bandfic

English

Etymology

From band +‎ fic.

Noun

bandfic (countable and uncountable, plural bandfics)

1. (fandom slang) Fan fiction focusing on the imagined activities of a real musician or musicians.
   • 2002 April 14, LadyCyrrh [username], “[ART] The Annex Reviews, 4/14/02”, in alt.sex.stories.gay.moderated‎^[1] (Usenet):

     However, no other site I've seen boasts as much bandfic as Fanfiction. net. The Musical Groups section contained 140 different singers and bands, from oldies (Beatles) to rap-metal (Korn, System of a Down) to rap (Li'l Bow Wow, Sisquo^[sic]) and pop (Britney, N'Sync, Aaron Carter) with many more uncategorized artists listed under Miscellaneous.

   • 2002 September 22, Mary Ellen Curtin, “Re: Fanfiction.net problems”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Fandom as a whole would be better served by having separate LoTR, HP, and bandfic archives, for a start.

   • 2008 July 15, Keith Goetzman, “Is Fan Fiction Flouting the Law?”, in Utne Reader:

     Westcott doesn’t even consider the thornier question of fan fiction based on real and often living people, for instance, the “bandslash” or “bandfic” phenomenon built around rock-star characters and often homoerotic subplots.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bandfic.

Hypernyms

• real person fiction

Hyponyms

• Hanfic
• Moffic