Tags

Flight

Superpowers

Synonyms: Winged Flight

The fic features characters who can fly by their own power.

Flirting

Relationships

Synonyms: Pickup

The fic depicts flirtation between characters as a significant part of the plot, aimed at drawing another's attention.

Flowers

Freeform

Synonyms: Blooming

Flowers play an important role in the fic.

Flower Shops

Setting

Synonyms: Floristry, Florists, Flower vendors

Flower shops, their workers, and clients play a key role in the fic.

Folk Charms and Whisperers

Freeform

Synonyms: Folk Magic, Whisperers, Wise Women

The fic features folk magic: charms, whispered spells and village healers.

Folk Legend / Tale Style

Format

Synonyms: Fairy Tale Style, Oral Tradition

The fic is stylized as a folk legend or fairy tale.

Folklore and Legends

Freeform

Synonyms: Folk tales, Folk traditions, Sea legends

The fic focuses on folk art and tradition, or its reinterpretation.

Folk Songs

Freeform

Synonyms: Folk Singing, Traditional Songs

The fic features traditional folk songs and singing.

Food / Cooking

Freeform

Synonyms: Cooking shows, Feeding, Sweets, Tea parties

The fic devotes considerable attention to the process of cooking, eating, and/or food itself.

Food Crisis

Setting

The fic is set in a world or society facing a severe food shortage.

Food Fetish

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Cocoa Kink, Erotic Feeding, Food Kink, Ice Cream Kink, Sitophilia, Sweets Kink

The fic depicts a range of erotic fetishes connected to food.

Food Play

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Cooking Kink, Sex Using Food, Whipped Cream Sex

The fic depicts a sexual practice in which food is used to heighten arousal.

Foosball

Sports

Synonyms: Foosball

Characters who play foosball play a significant role in the fic, along with related clubs, tournaments, and so on.

Football

Sports

Synonyms: Football players

The fic centers on football player characters, the world of football, clubs, training, championships, and so on.

Football Fans

Sports

Synonyms: Ultras

The fic features football supporters and fan culture, including ultras.

Football Ultras

Subcultures

Synonyms: Casuals, Football hooligans

The fic centers on football ultras and hooligan firms, with their chants, banners, rivalries and loyalty to a club.

Foot Fetish

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Foot Stimulation, Footjob, Sock Kink

The fic depicts a range of erotic fetishes centered on attraction to feet, as well as sexual practices that use feet to provide sexual pleasure.

Forbidden Relationship

Relationships

Synonyms: Crush on a Relative, Forbidden Love, Obstacle to Love, Parental Disapproval

The fic focuses on a relationship between characters who, for some reason, have no right to be in it.

Forced Assimilation

Warnings

Synonyms: Cultural Genocide, Language Suppression, Russification

The fic depicts the suppression of a people's language, culture or identity.

Forced Bathing

Warnings

The fic depicts the forcible washing of a character or characters.

Forced Cannibalism

Warnings

The fic depicts a scene in which a character is forced to eat another character of the same species as themselves.

Forced Displacement

Warnings

Synonyms: Fleeing War

The fic features characters forced to flee or leave their homes because of war, persecution or disaster.

Forced Feeding

Warnings

Synonyms: Food Coercion, Food-Based Violence

The fic depicts the forcible procedure of introducing food into the body; force-feeding is carried out using special tubes inserted through the nose or mouth into the esophagus.

Forced Feminization

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Sissification, Sissy, Sissy Boy

The fic depicts a sexual role-play practice in which a male character, following their partner's instructions, performs a stereotypically feminine role, with a strong emphasis on the coercive nature of the act and on the use of attire traditionally considered feminine.

Forced Incest

Warnings

The fic contains descriptions of sexual and/or erotic acts between relatives, committed against the will of one or more participants under threat of violence or other coercion.

Forced Labor

Warnings

Synonyms: Labor Camps

The fic depicts people made to work under threat or coercion.

