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名詞

ficathon (複数形 ficathons)

1. (fandom スラング) A challenge in which participants are asked to write fan fiction, generally of a specific type or to fill individual requests.
   • 2008, Daniel Smith-Rowsey, "Still More Gilmore: How Online Fan Communities Remediate Gilmore Girls", in Gilmore Girls and the Politics of Identity: Essays on Family and Feminism in the Television Series (ed. Ritch Calvin), McFarland & Company (2008), ISBN 9780786437276, page 197:

     General fan fiction challenges and “ficathons” are regularly sponsored by many sites, including those named above.

   • 2010, Roz Kaveney, "Gen, Slash, OT3s, and Crossover – The Varieties of Fan Fiction", in The Cult TV Book (ed. Stacey Abbott), I. B. Tauris & Co. (2010), ISBN 9781848850262, page 244:

     Much fanfiction is written to commission – people will ask for a particular sort of story, or for erotic fiction featuring a particular partnership, often as an online birthday present – or in exchange for ficathon challenges where likely contributors post cues for a story they would like to see and scan the challenges for something they would enjoy writing.

   • 2011, Laura Felschow, "Plagiarism or Props?: Homage to Neil Gaiman in Eric Kripke's Supernatural", in TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of Supernatural (eds. Stacey Abbott & David Lavery), ECW Press (2011), ISBN 9781770410206, pages 235-236:

     Yet as early as March 2007, when the show was still in its second season, a Livejournal community, spn_gaiman, was created to promote a Supernatural/Neil Gaiman crossover “ficathon” as well as to archive fiction that had already been written by fans earlier in 2006.