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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
- (fandom slang, often attributive) A fanfic which undoes or changes an element of canon viewed as unfavourable, e.g. a death, break-up, or betrayal.
- 2017, Ashley J. Barner, The Case for Fanfiction: Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft, page 88:
- I've written fix-it fic myself: unhappy with the sad ending in the final season of BBC's Merlin, I rewrote the entire fifth season; […]
- 2018, Emily E. Roach, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Closet: Queerbaiting, Slash Shipping and The Cursed Child, in Harry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse (eds. Amanda Firestone & Leisa A. Clark), page 135:
- A furious raft of "fix it" fics appeared after the play was released, re-writing scenes and revisiting the end of the play in order to give Albus and Scorpius the ending many fans believed was most fitting and deserved—the one the text had endeavored to build towards and then swerved to avoid at the last moment.
- 2019, Jessica George, “'The Monster at the End of This Book': Authorship and Monstrosity”, in Cristina Artenie, Ashley Szanter, editors, Monsters and Monstrosity in 21st Century Film and Television, page 212:
- Gabriel, also known as the Trickster, is a skilled illusionist, the possibility that he faked his own death offers ample opportunity for fan "fix-its." (The online fan fiction archive Archive of Our Own, or AO3, at the time of writing features 271 Supernatural stories tagged with "Gabriel Lives.")
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fix-it.