Tags

Gardeners

Occupations

Synonyms: Allotment Gardener, Vegetable Gardener

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of characters whose duties include caring for a garden or any landscaped area.

Gardens and Orchards

Setting

Synonyms: Greenhouses, Orchards, Vegetable gardens

The fic's events take place in gardens, orchards and vegetable plots, among plants and seasonal work.

Gargoyles

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Gargoyles play a significant role in the fic.

Gaslighting

Warnings

The fic depicts a practice of psychological abuse, a form of bullying whose goal is to make a character doubt the soundness of their perception, memory, emotional stability, or competence.

Gay Characters

Orientation, Sex & Gender

Synonyms: Gays

The work features male characters who experience sexual or romantic attraction to men.

Gay Clubs

Setting

Gay clubs, their staff, and visitors play a key role in the fic.

Geeks

Subcultures

Synonyms: Anime Fans, Bronies, Otaku

The work pays significant attention to characters who are experts and enthusiasts in a specific field, devoting attention to their hobby without significant detriment to their social and personal life.

Geisha / Gisaeng

Occupations

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of geisha characters or gisaeng characters.

Gemstones

Freeform

The fic gives an important role to gemstones or minerals.

Gender-Confirmation Surgery

Orientation, Sex & Gender

Synonyms: Feminizing Vaginoplasty, Mastectomy, Metoidioplasty, Orchiectomy, Phalloplasty, Sex Reassignment Surgery, Vaginoplasty

Surgical procedures to bring the physical appearance of transgender characters into alignment with their self-perception play an important role in the work.

Gender Crisis

Orientation, Sex & Gender

Characters grappling with the realization that their gender may differ from the one they originally identified with play a significant role in the work.

Gender Disguise

Tropes

Synonyms: Man Disguised as a Woman, Woman Disguised as a Man

The fic's plot centers on characters who, for one reason or another, conceal their sex or gender without seeking to change it.

Gender Dysphoria

Orientation, Sex & Gender

The work features characters who cannot fully accept their gender status. It may have various causes, external manifestations, and duration.

Gender Euphoria

Orientation, Sex & Gender

The fic features characters experiencing joy when their gender is recognized or expressed.

Genderfluid Characters

Orientation, Sex & Gender

Synonyms: Genderfluid

The fic features characters whose gender identity shifts over time.

Gender Inequality

Warnings

The fic depicts an especially pronounced feature of social structure whereby members of opposite sexes have persistent differences and, as a result, unequal opportunities in society.

Gender Nonconformity

Orientation, Sex & Gender

Synonyms: Gender Non-Conformance, Gender Variance

The work features characters who, in one way or another in their behavior or gender expression, do not conform to the gender norms accepted in a particular society.

Gender Reveal Party

Freeform

Synonyms: Gender party, Sex reveal party

The fic gives considerable attention to a party held during pregnancy at which the baby's sex is revealed.

Gender Role Reversal

Relationships

Synonyms: Gender Role Swap

The fic is built on the trope in which the partner typically expected to take the active role (based on their typical behavior or gender) behaves passively, while the partner expected to take the passive role behaves actively instead. The focus is on ordinary behavior that doesn't match society's accepted role model.

Genderswap

Warnings

Synonyms: Gender Bender, Opposite Gender, Sex Swap

The fic is built on the plot device in which characters change the sex or gender assigned to them in canon to the opposite one. This may be either temporary or permanent. Characters in the fic may originally be of a different sex/gender or change it over the course of the narrative.

Genetics / Evolution

Freeform

Synonyms: Eugenics, Selective Breeding

The fic pays significant attention to genetics and/or the evolutionary development of life.

Genital Torture

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Ballbusting, CBT, Cock and Ball Torture, Cock Stepping, Cuntbusting, Genital Bondage, Pain Play (Type), Sadomasochism (Type), Tamakeri

The fic depicts a sexual practice involving inflicting pain on the genitals, such as striking or stomping on them.

