"Call us crazy but we want everyone to know about the wonderful phenomenon of the Xenaverse. So Xenites of the world unite! Be as crazy as we are and help us capture this amazing world created by the fans of Xena: Warrior Princess and preserve it for present and future generations to view with awe and envy, and for scholars to study and analyze and write scroll upon scroll of scholarly prose.
This series of scrolls, converted to the convenient book format, will contain personal stories and well-researched, in-depth essays covering all aspects of the Xenaverse."
Call me crazy, but while it's not in convenient book format, the Xenaverse cultural repository is over at Kym Taborn's Whoosh.org site. And though Whoosh hasn't been updated in a while, it was the place for writings about Xena and the Xenaverse, being the home of the International Association of Xena Studies. I think it's over 5 years too late to start trying to write about the Xenaverse, which basically imploded in 2001 once AFIN parts 1 & 2 were aired. Yes, there a lot of new fans (who, based on their current posts over at Talking Xena and the Xena Online Community were children during Xena's first run on TV) and yes, there are still some old fans about, those I call "Original Xena Fans" or OXFs -- MaryDs site is still up and very, very active. But, for the most part, what was once the Xenaverse, is gone, disbursed, scattered, etc.... I mean, have you seen how small the crowds are at Xena Conventions these days?
The Five Dinars' Tour of the Xenaverse
Fifteen Candlemarks of Fame: Celebrities of the Xenaverse
Herding Cats with Melissa Good: A Celebration of a Reluctant Merwolf
Beyond the Xenaverse: the Uber Phenomenon
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Your points are valid about the Xenaverse and that's the reason why we're trying to document the birth and growth of this popular cultural phenomenon before it completely fades away. But, as you say, there are new generations of people discovering Xena and the XenaCons still attract several thousand people. So it's a phenomenon that's not going to go away any time soon, it's just continuing to evolve.
We have discussed this project with Kym Taborn at Whoosh (at the XenaCon no less) and she's very enthusiastic about it and she also said it was time to capture it before it's gone.
We're approaching this as a scholar or historian would approach a subject and we hope contributors join in with the same kind of spirit.
Carrie Tierney
Rogue Books
Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company
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