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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ETA: Unpublished author Eddie Louise (who cannot write the word "shit" and seems to fail spectacularly at reading comprehension) offers fanfic writers A CHALLENGE!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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	tangentialone 2010-05-04 01:40 am UTC (link)
	So you... use rpf to punish people for being bothered by it? What? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	msilverstar 2010-05-04 04:11 am UTC (link)
	No, we use RPF as a fandom, and make jokes a lot. We also disclaim strenuously any possibility that what we are writing is true. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tangentialone 2010-05-04 04:43 am UTC (link)
	I guess the "having rpf written about you as punishment for not liking it" is a common joke, then. Fun! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cesare 2010-05-05 03:53 am UTC (link)
	Yes, it is a common joke, since it's the most obvious parody of Gabaldon's nonsensical analogies. People are also joking about seducing Gabaldon's husband and then planting some marijuana in her backyard in mockery of some of the other analogies in Gabaldon's post. See also: satire, hyperbole. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tangentialone 2010-05-05 04:56 am UTC (link)
	Well, shit! bobafeis is actually in a fandom that's all about breaking into people's houses, etc? There really is a fandom for everything. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cesare 2010-05-05 06:17 am UTC (link)
	I guess I need to be more excruciatingly clear: people are joking about doing things Gabaldon objects to in order to send up the silly things she's saying. When someone actually does write RPF about Gabaldon to punish her for being bothered by it, it will make sense to take issue with it. Until then, sniping about it just makes you come off like you don't understand jokes. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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