curtainfic
curtainfic noun: fan fiction which focuses on mundane situations and everyday domestic life.
Noun
curtainfic (uncountable)
- Fan fiction which focuses on mundane situations and everyday domestic life.
- 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.2011, Codruta Alina Pohrib, “Teenagers' Identity at Play: Digital Fandom and Technoromanticism”, in Proceedings of the Digital Generation International Conference, Cluj, Romania, 16-18 September...
- 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), […]2013, Mark Duffet, Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 293
Origin of curtainfic
From curtain + fic, from the frequency of paired characters shopping for curtains together in such stories, or the idea that this scenario is an archetypical representation of domestic life.
Questions about curtainfic
- What does curtainfic mean?
- Curtainfic means fan fiction which focuses on mundane situations and everyday domestic life.
- What part of speech is curtainfic?
- Curtainfic is a noun.
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