Published on 14 July 2013 by Eurovicious - Read more from this
author  Eurovision Dino RunesBuckle up because things are about
to get really strange.  Last week I looked at Eurovision fan
culture on Instagram and tumblr - this week I'm looking at
Eurovision fan fiction. What is this? If you've not come across
the term before, "fan fiction" is pretty much what it sounds
like - stories of variable quality (ie. mostly terrible) written
by people on the internet who are fans of particular books,
films, TV shows, video games and so on, largely in the fantasy
genre. It's a little-known but vast world - Harry Potter,
Twilight and Lord Of The Rings alone account for hundreds of
thousands of fan-written stories on the internet. The most
famous work of fan fiction - in fact, the only famous one - is
50 Shades Of Gray. It and its two sequels were originally
written as a mammoth Twilight fan fiction called Master of the
Universe which was published online in full; protagonists Ana
and Christian were originally named Bell