Tags

Escape

Freeform

Synonyms: Fugitives

The fic portrays characters trying to break free from captivity or confinement.

Escape Rooms

Setting

Synonyms: Real-Life Quest

Escape rooms, their actors, and/or participants play a key role in the fic.

Escapism

Freeform

Synonyms: Escaping Reality, Maladaptive Daydreaming

The fic focuses significant attention on the theme of escapism.

Escorts

Occupations

The fic is centered on the life and activities of characters who professionally accompany and support a client at public events where it is not customary to appear alone (meetings, leisure outings, creating a certain image for clients).

Esoteric Themes and Motifs

Freeform

Synonyms: Esotericism, Mediumship

The fic pays significant attention to mystical ideas, movements, and practices.

Esports

Sports

Synonyms: Computer sports, E-sports, Electronic sports

The fic centers on esports disciplines and their events.

Established Relationship

Relationships

Synonyms: Already in a Relationship, ER, Husband/Husband, Husband/Wife, Long-Time Couple, Married Life, Spouses, Wife/Wife

The fic depicts characters already in an established romantic and/or sexual relationship from the very beginning of the story.

Estonia

Geography & Ethnicity

Synonyms: Tallinn

The fic is set in Estonia.

Eternal Winter

Setting

Synonyms: Endless Winter, Frozen Planet, Winter World, World of Eternal Winter

The fic focuses on a world where eternal winter reigns, never giving way to other seasons.

Eternal Youth

Superpowers

The fic gives significant weight to characters who will not die of old age but can die for other reasons.

Ethics and Morality

Freeform

Synonyms: Ethical questions, Hidden morality, Immoralism, Moral corruption, Moral decline, Moral values

The fic devotes considerable attention to ethical questions, reflections on the permissibility of certain actions from the standpoint of moral and ethical paradigms, and moral choice.

Ethnic Cleansing

Warnings

The fic depicts the forced removal or killing of an ethnic group from a territory.

Ethnic Clothing Kink

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Historical Clothing Kink

The fic depicts a range of fetishes involving a character's interaction with clothing or individual items featuring distinctive decoration belonging to a real or fictional ethnicity, or to a particular historical period.

Ethnic Enclaves

Setting

Synonyms: Chinatown, Diasporas, Ethnic Community

The fic is set in a locality with a high concentration of people from one ethnic community living outside their country of origin.

Ethnic Wedding

Relationships

Synonyms: Chinese Wedding, Elven Wedding, Indian Wedding, Muslim Wedding

The fic depicts a wedding rite conducted according to the wedding traditions of some real or fictional people or ethnic group.

Eunuchs

Freeform

The fic gives a significant role to eunuch characters.

Euphoria

Freeform

The fic places significant emphasis on the theme of euphoria.

Europe

Geography & Ethnicity

The events of the work take place in Europe.

Europe Day

Holidays

Synonyms: May 9

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

Euthanasia

Warnings

Synonyms: Life Support Withdrawal, Mercy Killing, Putting Down (Animals), Voluntary Death

The fic depicts or mentions the process of painless killing due to an incurable illness, injury, old age, or similar causes.

Evacuation

Tropes

Synonyms: Displacement, Fleeing Home

The fic centers on characters fleeing danger and relocating, with preparations, journeys and loss of home.

Evening Sex

Kinks (18+)

The fic depicts sexual acts taking place in the evening.

Event Planning

Occupations

Synonyms: Event Management, Events

The fic's plot is centered on organizing an event and/or preparing for it.

Everybody Dies

Warnings

All characters in the fic die, without exception.

Everyone Lives / No One Dies

Tropes

Synonyms: Coma Instead of Death, No Character Death

The fic deliberately ignores character deaths that occurred in canon, or reworks a death so the character is guaranteed to survive.

Evil Twin

Tropes

Synonyms: Doppelganger, Good Twin / Evil Twin

The fic features a malevolent twin or doppelganger of a main character.

Exams

Freeform

Synonyms: Entrance Exams, Exam Session, University Admission

The fic pays significant attention to exams.

Exaudirism

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Eavesdropping on Sex, Sex With Witnesses

The fic depicts a character or characters eavesdropping on other characters having sex or engaging in intimate acts.

Excessive Physiological Detail

Warnings

Synonyms: Detailed Anatomy

The fic describes physiology and physiological processes in detail.

Exchange Students

Occupations

Synonyms: Exchange Pupil, Study Exchange

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of characters who take part in student exchange programs.

Execution

Warnings

Synonyms: Burning at the Stake, Decimation, Electric Chair Execution, Firing Squad, Hanging, Public Execution, Scaffold

The fic depicts the execution of a character or characters.

Executives

Occupations

Synonyms: Boss, Director, Manager

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of characters who hold leadership positions.

Exes

Relationships

Synonyms: Relationship from the Past

The fic focuses on the relationship between characters who were once in a sexual/romantic relationship.

Exes to Lovers

Relationships

Synonyms: Former Lovers

The fic focuses on characters who used to be in a romantic relationship in the past, broke up, but grow close again and rekindle their relationship as the plot progresses.

Exhibitionism

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Apodysophilia, Peodeiktophilia

The fic depicts a sexual practice in which satisfaction is achieved by displaying one's nude body, most often to strangers.

Exhumation

Warnings

The fic depicts the process of removing a body from a grave, usually for examination, less often for reburial.

Existential Crisis

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Midlife Crisis

The fic depicts characters affected by anxiety or a sense of deep psychological discomfort when trying to make sense of existence.

Exorcism

Warnings

The fic depicts the practice of casting evil spirits out of a character or characters.

Expansion

Freeform

Synonyms: Imperialism

The fic gives considerable attention to the theme of the territorial, economic, or other expansion of a state's, organization's, people's, culture's, or species' sphere of influence.

Expeditions

Setting

The fic's events take place during a scientific expedition.

Experimental Format

Format

Synonyms: Ergodic literature, Experimental fic, Experimental literature

The fic is written in an experimental format.

Explicit Consent

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Enthusiastic Consent, Expressed Consent

The fic depicts sexual and/or erotic acts taking place only after all partners have given direct, explicit consent.

Explorers and Travelers

Occupations

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of explorer characters, their journeys and discoveries.

Explosive Devices

Warnings

The fic gives substantial attention to explosive-type weapons (bombs, dynamite, mines, and the like).

Extinct Animals

Freeform

Synonyms: Relict species

The fic gives considerable attention to animals that have gone extinct for one reason or another, or that survive only in a very limited area.

Eye Kink

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Eye Shape Kink, Wink Fetish, Winking Kink

The fic depicts a character's sexual attraction to the color and shape of a partner's eyes and/or a range of fetishes tied to eye contact between partners (winking, blinking, etc.).

Fable

Format

Synonyms: Allegory

The fic is a fable: a short allegorical tale with a moral.

Facesitting

Kinks (18+)

The fic depicts a sexual practice in which a character sits on their partner's face.

Face-Slapping Kink

Kinks (18+)

The fic depicts a character or characters who become sexually aroused by being slapped in the face.

Fae / Faeries

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Synonyms: Aos Sí, Kelpies, Leprechauns, Pixies, Sidhe, Unseelie Court

Creatures from Celtic mythology and the myths of European peoples, who lead secretive lives but often interfere in humans' everyday lives, play a significant role in the fic.