crackfic

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A form of crack fic — A work of fan fiction that is absurd, surprising or ridiculous, often intentionally.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nouncrackfic (countable and uncountable, plural crackfics)

plural crackfics

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of crack fic.

    […] and what a tragedy it was that I'd never finish my epic, multi-fandom, crossover crackfic saga (though there were not, in my opinion, nearly enough comments expressing this latter regret).

    2012, Helen Keeble, Fang Girl, HarperTeen, →ISBN
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    I have to disagree with you here, however; the content of the episode in question is the sort of thing I'd expect to find in a crackfic - written because it's too insane an idea to just be left alone, enjoyable in its own way but not remotely on the level of something actually *intended* to be good - and it isn't improved significantly IMO by having been animated.

    2005 November 19, The Wanderer [username], “Re: Naruto -- so, are we having fun, boys and girls?”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet)

    Some crackfic scenarios include characters transforming into animals, swapping bodies, swapping gender, swapping consciousnesses with inanimate objects, becoming inanimate objects, de-aging rapidly (from twenty-six to six in the space of seconds), and traveling through time (to name just a small handful).

    2009, Emily Turner, "Scary Just Got Sexy: Transgression in Supernatural and Its Fanfiction", in In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural (ed. Supernatural.tv), BenBella Books (2009), page 159

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