And it's easy to stay stuck in those worlds when billions of words online keep them going to your heart's desire. An immersive universe, or, more often, mesmerizing characters can sometimes be so gripping that fans have a hard time letting go. Fanfiction was birthed out of the desire to experience more, to reimagine or recreate, or perhaps even to reestablish what its world deems to be 'real.' Sometimes this is done out of dissatisfaction over a story's outcome, but other times, it's quite the opposite.
