comfortfic

noun

Etymology

From comfort + fic, by analogy with comfort food.

Definitions

  1. Fan fiction read in order to make oneself feel better when sad, ill, stressed, etc.

    • I'm in need of some comfort fic - as opposed to comfort food - and this genre seems to fit the bill perfectly.
    • Tucking up with a cuppa and some comfort fic…sounds wonderful to me.
    • Be warned, this is gonna be anything but pure comfortfic or mushfic. Or pure angstfic, for that matter.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for comfortfic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA