From baby + fic.
babyfic (countable and uncountable, plural babyfics)
- (countable, fandom slang) A fanfic which focuses on one or more characters welcoming and/or caring for a baby.
1999 February 21, JenR13 [username], “EW: "Meant to Be?" Chapter 4/? by Jen”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[1] (Usenet):I wrote a true "babyfic", but I’m a sap at heart and this probably shows my true sappiness. :-)
2000 May 28, kbxf [username], “xfc: NEW: Shades of Blue (1/2) by KatyBlue”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[2] (Usenet):Hoo boy... who ever thought I would write a babyfic either? CC made me do it!
2003 August 30, Rocky, “Re: NEW:VOY "Life Support" 1/1 [PG-13] J/C (challenge)”, in alt.startrek.creative[3] (Usenet):I'm sure there are at least a few 'babyfics' out there like that, complete with diapers.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:babyfic.
- (uncountable, fandom slang) Such fan fiction collectively.
1998 September 6, JenRose, “Rec: Iolokus IV: Res Judicata- Actually ranting, raving praise.”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[4] (Usenet):This is babyfic with a realistic drooly biting babbler in the starring role.
2001 May 20, Daska K., “Beware the onslaught....”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[5] (Usenet):Yep, we're headed for an onslaught of sappy babyfic. Hang onto your hats, girls and boys! <g>
2003 April, Robin Silbergleid, “'The Truth We Both Know': Readerly Desire and Heteronarrative in The X-Files”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 25, number 3, page 61:Whereas fan fiction has been understood to be primarily about sex and subversive readings — as Jenkins' work on female fans and "slash" suggests — babyfic on the other hand, demonstrates the need to contain and work through the extreme possibilities of the canon.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:babyfic.
