts/ideas and presenting them as your own. It's dishonest and unethical, but not illegal. There is no doubt Clare (or Claire or Judith Rumelt - the other names she writes/wrote under) did this. She lifted whole paragraphs of other's…

THANK YOU. All the hype about her just makes me want to vomit. I was in fandom when all the plagiarism bullshit went down and I cannot stand her.

Putting aside the whole fanfiction plagiarism thing (which was ten years ago, wasn't it?! I feel old), Jace is basically a rehash of her Draco. Some passages are almost directly copied over. Plagiarising yourself is just plain lazy!

It's not illegal, no, but it's poor form and frowned upon within fandom. If you're going to crib from other sources, especially to the extent that CC did, at least provide credit! When called on the carpet, Cla(i)re defended her actions, calling her (often verbatim) copied passages "homages" or saying that she had…

Yeah. I can't get into her books, because of the plagiarist issue from before. As well, the plagiarism was clever, and I can't help but feel that the cutting and pasting and rewriting might be a problem that could arise again.

wonder if she "borrowed" or "was inspired" by someone else's female character.

It's a crazy long story — basically, CC was internet-famous for a series of Harry Potter fanfictions that were wildly popular. Then it began to be apparent that huge swaths of them were lifted from a variety of published novels, TV shows, etc. For an exhaustive account, see http://www.journalfen.net/community/bad_….

Nothing says every day, girl next door, like Clary Fray...who lives in Brooklyn and wants to be an artist. Just like all of us do.

Yes, yes, good good (no, really). But...

I'd be a lot more interested if she wasn't a known plagiarist. Guess it's too much to ask for an author who both writes strong female characters and is original?

This post is pure heaven. It perfectly meets all of my emotional needs, combining as it does interesting history with new big words to learn, both while displaying a total lack of decorum as it discusses perversion. This post is my destiny.

I could look at this photo all day. It's so pretty and the affection these to show towards each other is so sweet. The hand holding, it gets me every time.

AWWWWW

Oprah kept it pretty casual when she came into Neimans on Michigan Avenue. I speak from years of retail experience (and wealthy family members who dress like hobos), you NEVER KNOW who will buy and what they will spend. Assume nothing.

If I went up to a customer at my job and told them that they shouldn't buy the stuff they want to buy because I assumed they couldn't afford it, my ass would be handed to me by my store manager. Someone clearly isn't fit to do their job.