Tags
The full list of tags works can be labeled with.
Summer Solstice
Holidays
Synonyms: Midsummer
The work's events take place during the summer solstice, or are closely tied to the holiday itself.
Summoning
Superpowers
Synonyms: Conjuration, Summoned Creatures
The fic features characters who can summon creatures, spirits or objects.
Sumo
Sports
Synonyms: Sumo Wrestlers
The fic features sumo wrestlers and the world of sumo.
Superheroes
Mythical & Fantastical Creatures
Superheroes play a significant role in the fic.
Superhuman Intelligence
Superpowers
Synonyms: Hyper Intelligence
The fic features characters with intellect far beyond normal human limits.
Superhuman Strength
Superpowers
The fic gives significant weight to characters who possess superhuman physical strength.
Superintelligences
Mythical & Fantastical Creatures
Superintelligent beings or systems whose intelligence far surpasses that of humans play a significant role in the fic.
Superiority Complex
Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias
The fic depicts characters affected by a psychological condition that develops out of an especially acute form of inferiority complex, characterized by attributing special powers to oneself, a drive to prove one's own self-sufficiency, and a tendency toward dominance.
Supermarkets
Setting
The fic focuses on supermarkets, their customers, and staff.
Superpower Negation
Superpowers
Synonyms: Dispelling Magic, Power Nullification
Characters skilled at negating the effects of other characters' superpowers, magic, and the like play a significant role in the fic.
Superpowers
Superpowers
Synonyms: People with Superpowers, Super Powers, Supernatural Abilities
The fic gives significant weight to characters who possess supernatural or paranormal abilities.
Super Speed
Superpowers
Synonyms: Speedsters
The fic gives significant weight to characters who can move at superhuman speed.
Supervillains
Mythical & Fantastical Creatures
Supervillains play a significant role in the fic.
Support Groups
Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias
Synonyms: Peer Support
The fic features support groups and peer-support meetings.
Surfing
Sports
Synonyms: Surfers
The fic centers on the lives and activities of surfer characters.
Surgeons
Occupations
Synonyms: Anesthesiologists, Operating Room Staff
The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of surgeons and operating-room teams.
Surgical Operations
Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias
Synonyms: Botched Surgery, Self-Surgery
The fic gives significant attention to surgeries, their preparation, their performance, and/or their aftermath.
Surrogate Pregnancy
Warnings
Synonyms: Gestational Carriers, Surrogate Motherhood
The fic depicts the practice of conceiving a child wherein a character agrees to carry and give birth to a child for another character or characters who will subsequently become that child's parents.
Surveillance
Freeform
The fic focuses significantly on surveillance.
Survival
Freeform
Synonyms: Survival Skills
The fic centers on characters fighting to stay alive in extreme conditions.
Survival Games
Tropes
Synonyms: Battle Royale, Deadly Games, Russian Roulette
The fic's plot centers on characters organizing or participating in death matches or other life-or-death competitions, usually until only one survivor remains.
Survivor's Guilt
Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias
The fic depicts characters who have survived a traumatic situation (a disaster, an epidemic, a war, etc.) and feel guilt, most often irrational, toward those who died.
Surzhyk
Warnings
Synonyms: Mixed Speech
The fic uses Surzhyk, a mixture of Ukrainian and Russian, in the characters' speech.
Suspended Sex
Kinks (18+)
The fic depicts a sexual practice in which one or more characters hold their partner's body suspended off the ground.
Suspension
Kinks (18+)
The fic depicts a practice involving suspending a character or characters from a special rig using devices attached to the body, in some cases directly through the skin.
Sviatky
Holidays
Synonyms: Christmas Sviatky, Fearsome Evenings, Holy Evenings
The work's events take place during the celebration of Sviatky, or are closely tied to the holiday itself.
Swamps
Setting
Swamps play a key role in the fic.
Swan Fidelity
Tropes
Synonyms: Wolf Fidelity
After the untimely death of a beloved, the character remains forever alone.
Swimming
Sports
Synonyms: Swimmers
The fic centers on characters who swim, including clubs, training, championships, and so on.
Swimming Pools
Setting
Synonyms: Lifeguards, Pool, Swimming lessons
The fic's events take place at swimming pools, among swimmers and lifeguards.
Swinging
Kinks (18+)
Synonyms: Lover Swapping, Partner Swapping, Swing, Swingers
The fic depicts a sexual practice in which established couples briefly swap sexual partners with the mutual consent of everyone involved.
Switches / Versatile
Kinks (18+)
Synonyms: Switches, Switching Roles in Sex, They Switch, Versatile
The fic depicts characters who enjoy taking on both passive (bottom) and active (top) roles during sex.
Switzerland
Geography & Ethnicity
The events of the work take place in Switzerland.
Swordsmen
Occupations
The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of swordsman characters.
Sworn Siblings
Relationships
Synonyms: Sworn Brotherhood, Sworn Brothers, Sworn Sisterhood, Sworn Sisters
The fic gives significant attention to characters who are not related by blood but voluntarily agree to a brotherly or sisterly relationship.
Symbiosis
Warnings
Synonyms: Symbiotes
The fic depicts characters of different species living in a symbiotic union.
Symbolism
Freeform
Real phenomena, thoughts, feelings, and abstract concepts are conveyed in the fic through symbols — sensory images conventionally taken to represent what they are meant to express.
Symphorophilia
Kinks (18+)
The fic depicts characters who become sexually aroused by natural disasters, the mass death of other characters, destruction, or by staging accidents themselves.
Synesthesia
Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias
Synonyms: Chromesthesia, Synesthetes
The fic depicts characters affected by a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway triggers an automatic, involuntary response in another sensory pathway.
System
Tropes
The fic describes/references a world that operates according to the rules of video games: characters see menus, receive quests, and level up skills and stats.
T4T
Relationships
Synonyms: Trans and Trans, Trans for Trans
The fic depicts a transgender character who experiences romantic and/or sexual attraction to other transgender characters, or who is in a relationship with another transgender character.
Table tennis
Sports
Characters who play table tennis play a significant role in the fic, along with related clubs, training, championships, and so on.
Tabletop Role-Playing Games
Freeform
Synonyms: D&D, Dungeons & Dragons, Mafia (game)
Tabletop role-playing games play a significant role in the fic.
Tail Kink
Kinks (18+)
The fic depicts a character or characters who are attracted to partners with a tail.
Tailors
Occupations
The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of tailor characters.
Taisho Era
Historical Periods & Events
The fic's events take place in Japan during the reign of Emperor Yoshihito, from July 30, 1912 to December 25, 1926. The story may align with real-world history or diverge from it.
Taiwan
Geography & Ethnicity
Synonyms: Republic of China
The events of the work take place in Taiwan.
Tajikistan
Geography & Ethnicity
The events of the work take place in Tajikistan.
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias
Synonyms: Broken heart syndrome, Stress cardiomyopathy
The fic depicts characters affected by stress cardiomyopathy, which manifests as a sudden onset of heart failure or chest pain combined with ECG changes characteristic of an anterior myocardial infarction.
Tanabata
Holidays
Synonyms: July 7, Star Festival
The work's events take place during the celebration of the traditional Japanese holiday — the "Star Festival" — observed on July 7, or are closely tied to the holiday itself.