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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ETA: Unpublished author Eddie Louise (who cannot write the word "shit" and seems to fail spectacularly at reading comprehension) offers fanfic writers A CHALLENGE!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 05:04 pm UTC (link)
	Oh yes--at least R-rated, and two major characters (at least) get raped. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quantumreality 2010-05-03 05:22 pm UTC (link)
	I don't think I can use this icon enough. (Reply to this)(Parent)

More like four, actually.

lotus79
2010-05-05 04:14 pm UTC (link)

I haven't finished the latest book yet... but no. Four, so far. Jamie, then Brianna, then Ian (Geilis Duncan made him her love slave in the third or fourth book, I forget which. So actually he might have beaten Brianna) then Claire.

So I do believe that's 4 of 5 major characters? Roger better watch his back...

Also as for her comments on dirty dirty sex... I have been listening to her latest (because I got it free and I am apparently a glutton for punishment as well as having an anal need to read the whole series) and yeah. Let's just say that listening to the narrator primly describing (in first person) the taste and texture of the hero's testicles... I had to turn it off and go scrub my brain with bleach. Do Not Want!

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	Re: More like four, actually. pariforma 2010-05-05 04:20 pm UTC (link)
	ARGH. Who was the narrator? I remember Geilis Duncan's sex magick business in Voyager, but that's the last one I finished. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: More like four, actually. magistera 2010-05-05 06:59 pm UTC (link)
	In light of the topic at hand, I keep misinterpreting the phrase "anal need" and giggling like a ten year old. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: More like four, actually. mockingbird 2010-05-06 02:23 am UTC (link)
	But Roger was raped in a sense when they hanged him in the 5th book, and he could no longer sing after that (Reply to this)(Parent)

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