Tags

Relationship Development

Relationships

Synonyms: Budding Feelings, Long-Term Relationship, Love Story, Working Things Out

The fic focuses on a romantic or sexual relationship between characters, following its development from the very beginning to an ending that is logical for the story or emotionally satisfying.

Religious Fanaticism

Warnings

The fic depicts blind devotion to religious ideas taken to an extreme degree, and a drive to follow them strictly in practical life.

Religious Intolerance

Warnings

The fic depicts characters who, acting on personal religious convictions, display a hostile, discriminatory, or prejudiced attitude toward other religious beliefs and/or practices.

Religious Themes and Motifs

Freeform

Synonyms: Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, Cults, Eschatology, Faith, Ietsism, Islam, Judaism, Neocatechumenal Way, Neopaganism, Old Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Paganism, Protestantism, Religious Characters, Religious Conversion, Religious Disputes, Satanism, Scientology, Sects, Son of the Devil, Taoism, Theology, Wicca

A real or fictional faith, religion, or cult plays a significant role in the fic.

Religious Trauma Syndrome

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: RTS

The fic depicts a psychological syndrome caused by a person's time spent in a rigid religious group, cult, or sect, manifesting in cognitive, affective, functional, and social difficulties for the person who experienced the trauma. The syndrome is a broad term and can encompass various mental disorders caused by religious trauma (depressive and anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and others).

Religious wars

Setting

The fic takes place during an armed conflict between followers of different religious groups within a state, or between states with different religions.

Relocation

Freeform

Synonyms: Emigration, Forced relocation

Relocation plays a key role in the fic for one or more characters.

Reluctant Allies

Relationships

Synonyms: Alliance of Enemies, Forced Allies, Forced Cooperation, Stronger Together, Unlikely Allies

The fic depicts characters who are feuding or feel antipathy toward each other but are forced to act together.

Reluctant Enemies

Relationships

The fic depicts characters who have no personal grudge against each other, or even feel affection for one another, but are forced to be enemies due to circumstances.

Reluctant Hero

Tropes

The fic builds on the trope in which a character or characters become heroes through a turn of events that is often beyond their control.

Reluctant Killer

Tropes

Synonyms: Forced Killing

The fic describes characters who committed a killing against their own will.

Reluctant Villain

Tropes

The fic builds on the trope in which a character or characters become villains through a turn of events that is often beyond their control.

Remembrance Day of Crimean Tatar Genocide Victims

Holidays

Synonyms: Deportation of Crimean Tatars, May 18, Sürgün

The fic's events take place on the Remembrance Day of Crimean Tatar Genocide Victims (18 May), marking the 1944 Soviet deportation of the Crimean Tatars, or are closely tied to it.

Remembrance of the Fallen

Freeform

Synonyms: Commemoration, Memorials, Moment of Silence

The fic features commemoration of those who died, memorials and rituals of remembrance.

Remission

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Depression in Remission

The fic places significant focus on a period of remission, characterized by a substantial reduction or disappearance of the symptoms of a chronic illness.

Remote-Controlled Toys

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Remote Vibrator

The fic features sex toys controlled remotely by a partner, often in public.

Renaissance

Historical Periods & Events

The fic's events take place during the historical era of the Renaissance, with the corresponding setting. The story may align with real-world history or diverge from it.

Renegades

Freeform

The fic pays significant attention to characters who defect from or betray their former side, faction, or beliefs.

Renunciation

Tropes

The fic deals with giving up something important or significant. The term 'renunciation' can also refer to an official document relinquishing one's rights (most often to a throne).

Repeating Fate

Tropes

Synonyms: Repeating a Parent's Fate

Characters who repeat someone else's fate play a significant role in the fic.

Reproductive Coercion

Warnings

Synonyms: Forced Pregnancy, Reproductive Abuse

The fic depicts a form of systematic violence used by characters to conceive a child without the partner's consent.

Reproductive Health

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic gives significant attention to the presence or absence of diseases of the male or female urogenital system, as well as the treatment of such diseases and their effect on the character's quality of life.

