Tags

Social Adaptation

Freeform

Synonyms: Resocialization

The fic places significant emphasis on a character's or characters' social adaptation.

Social Experiments

Freeform

The fic places significant emphasis on social experiments.

Social Hierarchy

Tropes

Synonyms: Castes, Class Conflict, Rich and Poor, Social Inequality

The world the characters are placed in features social strata divided by status, wealth, lineage, and the like, as a social norm in one form or another. Significant departures from modern-day norms of law and morality are possible.

Social Media (Stylization)

Format

Synonyms: Internet Style, Online Posts, Social media AU, Twitter correspondence

The fic is styled as posts made by the characters on various social media platforms, often imitating the corresponding text formatting.

Social Parasitism

Warnings

Synonyms: Freeloading, Gigolos, Kept Women

The fic depicts characters who live off other people's money, at the expense of other people's labor.

Social Phobia

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Fear of Crowds, Fear of Public Speaking, Fear of Ridicule, Social Anxiety Disorder

The fic depicts characters affected by an irrational fear of performing certain public actions or of social situations arising.

Social Themes and Motifs

Freeform

Synonyms: Activism, Hard-Hitting Social Commentary, LGBT Activism, LGBTQ+ Activists, Minority Issues, Political Activists, Rallies, Social Drama, Social Novel, Social Struggle

The fic devotes significant attention to pressing contemporary social issues.

Social Transition

Orientation, Sex & Gender

Synonyms: Chosen Name, Name and Pronoun Change

The fic features a character changing name, pronouns or presentation as part of their transition.

Society Events

Setting

Synonyms: Banquet, Feast, Feasts, Noble reception, Noble receptions

Society events, their staff, and guests play a key role in the fic.

Soft Dom

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Gentle Spanking, Soft Dom

The fic focuses on a sexual partner who practices a particular, gentler style of dominance. Such a character may dominate physically and be quite forceful while still verbally expressing care, love, and tenderness.

Soldier and Civilian

Relationships

Synonyms: Military/Civilian

The fic focuses on a relationship between a soldier and a civilian.

Someone Else's Clothes Kink

Kinks (18+)

The fic depicts one or more fetishes involving interaction with someone else's clothing (wearing it, inhaling its scent, etc.).

Sommeliers / Bartenders

Occupations

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

Somniloquy

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Sleep muttering, Sleep talking

The fic depicts characters who talk in their sleep.

Somnophilia

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Sex During Sleep, Sex with Comatose Partners, Sex with Sleeping Partners

The fic depicts a character or characters who are sexually attracted to partners who are asleep, unconscious, or in a coma.

Songfic

Format

Synonyms: Playlist Fic

The fic is built around a song, quoting or interpreting its lyrics.

Songkran

Holidays

Synonyms: Thai New Year, Water Festival

The fic's events take place during the celebration of Songkran, or are closely tied to the holiday itself.

Sonnet

Format

Synonyms: Sonnet Form

A fourteen-line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme that develops a single motif. A sonnet consists of two quatrains and two tercets.

Soul Guides

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Synonyms: Psychopomps

Mystical beings responsible for escorting the souls of the dead to the other world play a significant role in the fic.

Soullessness

Tropes

Synonyms: Loss of Part of One's Soul, Soul Absorption

The fic devotes significant attention to the idea of a character lacking a soul for one reason or another.

Soulmate Marks

Tropes

Synonyms: Mating Marks, Omegaverse: Marks, Soulmate Marks (variant)

The fic devotes significant attention to characters bearing marks of various origins — their history, significance, and/or influence on the characters.

Soulmates: Actions

Tropes

Synonyms: Soulmates: Choice of Actions, Soulmates: Fated Actions

The work's action takes place in a world where characters are matched so that everyone has a second half. Predetermined characters can somehow influence each other's actions. Recommended to pair with the 'Soulmates' genre tag for easier searching.

Soulmates: Altered Perception

Tropes

Synonyms: Black-and-White Vision, Soulmates: Colors

The work's action takes place in a world where characters are matched so that everyone has a second half. Predetermined characters recognize one another through altered perception (special sensations from tactile contact, gaining full-color vision in place of black-and-white, distinctive scents, and so on). Recommended to pair with the 'Soulmates' genre tag for easier searching.

Soulmates: Body Swap

Tropes

The work's action takes place in a world where characters are matched so that everyone has a second half. Predetermined characters learn of each other when they swap bodies for a time. Recommended to pair with the 'Soulmates' genre tag for easier searching.

Soulmates: Dreams

Tropes

The work's action takes place in a world where characters are matched so that everyone has a second half. Predetermined characters learn of each other through dreams. Recommended to pair with the 'Soulmates' genre tag for easier searching.

Soulmates: Heterochromia

Tropes

The work's action takes place in a world where characters are matched so that everyone has a second half. Predetermined characters recognize one another by a matching pair of eye colors (for example, a character with a blue left eye and a brown right eye meets a character with a blue right eye and a brown left eye). Recommended to pair with the 'Soulmates' genre tag for easier searching.

