Citations:fluff

English citations of fluff

Noun: "(fandom slang) fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweet and feel-good in tone, usually involving romance"

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• 2010, John Lennard, Of Sex and Faerie: Further Essays on Genre Fiction, page 287:

  In fanfic terms this makes it fluff, idealistic (and often romantic) feelgood fic that gives readers WAFF—'Warm and Fuzzy Feelings'.

• 2011, anonymous, quoted in Katherine Larsen & Lynn Zubernis, Fandom at the Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/producer Relationships, page 138:

  And when something triggers, I can close the window and go read fluff for hours until I calm down.

• 2013, Lauren Billings, "Million Words", in Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 196:

  […] but as I grew aware of the sheer size of the [Twilight] community, my obsession expanded to reading all of these stories. All Human, canon vamp, crossover. Slash, poly, BDSM. Angst, fluff, you name it.

• 2014, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth & Malin Isaksson, Fanged Fan Fiction: Variations on Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries, page 46:

  Some genre labels are recognizable also for someone not used to browsing fanfic archives, such as romance, mystery and horror, whereas subgenres such as mpreg (male pregnancy), hurt/comfort (where one character suffers and another consoles) or fluff (an often humorous story depicting a minor event) require a certain level of knowledge on the part of the reader to be decipherable.

• 2015, Amanda K. Allen, "Social Networking, Participatory Culture and the Fandom World of Harry Potter", in Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture (eds. Gail Ashton), page 280:

  Explicit norms may include guidelines, restrictions, reader feedback, labels labels and paratextual warnings ('fluff' suggests a light, romantic story; […]

• 2017, "Flourish Kink", quoted in Ashley J. Barner, The Case for Fanfiction: Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft, page 67:

  Fans prefer fluff to other types of fic. But angst (dramatic stories where characters have a wide range of emotions, including...angsty ones) comes in close second.

• 2017, Carrie DiRisio, Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me, unnumbered page:

  Ah, fluff. My happy place. These fics are dedicated to feel-good feelings, which are the very best type of feelings.

• 2018, Emily E. Roach, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Closet: Queerbaiting, Slash Shipping and The Cursed Child", in Harry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse (eds. Amanda Firestone & Leisa A. Clark), page 133:

  Many of the early studies also focused on the inherently romantic and/or pornographic nature of slash fiction, which doesn't account for the wide variety of fan works from fluff to dark fic, a study which is beyond the scope of this paper.

• 2019, Svenja Hohenstein, Girl Warriors: Feminist Revisions of the Hero's Quest in Contemporary Popular Culture, page 148:

  The diversification also shows itself in the range of subgenres, with hurt/comfort, fluff, AU (alternate universe), angst, first time, […]

• 2019, Andrew Murray, Information Technology Law: The Law and Society, page 258:

  Fanfic may be in many forms from fluff (a happy story) to smut (sexually explicit or pornographic).