Tags

Unhealthy BDSM

Warnings

Synonyms: Bad BDSM Etiquette, Breach of Trust, Edgeplay, Incompetent Doms, Questionable BDSM Etiquette, Safety Violations, Unethical BDSM, Unhealthy BDSM Practices

The fic gives significant attention to characters who, intentionally or through ignorance, violate the principles of safety, consent, and sanity in BDSM practices, risking the health and well-being of both their partner and themselves.

Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Unhealthy Survival Mechanisms

The fic gives substantial attention to characters who deal with their psychological problems through destructive means.

Unhealthy Lifestyle

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Ignoring Basic Needs, Self-Destruction, Unhealthy Behavior

The fic gives substantial attention to characters who maintain an unhealthy, often self-destructive lifestyle.

Unhealthy Relationship

Relationships

Synonyms: Abusive Relationship, Codependent Relationship, Dependency, Dysfunctional Relationship, Love with an Abuser, Manic Love, Painful Attachment, Psychological Pressure, Toxic Relationship

The fic depicts characters in an evidently harmful relationship causing serious psychological or physical damage; this may apply to friendly, platonic, romantic, and/or sexual relationships.

Unhealthy Relationship to Healthy Relationship

Relationships

The fic depicts characters in an obviously painful relationship that causes serious psychological or physical discomfort, but over time they try to learn to respect each other's boundaries and discuss problems in order to reach a mutual solution and make the relationship comfortable.

Unicorns

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Unicorns play a significant role in the fic.

Uniform Kink

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Maid Kink, Military Uniform, School Uniform

The fic depicts one or more fetishes involving interaction with, wearing, or improper use of special (professional or military) clothing or its accessories.

Uninhabited islands

Setting

The fic takes place on an uninhabited island.

United Kingdom

Geography & Ethnicity

Synonyms: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Wales

The events of the work take place in the United Kingdom.

United States

Geography & Ethnicity

Synonyms: Alaska, America, American North, American South, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Midwest, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Orleans, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, United States of America, Vermont, Washington, West Coast, Wisconsin

The events of the work take place in the United States of America.

Unity Day of Ukraine

Holidays

Synonyms: Day of Union, January 22

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

Unknown Relatives

Tropes

Synonyms: Separated Siblings, Separated Twins

Relatives the characters are unaware of play a significant role in the fic.

Unloving Parents

Relationships

The fic focuses on parents who do not love their children.

Unmasking

Freeform

The fic focuses significant attention on unmaskings.

Unprotected Sex

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Barebacking, Unsafe Sex

The fic gives an important role to sex scenes in which characters do not use protection.

Unrealistic Depiction

Warnings

Synonyms: Cartoon Violence, Exaggerated Illness, Historical Inaccuracy, TV Medicine

The fic intentionally disregards the plausibility of certain aspects.

Unrealistic Types of Sex

Warnings

Sexual practices that are impossible in reality due to physiology or danger, but which logically exist within a fictional world, science fiction, magic, or alternative biology.

Unreliable Narrator

Format

Synonyms: Unreliable storyteller

The narrator or protagonist withholds or distorts information in order to hide certain plot details from the reader.

Unrequited Fated Mates

Tropes

Synonyms: Soulmate Rejection, Unrequited Soulmates

The fic describes characters who were in some way fated to each other, but nonetheless cannot be in a harmonious relationship for some reason.

Unrequited Feelings

Relationships

Synonyms: Friendzone, One-Sided Pairing, Pining, Rejection

The fic focuses on a character or characters whose romantic feelings go unanswered or are rejected.

Unspoken Feelings

Relationships

Synonyms: Crush on a Stranger, Fear of Confessing Feelings, Hints of Feelings, Idiots in Love, Pining, Romance Without Confession, Romantic Intrigue, Unspoken Mutual Feelings

The fic focuses on a character or characters who keep their romantic feelings for another character secret.

Unwanted Feelings

Relationships

Synonyms: Unwanted Infatuation

The fic depicts characters who have feelings for someone who is already in an established relationship (e.g., married).

