Etymology
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angst + fic
angstfic (countable and uncountable, plural angstfics)
- (countable, fandom slang) A fanfic which deals with tragic situations and themes.
1999 May 13, Meech the Brown Hornet [username], “Re: [Polls] Another Superfluous poll - Fanfics”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon[1] (Usenet):Yes, as a matter of fact, I'm rather fond of darkfics, or angstfics, or tragic hero fics.
2001 June 12, Prince Charon [username], “Challenge: Season One”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative[2] (Usenet):Depressed by all these post-'Gift' angstfics, I'm offering this challenge: write a fic set in the (relatively) happy and innocent days of Season One.
2003 July 28, Alara Rogers, “Hurt/comfort without comfort: realistic or pointless?”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated[3] (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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:angstfic.
- (uncountable, fandom slang) Such fan fiction collectively
1999 February 6, Kipler, “Re: Unscrupulous Folks Afoot”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[4] (Usenet):We may flame each other out every couple of weeks, but woe to anyone who steals our angstfic and puts FRAN DRESCHER in the Scully role!
2001 September 28, Charles Glasgow, “Re: FIC - Almost Paradise: 1/4 (W/X)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative[5] (Usenet):Be warned, this is gonna be anything but pure comfortfic or mushfic. Or pure angstfic, for that matter.
2002 April 27, Kapitano [username], “Re: Research”, in uk.gay-lesbian-bi[6] (Usenet):"Among slashfen, angstfic and H/C are valued, but Mary Sue avatars, ATG, and actorslash belong only in badfic. HP is Chan, and Yaoi can be ecchi."
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:angstfic.
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