1999 April 24, Harper, “"The Irony of Lies" by Brenna”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[1] (Usenet):
I can't say anything else except that if you like angstfics at all, get a copy of this. Now.
1999 May 13, Meech the Brown Hornet [username], “Re: [Polls] Another Superfluous poll - Fanfics”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon[2] (Usenet):
Yes, as a matter of fact, I'm rather fond of darkfics, or angstfics, or tragic hero fics.
2001 June 12, Prince Charon [username], “Challenge: Season One”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative[3] (Usenet):
Depressed by all these post-'Gift' angstfics, I'm offering this challenge: write a fic set in the (relatively) happy and innocent days of Season One.
2001 June 20, Kouryuu Gendou Knepper, “[Ranma][FanFic] Dark Revenant”, in rec.arts.anime.creative[4] (Usenet):
Darkfics. Angstfics. Sadfics. Realfics. Anything you *can't* do?
2002 March 19, what name, “Re: "Tabula Rasa", just seen it (Don't read this if spoilers hurt you)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer[5] (Usenet):
The end was agonizing, though. Giles sitting on the flight, looking guilty as hell. There's a fab angstfic about what he was thinking then. (probably more than one.)
2003 July 28, Alara Rogers, “Hurt/comfort without comfort: realistic or pointless?”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated[6] (Usenet):
While an angstfic can focus mostly on emotional pain and never resolve it, actually doing something awful to a character, such as torture, rape, maiming, that kind of thing, seems to require a payoff. Otherwise it seems gratuitous, and also as if you're inviting people to take pleasure in a character's suffering.
2004 September 23, Farfalla, “All-Ages Kirk/Spock Archive update: Amok Time angst, mistletoe, whales”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated[7] (Usenet):
Added a post-Amok-Time angstfic by Ster Julie called"Seeds of Virtue, Seeds of Vice."
2005 February 11, Farfalla, “All-Ages Kirk/Spock Archive update: angstfic & tribbles”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated[8] (Usenet):
Her story is an angstfic set after "The Deadly Years", called "Restored."
Noun: "(uncountable, fandom slang) such fan fiction collectively"
1998 June 13, AdmiralTAG, “A/U TSU [Was Re: One Final Time (TNG, P/C, NC-17, 1/1)]”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated[9] (Usenet):
Now--aren't you glad I write angstfic instead? :-)
1999 January 2, Silver Fox, “::waves::”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[10] (Usenet):
Expect some juicy nc-17 emotion/angstfic comin' your way.
1999 February 6, Kipler, “Re: Unscrupulous Folks Afoot”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[11] (Usenet):
We may flame each other out every couple of weeks, but woe to anyone who steals our angstfic and puts FRAN DRESCHER in the Scully role!
2001 September 28, Charles Glasgow, “Re: FIC - Almost Paradise: 1/4 (W/X)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative[12] (Usenet):
Be warned, this is gonna be anything but pure comfortfic or mushfic. Or pure angstfic, for that matter.
2002 April 27, Kapitano [username], “Re: Research”, in uk.gay-lesbian-bi[13] (Usenet):
"Among slashfen, angstfic and H/C are valued, but Mary Sue avatars, ATG, and actorslash belong only in badfic. HP is Chan, and Yaoi can be ecchi."
2015, Katharine E. McCain, "Canon Vs. 'Fanon': Genre Devices In Contemporary Fanfiction", thesis submitted to Georgetown University, page 130:
These are both popular fic tropes in which a character is either pining for another in an angst fic (unrequited) or both characters are fighting their feelings for various reasons (unresolved).
2019, Alena Pospíšilová, "Metamorphosis of Relationships in Harry Potter Fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Pardubice, page 63:
The story can be characterised as a genfic (a general story, no romantic relationships), an alternate universe story (the story was written before The Half-Blood Prince was published, therefore it is canon divergent after the fifth book), family drama, and angst fic.