actorfic

English

Etymology

actor +‎ fic

Noun

actorfic (countable and uncountable, plural actorfics)

1. (countable, fandom slang) A fanfic focusing on the imagined activities of a real actor or actors.
   • 2000 May 5, Parenthetic [username], “Re: HAD question - "actor-fic"”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative‎^[1] (Usenet):

     To me, actorfic would include any fic wherein there is an acknowledgement (even if they are in jokes) that DD and GA have something to do with M & S, which would make HAD an actorfic.

   • 2002 September 15, J. Juls, “RE: Fanfiction.net problems”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Somebody could put an actorfic under the show title or put an NC-17 story and rate it R.

   • 2003 March 4, pam, “Re: Long time gone, any recs?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative‎^[3] (Usenet):

     Short of actual actorfics (which don't seem to have reared their ugly heads mych^[sic] recently), now & in the past, most references I've noticed tend to be harmless humourous^[sic] little injokes in which, say, M or S discovers an old magazine in which the other appears in an embarassing^[sic] photo identical to one of DD or GA's.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:actorfic.
2. (uncountable, fandom slang) Such fan fiction collectively.
   • 2000 March 26, Jintian Li, “Re: Decency question”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative‎^[4] (Usenet):

     I think your efforts might be better rewarded by trying to finish that and making it the best X-Files story you can, instead of writing actorfic which, by my definition, is *not* X-Files fanfic.

   • 2005 May 5, Laura Hale, “Re: Star Trek Actorfic”, in alt.startrek.creative‎^[5] (Usenet):

     I've seen the occasional thing... and I know it is out there... but the suggestion I saw sort of implied that actorfic was more prevelant^[sic] in the Star Trek fan fiction community.

   • 2007, Kristin Thompson, The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 179:

     An early article on Slate, otherwise sympathetic to slash fiction, declared that "actorfic" violated fanfic's basic principle of being fantasy: "Writers risk enraging straight actors. Slash infuriates actors even when it focuses only on fictional characters."

Hypernyms

• real person fiction