sickfic

English

Etymology

From sick +‎ fic.

Noun

sickfic (countable and uncountable, plural sickfics)

(fandom slang, countable) A fanfic which focuses on a character dealing with illness.
- 1999 October 26, Nicola Simpson, “Re: What About A 'Sick Fic Archive'????”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative‎^[1] (Usenet):
  A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I wrote a sickfic.
- 2001 March 23, Bracha Shahar, “Fic: Urgggg”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative‎^[2] (Usenet):
  Summary: A cliché little sickfic
- 2001 July 20, Medie, “FIC: Safety And Security (DSR) 1/1”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative‎^[3] (Usenet):
  This was written as a sickfic for the List Mom of ShoDDs. Glad you're feeling better DB!
(fandom slang, uncountable) Fanfiction which intentionally deals with disturbing situations and themes.
- 1997 April 8, B Jones, “Re: To all Fanfic authors...”, in rec.arts.anime.fandom‎^[4] (Usenet):
  Probably so he can post some truly disgusting darkfic/deathfic/sickfic/hatefic, like Soun doing ungodly things to his children as an explanation for their behaviour...or at least Kasumi.
- 1998 January 22, Soton, “Re: [POLL] Truly awful fanfics”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon‎^[5] (Usenet):
  But somehow, calling a^[sic] fanfic is giving it too much regard. Sickfic would be more like it.
- 1999 May 6, badfic, “Re: ScullyKinkStoriesBANNED”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative‎^[6] (Usenet):
  Sickfic is hard-core pornography with a thin gloss of XF over it, with themes such as sex with children, sex with animals, incest, rape, torture, and scat.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:sickfic.

Synonyms

(fan fiction dealing with disturbing situations and themes): darkfic, shockfic