I used to outright hate fanfiction, and a part of me still thinks it's lazy on the part of writers to use characters that someone else has already created and developed - but in cases where I felt the original story was lacking in some way I sort of came to enjoy it (Gundam Wing (Heero and Duo were meant to be, man), Sailor Moon (Usagi should have ended up with Seiya.), the HP (ok, HP wasn't lacking but I enjoy reading Harry and Draco get it on not gonna lie)).
I really really enjoy Mercedes Lackey's books (some of them anyway) and I stay away from fanfic of her works like the plague because I don't want to see her characters' personalities completely butchered... uhhh I have no idea where I was going with this.

Anyway Diana Gabaldon's books kind of suck and are thinly veiled historical porn fiction, so I feel she deserves whatever backlash she gets! Oh god, I'm an awful person.

<3 I like your posts.