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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ETA: Unpublished author Eddie Louise (who cannot write the word "shit" and seems to fail spectacularly at reading comprehension) offers fanfic writers A CHALLENGE!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 06:06 pm UTC (link)
	Oh no, he was just named after that Jamie. He was based on her husband. Trufax. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	doyle 2010-05-03 06:10 pm UTC (link)
	Well, named after him and is also an 18th century highlander, like Jamie (as far as I know...) Basing your romantic hero after your husband in an ongoing series seems to be a bit of a gamble, though. I'm sure I heard of one author who did that, then had the hero dramatically turn to the dark side when her husband cheated. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	banerry 2010-05-03 06:16 pm UTC (link)
	... That is amazing. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cleolinda 2010-05-03 07:11 pm UTC (link)
	Wasn't that Laurell K. Hamilton? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bienegold 2010-05-03 09:10 pm UTC (link)
	Pretty sure. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	doyle 2010-05-03 09:14 pm UTC (link)
	goes a-digging on TV Tropes Yes! Richard from the Anita Blake series was the husband stand-in in question. Annnd now I'm stuck in TV Tropes. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mer1973 2010-05-04 12:28 am UTC (link)
	Annnd now I'm stuck in TV Tropes. We'll miss you. Remember to send us a postcard! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lafemmedarla 2010-05-04 01:22 am UTC (link)
	wanders if there's a tv tropes page for Father Ted Oooh, there is! ... damnit (Reply to this)(Parent)

	librarianmouse 2010-05-04 06:50 am UTC (link)
	We'll see you in a couple of weeks. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	janegraddell 2010-05-06 09:13 pm UTC (link)
	That explains a lot... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	eleutheria 2010-05-04 12:00 am UTC (link)
	Yup! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	msilverstar 2010-05-04 01:15 am UTC (link)
	Barbara Hambly had a fun book based on her and her husband, Dragonsband, and then a very wrenching and depressing series of follow-up books when they got divorced. Lots of explicit man-torture. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	havocthecat 2010-05-04 08:22 pm UTC (link)
	THAT EXPLAINS SO MUCH ABOUT WHY I HATED THE SEQUELS. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	ekaterinv 2010-05-04 04:40 am UTC (link)
	I gathered that Laurell K. Hamilton's husband didn't cheat, he didn't want to let her cheat. Which, in her books these days, is pretty much the evilest thing possible. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brown_betty 2010-05-05 10:57 pm UTC (link)
	reaaaaaaally. Do you have any citations for this? Not that I doubt you particularly, I'm just wondering how you got there. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	mister_terrific 2010-05-04 09:20 pm UTC (link)
	Considering I worked with her husband around that time, not quite. LKH was basking in her fangirls and related popularity, and figured it was time to upgrade. Which given that he pretty much supported her work up to that point, was pretty shitty to my view. What IS it about vampire writers and the batshit? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	syncopation 2010-05-04 09:25 pm UTC (link)
	I wonder if they fall in love with their own characters. That reminds me, I need to find a good Twilight icon. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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	misachan 2010-05-03 06:24 pm UTC (link)
	Named after him AND the actor who played him, Frazer Hines. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dez_chan 2010-05-03 06:24 pm UTC (link)
	Oh good, I wasn't imagining that. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	yoritomo_reiko 2010-05-03 06:41 pm UTC (link)
	blinks And...she's flailing over fanfiction? The hell? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tehrin 2010-05-03 09:52 pm UTC (link)
	So, she wrote about Who!Jamie/Her Husband getting their hand nailed to a table and orally and anally raped? I fear for her husband. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sabaceanbabe 2010-05-03 11:36 pm UTC (link)
	Seriously! O_o (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sgtgeorgecarter 2010-05-03 11:37 pm UTC (link)
	wails how could she do that to sweet, dim Jaime MacCrimmon?!?! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mer1973 2010-05-04 12:26 am UTC (link)
	Because that turned out so well for LKH. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	beccafran 2010-05-04 01:43 am UTC (link)
	AHAHAHA. I always knew Outlander wasn't that good, from... y'know, reading it. But if it weren't for her tirade against the IMMORALITY and ILLEGALITY of fanfic, I never would've known she ripped off the entire thing from Dr. Who. I learn something new every day... (Reply to this)(Parent)

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