OK, my position on fan-fic is pretty clear: I think itâs immoral, I know itâs illegal, and it makes me want to barf whenever Iâve inadvertently encountered some of it involving my characters.
Which is a dumb fucking thing for any author, especially an author who gets a lot of play in the fan-fic community as Gabaldon does, to say. According to another fan-fic friendly blog, Gabaldon made some other weird claims about fan-fic, too:
While not all fan-fic is pornographic by any means, enough of it _is_ that it constitutes an aesthetic argument against the whole notion.
The punchline to that particular complaint is that Gabaldon writes pretty porny books herself. But the best part is the reason that Gabaldon started this fan fiction rant in the first place:
Recently, a couple of people have drawn my attention to a person whoâs been posting on various boards about fund-raising for an uninsured friend named Stacie who has breast cancer. Her (the posterâs) idea for fund-raising is to auction off a custom-written piece of fan-fic, involving Jamie Fraser and Emmett someone (who I _think_ is from Twilight; I sort of hope itâs not the willowy young âbottomâ from the TV show âQueer as FolkââŚ). She hastens to note that it wonât be slash, but will otherwise take the bidderâs tastes into accountâand of course, all proceeds will go to Stacieâs hospital expense fund.She did not, naturally, ask ÂŹ_me_ about this.
Many of the commenters on Gabaldon's post say she should sue the cancer-fighters to within an inch of their lives. Diana Gabaldon is a classy, classy New York Times bestselling author.