I think I know by now what evil really is

[sovay]

I am evidently not the target audience for Tim Powers' Hide Me Among the Graves (2012), which rushthatspeaks has been reading and describing to me; I think that if one of your central characters is vampire John Polidori, people should always be asking him if he got it from Lord Byron and he should be so tired of having to tell them ("Byron wasn't even a vampire, damn it!") no.

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[kore]

Yeah, SAME. My reaction from "someone else could have done this so much better" to "OMG NO," typically. If it were a fic I'd be all "Well, it's nice the author is having a good time, but his literary history is wrong/twisted for his plot and this is basically an OC named Byron."