Citations:cuddlefic

Noun: "(fandom slang) fan fiction with feel-good or light romantic themes"

 * 2020, Clarice Greco & Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, "Fanfic as adaptation: The Phantom of the Opera case", Comunicación y sociedad, Volume 17 (link):
 * However, our sample was skewed more towards stories with a mild romance -or what in fanfic language would be categorized as “fluff” or “cuddlefic”-.