Citations:Xenaverse

English citations of Xenaverse

Proper noun: "(fandom slang) the fictional universe depicted in the Xena: Warrior Princess series" edit

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1997 April 30, Tony DeBari, “Re: Poseidon ripped off”, in alt.tv.xena‎^[1] (Usenet):
Besides, as someone else posted, the Gods of the Xenaverse seem to never interfere in the lives of mortals, preferring instead to act though one or more third parties.
1998, Greg Cox, Battle On!: An Unauthorized, Irreverent Look at Xena: Warrior Princess, page 88:
Guess things are different in the Xenaverse. Maybe Ares and the other gods don't like competition?
1998, Robert Weisbrot, Xena: Warrior Princess: The Official Guide to the Xenaverse
1999 June 13, Jess Carey, “Re: Olympic Gods and Reincarnation”, in alt.tv.xena‎^[2] (Usenet):
So, even if most people in Xenaverse convert to Christianity, as long as some people still honor the Greek gods, they will exist.
1999 July 28, Debbie Stressner, “Re: A Serious Issue About Ides Of March(spoilers)”, in alt.tv.xena‎^[3] (Usenet):
It appears that the gods/goddesses of the Xenaverse (and Herc's universe) are regional phenomena.
1999 July 29, Lloyd A. White, “Re: A feeling of dread..(and "The Mess")...spoilers”, in alt.tv.xena‎^[4] (Usenet):
Death has always been pretty meaningless in the Xenaverse, but now it is used for cheap plot devices on a regular bases.
2000 January 31, Bill Steele, “Re: WHY is Xena PREGNANT????”, in alt.tv.xena‎^[5] (Usenet):
I think that in the Xenaverse, just as we see a version of the Greek gods that doesn't quite match classic mythology, we are also seeing a "fictional" one omnipotent God, not to be confused with any real god, living or dead.
2000 March 19, Bohemia125, “Amazons, That is the Question”, in alt.tv.xena‎^[6] (Usenet):
TPTB begin their removal of key Amazon characters from the Xenaverse.
2000 March 20, Nuncio, “Re: FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Lifeblood (spoilers)”, in alt.tv.xena‎^[7] (Usenet):
And it seems like only last week we were laughing about the fact that no-one stays dead in the Xenaverse.
2005, "Doris", quoted in Sue Austin, Women's Aggressive Fantasies: A Post-Jungian Exploration of Self-hatred, Love and Agency, page 22:
The show is an amazing foray into women's expressions of rage — there's a lot of other women in the Xenaverse with a penchant for feats of arms […]
2013, Jennifer Sky, "My Life as a Warrior Princess", The New York Times, 9 September 2013:
Gender was not relevant in the Xenaverse. There, a girl or a boy could be a warlord or a farmer, a bard or a sad sack needing protection.

Proper noun: "(fandom slang) the fandom of Xena: Warrior Princess" edit

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2002, Jo Marriott & Carly Bramwell, "Maid Marion, Meet Xena", in How Xena Changed Our Lives: True Stories by Fans for Fans (ed. Nikki Stafford), page 72:
Many wonderful people and events have come into our lives from being part of the Xenaverse.
2003, Sara Gwellian-Jones, "Histories, Fictions and Xena: Warrior Princess", in The Audience Studies Reader (eds. Will Brooker & Deborah Jermyn), page 188:
The task of mapping the online Xenaverse is, of course, an impossible one. The Xenaverse is too expansive, too unstructured, too fluid and fast moving to be charted; […]
2005, Anik LaChev, "Fan Fiction: A Genre And Its (Final?) Frontiers", Spectator, Volume 25, Number 1, Spring 2005, page 91:
For instance, when I lived in Italy a couple of years ago, I stumbled across the Italian Xenaverse.
2017, Liz Millward, Janice G. Dodd, & Irene Fubara-Manuel, Killing Off the Lesbians: A Symbolic Annihilation on Film and Television, page 142:
Because the internet was anonymous and easy to access the number of people who actively participated in the Xenaverse was much higher than would ever had^[sic] been involved in more traditional fandoms (Gwenllian Jones 407).