About: Elsewhere Fic   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

There are two kinds of Elsewhere Fic. The first is clearly inspired by the canon, but happens entirely elsewhere. It contains none of the canon events or characters, often none of the locations, only Original Characters. So, there's very little chance of damaging continuity or having canon characters act Out Of Character. So no Kirk, no Mulder, no Joey Potter ... just original characters. Thus you might have (say) a Buffy fic dealing with a Slayer in Ancient Egypt or a Star Wars fic about a Wookiee Jedi in the Old Republic. Examples of Elsewhere Fic include:

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Elsewhere Fic
rdfs:comment
  • There are two kinds of Elsewhere Fic. The first is clearly inspired by the canon, but happens entirely elsewhere. It contains none of the canon events or characters, often none of the locations, only Original Characters. So, there's very little chance of damaging continuity or having canon characters act Out Of Character. So no Kirk, no Mulder, no Joey Potter ... just original characters. Thus you might have (say) a Buffy fic dealing with a Slayer in Ancient Egypt or a Star Wars fic about a Wookiee Jedi in the Old Republic. Examples of Elsewhere Fic include:
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:all-the-tro...iPageUsesTemplate
dbkwik:allthetrope...iPageUsesTemplate
abstract
  • There are two kinds of Elsewhere Fic. The first is clearly inspired by the canon, but happens entirely elsewhere. It contains none of the canon events or characters, often none of the locations, only Original Characters. So, there's very little chance of damaging continuity or having canon characters act Out Of Character. So no Kirk, no Mulder, no Joey Potter ... just original characters. Thus you might have (say) a Buffy fic dealing with a Slayer in Ancient Egypt or a Star Wars fic about a Wookiee Jedi in the Old Republic. The second type takes place somewhat closer to canon. With a canon location, there will be canon characters doing canon things. They may appear in cameos and small roles, but the real story revolves around one or more Original Characters. Writers new to the Elsewhere Fic may turn this into a Mary Sue fic, with the canon characters existing only to heap praise on the OC, but better examples have the canon characters around only to give the OC their next mission, or to emphasise the universe the fic is set in, sitting around in bars and talking about their missions. The result is something a bit like the relationship between the various Star Trek series: set in the same universe but telling a different story. An Expanded Universe typically includes professional examples of this. Compare to Period Fic, which does sets fanfic in a different time. Contrast with Transplanted Character Fic which supposedly does focus on canon characters, but drops almost everything canon about them. Not to be confused with fic for St Elsewhere. Examples of Elsewhere Fic include:
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software