giftfic

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Etymology[edit]

gift +‎ fic

Noun[edit]

giftfic (plural giftfics)

  1. (fandom slang) A fanfic written for someone as a gift.
    • 2005 December 23, Erin Blair, “[all-xf] NEW: Never Again Aftermath 1/1 by Erin M. Blair”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative‎[1] (Usenet):
      This is a MSRPreservationSociety's Secret Santa giftfic for Devin.
    • 2019 April, Bridget Liang, Catherine Duchastel de Montrouge, “An Editorial of Sorts”, in Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, volume 8, number 2, page 8:
      These gift fics are often requests by neurodivergent fans for stories about a beloved character going through something they're going through usually with a positive outcome.
    • 2020, Deanna Almquist, "Comments, Gifts and Kudos: Community and Gift Economy in Harry Potter Fanfiction", thesis submitted to Minnesota State University, page 14:
      Often, I have observed gift-fics to be shorter in length, often of a pairing that the gift recipient enjoys.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:giftfic.
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