What Does This Mean?
A fanfic or other work that reads on its own, without needing earlier or later installments; in fandom it is often used much like one-shot, though a work set in a shared universe can still be called standalone if it needs no other story to follow it.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""It's set in the same universe, but it's a standalone, so you can start here.""
LORE & ORIGIN
Wiktionary treats standalone as a spelling of stand-alone, an adjective and noun for something that works independently. Its fanfiction sense, a story outside a multi-part series, is common on AO3; a fan exchange page also asks that gifts stand alone. Recent term; no dated source found yet for the fandom sense.
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