Meaning of actorfic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fanfic focusing on the imagined activities of a real actor or actors.
   countable, slang
2. Such fan fiction collectively.
   slang, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“Somebody could put an actorfic under the show title or put an NC-17 story and rate it R.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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."”

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