I've begun to regret that we'd ever met / Between the dimensions. / It gets such a strain to pretend that the change / Is anything but cheap. / With your infant pique and yourangst pretensions / Sometimes you act like such a creep.
2007, Martyn Bone,Perspectives on Barry Hannah, page 3:
Harry's adolescence is theatrical and gaudy, and many of its key scenes have a lurid and camp quality that is appropriate to the exaggerated mood-shifting and self-dramatizing of teenangst.
(chiefly fanfiction)Fiction focusing on characters experiencing strong emotions and conflicts with other characters.
(Can wedate this quote?), Linda Green,Entering Potter's World: A Guide for Fanfiction Writers, Lulu.com,→ISBN, page21:
General: a story with a general theme. It is neither romance orangst but may incorporate elements of all other genres.
2017 October 31, Ashley J. Barner,The Case for Fanfiction: Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft, McFarland,→ISBN, page67:
Fans prefer fluff to other types of fic. Butangst (dramatic stories where characters have a wide range of emotions, including ... angsty ones) comes in a close second.
2020 October 2, Mike Goode,Romantic Capabilities: Blake, Scott, Austen, and the New Messages of Old Media, Oxford University Press,→ISBN, page193:
There are plots that take off from the discovery of another characters' letters or diaries (e.g., CarolB's “First Attachment," anangst fanfic in which Marianne Dashwood discovers Colonel Brandon's diary related to his youthful relationship with Eliza)
1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.
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