dira: Nate Fick, keeping his chin up (Nate - Chin Up)Dira Sudis ([personal profile] dira) wrote,
@ 2010-05-11 07:31 am UTC
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SO WAIT.

Not ONLY was Diana Gabaldon inspired to write Jamie Fraser by Frazer Hines' character Jamie MacCrimmon on Doctor Who, but once she had finished writing Jamie Fraser--who gets, as you may know, tortured and sodomized in the grand finale of the story--she packed up a couple of copies and mailed them to Frazer Hines. To... thank him.

*facepalm*

Could I make this up? I could not make this up.

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iulia: (o.O)


[personal profile] iulia
2010-05-11 01:04 pm UTC (link)
o.O

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dira: Nate Fick, keeping his chin up (Nate - Chin Up)


[personal profile] dira
2010-05-11 01:15 pm UTC (link)
IDEK.

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iadorespike: (Kitty isitsafetocomeout by jhava)


[personal profile] iadorespike
2010-05-11 01:07 pm UTC (link)
Classy.

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dira: Nate Fick, keeping his chin up (Nate - Chin Up)


[personal profile] dira
2010-05-11 01:15 pm UTC (link)
Diana is ALL ABOUT keeping it classy!

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silver_spotted: a yong man looking unimpressed with his thumb down (famineghost: thumbs down)


[personal profile] silver_spotted
2010-05-11 01:19 pm UTC (link)
*shudder* But further proof she has no idea of fandom & its customs/rules.

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dira: Nate Fick, keeping his chin up (Nate - Chin Up)


[personal profile] dira
2010-05-11 01:25 pm UTC (link)
[personal profile] missmollyetc has observed, and the evidence continues to mount in support, that DG is basically a feral fan who never learned to play nicely with others.

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were_duck: Batgirl is smoking a cigarette and looking annoyed/bored (Batgirl is jaded)


[personal profile] were_duck
2010-05-11 01:35 pm UTC (link)
Ew.

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dira: Nate Fick, keeping his chin up (Nate - Chin Up)


[personal profile] dira
2010-05-11 01:36 pm UTC (link)
Indeed.

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[personal profile] reginagiraffe
2010-05-11 01:44 pm UTC (link)
HAHAHAHAHA!

Priceless.

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[personal profile] ladyvyola
2010-05-11 02:00 pm UTC (link)
Special!snowflake gets more and more special every time I turn around.

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the_shoshanna: Reefr madness claims a nubile female victm (sin and degradation)


[personal profile] the_shoshanna
2010-05-11 02:09 pm UTC (link)
holy crap. That's -- uh -- awesome. Or something.

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dira: Nate Fick, keeping his chin up (Nate - Chin Up)


[personal profile] dira
2010-05-11 10:43 pm UTC (link)
Orrrrr something.

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[personal profile] fox
2010-05-11 02:20 pm UTC (link)
If that's her only experience of fannish behavior, it's no wonder finding fanfiction on her own stuff makes her want to barf. I'd want to barf, too, if I thought people were treating me that way. ... Wait.

She's very lucky he's more civil to her than she is to her own fans.

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dira: Nate Fick, keeping his chin up (Nate - Chin Up)


[personal profile] dira
2010-05-11 03:09 pm UTC (link)
And she doesn't seem to have ANY IDEA that that's what she's done! NONE!

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pandarus: (star wars leia)


[personal profile] pandarus
2010-05-11 02:23 pm UTC (link)
So...fanfic is like having your 40-something-year-old neighbour write graphic porn about your 21 year old daughter and send it to you, with "No harm! Just fiction!" scribbled at the bottom. (I mean, no, analogyfail, Diana - it's actually like a bunch of people in the park in your town discussing your daughter, some in a very crass and graphic fashion, some in a soppy and besotted fashion, and others in a "gee, she's just awesome at calculus, isn't she?" fashion - but let's let that go for now.)

So - fanfic posted somewhere on the internets about the fictional characters you wrote = equivalent of creepy neighbour SENDING YOU PORN ABOUT YOUR CHILD.

But sending a copy of a novel about an 18th Century Scotsman called Jamie Fraser (who gets tortured & graphically orally & anally raped) to the Frazer Hines who played Jamie MacCrimmon, saying "Hey, look what I wrote - it was totally inspired by you!"...not creepy.

I do not think that Captain Logic is steering her tugboat.

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dira: Nate Fick, keeping his chin up (Nate - Chin Up)


[personal profile] dira
2010-05-11 03:08 pm UTC (link)
Captain Logic is standing on shore waiting for the tugboat to run aground, again. Because it will.

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nestra: (sandman)


[personal profile] nestra
2010-05-11 02:53 pm UTC (link)
BWAHAHAHA.

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dira: Nate Fick, keeping his chin up (Nate - Chin Up)


[personal profile] dira
2010-05-11 08:51 pm UTC (link)
Then I found out Jasper Fforde hates and claims not to understand fanfic and now my brain is BROKEN.

