This shit keeps getting funnier. Or. Something.

[dira]

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.

Comments

[pandarus]

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.

[dira]

Captain Logic is standing on shore waiting for the tugboat to run aground, again. Because it will.

[velvetwhip]

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

That may be the finest description I have ever read. Thank you.

[pandarus]

Ah, well, in the fine tradition of fanficwriters, it's a riff off someone else: Xander and Anya on BtVS. I'm so soaked in Buffy fandom that the quotes & riffing are kind of second nature, but I wouldn't want you to think it was mine! ;)

[velvetwhip]

Shows you what a blonde I am...I just finished immersing myself in Season Six and somehow failed to recall that at all. *is so very, very, VERY blonde*

[were_lemur]

Captain Logic has left the failboat.