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my beautiful grandchild, snuggling into my lap: Grandma, did you really know all along that Cassandra Claire was plagiarizing?
me, stroking her tumbled curls: Oh, darling. Who told you that old story? It was a different time.
another grandchild, clinging to my ancient withered leg: Gwandma, isn’t copying wong?
me: Of course it is, sweetheart. But, well, with the Buffy quotes, and….I mean, we didn’t really think of it as “copying.” It was like a game! We didn’t….no one was making any money, and…
a third grandchild, wide-eyed: But Grandma, what about Pamela Dean?
me, uncomfortably: Oh, well, that was different, obviously. I mean, we didn’t know about the….about the whole pages, that was…I mean, that was a lot. A lot of pages! That was not good. That was bad, obviously. Although, you know, if you go back to the time they were being written, at that time, I mean, me for example, I was a 13-year-old maintaining an elaborate fake life “at college” so I could be taken seriously as a member of HP4GU, so all I’m saying is I don’t really, you know, the moral high ground is, uh, there’s not a lot of, and we all, um, we all did things we’re not proud of, we all – we all traced some manga scans, metaphorically, and changed the faces, again metaphorically, although also literally, if you see what I’m saying, we, you know, it –
a fourth grandchild: What’s a HP4GU?
a fifth grandchild: What’s a manga scans?
a sixth grandchild, beginning to cry: Gwandma, why did you lie so much on the intewnet?
me, defensively overturning a coffee table: iT WAS A DIFFERENT TIME
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