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author entitlement, authors, creator wank, doesn't mean what you think it means, fanfic, suck it up and deal, writers are often pompous douches, your kink is not okay

Diana Gabaldon, author of the wildly popular Outlander series, has an opinion on fan fiction: I think it’s immoral, I _know_ it’s illegal, and it makes me want to barf whenever I’ve inadvertently encountered some of it involving my characters.

Highlights include:

Writing fanfic is just like breaking into someone's house.
Fanfic is WAY WAY WAY TOO PORNY omg ick people have sexual fantasies!*
What to do about an auction offering fanfic to raise money for a cancer patient? She doesn't want to "seem heartless"! So she seeks advice in the comments. Which are mostly full of "Fanfic? I have never heard of such a despicable load of garbage! Also, CRUSH THAT CANCER PATIENT!"

ETA: Unpublished author Eddie Louise (who cannot write the word "shit" and seems to fail spectacularly at reading comprehension) offers fanfic writers A CHALLENGE! Accept it if you dare, sniveling pedo thieves!

ETA 2: Previously, Ms Gabaldon has said fanfic is like selling your children into white slavery. Well. Now. I don't even know what to do with that.

ETA 3: Smart Bitches, Trashy Books has some discussion on the topic.

ETA 4: And bookshop on LJ/DW has a rebuttal.

ETA 5: See what happens when I leave the sweet embrace of the internet for a few hours? Ms. Gabaldon updates her blog!

ETA 6: Evidently Ms. Gabaldon deleted all evidence of her hissyfit, but some wankas have screencaps in this thread.

ETA 7:

kate_nepevu has screencaps and the text of Gabaldon's posts here. And via

alchemynerd, more screencaps available here:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/tiz4vp
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ibidpj
http://www.sendspace.com/file/r6zik6
http://www.sendspace.com/file/hlknqo
http://www.sendspace.com/file/d9alsh

Thanks for all the links! :)

MOD REMINDER: Remember, my little wankas, we DO NOT troll the wank. Nor do we write fanfic after the author has specifically requested people not and post it in the comments here, no matter how tempting it may be. Carry on. oh god my inbox ow ow

*Just as a point of interest, I was a bookseller for 12 years, and had several customers tell me about the sex scenes in her books. Some were pro ("My friend told me to read these books for the sex scenes, and she was totally right, they are so hot, this is best thing to happen to my sex life in years!") and some were con ("What is up with all the sex all the time? Where's the story?"), but one thing you can't say about her books is that they're sexual-fantasy free. :D

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	pariforma 2010-05-03 04:38 pm UTC (link)
	So searing touches, silky thighs, and ecstasy are bad, but Jack Randall nailing Jamie Fraser's hand to a table, then orally and anally raping him are okay? Thanks, Diana, glad to know that. I used to like her novels--until she got so interested in showing off her historical research that she lost track of little, minor details like PLOT. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	lady_ganesh 2010-05-03 04:40 pm UTC (link)
	but Jack Randall nailing Jamie Fraser's hand to a table, then orally and anally raping him ...wow I'm suddenly glad I never read these books. Wow. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	pariforma 2010-05-04 04:46 pm UTC (link)
	You are not alone, apparently. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	dqbunny 2010-05-05 08:07 am UTC (link)
	WHAT????? Well there went any enjoyment that I ever derived from that series - which granted that in and of itself didn't last the first book. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	snarkhunter 2010-05-06 03:40 am UTC (link)
	I didn't know about the hand-nailing, but I knew about the rape. And it's only one of the reasons I have absolutely no desire to read this series. (Also, Gabaldon claims she's not writing romance. Also, she's full of shit.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sepiamagpie 2010-05-03 04:41 pm UTC (link)
	...terror. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cleolinda 2010-05-03 04:42 pm UTC (link)
	Say what? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

pariforma
2010-05-03 04:58 pm UTC (link)

No, seriously. Follow me closely here: Jack Randall, who happens to be the forefather of heroine Claire's 20th-century husband, has captured her and... has some reason to turn her over to the authorities, I forget. Her 18th-century hubby Jamie offers himself to Randall in exchange for Claire's freedom, knowing that he will be sexually tortured because Randall is a bisexual sadist with a particular yen for Jamie. Some weeks after his (of course) rescue (which IIRC involves letting a herd of Highland cattle into the prison), Claire wrings the story out of him. There's penetration, hand-nailing, branding, and the extra humiliation of being made to climax.

I Am Not Making This Up. And there's weirder if less hard-core porn in later books.

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	lady_ganesh 2010-05-03 05:07 pm UTC (link)
	And again I say: Wow. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	quantumreality 2010-05-03 05:22 pm UTC (link)
	I think my icon says it all here. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)