spamfic

English

Etymology

From spam +‎ fic, the implication being that such fanfics flood newsgroups or archives.

Noun

spamfic (plural spamfics)

1. (fandom slang) A short or quickly-written fanfic.
   • 1998 June 8, Gary Kleppe, “[Ranma][Fanfic] Tangled Web”, in rec.arts.anime.creative‎^[1] (Usenet):

     This was originally supposed to be just a quickie spamfic -- but as I wrote, many of the relationships expanded and took on lives of their own, as I started to almost believe that they were possible.

   • 1999 June 14, Mordaxy, “[Ranma][Fanfic] "It's Too Perilous..."”, in rec.arts.anime.creative‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Not that most of what I write ISN'T silly, but it's usually not this short. I generally refer to this as my spamfic.

   • 2000 March 27, Oliver Reyes, “[Ranma][FanFic] Secrets - Genma Saotome”, in rec.arts.anime.creative‎^[3] (Usenet):

     It's gonna be a series of short spamfics that add up to a bigger collection called "Confession".

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

Synonyms

• drabble, flashfic