Tags
The full list of tags works can be labeled with.
Chest Binding
Orientation, Sex & Gender
Synonyms: Binders
The fic features characters binding their chest as part of gender expression.
Chest Kink
Kinks (18+)
Synonyms: Breast Stimulation, Female Breast Kink, Male Chest Kink
The fic depicts a character's sexual attraction to their partner's chest and/or a range of fetishes involving interaction with the partner's chest.
Child Abuse
Warnings
Synonyms: Child Maltreatment, Parental Abuse
The fic may contain descriptions of cruel or poor treatment of child characters, in either physical or emotional form.
Childbirth
Warnings
Synonyms: Giving Birth, Male Childbirth, Partner-Assisted Birth
The fic gives significant attention to preparation for childbirth and to the birth itself.
Childfree
Occupations
Synonyms: Childfree by Choice, Voluntarily Childless
The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of characters whose active life stance is expressed in a conscious unwillingness to have children.
Child Grooming
Warnings
Synonyms: Online Grooming
The fic depicts an adult gaining a minor's trust to prepare them for sexual abuse.
Childhood Crush
Relationships
The fic depicts a crush or strong fondness between children.
Childhood Friends
Relationships
Synonyms: Friends Since Early Childhood
The fic focuses on characters bound by friendship since childhood.
Child Neglect
Warnings
Synonyms: Parental Neglect
The fic depicts parents or guardians failing to provide children with care, food or safety.
Child Prodigy
Tropes
Synonyms: Gifted Child
The fic features a child or teen with exceptional talent or intellect.
Children
Freeform
Synonyms: Child Characters, Childcare, Childhood, Infants, Kidfic, Newborns, Raising Children, Toddlers
Child characters play a significant role in the fic.
Children's Camps
Setting
Synonyms: Camp counseling, Camp counselors, Summer camp, Summer camps
The fic's events center on recreational camps for children, their staff, and campers.
Child Sexual Abuse
Warnings
Synonyms: Child Sexual Exploitation, CSA
The fic depicts or refers to the sexual abuse of children.
Child Soldiers
Warnings
The fic features children recruited or forced into armed conflicts.
Chile
Geography & Ethnicity
The events of the work take place in Chile.
Chimeras
Mythical & Fantastical Creatures
Fantastical creatures that combine traits (external or internal) of several organisms play a significant role in the fic.
China
Geography & Ethnicity
Synonyms: Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China, PRC
The events of the work take place in China.
Chinese Metaphysics
Freeform
Synonyms: BaZi, Chinese Astrology, Chinese Horoscope, Qigong, Traditional Chinese Medicine
Chinese metaphysics, or one of its branches, plays a substantial role in the fic.
Choice
Freeform
Synonyms: Difficult choice
The fic devotes considerable attention to the theme of choice.
Choking Kink
Kinks (18+)
Synonyms: Hand on Throat
The fic features a hand or an arm held around a partner's throat during sex without full breath play.
Chornobyl Disaster
Historical Periods & Events
The fic's plot and setting are closely tied to the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The story may align with real-world history or diverge from it.
Chornobyl Exclusion Zone
Setting
Synonyms: Chornobyl zone, Pripyat, Zone
The fic's events take place in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, including Pripyat, abandoned villages and the area around the power plant.
Chornobyl Liquidators
Occupations
Synonyms: Exclusion Zone Workers, Liquidators
The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of liquidators who worked to contain the Chornobyl disaster, including firefighters, miners and military personnel.
Chornobyl Remembrance Day
Holidays
Synonyms: April 26, Chornobyl Anniversary
The fic's events take place on Chornobyl Remembrance Day (26 April), or are closely tied to it.
Chorty
Mythical & Fantastical Creatures
Synonyms: Chort, Imps
The fic features chorty, folk devils of Ukrainian tradition, often cunning and comic.
Christmas
Holidays
The work's events take place during the celebration of Christmas, or are closely tied to the holiday itself.
Christmas Eve (Sviata Vecheria)
Holidays
Synonyms: Christmas Eve, Didukh, Kutia, Sviata Vecheria
The fic's events take place on Christmas Eve, centered on the Holy Supper (Sviata Vecheria) with twelve Lenten dishes, kutia and the didukh, or are closely tied to it.
Christmas Mistletoe
Freeform
Synonyms: Kissing Bough
Christmas mistletoe plays a significant role in the fic.
Chronic Illness
Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias
Synonyms: Chronic Diseases
The fic depicts characters with long-term illnesses that can be managed but not fully cured. These may be real or fictional.
Chronic Pain
Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias
Synonyms: Long-term Pain
The fic describes characters living with chronic pain.
Chronokinesis
Superpowers
Synonyms: Time Control, Time Stop
The fic gives significant weight to characters who can control the flow of time.
Chthonic Creatures
Mythical & Fantastical Creatures
Synonyms: Chthonic Monsters, Leviathans, Lovecraftian Monsters
Invincible ancient beings that embody the destructive forces of nature and are often incomprehensible to the human mind play a significant role in the fic.
Chuhaisters
Mythical & Fantastical Creatures
Synonyms: Carpathian Forest Spirits, Chuhaister
The fic features the chuhaister, a hairy forest giant of Carpathian (Hutsul) folklore.
Churches
Setting
The fic's plot centers on the workings of churches, their visitors, and clergy.
Chuseok
Holidays
The work's events take place during the celebration of the traditional Korean autumn holiday.
Cinderella
Tropes
Synonyms: Cinderella Story
The fic builds on the trope in which an archetypal 'Cinderella' plays a significant role: a character who, having become an orphan, is left in the care of a 'Stepmother,' performs hard labor, faces hardships, but ultimately finds happiness upon meeting their 'Prince.'
Cinematographers
Occupations
The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of cinematographer characters.
Cinnamon Roll
Tropes
Synonyms: Precious Bean, Too Pure for This World
The fic features a sweet, kind, innocent character who must be protected.
Ciphers
Freeform
Synonyms: Cryptography, Morse Code
Ciphers play a significant role in the fic.
Circular Composition
Format
Synonyms: Circular Plot, Cyclical Structure
The fic's structure is built so that its ending brings the reader back to the beginning — the same setting or the original situation.
Circuses
Setting
The fic's plot centers on the daily life and work of a circus, its staff, and visitors.
Cisgender Characters
Orientation, Sex & Gender
Synonyms: Cis Characters
The fic features characters whose gender identity matches the sex assigned at birth.
City-States
Setting
Synonyms: Polis
The fic is set in a world where independent states exist, each consisting of a single city and its surrounding territory.
Civil Activists
Occupations
Synonyms: Activists, Civil Society, Human Rights Defenders, Protest Organizers
The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of civil society activists, protesters, human-rights defenders and community organizers.
Civilian Casualties
Warnings
Synonyms: Civilian Deaths
The fic depicts death and injury of civilians as a result of hostilities.
Civil Rights Movement
Historical Periods & Events
The fic is set during the American civil rights movement (1950s–1960s).
Civil War
Setting
The fic's events take place during a civil war, historical or fictional.
Clairvoyance
Superpowers
Synonyms: Psychometry, Remote Viewing, Second Sight
The fic features characters who perceive distant or hidden events and objects without physical senses.
Clans
Relationships
Synonyms: Covens, Magical Bloodlines, Magical Clans
The fic gives an important role to characters connected by ritual or blood ties, forming a single community with a defined internal structure.
Classical Antiquity
Historical Periods & Events
Synonyms: Hellenistic Period
The fic's events take place during the historical period of Classical Antiquity, with the corresponding setting. The story may align with real-world history or diverge from it.