Others, such as slash fanfic or curtainfic may serve as rehearsals of queer identity, might be coming-out processes within the safe haven of the fandom community, or might simply be responses to contemporary social and cultural issues that permeate teenagers’ area of interest.
2013, Mark Duffet, Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture, Bloomsbury Academic (2013), →ISBN, page 293:
Some subgenres are h/c (hurt/comfort stories), Mpreg (main character gets pregnant), deathfic (main character dies), curtainfic (characters do mundane tasks together, like buying curtains), […]
2014, Angus Phillips, Turning the Page: The Evolution of the Book, Routledge (2014), →ISBN, page 20:
Online writing has generated its own genres, from curtainfic to grave robbery.
Subgenres of fan fic include 'curtain fic', in which characters in an ongoing romantic relationship engage in casual domestic activities such as cooking or doing the laundry (or selecting new curtains),
2019, Alison Rowley, Putin Kitsch in America, page 126:
In this piece of “curtainfic” (a kind of fan fiction centered on domestic activities, named for the notion that its protagonists could believably shop for curtains together), Trump seems to have morphed into Martha Stewart: the president passes his day picking flowers and preparing meals for the staff.
Noun: "(countable, fandom slang) an individual fanfic of this genre"[edit]
2018, Owen G. Parry, "Yoko Ono Fanfiction", in The Creative Critic: Writing As/about Practice (eds. Emily Orley & Katja Hilevaara), unnumbered page:
Fans of Harry Potter or boy band One Direction create transformative works including fanfictions, videos, illustrations, memes, and music using those official, usually commercially driven texts and narratives to create their very own versions, whether that be a 'curtain fic' (or domestic fic) in which an enamoured Snape and Harry go shopping for curtains; […]