Citations:wingfic

Noun: "(uncountable, fandom slang) fan fiction in which canonically wingless characters are given wings"

 * 2004, Science Fiction Studies, Volume 31, Issue 3, November 2004, page 499:
 * Section three, on forms and genres, might consider such fan genres as slash, het/ship, genfic, alternate universes and realities, mpreg, BDSM, kinkfic, elves, and wingfic.
 * 2008, Suzi Feay, "Page Turner: The sex scenes JK Rowling never wrote", The Independent, 27 July 2008:
 * An image of Draco Malfoy with wings led us to "wing-fic".
 * 2012, Erin Webb, "Slash As Genre", thesis submitted to College of Arts and Science, American University, page 25:
 * Also in 2001, the bizarre but popular subgenre of wingfic appeared within the NSYNC fandom—these stories, characterized by someone growing at least one wing, spread to other slash fandoms before dying away in 2003.
 * 2012, Ewan Morrison, "In the beginning, there was fan fiction: from the four gospels to Fifty Shades", The Guardian, 13 August 2012:
 * There's crossover, AU, Hentai, OoC, Uber, Mary Sue, slash fic, hate fic, anti fic and even wing fic (in which familiar characters sprout wings and discover their new beauty through acts of mid-air coitus).
 * 2013, Katherine Larsen & Lynn S. Zubernis, Fangasm: Supernatural Fangirls, University of Iowa Press (2013), ISBN 9781609381981, page 242:
 * The pairing [Destiel] gives rise to, among other things, wing fic.
 * 2013, Nine Worlds Geekfest 2013 Programme and Schedule, page 52:
 * We'll discuss our favourite fanon and try to establish where the heck it came from. And then there’s Wingfic. And the Omegaverse. What’s all that about then?
 * 2019, Jonathan H. Pope, Shakespeare’s Fans: Adapting the Bard in the Age of Media, page 120:
 * When deciding between writing sex pollen wingfic or missing scene fic, the latter will presumably be more likely.
 * 2020, Kristina Busse, "Canon Compliance and Creative Analysis in Vorokosigan Saga Fan Fiction", in Biology and Manners: Essays on the Worlds and Works of Lois McMaster Bujold (eds. Regina Yung Lee & Una McCormack), page 273:
 * Fans in other fandoms must use fan fiction to introduce tropes from wingfic and cyborgs to mpreg (male pregnancy) and genderswap;
 * 2020, Anne H. Stevens & Molly C. O’Donnell, The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture, page 183:
 * For example, it is hard to imagine how much narrower a genre could possibly become than “wingfic,” a story about a character sprouting wings.
 * 2020, Katherine Elizabeth McCain, "Today Your Barista Is: Genre Characteristics in The Coffee Shop Alternate Universe", dissertation submitted to The Ohio State University, page 21:
 * Wingfic is a genre if all (or most) characters possess wings and that detail has an impact on the fictional world’s social dynamics. Wingfic is a trope if one character inexplicably grows wings and the story revolves around them explaining the phenomenon and learning to deal with the change.
 * Wingfic is a genre if all (or most) characters possess wings and that detail has an impact on the fictional world’s social dynamics. Wingfic is a trope if one character inexplicably grows wings and the story revolves around them explaining the phenomenon and learning to deal with the change.

Noun: "(countable, fandom slang) an individual work of such fan fiction"

 * 2019, Katherine Addison, The Angel of the Crows, unnumbered page:
 * The Angel of the Crows began as a Sherlock wingfic.
 * 2020, Anne H. Stevens & Molly C. O’Donnell, The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture, page 185:
 * This canonical form becomes baked into the various ways that users may browse or search the system: the canonical tag shows up in a search autocomplete; it is a filter option in an advanced search; it is listed in the section of the site that allows users to browse fanfiction by category (e.g., a Harry Potter wingfic might be tagged “wingfic—Harry Potter,” “Harry Potter wingfic,” “Harry grows wings,” and even, by cheekier writers, “Look at your wings, Harry!!”