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lydiabell: (o.O)


[personal profile] lydiabell
2010-05-11 03:51 pm UTC (link)
OMFG.

I am squirming with contact embarrassment right now.

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cofax7: Scully is pissed off (XF - Scully What the shit?)


[personal profile] cofax7
2010-05-11 03:56 pm UTC (link)
::facepalm::

I would like to sympathize with authors' desires not to read about their characters being folded, twisted, and mutilated by fandom--but I do also require SOME FUCKING PERSPECTIVE ON THEIR OWN BEHAVIOR along the way. Sweet jebuslug on a pogo stick, these people have their heads up their butts.

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dira: Nate Fick, keeping his chin up (Nate - Chin Up)


[personal profile] dira
2010-05-11 06:42 pm UTC (link)
I keep thinking I should take the RSS feed off my reading page, but she JUST KEEPS BEING CRAZIER. It's sort of fascinating.

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[personal profile] wrabbit
2010-05-11 04:00 pm UTC (link)
Oh my god. *gapes at her*

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[personal profile] lovefree
2010-05-11 04:26 pm UTC (link)
WAT.

And she thought we were crazy? If I were MacCrimmon, I'd be cringing. "Um... those are inspired by my body parts."

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dira: Nate Fick, keeping his chin up (Nate - Chin Up)


[personal profile] dira
2010-05-11 08:49 pm UTC (link)
You know, I was totally prepared to accept that she thought "Ooh, a Scotsman named Jamie from the 18th Century" and that was the end of the extent to which she was inspired by Doctor Who. But to then send a copy to the actor--it's such a FANNISH impulse and it's such a CREEPY AND WRONG fannish impulse. DIANA GABALDON: UR DOIN IT RONG.

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2010-05-11 05:00 pm UTC (link)
*cringes and cringes* She-- Wow. Just wow.

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missmollyetc: by just_katarin (Brooks Laich)


[personal profile] missmollyetc
2010-05-11 05:02 pm UTC (link)
Dira. Dira, what the hell.

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dira: Nate Fick, keeping his chin up (Nate - Chin Up)


[personal profile] dira
2010-05-11 06:41 pm UTC (link)
IDEK. FERAL FAN, JESUS.

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rogin: (Witch)


[personal profile] rogin
2010-05-11 05:58 pm UTC (link)
And she really did not realize that she might come off slightly hypocrite, with her fanfic is raping my children post, after this? O.o

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dira: Nate Fick, keeping his chin up (Nate - Chin Up)


[personal profile] dira
2010-05-11 06:28 pm UTC (link)
Well, she just posted about Frazer Hines this morning, and she has already DELETED all the fanfic posts on her blog and shut off comments, so NO PROBLEM.

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turlough: Gerard Way facepalming, Life on the Murder Scene, 2005 ((mcr) oh shit!)


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2010-05-11 06:00 pm UTC (link)
O__O

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2010-05-11 08:09 pm UTC (link)
D-:


O.o


D-:

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[personal profile] rheanna
2010-05-11 08:57 pm UTC (link)
OMG that's HILARIOUS.

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dira: Nate Fick, keeping his chin up (Nate - Chin Up)


[personal profile] dira
2010-05-11 08:59 pm UTC (link)
Then I followed some links and found out JASPER FFORDE HATES FANFIC and now I am like, is it secretly April Fool's on the internet? What?

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furies: (life is a highway i'll walk it on my own)


[personal profile] furies
2010-05-12 02:13 am UTC (link)
::boggles::

a) WHAT THE HOLY HECK?! *HOW* is this at ALL okay? i am totally and completely squicked by this.

b) of course she deleted the fanfic posts. i hope someone saved them as proof of her insanity.

c) apparently she has her own chat room thing (?) and is even CRAZIER there.

d) . . . fforde? YOU DO KNOW WHAT YOU WRITE, CORRECT??

e) if i didn't know sane published writers, i would swear they were all nuts. man. what a week, what a week.

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dira: Nate Fick, keeping his chin up (Nate - Chin Up)


[personal profile] dira
2010-05-12 02:18 am UTC (link)
Oh, yes, I think the posts were preserved.

And, ahahaha, her latest blog post is pimping the debut novel from a promising new fantasy writer who ... just happens to be her son writing under a pseudonym, a fact she does not mention anywhere in the recommendation post. CLASSY!

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ambersweet: Sarcasm. Amusing, if ineffective. (Sarcasm)


[personal profile] ambersweet
2010-05-13 01:43 am UTC (link)
You know who's classy? Frazer fucking Hines. Because not only did he not run screaming into the night, he THANKED HER and then was, by her own account, incredibly nice to her years later. (Maybe he didn't read the books?)

(Hilariously, when I first heard this story without any gender markers attached, I assumed that it was Claire who was inspired by a Doctor's Companion, because she totally seems the type.)

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dira: Nate Fick, keeping his chin up (Nate - Chin Up)


[personal profile] dira
2010-05-13 02:28 am UTC (link)
Frazer Hines = A++++, for sure. (I sort of hope he didn't, really. Or even have them summarized in much detail.)

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