Tags

Coming of Age Day

Holidays

Synonyms: Seijin no Hi

The fic's events take place during the celebration of Coming of Age Day (Seijin no Hi) in Japan, or are closely tied to the holiday itself.

Coming Out

Orientation, Sex & Gender

Synonyms: Out of the Closet

The work describes the process of a character openly and voluntarily acknowledging their belonging to a sexual or gender minority.

Common Cold

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic gives considerable attention to the common cold.

Commoner to Aristocrat

Tropes

A character of non-noble origin who becomes an aristocrat (for example, through marriage, by discovering their aristocratic roots, and so on) plays a significant role in the fic.

Common-Law Marriage

Relationships

Synonyms: Cohabitation, De Facto Marriage, Marriage-Like Relationship, Unregistered Marriage

The fic focuses on characters who are in an established relationship and live together without seeking to formalize their relationship legally.

Communal Apartments

Setting

Synonyms: Komunalky

Communal apartments — housing shared by several families with a common kitchen and bathroom — and their tenants play a key role in the fic.

Communes

Setting

Communes play a key role in the fic.

Communism

Setting

The fic gives significant attention to the ideas of communism and/or states containing elements of a socialist system.

Compassion

Freeform

The fic focuses significant attention on the theme of compassion.

Competitions

Freeform

Synonyms: Contests, Sports competitions, Tournaments

Competitions play a significant role in the fic.

Complexes

Freeform

Synonyms: Neuroses

The fic focuses significantly on the theme of psychological complexes.

Complicated Relationship

Relationships

Synonyms: Ambiguous Relationship, Complicated Feelings, Lovers to Enemies to Lovers, Lovers to Friends to Lovers, Strained Relationship

The fic centers on characters bound by a consensual but ambiguous, often contradictory, romantic and/or sexual relationship.

Composers

Occupations

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of composer characters.

Compression Kink

Kinks (18+)

The fic depicts characters who become sexually aroused by having their body or parts of it pressed down, who want to be squeezed or clamped by objects, or by a partner's body or limbs.

Compulsory Heterosexuality

Orientation, Sex & Gender

Synonyms: Comphet

The fic features a character who assumed they were straight because of social pressure.

Comrades in Arms

Relationships

Synonyms: Battle Brothers, Frontline Friendship

The fic focuses on the deep non-romantic bond between fellow soldiers who fight side by side.

Concentration camps

Setting

Synonyms: Concentration camp

Concentration camps, their personnel and prisoners, play a significant role in the fic's plot.

Concerts / Performances

Setting

The fic gives substantial attention to performances on stage.

Concussion

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Head Injury, Post-Concussion Syndrome

The fic describes characters with concussion and its short and long-term effects.

Conditional Immortality

Superpowers

Synonyms: Partial Immortality

The fic gives significant weight to characters who can die, but only under conditions that are extremely difficult to meet.

Confessions

Freeform

A character's confession plays an important role in the fic.

Confined Space

Setting

Synonyms: Trapped in a confined space

The fic's plot centers on a character or characters trapped in a confined space (a closet, a safe, a locked room or hospital ward, etc.) that they cannot leave for some time.

Conflicting Feelings

Freeform

Synonyms: Ambivalent Feelings

The fic devotes significant attention to the theme of conflicting feelings.

Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

Warnings

Synonyms: Wartime Rape

The fic depicts sexual violence used as a weapon or occurring during war and occupation.

Congenital Disorders

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Agenesis, Aplasia, Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis, Developmental Defects, Genetic Disorders, Hereditary Diseases

The fic depicts characters affected by diseases arising from various developmental defects and disruptions in the cells' hereditary apparatus. These may be real or fictional.

Conjoined Twins

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic gives substantial attention to twin characters who share body parts or have internal organs in common.

Conquest

Freeform

The fic's plot centers on the conquest of new lands.

Conscription

Warnings

Synonyms: Draft

The fic features characters called up or drafted into military service.

Consensual Non-Consent (CNC)

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Consensual Non-Con

The fic describes a pre-negotiated roleplay in which characters consensually act out resistance or coercion.

Consequences

Freeform

The fic pays significant attention to the theme of consequences.

Conservationists

Occupations

Synonyms: Animal Rights Activists

The fic focuses on the activities of characters who campaign for nature conservation and/or animal rights.

Conspiracy Theories

Freeform

Synonyms: Conspiracy Theory, Global Conspiracy, Secret Order, Shadow Government

The fic gives significant weight to global conspiracies, shadow governments, and secret orders.

Constitution Day of Ukraine

Holidays

Synonyms: June 28

The fic's events take place during the celebration of Constitution Day of Ukraine, or are closely tied to the holiday itself.

Consummation of Marriage

Freeform

The fic depicts rites associated with the first consummation of a marriage and/or the confirmation of one or more partners' virginity.

Consumption of Sentient Beings

Warnings

The fic depicts the practice of eating sentient beings of a different species from the one doing the eating.

Contactless Sex

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Mental Orgasm, Mind Meld Sex, Telepathic Orgasm, Telepathic Sex

The fic depicts sexual practices that let characters experience pleasure without any stimulation of the physical body.

Contemporary Art

Freeform

The fic devotes significant attention to contemporary art — the process of creating it, its history, and its significance.

Contracts / Deals

Freeform

Synonyms: Deal, Deal with the devil

The fic devotes considerable attention to the theme of making a contract or deal.

Control / Submission

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Obedience Kink, Submission Kink

The fic depicts romantic and/or sexual relationships in which the partners take on voluntarily assumed roles: one acts as the controlling partner, and the other as the submissive one.

Conversations

Freeform

Synonyms: Awkward Conversation, Chats, Communication, Communication Issues, Complicated Conversation, Difficult Conversation, Healthy Conversations, Heart-to-Heart Talk, Kitchen Table Talks, Late-Night Talks, Lots of Talking, Stranger-on-a-Train Effect

Conversations between characters play an important role in the fic.

Conversion Therapy

Tropes

Synonyms: Orientation Correction

The fic describes the use of practices aimed at 'correcting' characters' sexual orientation, and, as a result, the application of unethical, pseudoscientific methods harmful to their mental and/or physical health.

Cooks

Occupations

Synonyms: Chefs

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of cook characters.

Co-Parenting

Tropes

Synonyms: Accidental Parents, Raising a Child Together

The fic features characters who raise a child together without being a romantic couple at first.

Corporal Punishment

Warnings

Synonyms: Standing in the Corner

The fic contains detailed descriptions of physical or psychological violence consisting of the deliberate humiliation or infliction of physical pain or injury on the punished party, without sexual connotations.

Corporate Party

Holidays

The action takes place at a corporate party held in honor of some holiday.

Correctional Camps

Setting

Synonyms: Correctional Boarding Schools

Correctional camps, their staff, and inmates play a key role in the fic.

Corrective Rape

Warnings

The fic depicts rape committed because of the victim's perceived sexual orientation or gender identity; the perpetrator's aim in corrective rape is to "fix" the victim's orientation, make them heterosexual, or force them to behave according to gender stereotypes.

Corruption

Freeform

The fic focuses significant attention on the theme of corruption.

Corruption Kink

Kinks (18+)

The fic features adult characters aroused by a principled partner being led into forbidden or depraved acts.

Corrupt Police Officers

Freeform

The fic gives a significant role to corrupt police officers.