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Kidfic

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FORCE: Gen Z BrainrotUNIVERSE: Fan CultureCLUSTER: fanfiction genres & tropes

Fandom slang for a fanfiction centred on a character, and possibly their partner(s), raising one or more children; also used for that kind of fanfiction as a group. It is a family-focused story category.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

""It's a gentle kidfic about the two of them figuring out bedtime routines.""

LORE & ORIGIN

Wiktionary defines it as a fan fiction that centres on a character raising children, from "kid" + "fic", and lists related terms babyfic and parentlock. Its cited uses begin on Usenet: RhiaRamsay on alt.tv.x-files.creative in 1999, Starbuck031992 in 2000 and Rotem Shahar in 2002. These show the word in use by 1999 but not that it was coined then. Fanlore returned HTTP 403.

FIRST SEEN

1999 (earliest citation on Wiktionary, Usenet alt.tv.x-files.creative; not necessarily the coinage)

PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)

Unknown

CURRENT STATUS

Legacy / Decaying Slang

Related To:Fix-It Fic Curtain Fic Genfic

Leer en español →Lire en français →日本語版を読む →한국어판 보기 →Ler em português →阅读中文版 →

EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

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AURA IMPACT ⓘ

+1 AURA

TREND STATUS

↓ FADING

EDITORIAL ESTIMATE

CULTURE CATEGORY

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MENTIONS OVER TIME

DOCUMENTED SINCE

1999 (earliest citation on Wiktionary, Usenet alt.tv.x-files.creative; not necessarily the coinage)

NOW

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