sickfic

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noun

A fanfic which focuses on a character dealing with illness.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounsickfic (countable and uncountable, plural sickfics)

plural sickfics

  1. countableslanglifestyleA fanfic which focuses on a character dealing with illness.

    Summary: A cliché little sickfic

    2001 March 23, Bracha Shahar, “Fic: Urgggg”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet)
    2 more examples

    A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I wrote a sickfic.

    1999 October 26, Nicola Simpson, “Re: What About A 'Sick Fic Archive'????”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet)

    This was written as a sickfic for the List Mom of ShoDDs. Glad you're feeling better DB!

    2001 July 20, Medie, “FIC: Safety And Security (DSR) 1/1”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet)
  2. slanguncountablelifestyleFanfiction which intentionally deals with disturbing situations and themes.

    But somehow, calling a^([sic]) fanfic is giving it too much regard. Sickfic would be more like it.

    1998 January 22, Soton, “Re: [POLL] Truly awful fanfics”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon (Usenet)
    2 more examples

    Probably so he can post some truly disgusting darkfic/deathfic/sickfic/hatefic, like Soun doing ungodly things to his children as an explanation for their behaviour...or at least Kasumi.

    1997 April 8, B Jones, “Re: To all Fanfic authors...”, in rec.arts.anime.fandom (Usenet)

    Sickfic is hard-core pornography with a thin gloss of XF over it, with themes such as sex with children, sex with animals, incest, rape, torture, and scat.

    1999 May 6, badfic, “Re: ScullyKinkStoriesBANNED”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet)

Synonyms & antonyms

fan fiction dealing with disturbing situations and themes

Origin

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