Meanings
plural actorfics
- countableslanglifestyleA fanfic focusing on the imagined activities of a real actor or actors.
Somebody could put an actorfic under the show title or put an NC-17 story and rate it R.
2002 September 15, J. Juls, “RE: Fanfiction.net problems”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet)2 more examples
To me, actorfic would include any fic wherein there is an acknowledgement (even if they are in jokes) that DD and GA have something to do with M & S, which would make HAD an actorfic.
2000 May 5, Parenthetic [username], “Re: HAD question - "actor-fic"”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet)Short of actual actorfics (which don't seem to have reared their ugly heads mych^([sic]) recently), now & in the past, most references I've noticed tend to be harmless humourous^([sic]) little injokes in which, say, M or S discovers an old magazine in which the other appears in an embarassing^([sic]) photo identical to one of DD or GA's.
2003 March 4, pam, “Re: Long time gone, any recs?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet) - slanguncountablelifestyleSuch fan fiction collectively.
I've seen the occasional thing... and I know it is out there... but the suggestion I saw sort of implied that actorfic was more prevelant^([sic]) in the Star Trek fan fiction community.
2005 May 5, Laura Hale, “Re: Star Trek Actorfic”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet)2 more examples
I think your efforts might be better rewarded by trying to finish that and making it the best X-Files story you can, instead of writing actorfic which, by my definition, is *not* X-Files fanfic.
2000 March 26, Jintian Li, “Re: Decency question”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet)An early article on Slate, otherwise sympathetic to slash fiction, declared that "actorfic" violated fanfic's basic principle of being fantasy: "Writers risk enraging straight actors. Slash infuriates actors even when it focuses only on fictional characters."
2007, Kristin Thompson, The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 179
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