Citations:Joss

English citations of Joss

Verb: "(fandom slang) to invalidate a fan theory or original element of a fanwork through the introduction of new canon or retconning"

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• 2000 February 20, Mike Zeares, “Re: THIS YEARS GIRL(MAJOR SPOILERS)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer‎^[1] (Usenet):

  And another old skiffy cliche gets Jossed.

• 2000 June 13, ebailey140 [username], “More Restless thoughts, this time from SunS”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer‎^[2] (Usenet):

  I also hate Joss because he confirmed the extreme antiquity of Slayerdom, a concept that has been niggling at the back of my mind since "Beer Bad", without actually Jossing the nebulous zygote of possible fic that was conceived at that time.

• 2000 December 25, Shanna, “Holiday at the Hyperion (2/2)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative‎^[3] (Usenet):

  Author's note part 2: I'm leaving it to the imagination of the reader what Cordelia saw of her future. Writing that out would be asking to be Jossed.

• 2001 February 16, Miriam Rocke, “Re: *~*~*~*~* abe Quiz Question VI *~*~*~*~*”, in alt.buffy.europe‎^[4] (Usenet):

  It's nice because I've got the rules and characters of the Buffyverse to work with, but aside from a few logic points -- characters that are alive / dead / vamped by the time of The Wish -- it's basically free reign for me, and very little chance of being Jossed.

• 2001 March 11, Mike Zeares, “Re: List of Known Slayers”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer‎^[5] (Usenet):

  There's absolutely no evidence for any of this, so we can happily debate it until we're Jossed.

• 2001 October 20, Sarah Trombley, “Re: Cut Scenes from Carpe Noctem Script”, in alt.tv.angel‎^[6] (Usenet):

  I have this pet theory which will no doubt be Jossed (Greenwalted?) sooner or later. That Wes's dad is not a Watcher, but someone wealthy and financially connected with the Council (if they have all that influence, at least some of the people involved must know who they are)--in short, some kind of profiteer in the war against the forces of evil.

• 2003 December 5, Paul Gadzikowski, “Re: best Jossed fics”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative‎^[7] (Usenet):

  The element that got Jossed was that, in the first version I posted, Cordelia summered in Sunnydale. The third season premiere Jossed that element.

• 2005 December 5, heidi8 [username], “New Essay Archive at HPInkPot.com”, in alt.fan.harry-potter‎^[8] (Usenet):

  Even if your pet subject was "Jossed" by HBP (in other words, your theorizing was annihalated^[sic] or impacted by a canon development) we'd love to have your archival works on HPInkPot - just select "pre-HBP" in the "when was this work written?" section.

• 2019, Dustin Dunaway, "Un-Warren-Ted: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Transgressive Fandom", in Transmediating the Whedonverse(s): Essays on Texts, Paratexts, and Metatexts (eds. Julie L. Hawk & Juliette C. Kitchens), page 27:

  Characters were “Jossed” when they were killed off, but when creators write canon that countermands fanon, head canon, or even deuterocanon, the fan-canon is said to have been "Jossed."