shipfic

English

Etymology

From ship (“relationship”) +‎ fic.

Noun

shipfic (countable and uncountable, plural shipfics)

1. (fandom slang) Fan fiction revolving around or dedicated to shipping.
   • 2001 December 6, Eva, “Re: 48 Hours: Please God, tell me that's not Daniel's replacement! ***Spoiler***”, in alt.tv.stargate-sg1‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Just make sure you don't let me know where your shipfic is available, won't you? <g>

   • 2003 August 20, Chistaya, “Re: and either must die at the hand of the other...”, in alt.fan.harry-potter‎^[2] (Usenet):

     HP slashfic gives me the creeps, not because of homophobia, but more because I get this imperceptible vibe that it's written by people who are obsessed with the movie stars, and in some peculiar way want to debase them because they can't have them. Actually, I shouldn't single out the slashfic. There's plenty of shipfic that gives me this same impression, too.

   • 2006 September 2, JACUK, “Re: What has happened to DW fanfic...?”, in alt.drwho.creative‎^[3] (Usenet):

     I've just started looking for DW fanfic to see if there's any Rose-meets-altuniverse-Doctor, and have been drowned in shipfic on places like ff.net (or whatever its^[sic] called now.

Coordinate terms

• slashfic

Related terms

• ship
• shipped
• shipper
• shipping