Tags

Sparring

Sports

The fic centers on light, low-injury training bouts.

Spas (Three Saviours' Days)

Holidays

Synonyms: Apple Spas, Honey Spas, Nut Spas, Transfiguration

The fic's events take place during the celebration of Spas (Three Saviours' Days), or are closely tied to the holiday itself.

Spas and Beauty Salons

Setting

The fic's events take place at spas and beauty salons, among masseurs, beauticians and clients.

Spatial Manipulation

Superpowers

Synonyms: Dimension Travel, Pocket Dimension, Portals

The fic features characters who can bend space or create portals.

Special Agents

Occupations

Synonyms: CIA, CIA Agents, FBI, Feds, Intelligence Services, Secret Agents, Secret Police, Undercover Agent

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of characters who are employees of the intelligence and security services of various countries.

Special Forces Operators

Occupations

Synonyms: Commandos, Elite Units, Special Operations Forces

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of special-forces soldiers and elite tactical units.

Species Swap

Warnings

Synonyms: Animalization, Catification, Furry AU

A human character is portrayed as an animal, object, or phenomenon, or vice versa.

Spectrophilia

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Ghost Kink

The fic focuses on characters who feel romantic and/or sexual attraction to ghosts, spirits, or phantoms.

Speech Impairments

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Alalia, Aphasia, Bradylalia, Dysarthria, Dyslalia, Dysphonia, Lisping, Logopathy, Paralalia, Rhinolalia, Rhotacism, Tongue-tied Speech

The fic depicts characters with speech impairments.

Speech Impediment Kink

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Lisp Kink, Rhotacism Kink, Stutter Kink

The fic depicts a character or characters who become sexually aroused by distorted pronunciation caused by a speech impediment.

Speech Therapists

Occupations

The fic pays particular attention to characters who work as speech therapists.

Speed Dating

Relationships

Synonyms: Mini Dates, Quick Dates

The fic gives a significant role to speed-dating events organized to introduce characters to one another.

Speed skating

Sports

Synonyms: Short track

The fic focuses on speed skating, a sport in which athletes race on skates to cover a set distance on a closed ice track as fast as possible.

Sphinxes

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Zoomorphic mythical creatures with the body of a lion and the head of a human (more rarely of a falcon or a ram) play a significant role in the fic.

Spiders

Freeform

Spiders play a substantial role in the fic.

Spies

Occupations

Synonyms: Espionage, Honey Trap, Moles, Super Agents

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

Spinal Curvature

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Kyphosis, Lordosis, Scoliosis

The fic focuses on characters affected by diseases involving curvature of the spine.

Spin-off

Warnings

Synonyms: Midquel, Parallel Events, Side Story

The fic's events take place parallel to canon, sometimes in a different location, most often involving other non-canonical characters, while preserving the story's setting and the rules of the world created by the author.

Spin the Bottle

Freeform

Several players sit in a circle; one of them spins a bottle lying on the ground, and must kiss whoever its neck points to when it stops.

Spiritkinesis

Superpowers

Synonyms: Ghost Manipulation, Pneumakinesis, Specter Manipulation, Spirit Manipulation

Characters who can control spirits and/or ghosts play a significant role in the fic.

Spiritual Bond

Freeform

Synonyms: Soulmates

The fic focuses significantly on the theme of a spiritual bond.

Spiritualism

Freeform

Synonyms: Séances, Table-Turning

The fic depicts the practice of communicating with the spirits of the dead through mediums or special rituals.

Spiteful Exes

Tropes

The spitefulness of one of the characters' ex-partners plays an important role in the fic.

Split Attraction

Orientation, Sex & Gender

Synonyms: Split Attraction Model

The fic features characters whose romantic and sexual orientations differ.

Split Personality

Tropes

Synonyms: Jekyll and Hyde Syndrome, Second Self

The fic describes characters whose behavior and character give the impression that several distinct personalities exist within one body, often complete opposites, most often due to fantastical or mystical causes. Not related to the real psychological disorder (see the 'Dissociative Identity Disorder' tag).

