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insignificant other ([info]snacky) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2010-05-03 10:09:00
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Entry tags: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ETA: Unpublished author Eddie Louise (who cannot write the word "shit" and seems to fail spectacularly at reading comprehension) offers fanfic writers A CHALLENGE!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: [info]kate_nepevu has screencaps and the text of Gabaldon's posts here. And via [info]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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[info]phosfate
2010-05-03 05:22 pm UTC (link)
Who?

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[info]ingrid
2010-05-03 05:53 pm UTC (link)
That's what I said. Unironically.

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[info]phosfate
2010-05-03 05:55 pm UTC (link)
I wasn't being ironic. I have no idea who she is.

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(no subject) - [info]ingrid, 2010-05-03 06:03 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2010-05-03 06:05 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]thebratqueen, 2010-05-03 10:21 pm UTC

[info]snacky
2010-05-03 06:07 pm UTC (link)
Well, she's no Garth Marenghi, that's for sure. :D

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[info]cellardoor28
2010-05-03 06:32 pm UTC (link)
Pfft, who is?

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[info]puipui
2010-05-04 05:59 am UTC (link)
I like to imagine Garth Marenghi writing fanfic. He'd go all kinds of Anne Rice on fic written about his own characters, I'm sure, but then he'd write fanfic of other things under the guise of "improving" them, which he would insist on referring to by some other (extremely pretentious) term entirely, and it would all be super long with extra added Marty Stu, plus bad sex and explosions. It would be amazing.

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(no subject) - [info]komorebi, 2010-05-04 10:35 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]cesare, 2010-05-05 02:34 am UTC

[info]sarracenia
2010-05-03 08:35 pm UTC (link)
A Very Important And Serious author of bad porn, apparently.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2010-05-03 09:09 pm UTC (link)
Oh, that explains it. I get all of my pr0n from the Internet these days.

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[info]tehrin
2010-05-03 09:49 pm UTC (link)
This. I have never heard of the series either.

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[info]yoritomo_reiko
2010-05-03 10:37 pm UTC (link)
I only heard of the series because we got two of the books (Voyager and Drums of Autumn) in the charity shop I work in, so I read the back covers. Looked interesting. Not interesting enough, now.

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(no subject) - [info]perletwo, 2010-05-04 01:40 am UTC

[info]anonyrat
2010-05-03 11:57 pm UTC (link)
I know about it because some of the girls in my library classes won't fucking shut up about it.

>_

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[info]ekaterinv
2010-05-03 10:37 pm UTC (link)
That was my reaction, and I looked her up on amazon.com. Here is the excerpt they give from one of her books:

I was lame and sore in every muscle when I woke next morning. I shuffled to the privy closet, then to the wash basin. My innards felt like churned butter. It felt as though I had been beaten with a blunt object, I reflected, then thought that that was very near the truth. The blunt object in question was visible as I came back to bed, looking now relatively harmless. Its possessor [Jamie] woke as I sat next to him, and examined me with something that looked very much like male smugness.

But anyone who writes porn about her characters should feel very, very bad.

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[info]shinysandals
2010-05-03 11:11 pm UTC (link)
I just know my husband is going to come in here any minute to find out why I'm laughing so hard.

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[info]syncopation
2010-05-03 11:13 pm UTC (link)
What in the world...

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[info]eleutheria
2010-05-03 11:56 pm UTC (link)
Oh, that's horrid! Now I'm very glad I've refrained from reading that series.

(Though I've listened to two books from her gay male Regency mystery series, and they're not like that. Even if they do read like they're written by someone who wants backpats for writing a gay character, but won't write him actually having sex or a relationship with somebody.)

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(no subject) - [info]pariforma, 2010-05-04 01:30 am UTC

[info]msilverstar
2010-05-04 12:10 am UTC (link)
maybe the fans just want her characters to have good sex sometimes?

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[info]cleolinda
2010-05-04 12:22 am UTC (link)
My innards felt like churned butter.

That's hot.

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(no subject) - [info]rani, 2010-05-04 01:21 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]barankhy, 2010-05-04 04:58 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]cleolinda, 2010-05-04 05:06 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]barankhy, 2010-05-04 05:38 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]cleolinda, 2010-05-04 05:47 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]spawn_of_kong, 2010-05-04 06:37 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sylvacoer, 2010-05-04 05:53 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]napalmnacey, 2010-05-04 04:41 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]talec, 2010-05-04 08:17 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]cesare, 2010-05-05 02:36 am UTC

[info]3jane
2010-05-04 12:53 am UTC (link)
... is it wrong that I read [m]y innards felt like churned butter and thought, "Wait, is she writing Paula Deen RPF?" (Although I would read Paula Deen/Land o' Lakes Butter Maiden friendship fic in a heartbeat. Especially if it was a space opera with robots-type of never mind I have said too much. >.>)

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(no subject) - [info]agent_hyatt, 2010-05-04 02:46 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]librarianmouse, 2010-05-04 06:35 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]mister_terrific, 2010-05-04 09:15 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ihateyouall, 2010-05-11 08:15 pm UTC

[info]bobafeis
2010-05-04 01:06 am UTC (link)
Um.

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[info]the_sun_is_up
2010-05-04 08:30 am UTC (link)
So is this guy's dick like an egg-beater or something? Ugh.

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[info]glitterandlube
2010-05-05 04:42 am UTC (link)
Okay, this lady wins, that is much grosser than anything I have stolen from 4chan in the past week.

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[info]the_labrat_army
2010-05-05 06:19 am UTC (link)
El-oh-el. And not in the "I'm laughing with her" way.

Also geez, can't I come across one romance novel where the sex doesn't leave the female feeling like a giant bruise the next morning? How is that supposed to be sexy?

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(no subject) - [info]ekaterinv, 2010-05-05 06:34 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]xturtle, 2010-05-05 05:09 pm UTC

[info]dragonfangirl
2010-05-04 06:07 am UTC (link)
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.

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helenvalentine
2010-05-04 06:15 am UTC (link)
Her?

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[info]the_sun_is_up
2010-05-04 08:31 am UTC (link)
A pretentious twat, apparently.

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