Tags

Linguistic Discrimination

Warnings

Synonyms: Language Prejudice

The fic depicts hostility or discrimination towards people because of the language they speak.

Linguistic Kink

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Foreign Language Kink, Language Kink

The fic depicts characters who become sexually aroused by partners speaking another language.

Lip Kink

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Bitten Lips Kink, Lipstick Kink

The fic depicts a character's sexual attraction to a partner's lips and/or a range of fetishes involving interaction with a partner's lips.

Lisovyks

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Synonyms: Forest Spirits

The fic features the lisovyk, a forest spirit of Ukrainian folklore who guards the woods and misleads travelers.

Literary Scholars

Occupations

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of literary scholar characters.

Lithromantic Characters

Orientation, Sex & Gender

The plot features characters who feel deep affection for and/or fall in love with someone only as long as they are convinced their feelings will not be reciprocated. Once those feelings are returned, lithromantics lose interest.

Lithuania

Geography & Ethnicity

Synonyms: Vilnius

The fic is set in Lithuania.

Living Apart Together

Relationships

The fic focuses on characters who are in an established relationship or are married, but don't seek to live together.

Living Dolls and Animated Objects

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Synonyms: Haunted Dolls

The fic features dolls or objects that come to life.

Living Machines

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Synonyms: Sentient Automata, Sentient Machines

Technology endowed with consciousness, free will, feelings, emotions and/or a soul plays a significant role in the fic.

Living Vessel

Tropes

The fic describes characters who carry a mystical being or energy within their body or soul.

Lizardfolk

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Synonyms: Reptilians

Members of an intelligent anthropomorphic reptilian race play a significant role in the fic.

Loaders

Occupations

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of loader characters.

Localized Post-Apocalypse

Setting

The fic's action takes place in a setting where a catastrophe that pushed the population to the brink of extinction or into extremely harsh survival conditions affected not the whole world, but a limited territory (an island, a country, a city, a district, etc.).

Lolita (Subculture)

Subcultures

Synonyms: Gothic Lolita, Gothic Lolitas, Lolita Fashion, Sweet Lolita

The plot focuses on the life and activities of a character or characters associated with a Japanese subculture based on Victorian-era style and Rococo-era costumes, who also use this style in their clothing.

Loneliness

Freeform

The fic devotes significant attention to the theme of loneliness.

Long COVID

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Post-COVID Syndrome

The fic describes characters with long-term effects after COVID-19.

Long-Distance Relationship

Relationships

Synonyms: Long-Distance Love, Love by Correspondence

The fic focuses on a relationship between characters who are far apart from each other.

Longevity

Superpowers

The fic gives significant weight to characters who have attained longevity by one means or another.

Longing

Freeform

Synonyms: Yearning

The fic focuses on deep yearning for a person, place or past.

Looking for a Relationship

Relationships

The fic gives a significant role to characters who are actively looking for a partner or partners with whom they hope to build a romantic relationship in the future.

Lordship / Heir Inheritance

Fandom-Specific Tags fanfiction only

Synonyms: Gringotts Inheritance Test

A character turns out to be the heir of an old wizarding family, with its titles and estates — often revealed by an inheritance test at Gringotts (Harry Potter).

Loss of Magical Abilities

Superpowers

The fic gives significant weight to characters who lose their magical abilities. The loss of abilities may be either permanent or temporary.

Loss of Parental Rights

Tropes

The fic describes or mentions the theme of depriving adults of their parental rights or guardianship rights, when those adults are, for one reason or another, unable to take responsibility for raising and supporting a child.

Loss of Superpowers

Superpowers

Synonyms: Depowering, Loss of Superhuman Powers, Power Loss

The fic gives significant weight to characters who lose their superpowers. The loss of abilities may be either permanent or temporary.

Loss of Virginity

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Defloration, Deflowering

The fic gives significant attention to the loss of virginity.

Lost Heir

Tropes

Synonyms: Hidden Royalty, Lost Prince

The fic features a character who turns out to be a hidden or lost heir to a throne or fortune.

Lost worlds

Setting

The fic takes place in previously unknown, forgotten, lost, or hidden-from-the-world worlds, countries, or lands.

Lotto

Freeform

The fic gives a significant role to characters playing lotto and/or associated with lotto clubs, championships, and the like.

Loud Sex

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Noisy Sex, To Make the Neighbors Jealous, To Spite the Neighbors

The fic depicts characters behaving very loudly before, during, or after sex (voicing approval, encouraging their partners, voicing requests or demands, rattling the furniture, and so on).

Love/Hate

Relationships

Synonyms: Hate/Love, L/H, Love-Hate

The fic focuses on characters whose relationship is built on mutual adoration intertwined with mutual hostility.

Love After Death

Relationships

The fic depicts a relationship that begins after the death of one or more characters.

Love After Loss

Relationships

Synonyms: Second Love, Widow/Widower Romance

The fic features characters who find love after the death of a partner or a major loss.

Love at First Sight

Relationships

Synonyms: Attraction at First Sight, Falling in Love at First Sight

The fic focuses on a relationship between characters who feel mutual attraction from the very first glance at each other.

Love Confessions

Relationships

Synonyms: Love Confession, Love Letters

The fic gives significant attention to confessing love, declaring and accepting characters' feelings.

Love Hotels

Setting

Hotels and motels with hourly rates and an erotic atmosphere in the rooms play a key role in the fic.

Love Magic

Freeform

Synonyms: Amortentia, Divination for a husband-to-be, Divination for a wife-to-be, Love charms, Love potion, Repelling spells

Love magic plays a significant role in the fic.

Love Magnet

Tropes

At the center of the work is a character who draws others to them (romantically and/or sexually). This character can charm anyone without even trying, and is not always aware of it (thanks to their appearance, personality, and/or a magic that draws others to them).

Love Polygon

Relationships

Synonyms: Love Square, Love Triangle

The fic centers on three or more characters bound by complicated, often unrequited, romantic feelings; it focuses on the conflicts arising from this situation, which is unacceptable to at least one of the characters involved.

Love Rivals

Relationships

Synonyms: Rival Suitors

The fic features characters competing for the same person's affection.

Lovers to Enemies

Relationships

Synonyms: From Love to Hate

The fic focuses on characters who used to be lovers but, for various reasons, became enemies.

Lovers to Friends

Relationships

The fic focuses on a relationship between characters who used to be lovers but remained friends after breaking up.

Loving the Moon

Relationships

The fic depicts a type of unequal and unrequited relationship in which one of the characters is a transcendent, divine being, immeasurably greater than the character in love with them.

Low Self-Esteem

Freeform

Synonyms: Self-gaslighting

The fic focuses significantly on the characters' low self-esteem.

Loyalty

Freeform

Synonyms: Devotion to a Cause, Loyalty in Relationships, Oath of Loyalty, Staying Faithful

The fic's plot gives significant attention to the theme of loyalty.

Lucid Dreaming

Freeform

Synonyms: Lucid dreams, Shifting

The fic depicts a special altered state of consciousness in which the sleeper is aware that they are dreaming and can influence the course of the dream.

Lughnasadh

Holidays

The work's events take place during the celebration of Lughnasadh (a holiday marking the end of summer and the start of the harvest), or are closely tied to the holiday itself.

Lullabies

Freeform

Synonyms: Bedtime Songs

The fic features lullabies and bedtime songs.

Lullaby

Format

Synonyms: Bedtime Song

The fic is a lullaby, a song or poem for a sleeping child.

Lumberjacks / Foresters

Occupations

Synonyms: Forest Rangers, Woodcutters

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of lumberjacks, foresters and forest workers.