Fan fiction has
transformed over the past couple of decades. What was once fiction based on the
explicitly viewed actions of popular characters, is now more commonly just fans
writing different endings, scenarios, and plots of their favorite movies, TV
shows, and books.
FanFiction.net
is one of the most popular and widely used fan fiction archives in the world.This past
summer, it purged 62,000 stories when they changed their eighteen and over age
policy to allow people under the age of eighteen to register.
FanFiction.Net
allows content with a K-M Fiction Rating. They have not allowed MA (Mature
Audience) fiction since 2002.
Although some
fan fictions are still of the rated “R” variety, such as E.L. James’ Fifty Shades Trilogy, others have merely
created different lives for popular characters.
Some of the most
popular characters that writers incorporate into fan fiction are the characters
of Harry Potter, Bella and Edward, Katniss and Peeta, and the list goes on and
on.
The best thing
about fan fiction is that you can find some really entertaining stories and you
can also read them for free!
I am currently
reading a twilight fan fiction called The Cullen Campaign. It's about Bella, a right-wing republican, and Edward, a
left-wing democrat who find each other fascinating and challenging.
(Besides Bella looking demonic in this picture, Edward is looking a little too Cedric Diggory for me.)
So what’s the
problem? Their families have been political rivals for the past century. This
is a modern day interpretation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Will they end up
together? Or will they allow their political affiliations and their political
parents keep them a part?
Other characters
from the Twilight Saga have been
intermixed into the plot as well. For example, Jacob and Alice are married!
Alice still has her psychic abilities, but Jacob isn’t a werewolf and none of
the characters are vampires. I had hoped to finish this before the 2012 US election, but all that political jargon in reality and in fiction was making my head spin :)
Hopefully, now that the election is over I can make another go at it!
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