Tags
The full list of tags works can be labeled with.
Classism
Warnings
Synonyms: Class Discrimination
The fic depicts characters who display a hostile, discriminatory, or prejudiced attitude toward characters based on social class.
Class Monitors
Occupations
The fic pays particular attention to characters who have been appointed as class monitors.
Class Struggle
Freeform
The fic gives substantial attention to the struggle between social classes whose interests are incompatible or conflicting.
Claw Kink
Kinks (18+)
The fic depicts a character's sexual attraction to a partner's claws and/or a range of fetishes involving interaction with a partner's claws.
Cleaners
Occupations
Synonyms: Cleaning Ladies, Janitors
The fic pays particular attention to cleaner characters who professionally clean and tidy premises.
Clergy
Occupations
Synonyms: Clergymen, Priests
The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of characters who are members of the clergy.
Cliche
Tropes
The fic focuses on a popular or frequently encountered plot trope and is unlikely to surprise the reader with unexpected plot twists.
Cliffhanger
Format
Synonyms: Cliffhanger Ending, To Be Continued
A literary device in which a character faces a difficult dilemma or the consequences of their actions, but the narrative cuts off at that point, leaving the resolution open until the next installment. A cliffhanger implies the plot is moving quickly.
Clinical Death
Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias
Synonyms: Lazarus Syndrome
The fic depicts characters who undergo clinical death.
Clitoral Orgasm
Kinks (18+)
The fic depicts an orgasm achieved through clitoral stimulation.
Clones
Mythical & Fantastical Creatures
Synonyms: Cloning
Artificially created organisms that are genetically identical to other organisms play a significant role in the fic.
Closed-Circle Mystery
Tropes
Synonyms: Locked Room Mystery, Whodunit
The fic is a mystery where suspects are confined to one location and cannot leave.
Closed cities
Setting
The fic takes place in a city that is closed off from the outside world or restricts access to certain people or groups. The tag covers both fictional and historical closed cities, not only Soviet ones.
Close Enemies
Relationships
Synonyms: Best Enemies, Bosom Enemies, Foemance, Loyal Enemies, Worthy Opponents
The fic depicts characters who, despite their mutual enmity, feel respect and understanding for one another, knowing each other better than their own friends and family do.
Closeted Characters
Orientation, Sex & Gender
Synonyms: In the Closet
The fic features characters who hide their orientation or gender identity from others.
Closet Sex
Kinks (18+)
The fic depicts sexual acts taking place in a closet, wardrobe, or other space meant for storing clothes and shoes.
Clouding of Consciousness
Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias
Synonyms: Ganser Syndrome
The fic depicts characters affected by mental states involving severely distorted perception of the surrounding environment (objects, phenomena, and their interrelations), loss of the capacity for abstract thought, and a disrupted process of cognizing reality.
Clown Kink
Kinks (18+)
Synonyms: Circus Kink, Circus Paraphernalia Kink, Coulrophilia, Jester Kink
The fic features characters who feel sexual attraction to clowns and/or to clown-related paraphernalia, makeup, and clothing.
Clowns
Occupations
The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of clown characters.
Clubs / Extracurricular Groups
Occupations
Synonyms: Additional Education, Junior Academy of Sciences, Plast, Sports Sections, Young Naturalists
Various sections and clubs play a significant role in the fic.
Coaches
Occupations
The fic features coach characters. Much attention in the plot is given to everything related to training.
Coastal cities
Setting
The fic's events take place in cities located on the coast.
Co-Authored Work
Format
Synonyms: Collaboration
The fic is written together by two or more authors.
Cockwarming
Kinks (18+)
Synonyms: Body Docking, Cock Warming, Docking, Soaking
The fic depicts a sexual practice in which the owner of a penis inserts it into a partner's mouth, vagina, urethra, or anus to 'warm' it, then refrains from any stimulation that would lead to orgasm.
Cocoa
Freeform
The fic gives considerable attention to cocoa, its preparation and consumption.
Codependency
Relationships
The fic shows characters whose relationship is marked by unhealthy mutual dependency and loss of boundaries.