Soulmates: Identifying Phrases

Tropes

Synonyms: First Words, Last Words

The work's action takes place in a world where characters are matched so that everyone has a second half. Predetermined characters recognize one another through predetermined individual words or key phrases (the first words heard or spoken, the last words heard or spoken, and so on), known to the characters from birth or revealed at a certain point in their lives. Recommended to pair with the 'Soulmates' genre tag for easier searching.

Soulmates: Injuries

Tropes

The work's action takes place in a world where characters are matched so that everyone has a second half. Predetermined characters recognize one another by identical injuries in the same locations. Recommended to pair with the 'Soulmates' genre tag for easier searching.

Soulmates: Mental Bond

Tropes

Synonyms: Shared Thoughts, Soulmates: Telepathy

The work's action takes place in a world where characters are matched so that everyone has a second half. Predetermined characters learn of each other through certain manifestations of a mental bond. Recommended to pair with the 'Soulmates' genre tag for easier searching.

Soulmates: Objects

Tropes

Synonyms: Soulmates: Lost Items, Soulmates: Necklace

The work's action takes place in a world where characters are matched so that everyone has a second half. Predetermined characters recognize one another through certain objects or the behavior of those objects. Recommended to pair with the 'Soulmates' genre tag for easier searching.

Soulmates: Physical Manifestations

Tropes

Synonyms: Soulmates: Locks of Hair

The work's action takes place in a world where characters are matched so that everyone has a second half. Predetermined characters recognize one another through certain physical manifestations. Recommended to pair with the 'Soulmates' genre tag for easier searching.

Soulmates: Preferences

Tropes

The work's action takes place in a world where characters are matched so that everyone has a second half. Predetermined characters recognize one another by certain preferences. Recommended to pair with the 'Soulmates' genre tag for easier searching.

Soulmates: Shared Emotions

Tropes

The work's action takes place in a world where characters are matched so that everyone has a second half. Predetermined characters have the ability to feel and/or share each other's emotions. Recommended to pair with the 'Soulmates' genre tag for easier searching.

Soulmates: Shared Pain

Tropes

The action takes place in a world where everyone has a second half. Predetermined characters share pain (if one has a stomachache, so does the other; if one is injured, the other also feels the pain of the wound), but do not sustain their soulmate's actual injuries. Recommended to pair with the 'Soulmates' genre tag for easier searching.

Soulmates: Skin Contact

Tropes

Synonyms: Skin Writing

The work's action takes place in a world where characters are matched so that everyone has a second half. Predetermined characters can write on their own body so that what is written appears on their soulmate's skin, usually on the same part of the body. Recommended to pair with the 'Soulmates' genre tag for easier searching.

Soulmates: Tactile Contact

Tropes

Synonyms: Handprints, Soulmates: Kisses, Spark Touch

The work's action takes place in a world where characters are matched so that everyone has a second half. Predetermined characters recognize one another through tactile contact and/or its manifestations. Recommended to pair with the 'Soulmates' genre tag for easier searching.

Soulmates: Tattoos

Tropes

Synonyms: Soulmates: Flower Tattoos

The work's action takes place in a world where characters are matched so that everyone has a second half. Predetermined characters learn of each other through special tattoo marks. Recommended to pair with the 'Soulmates' genre tag for easier searching.

Soul Transfer

Tropes

Synonyms: Mind Transfer, Personality Transfer

The fic describes the possibility of voluntarily or forcibly extracting a soul and/or personality from one body, followed by its transfer into another.

South America

Geography & Ethnicity

The events of the work take place in one or more countries of the South American continent.

South Asia

Geography & Ethnicity

Synonyms: Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka

The fic is set in South Asia.

Southeast Asia

Geography & Ethnicity

The action of the work takes place in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia) in a corresponding setting. The narrative may either follow real-world history or diverge from it.

South Korea

Geography & Ethnicity

Synonyms: Busan, Daegu, Daejeon, Gangwon-do, Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do, Incheon, Jeju-do, Republic of Korea, Sejong, Seoul, Ulsan

The events of the work take place in South Korea.

Soviet Repressions (Great Terror)

Historical Periods & Events

Synonyms: Executed Renaissance, Gulag, Sandarmokh

The fic is set during the Soviet repressions, including the Great Terror and the Executed Renaissance.

Space

Setting

Synonyms: Interstellar travel, Solar system, Space travel, Spacepunk, Stars

The fic's events take place in space.

Space fleet

Setting

Synonyms: Starfleet

The operations of a space fleet, space transport, pilots, and professionals who keep it running play a central role in the fic.

Space Pests

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Beings or creatures that inhabit space or travel from planet to planet, possessing destructive or unpleasant abilities that cause harm to living beings, the environment, planets, galaxies or other cosmic objects.

Space Sex

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Sex on Another Planet, Zero-Gravity Sex

The fic depicts sexual acts taking place in zero gravity or in the extreme environment of outer space.

Spaceships

Setting

Synonyms: Space stations, Starships

The fic's events take place aboard a spaceship, among its crew and cramped quarters.

Spain

Geography & Ethnicity

Synonyms: Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Balearic Islands, Basque Country, Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castile and Leon, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Extremadura, Galicia, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre, Valencia

The events of the work take place in Spain.

Spanish Civil War

Historical Periods & Events

The fic is set during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939).