Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160626203649/@comment-26397825-20160706105444

Why not? Lots of people do it. You should see some of the fanfiction that floats around for both RWBY and other fandoms. They go way off the deep end when it comes to actually keeping important plot points from the main story in the fanfic.

And let us not forget that Fifty Shades of Grey was originally written as Twilight fanfiction.