Werq, ghosts and Cassandra Clare's plagiarism

You know, I have a big sassy black lady in my story named Laverne. Until yesterday, it was bothering me that it sounded so familiar and I had NO clue why. Then I turned on Scrubs and remembered why: NURSE LAVERRRRNE! R.I.P., homeguuurl. Ironic, considering that my dearest Laverne is a ghost.

So, "cool story sis" moment coming up: I got a job! It's temp for now, but it's an HR position and HR was always a direction I would have liked to go in. Did a little dance, probably made my poor boyfriend's ears bleed when I squealed at him over the phone. After eight months, that boy is used to it. :D


Excuse me, I need a moment:



That's better. Psych makes everything better. Which is why they should have brought it back at the regular time, I'm just saying. This push-back is going to make me start some problems.

I look a hot mess. Summertime has cause me to seriously let myself go. At least I still manage to go get my nails did every two weeks. But I'm pretty sure my eyebrows are making me look like one of the Geico Cavemen, and that's not a cute look. #unacceptable

So I was on ONTD the other day and there was a post about YA novels that might replace the Twilight franchise. Here's the post.  But there was some serious Cassandra Clare wank. Now, I haven't read Clare's books so I was wondering what everyone was bitching about, to be blunt. It turns out that she "plagiarized" quotes and replicated (loosely, from the evidence I've seen) scenes from other books, TV shows and movies. I was pretty surprised at how angry people were getting at this girl. Sure, I'm a little late to the party, but I don't get the hate.

Honestly, I don't think there's anything wrong with making pop culture references in novels, TV shows and movies as long as that's as far as it goes. In fact, I like seeing it. It's a nice way to connect with the audience imho, even though it might not be an "evergreen" way of doing so. Maybe I missed something, but I haven't seen anything that she has word-for-word ripped off in entirety. I can't be too mad at it, even if I can't say I would do it in the same way. #kanyeshrug