This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Cassius335: Put this in Fan-Speak for lack of a better idea...
Shay Guy: How exactly is Bob And George one of these? The example I gave in YKTTW was a set of fics from another author
, though he also has his own take on the Cataclysm (though he doesn't call it that).
Sniffnoy: Hm, I guess I missed the point there. I included it because there's the whole webcomic, plus the several cataclysm videos, and several of the subcomics seem to use the same continuity, IIRC... but I guess that falls on the "just a few" side of the line, huh?
nwj: Is this trope meant to refer to a group of linked fanfic stories or to the shared setting of the group of stories?
Looney Toons: It refers to a setting created by a group of linked fanfic stories; of a necessity, the two cannot be separated. It is impossible to discuss the setting of Thy Outward Part, for instance, without discussing the events in those stories which make it different from canon Ranma 1/2.
nwj: I understand the interrelationship of "story" and "setting" here, but my confusion arose because one would use the term Fan Verse slightly differently depending upon exactly which it refers to, and the entry seemed unclear on this point. If I understand your answer correctly, Fan Verse refers to the setting, not the stories themselves per se. Therefore, for example, one should not say, "This twelve-part Fan Verse is very well plotted, but the author's spelling sucks", in the way that one might say "This Revenge Fic is very well plotted, but the author's spelling sucks." One could, however, say, "The twelve stories set in this Fan Verse are all well plotted, but the author's spelling sucks." Am I correct?
Looney Toons: Yes, for our purposes here that would be the correct usage. Fan Verse means the setting, and the setting is not the story.
FA: I remember a buttload of fanverses (made up of every type and subtype of fanfiction you could name) for Buffy the Vampire Slayer back during 95?-02?. I don't have links, and it seems like the existence of these is notable as a beginning of the pratice. (Also links to archive.org'd pages would be great.)
There are others - a great many for Trek and Wars and other scifi. Here I will mention there are two different types of fanverses, the long arcs, which are/were made up of a great many 'chapters' (the length of which was normal 'fanfic' length), which are well and above the majority that meet the definition put in the article. Perhaps we should mention the difference somehow- like having 'Major Fenverse' and 'Fanverse' as types of the term?
- The biggest of the Star Trek fan Universes may be the [Star Traks universe. This Fan Universe covers parodies of TOS, TNG, DS 9. Unlike the normal Trek Universe, there are human-owned businesses (Dillon Enterprises), Reversals of [[The Captain]], and other Trek Tropes (Tho Planet of Hats seems to apply too).
- Maybe Star Traks could use a page of its own??? its huge after all, 9 or ten series in its fanverse. Also puts X-Files IN THE 23rd CENTURY!!!.
Lastly, I should mention that these fanverses were made up of other fanfiction tropes, nominally the crossover and the fan pairing.
