Citations:fix-it

Noun: "(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"

 * 2011, Katy Shuttlesworth, quoted in "On Our Radar: Jigglykat", Outlet Magazine, December 2011/January 2012, page 8:
 * I love the writers, the ones who write the between-the-scenes fics, the fix-its when they don't agree with a certain plot, the drabbles or the epic neverending multi-chapters.
 * 2016, Anna Breslaw, Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here, page 9:
 * Here and there, I do see some fix-its—fanfiction revisions of the end of the series—but none by my friends.
 * 2016, Hannah Moskowitz & Kat Helgeson, Gena/Finn, page 49:
 * jake STABBED HIM IN THE BACK, you cant actually be one of the crazy people saying thats okay. write a fix-it fic? please? for me?
 * 2016, Lynnette Porter, "Inside the Mind of Sherlock Holmes", in Who Is Sherlock?: Essays on Identity in Modern Holmes Adaptations (ed. Lynnette Porter), page 65:
 * Nevertheless, in a few notable stories, not only Sherlock, but also the fan-author, has trouble accepting a mentally diminishing consulting detective. In one story, Sherlock even chooses assisted suicide rather than allowing himself to lose his mental acuity. Creating a "happy ending" or "fix-it fic" from an Alzheimer's plotline seems unrealistic for these fan-authors.
 * 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;
 * 2017, Francesca Coppa, "Introduction: Five Things That Fanfiction Is, and One Thing It Isn't", in The Fanfiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital Age (ed. Francesca Coppa), page 9:
 * This isn't a simple matter of fandom being the audience or the marketplace for the work; rather, the key is that fanfiction is shaped to the literary conventions, expectations, and desires of that community, and is written in genres developed by and in community—for example, in media fandom, slash, het, and gen, first-time stories and alternate universe stories and sex pollen stories and cavefic stories and mpreg stories. Bodyswap, hurt/comfort, kidfic, hookerfic, PWP (plot what plot?), epilogue tags, fix its, teamfic, slavefic,
 * 2017, Loma Jowett, Dancing with the Doctor: Dimensions of Gender in the Doctor Who Universe, page 183:
 * Many 'fix-it' fan fiction stories rely heavily on the established narrative to start with and then proceed to offer an alternative version, 'directing its path elsewhere' and 'fixing' the problems the fanwriters identify in the official story.
 * 2017, Leah Miller, "Invitation: Granting Emotional Access through Romantic Choice", in Digital Love: Romance and Sexuality in Games (ed. Heidi McDonald), unnumbered page:
 * For example, in fandom, "fix-it fics"—stories in which a catastrophe is unmade or never happens—are a common way to process tragic endings;
 * 2017, Liz Millward, Janice G. Dodd, & Irene Fubara-Manuel, Killing Off the Lesbians: A Symbolic Annihilation on Film and Television, page 177:
 * Two shows with central same-sex relationships buck this trend: The 100 has 17,377 entries and The Walking Dead 11,183 entries, although the compulsion to write Fix-its may account for some of them.
 * 2018, Francesca Davis DiPiazza, Fandom: Fic Writers, Vidders, Gamers, Artists, and Cosplayers, page 17:
 * Some, in what modern fans call fix-it fic, found ways to resurrect Holmes.
 * 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 Monsters and Monstrosity in 21st Century Film and Television (eds. Cristina Artenie & Ashley Szanter), 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.")
 * 2019, Katie Kawa, A Modern Nerd's Guide to Fan Fiction, page 18:
 * Fixing things you don't like about a story is a great way to start writing fanfic. This is called "fix-it fic."
 * 2019, Anastasia Salter, "'The (Dead) Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo': Supernatural and the Disposable Other", in Death in Supernatural: Critical Essays (eds. Amanda Taylor & Susan Nylander), page 152:
 * Thus, the death of Charlie Bradbury is beyond the hope of any fix-it fic.