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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ETA: Unpublished author Eddie Louise (who cannot write the word "shit" and seems to fail spectacularly at reading comprehension) offers fanfic writers A CHALLENGE!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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	irised 2010-05-04 02:39 am UTC (link)
	Percy? There's ANOTHER gay dude pining? Fuck, meet What The. I don't think I read that far. Does Jamie have some kind of gay dude hoarding problem? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rodo 2010-05-04 02:50 am UTC (link)
	No, Percy is Lord John's step-brother who is also gay and in love with John and they kind of have a relationship, but John is too caught up in his undying love (oh how we all wish it would die!) for Jamie to love him back and it ends about as well as you'd expect (It's the second Lord John book). (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	irised 2010-05-04 03:26 am UTC (link)
	Oh my goddddddddddddd D: (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rodo 2010-05-04 03:34 am UTC (link)
	(The book isn't all bad, promise.) Why can't John find a lovely guy to spend the rest of his life having adventures with? I would settle for no Jamie, though. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	irised 2010-05-04 04:05 am UTC (link)
	Ahhh Jamie. I was fond of him, but could there be a bigger Marty Stu? It would be difficult! I would swear Gabaldon was totally aware of it, too, the way she made him totally incapable of singing. It seemed to hang a hat on it, somehow. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rodo 2010-05-04 04:15 am UTC (link)
	I've only read the Lord John stories, in which Jamie is a very unsympathetic character. It seemed to hang a hat on it, somehow. All Sues need faults. That's why Bella Swan is supposed to be clumsy. Apparently the idea is that faults make characters more likable. (Which is true, for character flaws</i.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ekaterinv 2010-05-04 04:42 am UTC (link)
	Does anyone in these books not love/lust over Jamie to a ridiculous degree? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	rodo 2010-05-04 04:49 am UTC (link)
	Percy? And John's family doesn't seem too fond of him either. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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