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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ETA: Unpublished author Eddie Louise (who cannot write the word "shit" and seems to fail spectacularly at reading comprehension) offers fanfic writers A CHALLENGE!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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shinysandals
2010-05-03 06:19 pm UTC (link)

*raises hand*

My husband and I have been running a silly little webcomic for a few years that has gained a small but pretty nice fandom. Every now and then I get some pearl-clutching e-mail about how OH NOES someone is writing/drawing PORN of my characters OMG, and I should DO SOMETHING. And I just laugh. I have friends who draw porn of my characters. I don't care. They're not my babies; they're a bunch of weird fictional cat-people who run around in my head, so, whatevs.

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	gabzillaz 2010-05-03 06:56 pm UTC (link)
	That's awesome! If somebody said "omg somebody is making porn of your characters!!11" my response would be: "...link please? 8D" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sistercoyote 2010-05-03 06:59 pm UTC (link)
	I have to admit. (Although I know that when I offered up some fanfic as a birthday present I was politely told that it's better if the author doesn't know because their publisher disapproves.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	gabzillaz 2010-05-04 02:24 am UTC (link)
	I would create a dupe and then collect all porn available 8D What the publisher doesn't know... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	bigbigtruck 2010-05-03 08:39 pm UTC (link)
	I just read an awesome PWP of my characters last week :thumbsup: :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shinysandals 2010-05-03 10:02 pm UTC (link)
	Ahahahaha! I remember being shown an angstfic. My stuff is, like, the polar opposite of angsty, so it was hilarious. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cmdr_zoom 2010-05-03 11:22 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, that's you? Hi. Loved the Oblivion crossover/dream sequence. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shinysandals 2010-05-03 11:52 pm UTC (link)
	:D Aww, thanks! (Reply to this)(Parent)

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