Geniuses

Occupations

Synonyms: Brilliance, Prodigies

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

Genius Loci

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Synonyms: Spirits of Place

The fic features guardian spirits of specific places.

Genocide

Warnings

Synonyms: Xenocide

The fic depicts the extermination of groups or peoples for political, racial, national, ethnic, or religious reasons.

Gentlemen's Clubs

Setting

The fic centers on gentlemen's clubs and their members.

Gentle Sex

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Slow Sex, Tender Sex, Tenderness Kink, Vanilla Sex

The fic depicts characters behaving with marked tenderness toward their partner(s) during sex scenes, paying close attention to caresses and taking great care to keep the experience painless and pleasurable.

Gentle Talk

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Tender Talk

The fic depicts a sexual practice in which partners speak gentle, tender yet explicit words and phrases to each other to heighten arousal.

Geokinesis

Superpowers

Characters who can control earth—rocks, soil, bedrock, and the like—play a significant role in the fic.

Geologists / Geographers

Occupations

Synonyms: Geology

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of geologist and/or geographer characters.

Georgia (country)

Geography & Ethnicity

Synonyms: Abkhazia, Tbilisi

The fic is set in the country of Georgia.

Georgian Era

Historical Periods & Events

The fic is set in the Georgian era in Britain (1714–1837).

Germany

Geography & Ethnicity

Synonyms: Baden-Wurttemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, States of Germany, Thuringia

The events of the work take place in Germany.

Gerontophilia

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Elderly Kink, Old Age Kink

The fic depicts a character's or characters' sexual attraction to significantly older people. This does not apply to fics that depict sexuality between elderly characters themselves.

Ghetto

Setting

The fic's events take place in an area of a large city where minorities, often facing discrimination, live due to social, legal, or economic pressure.

Ghosting

Relationships

Synonyms: Mosting, Submarining

The fic depicts the ending of a relationship (romantic or platonic) without any prior notice, explanation, or conversation, as well as the avoidance of all forms of contact (calls and messages).

Ghosts

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Synonyms: Apparitions, Haunted House, Onryo, Phantoms, Poltergeists, Spirits

Spirits of the dead who manifest in one form or another in real life play a significant role in the fic.

Ghouls

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Synonyms: Corpse Eaters

Carnivorous and cannibalistic scavenger creatures play a significant role in the fic.

Giants

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Synonyms: Titans

Giants play a significant role in the fic.

Gift Fic

Format

Synonyms: Birthday Fic

The fic was written as a gift for a specific person or event.

Gifts

Freeform

Synonyms: Gifts for a partner

The fic focuses on a character or characters preparing to give or receive gifts, preparing for an occasion, and/or the occasion itself.

Gilded Age

Historical Periods & Events

Synonyms: Gilded Era

The fic is set in the American Gilded Age (c. 1870–1900).

Gilded Cage

Tropes

Synonyms: Little Bird

The fic focuses on a character surrounded by comfort and wealth, but lacking freedom.

Gilded Youth

Occupations

Synonyms: Privileged Youth, Rich Kids

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of characters whose lives and futures were arranged by their influential or high-ranking parents, making their lives easy and carefree.

GILF

Kinks (18+)

The fic features elderly female or male characters with a sexually attractive appearance and a pleasant personality, who often have grandchildren.

Girlpenis

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Cockgirl, Dickgirl, Futanari, Girl With a Dick, Penisgirl

The fic features a female character who has a penis, but who, as a rule, is not a transgender or intersex person.

Gladiators

Occupations

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

Glasses Kink

Kinks (18+)

The fic depicts a range of sexual practices or fetishes involving the wearing of glasses.

Global Catastrophes

Warnings

Synonyms: Apocalypse, Ecocide, End of the World, Impact Event, Omnicide

The fic depicts large-scale tragic events that completely destroy intelligent life that has arisen on the planet or irreversibly limit its potential.

Glory Hole

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Hole in the Wall

The fic depicts a sexual practice in which the partners cannot see each other, with sexual contact happening through a hole in a partition between them — a wall, door, or cubicle divider, for instance.