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actorfic en · NOUN

Etymology

From actor + fic.

Meanings

  1. (countable, slang) A fanfic focusing on the imagined activities of a real actor or actors.
    • Somebody could put an actorfic under the show title or put an NC-17 story and rate it R. 2002 September 15, J. Juls, “RE: Fanfiction.net problems”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):
    • To me, actorfic would include any fic wherein there is an acknowledgement (even if they are in jokes) that DD and GA have something to do with M & S, which would make HAD an actorfic. 2000 May 5, Parenthetic [username], “Re: HAD question - "actor-fic"”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
    • Short of actual actorfics (which don't seem to have reared their ugly heads mych^([sic]) recently), now & in the past, most references I've noticed tend to be harmless humourous^([sic]) little injokes in which, say, M or S discovers an old magazine in which the other appears in an embarassing^([sic]) photo identical to one of DD or GA's. 2003 March 4, pam, “Re: Long time gone, any recs?”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
  2. (slang, uncountable) Such fan fiction collectively.
    • An early article on Slate, otherwise sympathetic to slash fiction, declared that "actorfic" violated fanfic's basic principle of being fantasy: "Writers risk enraging straight actors. Slash infuriates actors even when it focuses only on fictional characters." 2007, Kristin Thompson, The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 179:
    • I think your efforts might be better rewarded by trying to finish that and making it the best X-Files story you can, instead of writing actorfic which, by my definition, is *not* X-Files fanfic. 2000 March 26, Jintian Li, “Re: Decency question”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):
    • I've seen the occasional thing... and I know it is out there... but the suggestion I saw sort of implied that actorfic was more prevelant^([sic]) in the Star Trek fan fiction community. 2005 May 5, Laura Hale, “Re: Star Trek Actorfic”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

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Hypernyms

real person fiction