I am somewhat nauseated by the number of people on that page who find the idea of fanfiction nauseating.

I don't self-identify as a writer the way I assume Diana Gabaldon does. It's not my passion, and it's never going to be my profession. If she really does have such a viscerally upsetting reaction to people celebrating her characters, then fine. She's as welcome to ask them to stop and anyone else is welcome to ask people to stop doing things.

I'm sort of amused by her suggestion that if people must use her characters, that they find-and-replace the names before going looking for an audience to praise them, to see if their writing is good enough. That crystallizes her lack of understanding of fandom, for me. I wish she could just take pride in having created characters that inspired people to tell stories.

Oh, well. I stopped reading her books when I was a teenager, anyway.