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XF fic
| Synonyms: | XFFF,XF-FF, XFFanfic, XF-fic |
| See also: | Trekfic, X-Files-Fanfic, XF, TXF |
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XF Fic (rarely XF-fic or X-fic, more commonly also XFFanfic) is a term for X-Files fan fiction in Philedom.
It is an older term which was first used in the late 1990s on usenet discussions like ATX and ATXC. A similar phrase is Trekfic.
History
One of the earliest usage of the term can be found in this request from May the 6th 1996 that was posted to alt.tv.x-files.creative:
Sorry to waste the creative bandwidth on this, but I've been looking for a X Files / Due South / Forever Knight crossover story that was posted here some months back. Unfortunately, I can't find it on my disks of XF fic and I can't remember the title or author. Can anyone help me track this story down?REQUEST: looking for FK/DS/XF crossover by antrim posted on 5/6/96
and on September 14, 1997 in alt.tv.x-files:
For all you returning fan fic readers, I posted a review of the Summer in XF fic on ATXC. If you can't get the creative group, let me know....by lore 9/14/97 title = REVIEW: Summer fan fic, '97 by lore, Archived version
More recent usage
It's still prevailing in the 2000s and 2010s.
For example, on LiveJournal, the term has been used for tagging [1]
The tumblr fan fiction rec blog txf-fic-chicks named themselves after the term.[2] On the tumblr plattform, various variations are currently used by fan authors to tag their works, including:
On Archive of Our Own the "xf fanfic" tag has not been marked common and currently finds nine works.[3]