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Emotional Dysregulation

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic describes characters who struggle to regulate intense emotions.

Emotional Incest

Relationships

The fic gives a meaningful role to an unhealthy family dynamic in which a parent or guardian violates emotional boundaries with a child, makes the child their primary confidant, or shifts onto them emotional needs that normally belong to a relationship between adults.

Emotional Obsession

Relationships

Synonyms: Fanaticism, Idolization, Obsessive Love, Vicious Fans

The fic gives an important role to a character's intense emotional attachment to another character. Such characters usually feel no romantic or sexual attraction toward the object of their attachment, but idolize them and are ready to do whatever they are told; this state can arise naturally or be induced artificially.

Emotional Rollercoaster

Tropes

A repeated, sharp alternation of emotionally contrasting scenes, events, or character states — from positive and calm to heavy, dramatic, and back — plays a significant role in the fic.

Emotionlessness

Freeform

Synonyms: Death of the Soul, Emotionless, Emotions Forbidden, Hidden Emotions, Lack of Emotion, Loss of Feeling, Refusing to Feel, Shutting Off Feelings, Suppressing Emotions

The fic devotes significant attention to the theme of emotionlessness.

Emotion Manipulation

Superpowers

Synonyms: Emotion Control, Empathic Projection, Fear Induction

The fic features characters who can control or influence others' emotions.

Empathy

Superpowers

The fic gives significant weight to characters capable of sensing and consciously perceiving the feelings and emotions of others.

Empires

Setting

The fic takes place in a state headed by an emperor, with emphasis on the corresponding aesthetic and the particulars of its worldbuilding.

Enclosed world

Setting

The fic's events take place within a self-contained, artificially created ecosystem, usually cut off from the outside world.

Endangered Species

Freeform

The fic gives significant attention to biological species threatened with extinction or disappearance due to critically low numbers or external pressures.

Enemies to Friends

Relationships

Synonyms: Enemies to Pals, Foes to Friends

The fic focuses on a relationship between characters that begins as enmity but develops into friendship.

Enemies to Friends to Enemies

Relationships

The fic focuses on a relationship between characters that begins with hostility, turns friendly, but then becomes hostile again.

Enemies to Friends to Lovers

Relationships

The fic focuses on a relationship between characters that begins as enmity, develops into friendship, and then into a romantic and/or sexual relationship.

Enemies to Lovers

Relationships

Synonyms: From Hate to Love, Love for an Enemy

The fic focuses on a relationship between characters that begins as enmity but develops into a romantic and/or sexual one.

Enemies to Partners

Relationships

The fic depicts characters who feel dislike and/or hatred toward each other but, for some reason, become partners.

Enemies to Sexual Partners

Relationships

The fic focuses on a relationship between characters that begins with enmity but turns sexual.

Enemies to Sexual Partners to Lovers

Relationships

The fic focuses on a relationship between characters that begins with enmity, turns sexual, and then becomes romantic.

Enemies with Benefits

Relationships

Synonyms: Angry Love, Sex with an Enemy

The fic focuses on characters who are feuding with each other and engage in a sexual relationship, but are not interested in the romantic side of that relationship, while simultaneously feeling hatred toward each other.

Energy Drinks

Warnings

The fic gives substantial attention to energy drinks and the effects they cause.

Energy Feeding

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Incubus Feeding, Sex Feeding

The fic features creatures such as incubi or succubi that feed on energy through sexual contact.

Energy Vampirism

Superpowers

Synonyms: Energy Vampires, Feeding on Life Force

The fic gives significant weight to characters who, consciously or unconsciously, drain the life energy of others in some form for their own purposes (sustaining life, feeding, and so on).

Engineers

Occupations

The fic tells about the lives of characters with a technical education who act in line with logically structured decisions. A major role in describing the characters is given to the character's way of thinking.

England

Geography & Ethnicity

Synonyms: London

The fic is set in England.

Enhanced Senses

Superpowers

Synonyms: Sixth Sense, Super Hearing, Super Smell

The fic features characters with superhuman hearing, smell, sight or other senses.

Enigma

Tropes

The action takes place in an omegaverse world or a werewolf world, where the fic's main focus is on the Enigma character, who is the most dominant type. They do not submit to the Alpha and stand outside the generally accepted pack hierarchy, both in the werewolf world and in the omegaverse.

Environmental crisis

Setting

Synonyms: Biosphere collapse, Biosphere crisis, Broken ecosystem, Dying ecosystem, Ecological collapse, Ecosystem crisis, Environmental disaster

The fic's plot is built around an environmental crisis — whether already occurred or looming — on a planetary or local scale.

