Tags

Fainting

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Loss of Consciousness

The fic depicts characters affected by episodes of brief loss of consciousness.

Fairies

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Small winged fairies play a significant role in the fic.

Fairy Tale Retelling

Tropes

Synonyms: Folk Tale Retelling, Fractured Fairy Tale

The fic reimagines a classic or folk fairy tale.

Fairy-Tale World

Setting

Synonyms: Fairy tale, Fairy tale kingdom, Folk tale

The fic's events take place in a fairy-tale world with its kingdoms, forests, magic and traditional story roles.

Fake Pregnancy

Warnings

Synonyms: Deceptive Pregnancy

The fic depicts characters who pretend to be pregnant or simulate pregnancy, most often for the sake of some personal gain.

Fake Relationship

Relationships

Synonyms: Beard (Partner), Fake Dating, Relationship of Convenience, Simulated Sexual Relationship

The fic depicts characters who pretend to be in a relationship; it may or may not grow into a real one.

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Historical Periods & Events

Synonyms: Reunification of Germany

The fic is set around the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989).

False Accusations

Tropes

Synonyms: Unjust Accusation

The fic's plot centers on a character or characters who are falsely accused of something.

False Gods

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Synonyms: Counterfeit Gods, Fake Gods

False gods play a significant role in the fic.

False Memories

Tropes

Synonyms: Mandela Effect, Paramnesia

The fic places significant weight on the fact that one or more characters' memories have been fully or partially altered.

False Pregnancy

Warnings

The fic depicts a medical condition that resembles pregnancy in outward signs and symptoms but is not actually pregnancy.

Familiars

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Synonyms: Shikigami

Spirits that serve magic practitioners and appear in the form of a living creature play a significant role in the fic.

Familiar Stranger

Relationships

Synonyms: Chance Encounters, Close Stranger

The fic depicts characters who regularly encounter each other somewhere (on the street, on the subway, on the way to work, etc.) but, for whatever reason, never start talking to one another.

Families

Relationships

Synonyms: Cousins, Family Issues, Fatherhood, Grandchildren, Grandparents, Motherhood, Parents, Parents and Children, Relatives

The fic focuses on relationships between family members.

Family Business

Freeform

The fic pays significant attention to a business passed down from generation to generation.

Family Disapproval

Relationships

The fic depicts the characters' relatives opposing their relationship: openly obstructing the romance, exerting pressure, or silently expressing disapproval.

Family Estrangement

Relationships

Synonyms: Estranged Family

The fic features family members who have grown estranged or cut off contact.

Family Feud

Relationships

The fic gives significant attention to conflicts between families.

Family Reconciliation

Relationships

The fic depicts the restoration or creation of neutral or positive relationships between family members who previously had a bad relationship.

Family Secrets

Tropes

Synonyms: Illegitimate Children, Secret Relation

Family secrets play a significant role in the fic.

Fandom Analysis

Format

Synonyms: Character analysis, Statistics

The fic is an essay examining a fandom phenomenon — a study of a character or a story's plot from a professional standpoint, such as the laws of drama, literary theory, or film theory.

Fandom Challenge Entry

Format

Synonyms: Challenge, Fest Fic

The fic was written for a fandom event, fest or challenge.

Fang Kink

Kinks (18+)

The fic focuses on a character or characters who are attracted to partners who have fangs, with particular attention paid to the fangs themselves.

Fan Service

Warnings

The fic includes elements (scenes, characters, and the like) that have no bearing on the plot but are aimed at pleasing the target audience.

Far East

Geography & Ethnicity

The action of the work takes place in the Far East (East Asia and/or the Pacific coast of Eurasia).

Farewell Sex

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Last Night Sex

The fic describes sex shared as a farewell before parting, such as before deployment.

Farmers

Occupations

Synonyms: Grain Farmers, Livestock Breeders, Peasants

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of farmers, grain growers and livestock breeders.

Farms / Ranches

Setting

The fic's plot centers on the activities of farms or ranches, their workers and inhabitants.

Fashion Designers

Occupations

Synonyms: Couturiers

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

Fashion Houses

Occupations

Synonyms: Fashion, Fashion Industry

Fashion houses, their employees, the process of creating unique clothing collections, fashion shows and the like play a key role in the fic.

Fast Burn

Relationships

Synonyms: Fast Build, Rapid Relationship Development

The fic depicts characters involved in a romantic or sexual relationship who very quickly come to accept or confess that relationship.

Fast food / Diners

Setting

Synonyms: American fast food, Burger King, McDonald's, Pizzerias, Roadside diners

Fast food chain restaurants, pizzerias, and/or diners play a central role in the fic.

Fatal Effort

Tropes

A character discovers that they can use their abilities in a super mode, but it comes at a terrible price (the character dies, goes mad, turns into a monster, loses their life force, or moves on to another plane of existence).

Fates

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Synonyms: Parcae

The fic features the Fates (Moirai), who spin and cut the thread of life.

Fat Fetish

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: BBW, BHM, Fat Fetishism, Fat Kink, Feedee, Feederism, Lipophilia, Overweight, SSBBW, Weight Gain

The fic depicts one or more fetishes involving sexual interest in partners with larger or heavier bodies.

Father's Day

Holidays

The work's events take place during the celebration of Father's Day, or are closely tied to it.

Father and Daughter

Relationships

The fic centers on the relationship between a father and his daughter.

Father and Son

Relationships

The fic centers on the relationship between a father and his son.

Favorites

Occupations

Synonyms: Darling, Pet

Persons who enjoy the favor of a ruler or other influential person, receive various privileges from them and in turn influence them, play a substantial role in the fic.

Fear

Freeform

Synonyms: Overcoming Fear

The fic focuses on fear as an emotion and how characters cope with it.

Fear Kink

Kinks (18+)

The fic depicts sexual practices and/or situations in which sexual pleasure is tied to feeling fear and/or deliberately provoking fear in a partner.

Fear of Abandonment

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Abandonment Issues

The fic describes characters with an intense fear of being abandoned.

Fear of Aging

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Fear of Getting Old

The fic describes characters afraid of growing old.

Fear of Attachment

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Counterdependency, Fear of Falling in Love, Fear of Relationships, Philophobia

The fic depicts characters prone to a fear of falling in love and/or becoming attached to someone, a strong fear of forming an emotionally positive bond with another person.

Fear of Black Holes

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic depicts characters affected by an irrational fear of black holes.

Fear of Blood

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Epistaxiophobia, Fear of Bleeding, Hematophobia, Hemophobia

The fic depicts characters who are afraid of blood.

Fear of Change

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Neophobia

The fic gives a significant role to characters afflicted by a strong fear of the future and/or apprehension about any changes in their life.

Fear of Criticism

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Enissophobia

The fic depicts characters affected by a fear of criticism and condemnation from society.

Fear of Death

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Fear of Bones, Fear of Dying, Thanatophobia

The fic depicts characters affected by a pathological fear of death and/or everything associated with it.

Fear of Dirt

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Bacillophobia, Bacteriophobia, Fear of Germs, Fear of Getting Dirty, Germophobia, Mysophobia

The fic depicts characters with an intrusive fear of contamination or infection, who tend to avoid contact with surrounding objects and/or people.