Unwanted Help

Tropes

Help is given to a character or characters who did not want it.

Unwanted Pregnancy

Warnings

Synonyms: Pregnancy from Rape, Unexpected Pregnancy

The fic depicts a pregnancy that occurred unplanned.

Unwanted Superpowers

Superpowers

Synonyms: Unwanted Abilities, Unwanted Gift

The fic gives significant weight to characters who gain mystical or superhuman abilities they never wanted, who are afraid of those abilities, or who are afraid to use them for fear of hurting others, and so on.

Unwitting Drug Use

Warnings

The fic depicts one or more characters who, for some reason, do not know or realize that they are taking drugs.

Upyrs (Slavic Vampires)

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Synonyms: Opyr, Upyr

The fic features upyrs, vampires of Slavic folklore distinct from Western vampires.

Urban Legends

Freeform

Synonyms: Urban Myth

The fic features short, seemingly plausible stories — usually untrue — that draw on modern technology and society.

Urethral Sounding

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Sounding, Urethral Sex

The fic depicts a sexual practice involving penetration of the urethral opening with objects designed for this purpose or otherwise.

Urinary Incontinence

Illnesses, Disorders & Phobias

Synonyms: Enuresis

The fic depicts characters affected by various conditions associated with urinary incontinence.

URT (Unresolved Romantic Tension)

Warnings

Synonyms: Unresolved Romantic Tension

The fic's plot centers on characters who feel strong romantic attraction to each other but, for some reason, refuse to enter into a romantic relationship.

US Independence Day

Holidays

Synonyms: Fourth of July, July 4

The work's events take place during the celebration of US Independence Day (the Fourth of July), or are closely tied to the holiday itself.

US Rangers

Occupations

The fic pays attention to characters who are US rangers (versatile soldiers whose assignment and specialization may relate to various fields, for example: the Forest Service, the National Park Service law enforcement, the US Army's long-range surveillance unit, the Mounted Patrol, etc.)

UST

Warnings

Synonyms: Unresolved Sexual Tension

The fic's plot centers on characters who feel strong sexual attraction to each other but, for some reason, refuse to act on their desires. The opposite of RST.

Uzbekistan

Geography & Ethnicity

The events of the work take place in Uzbekistan.

Vacation

Freeform

The events of the fic take place during a vacation.

Vaginal Sex

Kinks (18+)

The fic depicts the sexual act involving the insertion of an erect penis or dildo into the vagina.

Valkyries

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Valkyries play a significant role in the fic.

Vampire Feeding

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Blood Drinking, Vampire Bite

The fic features a vampire's bite or blood feeding as an erotic act.

Vampires

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Synonyms: Opyrs, Upyrs, Vampirism

Vampires play a significant role in the fic.

Vanity

Freeform

The fic gives considerable attention to the theme of vanity.

Veela

Mythical & Fantastical Creatures

Magical creature: a pure-blood veela or a half-blood in whom the blood of these creatures flows.

Vegetarians / Vegans

Occupations

Synonyms: Veganism, Vegetarianism

The fic's plot is centered on the way of life and activities of a character or characters who have given up meat and other food of animal origin, or have completely given up exploiting animals in any form.

Vein Kink

Kinks (18+)

The fic depicts a character or characters who are attracted to partners with prominent veins.

Velvet Kink

Kinks (18+)

The fic depicts a character or characters who become sexually aroused by velvet items.

Verse Inserts

Warnings

Synonyms: Poetry Elements

The fic is written in prose but contains inserted passages of verse.

Vertep

Holidays

Synonyms: Nativity Play, Puppet Nativity Scene

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

Veterans

Occupations

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

Veterinarians

Occupations

Synonyms: Vets

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

Vibration Kink

Kinks (18+)

Synonyms: Purring Kink

The fic depicts a character or characters who become sexually aroused by vibration, and/or a range of fetishes involving interaction with vibrating objects, bodies, entities, and so on.