Tags

Psychiatric Hospitals

Setting

Synonyms: Psych wards, Psychiatry

The fic's plot centers on the workings of psychiatric institutions, their patients, and staff.

Psychiatrists

Occupations

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of psychiatrists and psychiatric clinic staff.

Psychics

Occupations

Synonyms: Espers

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of characters with extrasensory abilities.

Psychological Abuse

Warnings

Synonyms: Emotional Abuse, Verbal Aggression, Withholding

The fic contains descriptions of systematic non-physical abuse (verbal aggression, insults, manipulation), which most often leads to psychological trauma.

Psychological Help

Freeform

Synonyms: Crisis hotline, Psychological help groups, Psychological support groups, Psychotherapy group

Various forms of psychological help play a significant role in the fic.

Psychological Infantilism

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Infantile Behavior

The fic depicts characters who display psychological immaturity and behave in ways inconsistent with the behavioral expectations of their age.

Psychological Masochism

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Emotional Masochism

The fic depicts characters who derive pleasure from their own emotional suffering.

Psychological Torture

Warnings

Synonyms: Mental Torture

The fic depicts the deliberate infliction of psychological suffering for the purpose of punishment, extracting information, or pathological gratification.

Psychological Trauma

Warnings

Synonyms: Childhood Trauma, Mental Anguish

The fic focuses on characters who have suffered psychological trauma.

Psychological Warfare

Warnings

The fic depicts a set of psychological influences on characters aimed at changing their psychological characteristics (views, opinions, value orientations, moods, attitudes, behavioral stereotypes) in a desired direction, as well as group norms, mass moods, and public consciousness as a whole.

Psychologists / Psychoanalysts

Occupations

The fic is centered on the life and work of psychologists and/or psychoanalysts.

Psychopathy

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic depicts characters affected by a psychopathological disorder manifesting as callousness toward others, a diminished capacity for empathy, an inability to feel genuine remorse, deceitfulness, egocentrism, and shallow emotional responses.

Psychophobia

Warnings

The fic contains prejudice, stigmatization, dislike, or discrimination toward people with mental disorders or psychiatric diagnoses.

Psychosis

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic depicts characters affected by a disturbance of mental functioning that entails a distorted perception of the real world and disorganized behavior.

Psychosomatic Disorders

Warnings

Synonyms: Psychosomatic Illness, Psychosomatics

The fic focuses on characters prone to psychological disorders that manifest at the physiological level, or vice versa.

Psychotherapy

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Psychotherapy Sessions

The fic gives significant attention to therapeutic treatment of the psyche aimed at improving patients' psychological state.

Public Nudity

Warnings

The fic depicts a character or characters who, deliberately, by chance, or under coercion, end up fully or partially naked in a public place.

Public Restroom Sex

Kinks (18+)

The fic depicts sexual acts taking place in a public restroom.

Public Sex

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Agrexophilia, Elevator Sex, Fitting Room Sex, Locker Room Sex, Rooftop Sex, Sex at Work, Street Sex

The fic depicts sex acts taking place in public or semi-public locations.

Public Transport

Setting

Synonyms: Bus drivers, Buses, Electric buses, Suburban commuter trains, Subway, Ticket inspectors, Tram drivers, Trams, Trolleybus drivers, Trolleybuses, Urban commuter trains

Public transport, its staff, and passengers play a significant role in the fic.

Punishments

Freeform

Synonyms: No Corporal Punishment

The fic gives significant attention to the theme of punishment.

Punitive Psychiatry

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Electroshock Therapy, Lobotomy

The fic depicts the practice of unethical, unorthodox psychiatric treatment of characters, regardless of whether they actually have a mental disorder, often carried out for malicious purposes.

Punks

Subcultures

The plot focuses on the life and activities of a character or characters associated with the punk subculture.

Puns

Freeform

The fic makes extensive use of puns.

Purple Prose

Format

Synonyms: Pretentious Language

The fic is deliberately written in overly extravagant, flowery, ornate language.

