fanfic
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- noun
- /ˈfænˌfɪk/
- Jargon
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fanfic
- And fanfic that explores those fuzzy areas is exactly the kind of fanfic I tend to like best.
- write fanfic
- first fanfic
She will read classics and then turn around and she will read fanfic.
- She will read classics and then turn around and she will read fanfic.
- OK, but I have read or heard so much about Manacled, the fanfic about, I want to say it's like it's an AU obviously.
Examples
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I have a 20,000-word Nancy Grace fanfic in my draft right now.
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Fanfic certainly existed before copyright law; Arthurian legend, for instance, is fanfic all the way down.
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I think that highly depends upon the type of fanfic one is dealing with.
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Maybe the reason relates to your use of fanfic to explain what's left out of the story.
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In 1952, the world's first book of fanfic about fans appeared.
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And that whole question doesn't seem to apply to fanfic in the first place.
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Do you want to have a quiet discussion of how fanfic fits into readers' responses to a work?
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That's where I'd look for the first fanfic in the SF world.
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I'd call David A. Kyle's Lensmen stories fanfic, even though formally they were authorized spinoffs published professionally.
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After watching my favorite movie, I decided to write a fanfic featuring the main characters' adventures.
Synonyms
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Stories written as books about imaginary people and events
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A story written by fans that uses characters from a book or show
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A story fans write using people and places from books or films
A work made by fans from a book, movie, or game
Surface Forms
Morphology
fanfic = fan fiction (transparent) = fan + fic
Formed by shortening of 'fan fiction' (fan + fiction); the meaning is directly inferable for learners who know 'fan' and 'fiction'.
Etymology
Fanfic is a short form of two words, fan 'supporter' and fiction 'story'. It means a story made by fans using characters or places from a book, show, or movie, which is why we call those fan-made tales 'fanfic'.