Lady Rosesong is utterly shameless.

[betweensunandmoon]

It started when I read this comment by prying_pandora:

I think someone has obviously read Charming the Prince by Teresa Medeiros. Tsk tsk. Teresa did a good job with this plot. This author does not.

My curiosity was piqued, so I did a little Googling and...wow. Just wow.

Yes, folks, we can now add plagiarism to Tapestry of Deceit's list of offenses! Just in case you needed any more reasons to hate it!

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[betweensunandmoon]

At first I was going to say, "Thank you for the Christine-as-Snow-white link, milord/milady/whatever you are! I haven't laughed so hard at a badfic in ages!"

Then I read the author's profile. I now need brain bleach. (I'm bisexual. Reading that stuff was pretty upsetting, among other things.)

The really scary thing? She's not twelve. She's twenty-four. She is five years older than I am.

Ponder that.

[igenlode]

If you're looking for badfic, the contest entry Think Of Me is much worse: it's full of PoV tags, italic flashbacks ( followed by "Christine gasped as the flashback ended"... ouch!), teenage Christine, canon contradiction (of course when Christine said "Look, your future bride!" she wasn't talking about marriage...), people screaming "NOOOOOOOO" (only with far more Os than that), pidgin French ("'Je t'aime aussi, Mon Ange,' the brunette sighed contentedly"), Christine and Erik calling each other 'My Angel', characters referred to as "the blonde", "the masked man" etc., completely out-of-character Raoul proudly advertised as "FOP-BASHING!" -- and it doesn't even have anything to do with Christmas, as required by the (very lax) conditions of the contest.

It's almost a parody of classic badfic circa 2004, except that, while the writing is simplistic, it's not actually full of howlers.

The age thing -- well, she's mentally disabled. She even says so in the "Snow White" fic, but it's hard to miss after you've seen her around for a while. So one has to make an infinite number of allowances in that particular direction.