Pyrokinesis

Superpowers

Synonyms: Fire Control

The fic gives significant weight to characters who can control fire, usually through willpower or thought.

Pyromania

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic depicts characters with impulsive behavior expressed as an overpowering, pathological urge to set fires, as well as an intense fascination with watching fire.

Pyrophilia

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Fire Kink

The fic depicts a character or characters who become sexually aroused by watching flames.

Pyrrhic Ending

Warnings

Synonyms: Costly Victory, Hard-Won Happy Ending, Pyrrhic Victory

The fic ends on a positive but clearly joyless note, because the ending came at too high a price for the characters or the world of the story.

Pysanky

Freeform

Synonyms: Easter Egg Painting, Pysanka Symbols

The fic features the Ukrainian tradition of decorating Easter eggs.

Qing Dynasty

Historical Periods & Events

The fic is set in the Qing dynasty (1644–1912).

Qingming

Holidays

Synonyms: Pure Brightness Festival, Spring Tomb-Sweeping Day

The work's events take place during the celebration of the traditional Chinese holiday commemorating the deceased, or are closely tied to the holiday itself.

Qixi

Holidays

Synonyms: Chinese Valentine's Day, Qixi Festival

The work's events take place during the celebration of Qixi, the Chinese counterpart of St. Valentine's Day, or are closely tied to the holiday itself.

Quadrobics

Sports

Synonyms: Quadrobers

Characters involved in quadrobics play a significant role in the fic, along with related tournaments, training, championships, and so on.

Quantum Physics

Freeform

The fic gives substantial attention to quantum physics.

Quarantines

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic gives considerable attention to quarantines and quarantine measures.

Quarantine zones

Setting

The fic focuses on the characters' lives in a zone isolated for some reason.

Quarrels / Conflicts

Relationships

Synonyms: Family Conflicts, Family Drama, Family Issues, Teen War, Three-Way Conflict

The fic gives significant attention to quarrels or conflicts between characters.

Queer Characters

Orientation, Sex & Gender

Synonyms: Queer

The work features characters who identify as queer, used here as a broad umbrella term for a sexual orientation or gender identity outside heterosexual and/or cisgender norms.

Queerplatonic Relationship

Relationships

Synonyms: Quasi-Platonic Relationship

The fic focuses on a non-romantic relationship that goes beyond the subjective cultural norms of friendship. The level of closeness and/or the partners' shared activities in such a relationship often don't match society's traditional standards, and some queerplatonic relationships may include sex and elements typically seen as romantic.

Queer-Romantic Relationship

Relationships

The fic focuses on a romantic relationship that includes elements of romantic attachment but doesn't fit traditional notions of romantic relationships. It may combine features of both queerplatonic and romantic bonds, with the people involved defining the boundaries and forms of their interaction themselves.

Quest

Tropes

Synonyms: Adventure Party, Journey

The fic follows a group of characters on a long journey to obtain an object or achieve a goal.

Questioning Characters

Orientation, Sex & Gender

Synonyms: Questioning

The work features characters actively exploring or unsure of their own sexual orientation or gender identity, without yet settling on a label — a more neutral framing than the crisis-driven tags above.

Quiet Sex

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Secret Sex, Sneaky Sex

The fic depicts characters behaving very quietly before and/or during sex.

Quiz Games

Freeform

The fic gives a significant role to characters who take part in team or individual quiz and trivia games.

Quotes

Freeform

The fic uses quotes from famous people.

Rabies

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic depicts people and/or animals infected with rabies.

Race Against Time

Tropes

Synonyms: Limited Time, Time Crunch

The fic's characters are placed under strict time constraints, within which they must manage to complete a certain task.

Racism

Warnings

Synonyms: Racial Discrimination, Racist Language

The fic depicts characters whose worldview involves hostile or discriminatory attitudes toward characters of other races, the expression of hostility toward them, or the restriction of their social rights.

Radiation Sickness

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Characters in works tagged this way have been exposed to ionizing radiation, as a result of which they developed radiation sickness.