Sick Fics — Fanfiction That Says It’s OK To Not Be OK

Cee Arr
2 min readAug 31, 2021
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I admit it — I love sick fics

…Well, most of ’em — some are too graphic or too sappy for yours truly but *shrugs* every genre/subgenre/trope/whatever is varied in the execution.

Sick fics, or sickfics, are pieces of fanfiction where an ill character is looked after by one or more other characters, usually in a comforting way.

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Cee Arr

Writer, reader, poet, (book) blogger @ dorareads.co.uk , Queer, weird, bookish rebel. Welsh as a tractor on the M4. She/Her. Buy me a coffee @ ko-fi.com/ceearr