Holidayfic
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| Synonym(s) | holiday fic |
| See also | Secret Santa, Yuletide, Gift Exchange, Holiday Hats, Ugly Holiday Sweater (trope), Valentine's Day |
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Holidayfic is holiday-themed fanfic. Most often it is written for/about religious holidays; the most common type is Christmas fic, though in 2005 hyperfocused orchestrated a Ten Plagues challenge which sparked a surge in Passover-themed fic across many fandoms. Holidayfic is also written for secular and national holidays such as Veteran's Day or Valentine's Day. White Day stories are common in anime/manga fandoms.
Holidayfic is very popular in Harry Potter fandom, perhaps due to the fact that Halloween and Christmas are lavishly celebrated in the canon.
Commonly the characters observe the holiday in some way in holidayfic -- the characters celebrate Christmas or Passover, go on Valentine's Day dates, etc -- though the story can also be thematically related to the holiday. For example in military fandoms, fanfic dealing with Veteran's issues is then posted on the occasion of Veteran's Day and thus tied to that holiday by the author.
However much of the fanfic posted for holiday-centric gift exchanges, such as Secret Santas, is not holidayfic in this themed sense.
Sometimes holidayfic can cause controversy, for example when an author writes Christmas fic for Jewish characters but doesn't acknowledge that the characters are not Christian. (See Judaism and Fandom for more on this.)
See also Purimgifts - though there's no requirement for stories or art to be Purim-themed, they often wind up that way. Also see Days of Awesome and Eid Fic.
Holidays Only Unique to Source Text
- Life Day (Star Wars)
- Winterfest (Beauty and the Beast)
Religious Holiday Assumptions and the Future
- Some fanworks portray Christmas (and other holidays?) being celebrated on the Enterprise, and in the "traditional" way hundreds of years later...
cover of Beyond Antares #13, Santa pays the bridge a visit and gifts Spock with a Teddy Bear
cover of Back Trekking, Spock detains an alien
Zines
Christmas zines
- Angel Trek (ST:TOS)
- The Best of Christmas on the Enterprise (1976, ST:TOS)
- Blake's Seven Christmas Filksongbook
- Blake's Seven Christmas Filksongs
- Christmas at the Front (Rat Patrol)
- The Christmas Bash #1-2 (1992-1993, Professionals)
- Christmas in Collinsport (Dark Shadows)
- Christmas Lites (Professionals)
- Holiday Happenings (Sentinel)
- Holiday Seasons of the Seven (M7)
- Holiday Sensations (Sentinel)
- Holiday Shrieks (1993) (Professionals)
- The Hols of CI5 (1991) (Pros)
- A Magnificent Christmas (M7)
- Magnificent Holidays (M7)
- Magnificent Slash Holidays (M7)
- Savaran (2006) (TOS)
- Supernatural Christmas Tales (2008, Supernatural)
- Under the Tree (1992, Professionals)
- The Yule Tide (multimedia)
Other zine holidayfic
Online holidayfic
Passover fic
- For the Want of a Goat by roga (Discworld/Passover)
- Family Plagues by roga (Harry Potter)
- Four Sons by roga (Harry Potter)
- Kosher for Passover by nightdog_barks (House MD)
- Paint the Town Red by Kass (House MD)
- Passover by rageprufrock (House MD)
- Pesach by pwcorgigirl (House MD)
- Prodigal by nightdog_barks (House MD)
- End Times by fairlyironic (Lost)
- B'Chol Dor Vador (In Every Generation) by mara (Marvel Comics)
- Seder Round Table by bessemerprocess (Pundit RPF)
- Haggadah by scrunchy (Sports Night)
- The Pretty Peculiar Pegasus Pesach by roga (SGA)
- Urchatz by miss_porcupine (SGA)
- Why is this night different from all other nights? by july_july_july (Star Trek XI)
- Passing Over, Passing Out by hyperfocused (The OC)
- All the Land of Egypt by daegaer (Weiss Kreuz)
See also Roga's List of Passover-themed Fics, which also includes The Prince of Egypt stories.
Christmas fic
- A Gift for Miya-chan by geri-chan (Haru wo Daiteita)
- A Non-Denominational Holiday Mission Report / Or, How Rodney McKay Got His Head Out of His Ass and Learned to Decorate Christmas Trees Again by smittywing (SGA)
- A Supplement to the Second Edition, Etc. by sheafrotherdon (SGA and Temeraire fusion)
- How the Dark Lord Stole Christmas by alyxbradford (HP)
- Kentucky Fried Christmas by geri-chan (Haru wo Daiteita)
- Present Understanding by Ribbons (Haru wo Daiteita)
- list of Starsky and Hutch Christmas fic
- FK Christmas fic listed on the Forever Knight Wiki
- The Great Agreste Tree Heist [1] by shadowmayura (Miraculous Ladybug)
Other holidays
- Iolokus Series - RivkaT & MustangSally - Chanukah (X-Files)
- Consecration by fox1013 (Chanukah)
- Eight Chanukah Candles by Roga - Chanukah (House MD) and its remix Eight Festivals Lisa Cuddy Celebrated by Kass (several holidays)
- The Unwilling Host by jmtorres - Thanksgiving (House MD)
- Autumn Sunsets by Holly - Thanksgiving (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Apples and Honey by crysothemis - Rosh Hashanah (SGA)
- Masquerade: the Whole Megillah by Roga - Purim (Adam_Lambert)
- Willow's Short Holiday Stories by Sam James - several holidays (BtVS)
- To Everything, Turn by arsenicjade - Yom Kippur (West Wing)
- A Face of Faith by Ribbons - Rosh Hashanah, Chanukah, Pesach (Harry Potter)
- Holiday Connections by Ribbons - Christmas and Columbus Day (The Dark Is Rising/Lord Peter Wimsey)
- Valentine's Day Surprise by geri-chan (Haru wo Daiteita)
- list of Starsky and Hutch Hanukkah fics
- FK Halloween fic listed on the Forever Knight Wiki
- FK Valentine's Day fic listed on the Forever Knight Wiki
- Elysian Fields Spuffy Holiday Fic category (BTVS)
- Ushpizin, or, We Built This Succah On Rock And Roll by lannamichaels - Sukkot (Dr. Who)