DPP: It's Curtains for You!

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I'm using my most domestic icon today because we have a  challenge for you shippers. Prompt or write us some CURTAIN FIC. 


Hey, look at all those curtains behind them!

But what is Curtain Fic, you ask? Allow TV TROPES to explain:

Curtain Fic

Fan Fic that has a domestic chore as the plot. The classic situation is shopping for curtains, hence the name. Other sorts of shopping also work.

This can also mean just a fic of a couple, either Het or Slash, spending the day at home.

This is a variety of WAFF, a fan-created Breather Episode; the point is showing the characters doing something quiet and mundane together. Interestingly, this genre is popular even (especially?) for fandoms where the work itself (including official Breather Episodes) is action-packed. The phenomenon of Fan Fic written about characters shopping for curtains was first noted in an on-line article about fanfic for The Sentinel.

True Curtain Fic rarely contains sex; the trip to IKEA rarely ends with IKEA Erotica. This is all about character study, or else about getting as close to an Excuse Plot as someone who doesn't want to write lemon fic will get.

This can also be played for laughs when a character with No Social Skills acts like a Fish Out of Water for something as "simple" as buying toilet paper; see also Villains Out Shopping. 

 

Yesterday I wrote a fic about Kara and Lee that ended with them at a cookout, flipping burgers. Belatedly I realized it was (sort of) curtain fic and sci_fi_shipper  and I got to talking about how domesticity is so unnatural for pilots that it seems exotic and exciting in a weird kind of way (because the trick is to keep them in-character of course) and is weirdly satisfying and happy-making to read. We both wanted to see more, so she suggested it be the topic of today's DPP. So here you go!  

 

 

Pilots just having some dinner together

 

 

A few Curtain!fic prompts to get you started (as I write this list, I am a bit shocked to realize how many of these prompts I have worked into my fics. I am a total sucker for domestic!pilots apparently!):

Grocery shopping
Yardwork
Buying Curtains together
Paying the Bills
Cooking together
Attending a kid's event (dance recital, pyramid game, etc.)
Working a mundane job
Buying/caring for/playing with a pet
Parenthood
Squabbling but not going to bed mad
Washing the dishes together
Fixing things that break
Assembling furniture (or anything that requires instructions)
Vacationing
Dealing with the in-laws
unexpected house guests
Knitting (kdbleu, this one's for you! ;)
Using terms of endearment

 

Add your own below or fill one of these and give us CUTE, SHMOOPY KARA/LEE!