Tags
The full list of tags works can be labeled with.
Lantern Festival
Holidays
Synonyms: Yuanxiao
The fic's events take place during the celebration of Lantern Festival, or are closely tied to the holiday itself.
Lapslock
Format
Synonyms: Lowercase text, No capital letters
The fic uses a stylistic device in which the entire text is written without capital letters.
Large corporations
Setting
Synonyms: Big business, Holding companies
Large corporations, their branches, owners, and employees play a central role in the fic.
Large Families
Relationships
The fic focuses on relationships within a family that has three or more children.
LARP
Freeform
Synonyms: LARPers, Live Action Role-Playing, Live Action Role-Playing Game
The fic focuses on types of role-playing games characterized by physically acting out a character's actions.
Last Bell
Holidays
The work's events take place during the celebration of the last school bell, or are closely tied to the holiday itself.
Last Chance
Tropes
The fic devotes significant attention to last chances at something.
Last of Their Species
Mythical & Fantastical Creatures
A character whose race no longer exists in the world, and who is the last purebred representative of that species, plays an important role in the fic.
Last Stand
Tropes
Synonyms: Final Battle, You Shall Not Pass
The story's foundation is the trope in which a small group of characters stands against vastly superior enemy forces.
Last Survivor
Tropes
The fic features a character who is the sole survivor of a disaster, battle or group.
Last Time
Relationships
The fic gives significant weight to the characters' final meeting.
Last Will
Freeform
A character's posthumous instructions, expressed verbally or in writing, play a substantial role in the fic.
Late Canon Appearance
Warnings
Canonical characters and/or events of the original storyline will appear in the fic not at the beginning or in the early chapters, but significantly later — after a lengthy backstory, an original arc, a substantial amount of text, or a time skip in the plot.
Late Middle Ages
Historical Periods & Events
The fic is set in the Late Middle Ages (c. 1300–1500).
Latent Homosexuality
Warnings
The fic depicts characters who are attracted to people of their own sex but do not consciously experience this attraction or express it in any overt actions.
Latex Kink
Kinks (18+)
Synonyms: Latex, Latexophilia, Rubberists, Vacuum Bed, Vacuum Cube
The fic depicts one or more fetishes involving wearing latex clothing, interacting with it, or using latex accessories.
Latin America
Geography & Ethnicity
Synonyms: Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Venezuela
The fic is set in Latin America.
Latvia
Geography & Ethnicity
Synonyms: Riga
The fic is set in Latvia.
Lavender Marriage
Relationships
Synonyms: Beard (Partner)
The fic focuses on characters, most often of different sexes, who enter into a marriage of convenience in order to hide the socially stigmatized orientation of one or both spouses.
Law Enforcement
Occupations
The fic's plot is centered on the activities of real or fictional organizations and their employees whose task is to protect the law and society (ensuring public safety, maintaining law and order, fighting crime, etc.).
Lawyers
Occupations
Synonyms: Attorneys, Judges, Jurisprudence, Prosecutors
The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of characters who are representatives of the legal profession.
Laziness
Freeform
The fic gives significant attention to characters' laziness and their reluctance to do anything, whether temporarily or as a lasting trait.
Learned Helplessness
Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias
The fic depicts characters affected by a state in which they do not attempt to avoid negative stimuli or obtain positive ones, even though they have the opportunity to do so.
Leather Clothing
Kinks (18+)
Synonyms: Leather Clothing Kink, Leather Kink
The fic depicts one or more fetishes involving interacting with or wearing clothing made of genuine or synthetic leather.
Leaving an Unhealthy Relationship
Warnings
The fic depicts characters leaving painful relationships that cause serious psychological or physical harm.
Lemkos and Boykos
Geography & Ethnicity
Synonyms: Boykos, Lemkos
The fic features Lemkos and Boykos, Carpathian ethnographic groups of Ukrainians.
Lesbian Characters
Orientation, Sex & Gender
Synonyms: Lesbians
The work features female characters who experience sexual or romantic attraction to women.
Lethargic Sleep
Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias
A particular pathological state resembling deep sleep. A person may remain in a state of lethargic sleep for anywhere from several hours to several weeks, and in exceptional cases it may last for years.
Letters
Freeform
The fic devotes significant attention to letters.
Letters (Stylization)
Format
Synonyms: Correspondence fic, Epistolary genre
The fic is styled as letters written by one of the characters.
Letting Go of Feelings
Relationships
The fic depicts characters who, having experienced unrequited feelings, choose to let them go.
Levitation
Superpowers
The fic gives significant weight to characters who can move through the air without any device designed for flight.
Lewd Humor
Warnings
Synonyms: Sexual Humor, Vulgar Humor
The comedic effect in the fic is achieved through descriptions of genitals, secondary sex characteristics, sex, and related topics.
LGBT Parents
Relationships
The fic focuses on platonic relationships between family members in which the parents are members of the queer community.
LGBT Soldiers
Orientation, Sex & Gender
Synonyms: Queer Military
The fic features LGBT service members, including in wartime, such as in the Ukrainian army.
Liberated Territories
Setting
Synonyms: Deoccupied territories, Returning home
The fic's events take place in recently liberated settlements, with demining, restoration and the return of residents.
Librarians
Occupations
The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of librarian characters.
Libraries
Setting
The fic focuses on events taking place in a library, its staff, and visitors.
Liechtenstein
Geography & Ethnicity
The events of the work take place in Liechtenstein.
Lie Detection
Superpowers
Synonyms: Human Lie Detector, Truth Sense
The fic features characters who can tell when someone lies.
Life in Wartime
Freeform
Synonyms: Home Front, Wartime Daily Life
The fic shows everyday life of civilians during a war, away from the front line.
Life Under Occupation
Freeform
Synonyms: Occupation Authorities, Occupation Regime
The fic shows life in territories occupied by a foreign military force.
Life Under Shelling
Tropes
Synonyms: Blackout
The fic depicts everyday life under air raids and shelling, with alarms, shelters and blackouts.
Light BDSM
Kinks (18+)
Synonyms: BDSM Elements, Gentle BDSM
The fic depicts "light" variations of BDSM practice, where dominance-and-submission play takes center stage while physical interaction excludes rough handling or significant pain; when toys or implements are used, gentler options are chosen as well (a feather tickler instead of a whip, silk ribbons, etc.).
Lighthouses
Setting
Lighthouses, their keepers, and visitors play a key role in the fic.
Light Lords
Tropes
Positive characters — absolute good, a heroic-fantasy archetype — play a significant role in the fic. The opposite of Dark Lords.
Limb Loss
Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias
Synonyms: Characters Without Arms
The fic depicts characters who have lost a limb or several limbs, the circumstances of that loss, its effect on the characters' lives, etc.
Liminal spaces
Setting
Synonyms: Dreamcore
Liminal spaces play a central role in the fic: ordinary places that, for some reason, make the characters feel uneasy, appearing eerie and often surreal to them.
Limited Third-Person Narration
Format
Synonyms: Close Third
The fic is narrated in third person limited to one character's perception.
Lingering Feelings
Relationships
The fic focuses on a character or characters whose relationship has ended, but whose feelings remain. The characters may long for the past and wish to rekindle the relationship.