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talkingtoaster ([info]talkingtoaster) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
Am I really the only one ...
Why does everyone, at least on the first page of comments, seem to think this isn't most likely another case of CC plagiarism? And that's not a rhetorical question, I genuinely don't get it, and would like to hear a reasonable response to this.

I get SRB's argument about there being many variations of the line (watch the Monet/that's a ming vase/etc.) but she wrote the exact same line. And maybe I could understand it if the mahogany quote had come from an obscure or old source, but it didn't. It was from an extremely popular movie, based on an extremely popular book series, that came out less than two years ago.

Oh sure, you could say, "well people who don't move in those circles still wouldn't have known about the meme", but CC (and I bet SRB, too), very much does. Furthermore, from what I've seen, at least, the Harry Potter & Hunger Games (and I think Mortal Instruments, too) fandoms are very interconnected, sharing many fans, including CC herself in the first two (the third being a pastiche of her HP fics created by CC herself, natch), so she will not only have almost definitely have heard the line, but also seen the meme. And on top of all this, she's a known plagiarist.

Now, maybe there's a rational explanation for all this, and if so I would love to hear it. However, atm, it seems clear to me, at least, that this is entirely CC's fault, that she probably wrote that section (or at least suggested it) and that SRB is, as another commenter put it, "heidipatrolling and throwing herself onto a pyre for CC", as per usual.

So again, I ask: why does no one else seem to see it?


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