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Mar. 25th, 2011 12:09 pm
History is never history
An ONTD post lambasting Cassandra Claire kind of rubbed me the wrong way this morning.
Having not been directly involved in her particular kerfluffles, I can't speak to the merit thereof. Also haven't read her stuff, so I can't speak to that, either (though I still think the VSDs were hilarious, and I still have a "Sam Will Kill Me..." T-shirt.)
But I will say this: From what I can tell, she didn't actually kill any kittens. Nor did she do anything nearly on the scale of, say, what VB and Orangeblossom did. So why is it still necessary to grind on her for something that happened nine years ago? Even if she had been found guilty of abject plagiarism and fraud, whatever jail sentence or fines she'd have gotten for that would've been long gone by now. She may well be an asshole for some reason or another now, and she may well be a hack, but if so, people should be focusing on that, and not on whatever she did ages ago.
There are a lot of things that merit long-term anger and grudges. Violence and intentional bigotry, for instance are things that don't--and shouldn't--get easily forgotten. But this? Just sorta smacks of obsessives whose lives revolve around fandom drama rather than truly wounded parties seeking proper justice. (Wikis? Really? C'mon.)
I spose it's obvious where I'm going with this.
( Oh, LOTR drama, how sad were you? )
Not saying, again, that Cassie deserves no criticism. Not my place to judge what she's doing now. Just saying that a little perspective is warranted, and digging up past misdeeds and making more of them than there is is petty and childish. At some point, one starts wondering whether such ongoing drama is coming less from a place of legitimate griping and more from a place of frustrated fic writers who are bitter that one of their own went pro.
Having not been directly involved in her particular kerfluffles, I can't speak to the merit thereof. Also haven't read her stuff, so I can't speak to that, either (though I still think the VSDs were hilarious, and I still have a "Sam Will Kill Me..." T-shirt.)
But I will say this: From what I can tell, she didn't actually kill any kittens. Nor did she do anything nearly on the scale of, say, what VB and Orangeblossom did. So why is it still necessary to grind on her for something that happened nine years ago? Even if she had been found guilty of abject plagiarism and fraud, whatever jail sentence or fines she'd have gotten for that would've been long gone by now. She may well be an asshole for some reason or another now, and she may well be a hack, but if so, people should be focusing on that, and not on whatever she did ages ago.
There are a lot of things that merit long-term anger and grudges. Violence and intentional bigotry, for instance are things that don't--and shouldn't--get easily forgotten. But this? Just sorta smacks of obsessives whose lives revolve around fandom drama rather than truly wounded parties seeking proper justice. (Wikis? Really? C'mon.)
I spose it's obvious where I'm going with this.
( Oh, LOTR drama, how sad were you? )
Not saying, again, that Cassie deserves no criticism. Not my place to judge what she's doing now. Just saying that a little perspective is warranted, and digging up past misdeeds and making more of them than there is is petty and childish. At some point, one starts wondering whether such ongoing drama is coming less from a place of legitimate griping and more from a place of frustrated fic writers who are bitter that one of their own went pro.
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