Tags

Death During Sex

Warnings

Synonyms: Fatal Sex, Sex to Death, Sexual Homicide

The fic depicts a sexual act during or as a result of which one of the participants dies.

Death of a Child

Warnings

Synonyms: Child Loss

The fic depicts the death of a child, including the grief of the parents.

Death of a Parent

Warnings

The fic features the death of a character's mother or father.

Death of a Partner

Warnings

The fic features the death of a character's spouse or partner.

Death of the Antagonist

Warnings

Synonyms: Death of the Main Villain, Villain's Death

One or more antagonists die in the fic.

Debt Collectors

Occupations

The fic describes characters engaged in debt collection.

Debtors

Tropes

Synonyms: Debts, Unpaid Bills

The fic's plot centers on characters who have monetary or property debts.

Decadence

Freeform

The fic places significant emphasis on the theme of decadence.

Deception / Delusion

Freeform

Synonyms: Concealment, Duplicity, Fakeness, Faking It, False Hatred, False Love, False Statements, Feigned Emotions, Hypocrisy, Hypocrites, Insincerity, Lies, Malingerers, Misunderstood Infidelity, Noble Lie, People Who Wear Masks, Pretense, White Lie, Withholding the Truth

The fic devotes significant attention to deception and/or delusions.

Declaration of Ukrainian Independence (1991)

Historical Periods & Events

Synonyms: Act of Independence, Revolution on Granite, Ukrainian Referendum 1991

The fic is set around the proclamation of Ukrainian independence in 1991.

Deepthroating

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Face Fucking

The fic describes oral sex in which the penis is taken deep into the throat.

Defenders of Ukraine Day

Holidays

Synonyms: October 1

The work's events take place during the commemoration of Defenders of Ukraine Day, observed October 1, or are closely tied to the holiday itself.

Dehumanization

Warnings

Works in which a character or characters are stripped of human qualities and perceived as objects or beings standing lower on the evolutionary ladder.

Deja Vu

Freeform

A perceptual phenomenon in which characters feel they have already been in a similar situation before plays a significant role in the fic.

Delusional Parasitosis

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic depicts characters affected by a delusional belief that they are infested with parasites (worms, insects) crawling on or under their skin.

Dementia

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic features characters with dementia.

Demi Characters

Orientation, Sex & Gender

Synonyms: Demiromantic Characters, Demisexual Characters, Demisexuals

The work features characters who need emotional attachment in order to experience romantic and/or sexual attraction.

Demigender Characters

Orientation, Sex & Gender

Synonyms: Demiboy, Demigirl

The fic features characters who partially identify with one gender.

Demigods

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Demigod characters play a significant role in the fic.

Demiurges

Tropes

Synonyms: Omnipotence, Reality Sculptors

The fic's plot centers on the life and activities of a character or characters capable of changing the world and influencing the lives of everything in existence.

Demographic Crisis

Setting

The fic gives a significant role to a substantial change in population numbers in the world, a country, a region, and so on.

Demonology

Freeform

Synonyms: Angelic hierarchy, Demonic hierarchy

The fic focuses significantly on demonology and the hierarchy of demons, angels, or other spiritual entities.

Demons

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Demons play a significant role in the fic.

Dendrophilia

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Plant Kink, Tree Kink

The fic depicts sexual attraction to trees, plants, or objects made from wood and other natural materials.

Denial

Freeform

Synonyms: Self-Denial

The fic pays significant attention to denial.

Denial of Feelings

Relationships

Synonyms: Delayed Feelings

The fic depicts characters who experience mutual romantic feelings and/or sexual attraction but deny them to themselves, each other, and/or those around them.

Dentists

Occupations

The fic pays particular attention to characters who work as dentists.

Dependent Personality Disorder

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic depicts characters with a personality disorder characterized by a heightened sense of helplessness, incompetence, and inability to function without the support of others.

Depersonalization

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic depicts characters with a disorder of self-perception in which one's own body feels unfamiliar and emotional responses become significantly blunted.

Deportation

Warnings

Synonyms: Forced Resettlement

The fic depicts forced mass removal of people from their homeland.

Deportation of Crimean Tatars (1944)

Historical Periods & Events

Synonyms: Crimean Tatar Genocide, Sürgünlik

The fic is set around the 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars (Sürgünlik), carried out by the Soviet regime and recognised in Ukraine as genocide.

Depression

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Antidepressants, Dysthymia, Major Depressive Disorder, Masked Depression, Subsyndromal Depression

The fic depicts characters affected by a psychiatric disorder whose main features are a persistently low mood and a diminished or lost ability to experience pleasure, lasting for an extended period.

Derealization

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic depicts characters affected by a perceptual disorder in which the surrounding reality feels unreal, artificial.

Deredere

Tropes

Synonyms: Genki

The fic features an openly cheerful, affectionate and lovestruck character.

Dermatillomania

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Neurotic excoriation, Psychogenic excoriation

An obsessive-compulsive spectrum mental disorder characterized by a recurrent urge to pick at one's own skin. This is often preceded by sensations of skin discomfort or itching.

Dermatophagia

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic depicts characters affected by dermatophagia, a psychological disorder characterized by a compulsive urge to gnaw or bite one's own skin, usually on the fingers.

Descendant

Freeform

Synonyms: Heirs, Offspring

Someone's descendants (of a particular lineage, family, culture, etc.) play a significant role in the fic.

Descriptive Prose

Format

The fic focuses on detailed description of settings, objects surrounding the characters, nature, and so on, giving much less attention to plot action.

Deserters

Tropes

The plot features characters who have willfully abandoned their military unit or evaded conscription into military service.

Deserts

Setting

The fic's events take place in a desert.

Designers

Occupations

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

Despair

Freeform

The fic gives substantial attention to the theme of despair.

Despots / Tyrants

Occupations

Synonyms: Dictators, Dictatorship

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of ruler characters who hold unlimited power and the right to freely dispose of the fate of their subjects.

Detective agencies

Setting

The fic's plot centers on the activities of detective agencies, their employees, and clients.

Detective Kink

Kinks (18+)

The fic depicts characters who become sexually aroused by detective partners.

Deteriorating Relationship

Relationships

Synonyms: Friendship Crisis, Friendship Falling Apart, Relationship Discord, Relationship Regression

The fic focuses on characters whose relationship is going through a crisis.

Detransition

Orientation, Sex & Gender

Synonyms: Reverse Transition

The work pays significant attention to characters who underwent a transgender transition but later, for one reason or another, decided to return to the sex assigned to them at birth.

Deus Ex Machina

Tropes

The fic uses the plot device in which a seemingly unsolvable situation is unexpectedly resolved thanks to an external factor that was previously not introduced or insufficiently set up by the narrative.

Developmental Delay

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic depicts characters with an impaired rate of mental development, as a result of which certain mental functions (memory, attention, thinking, the emotional-volitional sphere) lag behind the developmental norms expected for their age.

Deviant Behavior

Warnings

The fic depicts characters whose behavior deviates from generally accepted, common, and established social norms.