Game of the Week: The secret to Baldur's Gate 3's success is fanfiction
Just give me ursine.
I remember visiting the Fantasy: Realms of Imagination exhibition at the British Library and being quite taken with how it featured - and therefore recognised - fanfiction. There in a digital exhibit counting the tens of thousands of stories written about famous fantasy worlds, it seemed to declare these stories a crucial part of how fantasy exists now. In a sense, it portrayed fanfiction as the lifeblood of fantasy, pumping it around the world, keeping it alive.
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