Coerced Relationship
Relationships
Synonyms: Forced Couple, Forced Relationship, Involuntary Relationship
The fic focuses on characters who enter into a relationship under coercion, for personal gain, due to blackmail, or under pressure of circumstances.
Coercion
Warnings
The fic describes a series of actions by someone, as a result of which other characters are forced to perform or not perform certain actions against their will and wishes.
Coffee
Freeform
The fic pays significant attention to coffee.
Coffee Kink
Kinks (18+)
The fic depicts characters who become sexually aroused by coffee and the smell of coffee.
Cognitive Dissonance
Tropes
A character's cognitive dissonance — the mental discomfort arising from a contradiction between their beliefs, values, perceptions, or actions — plays a significant role in the fic.
Coincidences
Freeform
Synonyms: Fortunate Accident, Good Luck, Serendipity
The fic features coincidences, serendipity and lucky chances.
Cold War
Historical Periods & Events
The fic's events take place during the period of global confrontation from 1946 until the late 1980s between two blocs of states, one centered on the USSR and the other on the USA, with the corresponding setting. The story may align with real-world history or diverge from it.
Collar Kink
Kinks (18+)
Synonyms: Choker Kink, Collars, Leash Kink
The fic depicts a range of sexual practices or fetishes involving the wearing of collars.
Colleagues to Enemies to Lovers
Relationships
Synonyms: Partners to Enemies to Lovers
The fic focuses on a relationship between characters that starts as a working relationship, turns hostile, and ultimately becomes romantic and/or sexual.
Colleagues to Lovers
Relationships
Synonyms: Coworkers to Lovers
The fic follows colleagues whose working relationship turns into romance.
Collection of Chinese Poetry
Format
Synonyms: Ci, Poetry of the East, Shi, Tang and Song
The fic is a collection of traditional Chinese lyric poetry.
Collection of Japanese Poetry
Format
Synonyms: Collection of Busokuseki Verses, Collection of Haiku, Collection of Hokku, Collection of Tanka, Hokku, Senryu
The fic is a collection of traditional Japanese lyric poetry.
Collection of Limericks
Format
The fic is a collection of limericks (short, absurdist poems traditionally made up of five lines with an AABBA rhyme scheme).
Collectors
Occupations
The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of characters who collect and systematize objects united by a common idea.
Colloquial Style
Warnings
Synonyms: Coarse Language
The fic uses a colloquial style of speech characterized by slang, jargon, and colloquial or vernacular vocabulary.
Colombia
Geography & Ethnicity
The events of the work take place in Colombia.
Colonial Era
Historical Periods & Events
Synonyms: British Raj, Colonialism
The fic is set in the colonial era of European overseas empires.
Color Vision Deficiency
Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias
Synonyms: Achromatia, Achromatopsia, Anomalous Trichromacy, Chloropsia, Color Blindness, Cyanopsia, Daltonism, Deuteranopia, Dichromacy, Erythropsia, Monochromacy, Protanopia, Xanthopsia
The fic depicts characters with a color vision disorder that results in a reduced ability, or a complete inability, to distinguish some or all colors.
Coma
Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias
The fic depicts a character or characters who have fallen into a coma.
Combat Hopak and Ukrainian Martial Arts
Sports
Synonyms: Combat Hopak, Cossack Martial Arts, Spas
The fic features Ukrainian martial traditions such as combat hopak and Cossack fighting systems.
Combat Medics / Paramedics
Occupations
Synonyms: Ambulance Crews, Feldshers, Field Medics, Tactical Medicine
The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of combat medics, tactical medicine specialists and emergency-ambulance paramedics.
Combat Trauma
Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias
Synonyms: Combat PTSD, Combat Stress, Shell Shock, War Trauma
The fic describes characters with psychological trauma caused by combat, bombardment, captivity or other war experiences.
Comedians
Occupations
The fic's plot is centered on the life and work of comedians, stand-up performances and the process of writing jokes.
Comic Artists / Mangaka
Occupations
Synonyms: Manga Artists, Mangaka
The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of a character or characters who create illustrated stories.