Tags

Healthy Relationship to Unhealthy Relationship

Relationships

The fic depicts a relationship that was initially comfortable and satisfying for the partners involved, but over time, for various reasons, acquires negative and/or harmful traits: acts of violence, abuse, outbursts of aggression, frequent conflicts, unhealthy jealousy, possessiveness, and so on.

Heartbeat Kink

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Cardiophilia, Love of the Heart

The fic depicts a range of fetishes centered on love for the human heart, both the sound of it and the physical sensation of one's own or another's heartbeat.

Heart Disease

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Arrhythmia, Brugada Syndrome, Heart Attacks, Heart Defects, Heart Problems

The fic depicts characters affected by conditions that disrupt the normal functioning of the heart.

Heat / Rut

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Mating Period, Mating Season, Omegaverse: Heat, Omegaverse: Rut, Pre-Heat

The fic depicts a physiologically driven period of sexual activity marked by pronounced psychological, physical, and/or behavioral effects.

Heavenly Hundred Heroes Day

Holidays

Synonyms: February 20

The fic's events take place on Heavenly Hundred Heroes Day, commemorating those killed during the Revolution of Dignity, or are closely tied to it.

Hedonism

Freeform

Synonyms: Hedonists

The fic gives significant attention to the theme of hedonism.

Heian Period

Historical Periods & Events

The story takes place in Japan between 794 and 1185. It may contain references to literary works of the period, may mention real historical events, or may depict an alternate path for world history.

Heisei Era

Historical Periods & Events

The fic is set in Japan in the Heisei era (1989–2019).

Heist

Tropes

The fic centers on the planning and carrying out of a clever robbery by a team.

Hellhounds

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Synonyms: Hell Hounds

Mythical supernatural creatures in the form of dogs play a significant role in the fic.

Helping an Enemy

Tropes

Synonyms: Saving an Enemy's Life

The fic describes characters performing selfless acts for the benefit of their foes.

Hemophilia

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic depicts characters affected by a rare hereditary disease associated with impaired blood clotting.

Herbalists

Occupations

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of characters who gather medicinal herbs and understand how to use them for medical purposes.

Herbs

Freeform

The fic gives significant attention to various herbs.

Hermits

Occupations

Synonyms: Hermit Life

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of characters who voluntarily lead a secluded way of life, usually (but not necessarily) in hard-to-reach places with minimal or no contact with other people.

Hero to Antihero

Tropes

An originally positive character who becomes an antihero plays an important role in the fic.

Hero to Monster

Tropes

An originally positive character, who undergoes a radical personality break resembling or bordering on madness, followed by a transformation into something that can be described as a 'monster,' plays an important role in the fic.

Hero to Ordinary Person

Tropes

Synonyms: Hero to Civilian

A character who loses their heroic status plays an important role in the fic.

Hero to Villain

Tropes

Synonyms: Switching Sides, Turn to the Dark Side, Villain Origin

An originally positive character who becomes negative plays an important role in the fic.

Hetero Characters

Orientation, Sex & Gender

The work pays significant attention to characters who experience romantic and/or sexual attraction to people of the opposite sex.

Heterochromia

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic depicts characters whose right and left eyes differ in iris color, or whose single iris has patches of different color.

Heterophobia

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic depicts characters who feel hostility toward heterosexual people and/or fear of the opposite sex and/or fear of heterosexual sex.

Hickeys / Bites

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Bruising Kink, Hickey Kink, Love Bite, Marking Kink

The fic gives significant attention to leaving hickeys, bites, or other marks on a partner's skin.

Hidden Abilities

Superpowers

The fic gives significant weight to characters who deliberately conceal their abilities from other characters.

Hidden Camera

Freeform

Hidden-camera footage and/or situations where one character secretly films another play a significant role in the fic.

Hidden Narrator

Tropes

A character who does not directly reveal themselves in the plot plays a significant role in the fic, but some sentences and thoughts in the work are written from this character's point of view.

Hidden Pregnancy

Warnings

The fic depicts characters concealing their pregnancy.

Hidden True Nature

Tropes

The fic centers on characters concealing their true nature.

Hierophilia

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Religious Paraphernalia Kink

The fic depicts characters who become sexually aroused by looking at and interacting with religious paraphernalia.

Higher Education Institutions

Setting

Synonyms: Academies, AU: University, Colleges, Higher-ed schools, Institutes, Student council, Universities

The fic's events center on institutions of higher education, their staff, and students.

High Heels Kink

Kinks (18+)

The fic depicts a range of fetishes involving interacting with high-heeled shoes.

High-Risk Pregnancy

Warnings

Synonyms: Threatened Miscarriage

The fic depicts a pregnancy that poses a threat to the life of the fetus and/or the character.

High Society

Occupations

Synonyms: Elite, Socialites, Society Ladies

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of characters who are members of high society, membership of which is determined by level of status and wealth.

High Treason

Tropes

The fic builds on the trope in which characters are connected with betrayal or treason in the context of political systems, state structures, or organizations.

Himedere / Oujidere

Tropes

The fic focuses on arrogant and overly proud characters who demand to be treated like aristocrats, regardless of whether they actually are.

Hints of a Relationship

Warnings

Synonyms: Hints of Romance, Implied Pairing

The fic contains hints of a romantic relationship between characters, but the relationship itself is not depicted.

Hints of Sex

Warnings

The fic contains hints of sexual relations between characters, but these relations themselves are not depicted.

Hip-Hop (Subculture)

Subcultures

Synonyms: Breakdance, Rappers

The plot focuses on the life and activities of a character or characters associated with the hip-hop subculture.

Hippies

Subcultures

The plot focuses on the life and activities of hippie characters or hippie communes.

Hipsters

Subcultures

Synonyms: Craft culture, Indie kids

The fic centers on hipsters with their indie tastes, vintage fashion, craft coffee and counter-mainstream lifestyle.

Hispanic and Latino

Geography & Ethnicity

Synonyms: Latinos, Latinx

The fic features Hispanic and Latino characters and culture.

Historians

Occupations

Characters who study historical science and describe events of the past play a significant role in the fic.

Historical License

Warnings

The fic is set in a specific historical period with a matching setting; the narrative tries, where possible, to match historical reality or reflect real historical events overall, but makes exceptions for certain aspects.

Historical Reenactors

Subcultures

Synonyms: Cossack reenactors, Historical fencing, Medieval fighters, Reenactment

The fic centers on historical reenactors who recreate battles, costumes, and daily life of a past era.

Historicisms

Format

Synonyms: Antique Objects, Relics of the Past, Vanished Phenomena

The fic uses words naming objects or phenomena of human life that once existed but have since disappeared, and/or describes those objects and phenomena themselves.

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Hysterical Personality Disorder

The fic depicts characters affected by a personality disorder characterized by self-dramatization, theatricality, egocentrism, emotional lability, exaggerated expression of emotions, a drive to be the center of attention, and excessive concern with physical attractiveness.

Hitchhiking

Setting

Synonyms: Hitchhikers

Free travel by hitching rides with other motorists' consent plays a significant role in the fic.

Hitmen

Occupations

Synonyms: Contract Killers, Murder for Hire

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of hitman characters, their groups or organizations.

HIV / AIDS

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Human Immunodeficiency Virus

The fic depicts characters infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (up to and including the stage of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome).

Hive Mind

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Synonyms: Collective Intelligence, Collective Thinking, Swarm

Beings whose form of thinking is not individual (or is only partly so) but is distributed among the members of a group play a significant role in the fic.