darkfic

plural darkfics

1. countableslanglifestyleA fanfic which deals with disturbing situations and themes.

   This is supposed to be a darkfic? Darkfics tend to involve a great deal of suffering and/or death.

   2000 February 10, Chris Schack, “Re: [Ranma] [FanFic] The Surprise Announcement”, in rec.arts.anime.fandom (Usenet)

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   'Tides' is not in the narrow, torture-room sense a darkfic but does provocatively posit great destruction and suffering.

   2010, John Lennard, Of Sex and Faerie: Further Essays on Genre Fiction, page 283 (footnote)

   Like other forms of revisions, darkfics are “canon-corrective,” and specifically aimed at what are considered to be underdeveloped “images of intense violence and broody introspection,” which, if dealt with at all in the canons, are “forgotten by the time the next episode or issue comes around” (Fanlore, “Darkfic” n. pag.).

   2013, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, Malin Isaksson, Fanged Fan Fiction: Variations on Twilight, True Blood and the Vampire Diaries, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 116

2. slanguncountablelifestyleSuch fan fiction collectively.

   If you are that sensitive and can't seperate^([sic]) things, don't read darkfic - or fanfic in general.

   1998 January 27, MegaZone [username], “Re: Creating a Fanfic”, in rec.arts.anime.fandom (Usenet)

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   Fluffy romance differs dramatically from angst romance; the latter, however, usually conforms to the rule against sad endings (Radway 1984, 73), or becomes darkfic rather than romance.

   2006, Catherine Driscoll, “One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance”, in Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse, editors, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 85

   Darkfic creates a sense of realism stretching beyond the canons, lingering on the physical effects of traumatic events, and reading characters' reactions from the perspective of human psychology.

   2013, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, Malin Isaksson, Fanged Fan Fiction: Variations on Twilight, True Blood and the Vampire Diaries, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 116

   Synonyms: shockfic, sickfic