Sploshing

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: WAM Fetish, Wet and Messy

The fic depicts a sexual practice in which a character or characters become sexually aroused by the sight or feel of large amounts of sticky, wet, viscous, or heavily staining substances on clothing or skin.

Spoiler

Warnings

The fic reveals key plot points or unexpected details (such as the ending) of a work that has not yet been released or was recently released, which may spoil the experience of watching or reading it.

Spontaneous Sex

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Quickie

The fic depicts sex acts that happen spontaneously.

Sport

Sports

Synonyms: Arm wrestling, Athletes, Playing sports, Sports AU, Young athlete

The fic centers on athlete characters, or on specific sports.

Sport Climbing and Bouldering

Sports

Synonyms: Bouldering, Climbing Gym

The fic features sport climbers, climbing gyms and competitions.

Sport shooting

Sports

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

Sports Injuries

Sports

Synonyms: Career-Ending Injury

The fic features injuries sustained in sports and the recovery from them.

Sports Rivalry

Sports

Synonyms: Rival Teams

The fic features rivalry between athletes or teams.

Spouses to Lovers

Relationships

Synonyms: Reverse Marriage

The fic focuses on characters who, for some reason, are forced into marriage without feeling romantic attachment to each other, but who gradually fall in love.

Spring Atmosphere

Setting

The fic gives substantial attention to spring and/or to creating the atmosphere characteristic of it.

Spy (Game)

Freeform

The fic gives considerable attention to the game in which players must find the secret agent, while the agent must hide their identity.

Squirting

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Female Ejaculation

The fic depicts a biological phenomenon characterized by a release of fluid from the paraurethral glands during or just before orgasm.

SSC (Safe, Sane, Consensual)

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Safe, Sane, Consensual

The fic depicts the BDSM subculture built around the practice of consensual erotic power exchange, with particular emphasis on its foundational ethical framework: safety, sanity, and consent. It is recommended to use this tag together with the 'BDSM' tag to make searching easier.

St. Andrew's Day (Andrew's Evenings)

Holidays

Synonyms: December 13, Fortune-telling, St. Andrew the First-Called, Vechornytsi

The fic's events take place during the celebration of St. Andrew's Day (Andrew's Evenings), or are closely tied to the holiday itself.

St. Nicholas Day

Holidays

Synonyms: December 19, Nicholas Gifts, St. Nicholas

The fic's events take place on St. Nicholas Day, when children receive gifts under their pillows, or are closely tied to the holiday.

St. Patrick's Day

Holidays

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

St. Valentine's Day

Holidays

Synonyms: February 14, Valentine's Day

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

Stables

Setting

Stables, their staff, and visitors play a key role in the fic.

Stadiums

Setting

Synonyms: Sports arenas, Stands

The fic's events take place in stadiums and sports arenas, among athletes, fans and staff.

Staged Character Death

Warnings

One or more characters intentionally fake their own death but continue to live.

Stalkers & Diggers

Subcultures

Synonyms: Industrial Tourism, Stalking (subculture)

The plot focuses on the life and activities of characters who are adherents of a modern urban subculture centered on visiting and exploring abandoned sites and locations.

Stalking

Warnings

Synonyms: Obsessive Friendship, Obsessive Love, Stalkers

The fic depicts unwanted obsessive attention toward one character from another character or characters, including persistent calls and insults by phone or in writing, unwanted gifts, tracking and surveillance, threats, or intimidating behavior.

Standing Sex

Kinks (18+)

The fic depicts a sexual practice in which one or more characters remain in a standing position.

Stargazing

Freeform

Synonyms: Meteor Showers, Starry Sky

The fic features watching the stars and night sky.

Starship Crews

Occupations

Synonyms: Space Captains, Space Station Crew, Spaceship Pilots

The fic's plot is centered on the life and activities of starship crews, space captains and space-station staff.