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.

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[iulia]

o.O

[dira]

IDEK.

[iadorespike]

Classy.

[dira]

Diana is ALL ABOUT keeping it classy!

[silver_spotted]

*shudder* But further proof she has no idea of fandom & its customs/rules.

[dira]

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.

[were_duck]

Ew.

[dira]

Indeed.

[reginagiraffe]

HAHAHAHAHA!

Priceless.

[ladyvyola]

Special!snowflake gets more and more special every time I turn around.

[the_shoshanna]

holy crap. That's -- uh -- awesome. Or something.

[dira]

Orrrrr something.

[fox]

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.

[dira]

And she doesn't seem to have ANY IDEA that that's what she's done! NONE!

[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.

[nestra]

BWAHAHAHA.

[dira]

Then I found out Jasper Fforde hates and claims not to understand fanfic and now my brain is BROKEN.

[lydiabell]

OMFG.

I am squirming with contact embarrassment right now.

[cofax7]

::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.

[dira]

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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[wrabbit]

Oh my god. *gapes at her*

[lovefree]

WAT.

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

[dira]

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.

[happydork]

*cringes and cringes* She-- Wow. Just wow.

[missmollyetc]

Dira. Dira, what the hell.

[dira]

IDEK. FERAL FAN, JESUS.

[rogin]

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

[dira]

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.

[turlough]

O__O

[flamewarrior]

D-:


O.o


D-:

[rheanna]

OMG that's HILARIOUS.

[dira]

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?

[furies]

::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.

[dira]

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!

[ambersweet]

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.)

[dira]

Frazer Hines = A++++, for sure. (I sort of hope he didn't, really. Or even have them summarized in much detail.)