Speaking of the Gabaldon clusterfuck

[oneiriad]

Apparently some parts of my mind feel that I've got nothing better to do than read far more comments on Diana Gabaldon's very rude way of telling people not to write fanfic of her work. Since I'm so far out I'm finding comments implying that DG supposedly had some unfortunate pro-plagiarism opinions about some romance author I've never heard about before (haven't actually been able to find the supposed comments, just references, so for all I know it's just a misremembered rumour), which would turn the whole thing into a rather post-ironic thing, I'm thinking of stopping. One thing, though - considering that she has such strong feelings about her characters that she's willing to draw the comparisons she does and the problems she seems to have in distingushing reality from fiction, should we be worried about what she'd be willing to do to her flesh-and-blood children, considering what she herself puts her precious characters through? Or maybe not. Just ignore me.

Honestly, the biggest thing I've gotten out of this is coming up with a new interpretation of Oscar Wilde's The Selfish Giant, involving copyright and fan fic - I very much doubt Mr. Wilde had intended it as such. Ah well, it's not like he'd know, anyway, being just the author...

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I've managed to miss this, which I'm glad about. I tend to think it's a bad sign when authors are particularly unpleasant about fanfic written about their work: I don't expect them necessairily to take it as a compliment, it just seems unhealthily over-protective. (Plus Anne Rice used to be an idol of mine and now she seems to have gone off the rails completely writing-wise. I wonder if she's now ok with fanfiction written about the Vampire Chronicles given that she now seems to be disavowing the series?)