Forced Marriage

Relationships

Synonyms: Coerced Marriage, Forced Into Marriage, Involuntary Marriage, Marriage Under Duress, Shotgun Marriage

The fic focuses on characters who marry under coercion, for personal gain, due to blackmail, or under pressure of circumstances.

Forced Proximity

Tropes

The fic devotes significant attention to characters forced to stay close to one another — either due to an unbreakable social, physical, or magical bond between them, or because they end up locked in the same place.

Forced Treatment

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic depicts the process of forcibly treating a character or characters for something, whether a real illness or a fictional ailment.

Foreign Languages in the Text

Warnings

The fic contains phrases, sentences, or dialogue in a language other than the story's main language of narration, possibly without translation.

Forensic Scientists / Medical Examiners

Occupations

Synonyms: Forensic Analysis, Forensic Medical Examination

The fic's plot is centered on characters whose specialty is the scientific study of crime traces in the course of a criminal investigation.

Foreplay

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Love Play, Preliminary Caresses

The fic gives significant attention to foreplay.

Foresight

Superpowers

Synonyms: Precognition, Tactical Clairvoyance

The fic gives significant weight to characters who can predict future events within a certain span of time ahead.

Foreskin Play

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Foreskin Kink

The fic depicts a sexual practice in which a partner licks or sucks on the foreskin of another character's penis, and/or inserts their tongue, fingers, or objects underneath it.

Forest Explorers

Occupations

Characters who explore various forests (jungle, taiga, etc.) and their flora and fauna play a significant role in the fic.

Forests

Setting

Synonyms: Mangrove forest, Taiga, Taiga forest

The fic's events take place in a forest.

Forgiveness

Freeform

The fic focuses significantly on the theme of forgiveness.

Forgotten Hero

Tropes

Synonyms: Hero of the Past

The fic describes characters who performed heroic deeds but were forgotten, or whose deeds were never known.

Formal Address Kink

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Formal 'You' Kink

The fic depicts a character or characters who become sexually aroused when a partner addresses them with formal, respectful language instead of casual or intimate address, and/or when they address their partner that way — for example, using a formal "you" or formal titles instead of first names.

Formal Wear Kink

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Evening Gowns, Sashes, Suits, Ties, Tuxedos

The fic depicts one or more fetishes involving interacting with, wearing, or using formal clothing (suits, tuxedos, etc.) or its accessories for purposes other than their intended one.

Former Enemies

Relationships

The fic focuses on the relationship between characters who used to be enemies.

Former Serial Killers

Occupations

The fic depicts characters who used to be serial killers but, for some reason, have stopped.

Formula 1

Sports

The fic centers on the Formula 1 world championship for circuit racing, held annually across stages called Grand Prix, under the technical regulations and rules set by the International Automobile Federation (FIA).

Forniphilia

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Human Furniture, Living Furniture

The fic depicts an erotic practice in which one partner pretends to be an inanimate household object (a table, chair, stand) while the other uses them as they see fit.

Fortresses / Towers

Setting

The fic's events take place in a fortress and/or tower.

Fortune Tellers / Clairvoyants

Occupations

Synonyms: Diviners, Esotericism, Foretellers, Prophets, Seers

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

Forum Posts (Stylization)

Format

Synonyms: Comment Section

The fic is stylized as a forum thread or comment section.

Foster/Adoptive Families

Relationships

Synonyms: Adopted Children, Adoption, AU: Foster Families, Families by Circumstance, Guardianship, Raised by Non-Relatives

The fic focuses on the platonic relationships within families that have taken in children not biologically their own.

Founders Era

Fandom-Specific Tags fanfiction only

The fic is set in medieval times, when the four Founders built Hogwarts (Harry Potter).

Found Family

Relationships

Synonyms: Team as Family

The fic focuses on the platonic relationships of a group of characters unrelated by marriage or blood, who fill the absence of a traditional family through these bonds.