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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[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.)

[ambersweet]

I envision him going, "So what's all this, then?" and his assistant starting to explain, "Well, there's this girl, and she accidentally travels in time," and he rolls his eyes and says, "Been there, done that," and uses the book to press flowers.

[dira]

"And there's this guy named Jamie and he's very heroic and the girl falls in love with him."

And then he was perfectly happy to see Diana several years later in a safe public place!

[ambersweet]

IN MY HEAD THIS IS HOW THE BOOK WENT, YES.

Of course, I've also decided that Lord John is somehow a different person in the Lord John and the Glass of Water series than the man who happens to share the same name in the Outlander books. That's his evil clone! Or his Mirrorverse twin! Or something! Also in my head he is played by Ianto Jones. Sometimes my head is a safe and cozy place.