Fanfiction writers are creative with all types of media - it's part of the culture to go wild with experimental ideas and have fun with them, laughing together

Fanfiction writers are creative with all types of media - it's part of the culture to go wild with experimental ideas and have fun with them, laughing together about it. Well-established characters mean that you have more common elements between stories, but humans find infinite stories to tell (and when you get bored of telling normal stories, you make up "alternate universe" stories for your favorite characters). The various kinds of Sherlock Holmes fanfiction are usually more serious than these Minesweeper stories, but that's more about them being based on more serious/complex material. (I have read a lot of fanfiction.)