Citations:angstfic
Noun: "(countable, fandom slang) a fanfic which deals with tragic situations and themes"
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- 2002 March 19, what name, “Re: "Tabula Rasa", just seen it (Don't read this if spoilers hurt you)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer[5] (Usenet):
- The end was agonizing, though. Giles sitting on the flight, looking guilty as hell. There's a fab angstfic about what he was thinking then. (probably more than one.)
- 2003 July 28, Alara Rogers, “Hurt/comfort without comfort: realistic or pointless?”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated[6] (Usenet):
- While an angstfic can focus mostly on emotional pain and never resolve it, actually doing something awful to a character, such as torture, rape, maiming, that kind of thing, seems to require a payoff. Otherwise it seems gratuitous, and also as if you're inviting people to take pleasure in a character's suffering.
Noun: "(uncountable, fandom slang) such fan fiction collectively"
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- 2015, Katharine E. McCain, "Canon Vs. 'Fanon': Genre Devices In Contemporary Fanfiction", thesis submitted to Georgetown University, page 130:
- These are both popular fic tropes in which a character is either pining for another in an angst fic (unrequited) or both characters are fighting their feelings for various reasons (unresolved).
- 2019, Alena Pospíšilová, "Metamorphosis of Relationships in Harry Potter Fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Pardubice, page 63:
- The story can be characterised as a genfic (a general story, no romantic relationships), an alternate universe story (the story was written before The Half-Blood Prince was published, therefore it is canon divergent after the fifth book), family drama, and angst fic.