Envy

Freeform

The fic focuses significantly on the feeling of envy.

Epic Saga

Format

Synonyms: Epic, Multi-Volume

The fic is a very long multi-volume work spanning generations or a whole world.

Epidemics

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Epizootics, Pandemics, Plague, Spanish Flu, Viruses

The fic depicts a disease that has taken on a mass character and affected a significant portion of the characters or the world.

Epidermolysis Bullosa

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Butterfly syndrome

The fic depicts characters affected by a rare genetic disease characterized by blistering and erosion of the skin and mucous membranes, with skin fragility and sensitivity to even minor mechanical trauma.

Epilepsy

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Falling Sickness

The fic depicts characters with a chronic neurological disease that manifests as a predisposition to sudden seizures.

Epilogue

Format

Synonyms: Coda, Post-Canon Epilogue

The fic is a concluding epilogue to an existing story.

Epiphany (Vodokhreshche)

Holidays

Synonyms: Baptism of the Lord, Jordan, Theophany

The fic's events take place on Epiphany (Vodokhreshche) with the blessing of water and ice-hole bathing, or are closely tied to it.

Episodic Narrative

Format

Synonyms: Episodic Storytelling

The fic is divided into several separate episodes connected by one overarching storyline.

Eproctophilia

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Erotic Flatulence, Farting Kink, Flatulence Kink

The fic centers on a character or characters who become sexually aroused by passing gas through the anus, enjoying the smell, sound, or any other aspect of flatulence. It may be paired with the "Mysophilia" tag when smell is the main arousing aspect.

Equal Relationship

Relationships

Synonyms: Egalitarian Relationship

The fic depicts characters in a close friendship or romantic relationship who are equal in social status, age, or wealth.

Equestrian sports

Sports

Synonyms: Dressage, Eventing, Horse racing, Horseback riding, Show jumping

The fic centers on equestrian sports.

Erectile Dysfunction

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Impotence

The fic depicts characters affected by an inability to achieve or maintain an erection sufficient for sexual intercourse.

Ero Guro

Kinks (18+)

The fic is characterized by strange, absurd scenes that go beyond the ordinary, combining eroticism with graphic violence.

Erotic Cannibalism

Warnings

The fic depicts sapient characters of the same species eating one another as part of mating rituals, as a standalone sexual practice, or in another erotic context.

Erotic Conditioning

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Conditioned Reflexes Kink, Conditioning Kink

The fic depicts a sexual practice involving the deliberate or unintentional creation and reinforcement of a conditioned response to a specific cue in one of the partners.

Erotic Dreams

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Wet Dream

The fic depicts characters having erotic dreams.

Erotic Fantasies

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Dirty Thoughts, Sexual Fantasies

The fic depicts characters picturing erotic scenes in their imagination.

Erotic Lactation

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Adult Breastfeeding, Galactophilia, Lactophilia, Milk Fetish, Self-Lactation

The fic depicts a sexual practice in which breastfeeding takes place between adult characters as foreplay or as part of the sexual act itself.

Erotic Massage

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Massage Parlors, Prostate Massage

The fic depicts a sexual practice in which arousal is achieved through massage and stimulation of erogenous zones.

Erotic Mummification

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Immobilization (subtype)

The fic depicts a sexual practice involving the complete immobilization of one or more participants through wrapping, bandaging, applying medical cast material, and so on.

Erotic Punishment

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Belt Kink, Domestic Discipline, Nipple Clamps, Punishment Kink, Whip Kink

The fic depicts the sexual practice centered on giving and receiving consensual corporal punishment.

Erotic Role-Play

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Aggressive Partner Kink, Anger Kink, Discipline and Punishment, Domination and Submission, Power and Submission, Rape Play, Role-Play Costumes, Violence Kink

The fic focuses on consensually acting out a sexual fantasy following a pre-arranged scenario with roles assigned to participants in advance.

Erotic Spanking

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: BDSM Spanking, BDSM: Spanking, Erotic Punishment (Type), Flagellation, Paddles, Spanking, Spanking Kink

The fic depicts a form of erotic punishment in which the buttocks (or other body parts) are struck or spanked by hand or with implements, intended to produce physical and emotional sensations within the context of erotic practice.

Erotomania

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Erotic Delusion

The fic depicts characters affected by the delusional conviction that they are loved by another character who, in reality, has no feelings for them.