Tags

Ballad

Format

Synonyms: Ballads

A genre of lyrical-epic poetry: a narrative poem with a dramatic plot, typically short in length, strongly story-driven, and featuring elements of the mysterious or fantastical.

Ballet

Occupations

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of characters who practice ballet.

Ballroom and Sport Dancing

Sports

Synonyms: Dancesport

The fic features dancesport couples, competitions and training.

Baltic States

Geography & Ethnicity

The events of the work take place in the Baltic states.

Banks / Stock Exchanges

Setting

The fic focuses on the world of finance, depicting the work of bankers, brokers, and traders, currency fluctuations, and securities transactions.

Ban on Emotions

Tropes

The events of the fic take place in a world where there is a ban on showing feelings and emotions, and breaking it is punishable by law.

Banshees

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Female spirits from Irish mythology who herald someone's imminent death (usually with screams or wailing) play a significant role in the fic.

Baristas

Occupations

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of baristas and coffee-shop workers.

Bars

Setting

The fic's events center on bars, their staff, and patrons.

Baseball

Sports

Synonyms: Baseball players

The fic centers on characters who play baseball, including training, matches, championships, and so on.

Basement and Cellar

Setting

Synonyms: Basement, Cellar

The fic's events take place in basements and cellars, as hiding places, storage or shelters.

Baseness

Freeform

The fic places significant emphasis on the theme of baseness.

Basilisks

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Basilisks play a significant role in the fic.

Basketball

Sports

Synonyms: Basketball players

The fic centers on characters who play basketball, including clubs, training, matches, championships, and so on.

Basques

Geography & Ethnicity

A people inhabiting the Basque Country — northern Spain and southwestern France — plays a significant role in the work.

Bastards

Freeform

Synonyms: Children Born Out of Wedlock, Illegitimate Children

The fic portrays characters born out of wedlock in particular cultures or historical periods.

Bathhouses

Setting

Synonyms: Saunas, Steam rooms

Bathhouses (artificial bathing facilities, as opposed to natural hot springs), their staff and visitors, play a central role in the fic.

Bathing Together

Tropes

Synonyms: Shared Bath, Shared Shower

The fic devotes significant attention to characters who take a bath or shower together. This may happen either out of necessity or voluntarily; it may be either romantic or platonic in nature.

Bathroom Sex

Kinks (18+)

The fic depicts sexual activity taking place in a bathroom or shower, not necessarily directly in the water.

Batohaki Disease

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Butterfly Hanahaki, Toaksyudo

The fic's plot centers on a fictional illness that causes characters in love to cough up butterflies.

Battle Couple

Relationships

Synonyms: Battle Lovers, Battle Spouses

The fic depicts characters who are in a romantic relationship and fight side by side as equals (for example, due to their duties or being on the same team).

Battle of Wits

Freeform

Synonyms: Clever Hero

The fic pays significant attention to an intellectual contest between characters, in which victory comes through calculated decisions, intricate schemes, cunning manipulation, broad knowledge, and the like.

Battles

Warnings

Synonyms: Combat, Mass Battles

Battles play a significant role in this fic. It is recommended to use this tag together with the Action genre for easier searching.

BDSM

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: BD/DS/SM, Dominants/Submissives, Elements of BDSM, Safe Signals, Safe Words

The fic depicts the subculture based on the practice of consensual erotic power exchange (including, but not limited to, bondage, discipline, domination and submission, sadomasochism, and more), and/or characters who practice such exchange. It can be a self-contained practice unrelated to sexual contact, or it can be part of sexual activity.

BDSM: Aftercare

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: BDSM: Aftercare, BDSM: Care

The fic depicts a special part of BDSM practice involving care provided to ensure the psychological and physical well-being of all participants after a scene.

BDSM: Brat Tamer/Brat

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Brat, Brat Tamer, Naughty Bottom

The fic depicts a relationship in which the submissive partner (the bottom, submissive) provokes the dominant partner (the top, dominant) into punishing them as part of a game, which brings psychological satisfaction to everyone involved.

BDSM: Dom Space

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Dom Space

The fic depicts dominant characters entering a special altered state of consciousness (a trance) brought on by the physical and/or psychological effects of topping a submissive partner (the bottom, or sub) and the accompanying emotional experience.

BDSM: Drop

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Domdrop, Subdrop

The fic depicts characters experiencing a depression-like state that follows intense BDSM sessions, caused by sharp swings in endorphin and adrenaline levels.

BDSM: Lifestyle

Kinks (18+)

The fic depicts a relationship in which the submissive partner (the bottom, or sub) hands over control of themselves — their body, actions, and more — to the dominant partner (the top, or dom) across every area of their life, on a permanent, ongoing basis.

BDSM: Solo

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Self-Bondage, Solo BDSM Practices, Solo Masochism

The fic depicts BDSM practices that a character engages in on their own, without a partner.

BDSM: Subspace

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Masochistic Trance, Subspace

The fic depicts characters entering a distinct altered state of consciousness (a trance) brought on by the physical and/or psychological actions of a dominant partner (a top/dominant) and the accompanying emotional experience.

BDSM Inexperience

Kinks (18+)

The fic depicts characters entering a BDSM relationship for the first time, or whose BDSM experience is extremely limited. It is recommended to use this tag together with the 'BDSM' tag to make searching easier.

BDSM Universe

Tropes

Synonyms: D/s Universe, Dom/Sub Verse

The world the characters are placed in presupposes a mandatory division into dominants and submissives regardless of sex, gender, or orientation, as well as D/s relationships as a social norm in one form or another.

Beaches

Setting

Beaches play a key role in the fic.

Beach Volleyball

Sports

The fic features beach volleyball players and tournaments.

Beard Kink

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Stubble Kink

The fic features characters who are aroused by a partner's beard, stubble or mustache.

Beatniks

Subcultures

The plot focuses on the life and activities of characters belonging to the Beat Generation.

Bedroom Sex

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Sex at Home, Sex in Private Quarters

The fic depicts sex acts taking place at home, in the bedroom, or in any other space meant for rest and/or serving as a character's private space.

Bed Sharing

Tropes

Synonyms: Sleeping Together, There Is Only One Bed

The fic devotes significant attention to characters who share a sleeping space with one another. This may happen accidentally, out of necessity, or voluntarily, and may be either romantic or platonic in nature.

Beekeepers

Occupations

Synonyms: Apiarists

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

Begging Kink

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Pleading Kink

The fic depicts characters who become sexually aroused by their partners' begging.

Beginning of a Relationship

Relationships

The fic depicts characters who have very recently entered into a relationship.

Behind the Scenes

Freeform

Synonyms: Off-Camera, Staff Only

Work processes hidden from outsiders play a significant role in the narrative.

Belarus

Geography & Ethnicity

Synonyms: Minsk

The events of the work take place in Belarus.

Belgium

Geography & Ethnicity

The events of the work take place in Belgium.

Belle Époque

Historical Periods & Events

The fic's events take place in the historical period at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, roughly from 1890 to 1916. The story may align with real-world history or diverge from it.

Belly Kink

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Belly Bulge

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

Beltane

Holidays

Synonyms: Walpurgis Night

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

Berbers

Geography & Ethnicity

Synonyms: Amazigh

The fic features Berbers (Amazigh).

Berehynia

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Synonyms: Hearth Goddess, Protective Goddess

The fic features the berehynia, a protective female spirit of the hearth and family in Ukrainian tradition.