Apropos of nothing… On fanfiction.net, there is a whole category dedicated to fan written fiction based on plays and musicals.

Mostly sequels to or off-shoots from popular Broadway/West End plays and musicals, the tribute pieces run the gamut from Aida to Zombie Prom.

Rent is the hottest contender with well over double the entries (6710!) of its nearest followers Wicked (3,006) and Cats (1,477) and

In a way it’s much more innocent than slash fiction (sexual stories about your favorite characters) but twice as perplexing, for instance this “pre-slash” story in which Sweeney Todd starts to think he might be getting a chubby for one of his victims.

What’s most upsetting is that Seussical has two romance spinoffs; both written by user “FunkyWatermelon” whose paragraphless repertoire is comprised entirely of romance/humor between Disney’s third tier supporting characters. Scrooge McDuck, finally getting some.