catstiel

what really incenses me about cassandra clare — and forgive me for bringing this up again, but i don't think i've articulated this point yet — is not that i believe she is currently plagiarizing. any accusations i've seen about recent work seem to me to be superficial. but even if one could prove that she never plagiarized again once she started publishing, it wouldn't matter to me, because she chose to capitalize on her fandom history. while trying to distance herself from what she did, she made a brand out of the fanfic pen name "cassandra clare" and continues to profit off the reputation and fanbase that she amassed while she was, provably, a plagiarist.

the worst part for me--worse than building her career on plagiarism--is that her career was also built on a truly reprehensible level of harassment. she told her followers to help get her unbanned from FFN (as if that would ever happen) and they spent months harassing the site owner and several abuse team members. one of them, after enduring extensive abuse, ended up in the hospital.

receipts

Being in any fandom:

"Why didn't you say anything when Congress was in power?"

Thisss

Yes, of course, ask for all of the accountability from CJP, ask Sonam Wangchuk why he didn't choose the perfect platform and the perfect party to stage his protest, ask why a protest for NEET paper leaks dares to hold conversations about the privatisations and monopolisations under a handful of business families because of course every single issue exists in a vacuum, scrutinise every single person that arrives at the protest to show their solidarity, analyse the ulterior motives of Abhijeet Dipke, question why opposition leaders are showing up for the protest when the literal job of the opposition of any democracy is to hold a mirror to government's failures, extend your support to a protest against a government failure on the condition that only totally politically neutral people attend it with no ideological affiliations at all so that the movement remains "pure"