Twific

English

Etymology

Blend of twilight +‎ fic.

Noun

Twific (plural Twifics)

1. (fandom slang) A fanfic based on the Twilight novel series and the associated films.
   • 2011, Malin Isaksson, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, “Gazing, initiating, desiring: Alternative constructions of agency and sex in Twifics”, in Mariah Larsson, Ann Steiner, editors, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twilight: Studies in Fiction, Media and a Contemporary Cultural Experience, Nordic Academic Press, →ISBN, page 128:

     Finally, in the third section, we discuss Bella's enhanced agency in Twifics in which authors give her a desiring gaze that is not limited to Edward.

   • 2012, Eva Strýčková, "How the Vampire in a Volvo Ran Over the Prince on a White Horse: The 'Twilight Saga' and its Influence on the Phenomenon of Vampires", thesis submitted to Tomas Bata University, page 40:

     Regarding to^[sic] a huge number of Twifics, it is impossible to make some general claims about them because the genre and the level of originality depend on the skills and age of an individual writer.

   • 2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World‎^[1], BenBella Books, →ISBN:

     Shades obviously riffs on that story as well as on other popular Twifics.