casefic

English

Etymology

From case +‎ fic.

Noun

casefic (plural casefics)

1. (fandom slang) A fanfic, typically based on a mystery or procedural franchise, which focuses on the solving of a case.
   • 1999 July 13, A. K. Finch, “If I wanted to have trouble sleeping...”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative‎^[1] (Usenet):

     ...what should I read? Looking for casefics mostly, as viscerally horrifying as possible?

   • 2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books, unnumbered page:

     There are excellent Sherlock fics that focus on mysteries—Verity Burns' “The Green Mile” is among the best known and most successful case fics, incorporating as it does a compelling plot and extensive deduction scenes while also exploring the relationship between Sherlock and John.

   • 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 23:

     The story is also a ‘casefic’, i.e. a story which revolves around the investigation of a crime: someone have been poisoning and killing alphas, and the resolution to the investigation turns out to have potentially groundbreaking consequences for Sherlock’s future, as well as for omegas in general.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:casefic.