Reproductive Technology

Freeform

Synonyms: Artificial Insemination, IVF, Uterine Replicators

The fic gives substantial attention to the use of reproductive technologies, whether realistically possible or entirely fictional.

Rescuers

Occupations

Synonyms: Rescue Services

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of rescuers, the organization of rescue services, and rescue operations (after natural disasters or man-made accidents, emergencies, etc.).

Research organizations

Setting

The fic's plot centers on the activities of research organizations, real or fictional, and their staff.

Resilience

Freeform

Synonyms: Fortitude, Grit, Perseverance

The fic emphasizes inner strength and the ability to endure and recover.

Resistance Movement

Tropes

Synonyms: Underground

The fic features characters who resist an occupying or oppressive power, openly or in secret.

Resort Towns

Setting

Synonyms: Seaside resorts

The fic's events take place in a resort town, among holidaymakers, spa treatments and seaside or mountain leisure.

Respect

Freeform

The fic places significant emphasis on respect.

Responsibility

Freeform

The fic focuses significant attention on the theme of responsibility.

Restaurants

Setting

Synonyms: Kitchen

The fic's plot centers on the workings of restaurants, their clients, and staff.

Restorers

Occupations

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of characters engaged in restoring and preserving tangible objects of cultural heritage.

Resurrection

Warnings

Synonyms: Reanimated Character, Rebirth

The fic focuses on characters who have returned to life through outside intervention.

Retelling

Warnings

Synonyms: Adaptation

A retelling of the events of one canon within the setting of another canon.

Retired Hero

Tropes

Synonyms: One Last Job, Reluctant Return

The fic features a former hero or warrior who has left the fight and is drawn back in.

Retraumatization

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

The fic depicts characters who repeatedly relive their trauma or a traumatic event.

Return

Freeform

The fic focuses significantly on the theme of return.

Returned to the Past

Tropes

Synonyms: Regressor, Second Chance Life

The fic features a character who returns to an earlier point in their life with memories of the future and tries to change events.

Return from Captivity

Tropes

Synonyms: Prisoner Exchange, Released POW

The fic features a character returning from captivity and readapting to life and loved ones.

Return from the Front

Tropes

Synonyms: Reintegration, Soldier's Homecoming

The fic features a soldier or veteran returning home and reintegrating into civilian life.

Reunion

Relationships

Synonyms: After Some Time, Meeting After Many Years, Meeting Years Later

The fic depicts characters, whose relationship ended in the past, meeting again.

Reunion Sex

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Homecoming Sex, Welcome-Back Sex

The fic describes sex between characters reuniting after a long separation, such as after deployment or distance.

Revenants

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

The fic features revenants, the dead who return to the world of the living.

Revenge

Freeform

Synonyms: Blood Feud, Vendetta

The fic devotes significant attention to the theme of revenge.

Reverse Omegaverse

Tropes

Synonyms: Omegaverse: Reverse

The action takes place in an omegaverse world where the dominant social class is omegas. Recommended to pair with the 'Omegaverse' genre tag for easier searching.

Revolutionaries

Occupations

Synonyms: Struggle for Freedom

The fic features a person or group of people who support or fight for a revolution, or who lead a revolutionary movement.

Revolution of Dignity (Euromaidan)

Historical Periods & Events

Synonyms: Euromaidan, Heavenly Hundred, Maidan

The fic is set during the Revolution of Dignity (Euromaidan) of 2013–2014 in Ukraine.

Revolutions

Freeform

Synonyms: Coups d'état, Overthrow, Restoration of power, Revolution

The fic depicts an open, organized uprising by social groups or classes against political authority, leading to a change in the political and/or social order.

Rhabdophobia

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Fear of Punishment, Fear of Spanking, Mastigophobia

The fic depicts characters affected by a pathological fear of punishment. The punishment may be either physical or psychological.

Rhymed Verse

Format

Synonyms: Rhyming Poem

The fic is written in rhymed verse.