[ SECRET POST #4995 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4995 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's pretty damn funny, myself. Especially when it's authors like Diana Gabaldon who go on epic rants comparing fanfiction to white slavery when her precious hero is based on a Doctor Who companion.

[sabotabby]

Haha yes that is the best example. It made me never want to read her stuff.

Personally, my dream is for people to write porny fic of my stories; that's how I'll know I've made it.

[(Anonymous)]

You're not missing much. She's obsessed with her redheaded Highlander hero, and the heroine looks just like the author herself. For mostly original fiction, a lot of it reads like bad fanfic and it gets crazier the further you go.

[ibbity]

I haven't read or watched Outlander but uh this sounds kinda...not optimal in so many ways

[(Anonymous)]

Well, it's a cool idea (ancient stone circles as time travel portals) and a fascinating era in history but... sometimes when a creator is OBSESSED with their own creation, it really shows in weird, awkward ways. Jamie/Claire is her OTP to end all OTPs. Everybody wants to get in their drawers, etc. etc.

[(Anonymous)]

The first book is genuinely good, the second one is decent, and it all goes downhill after that.

[(Anonymous)]

She's been quite specific that the characters are also her husband, herself and their daughter and writing fanfic about them is "raping" them, but at the same time a TV show was just fine?

[(Anonymous)]

$$$$

[(Anonymous)]

That's deeply deeply ironic seeing as her books are essentially cultural appropriation of Scottish history. She is a shit writer.

[ibbity]

I have no dogs in the Gabaldon fight but how is writing historical fiction cultural appropriation? Unless she's pretending to be a Scot or acting like she knows better than Scottish historians or sth, which for all I know she is

[(Anonymous)]

or acting like she knows better than Scottish historians or sth

Yes, that's why.

[ibbity]

ooh, dish the dirt on what she's pretending to know better on

[(Anonymous)]

just want to point out, even if the internet has forgotten this, that "cultural appropriation" is a neutral term. it's cultural appropriation whether she's doing it badly or not, because she's using a culture she isn't part of - that doesn't mean she's wrong for doing it or doing it wrong.

[sparklywalls]

I work in the heritage sector in Scotland and we have a, shall we say, complicated relationship with those books and the show. It flung a bunch more tourists our way and I absolutely don't mind talking to people and telling them the true history if they're interested, which usually I assume they are. As long as they recognise that the books are historical fiction and a romanticised picture of historical Scotland then it's fine.

[(Anonymous)]

LMAO No way, is her MC based on Jaime? That’s the only Scottish companion I can think of.

I dunno much about her books, but my friend loves them and she writes so much slash fic for them.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, that's the one!

[(Anonymous)]

Lol She didn’t even bother to change the name. At least his last name’s different IIRC.

[11thmirror]

I'm sorry to break the news to you, but the character Jaime McCrimmon was played by Frazer Hines.

Yep.

[(Anonymous)]

I don’t know why, but that’s so funny that I nearly choked on my coffee.

[11thmirror]

It's sort of amazing... 'What do I name my Jaime McCrimmon expy? It has to be subtle, so subtle no one will ever guess... I have it! I'll give him half the name of the character, and half the name of the actor! Jaime Fraser! Genius!"

[(Anonymous)]

This is hilarious!

[tree_and_leaf]

*cough* It's Jamie.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought it was Kathy Nightingale--the one who was sent back in time in Blink--but then I remembered she wasn't a companion.

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/diana-gabaldon-reveals-outlander-inspired-6577741