Tags: genre

This is a list of conventions specific to the genre tag, including a list of in-use or suggested values. Most instance of genre should be attached to stories; see character-trait and setting-trait for categorization tags for characters and settings respectively. Many book genres like 'science fiction' are currently categorized as setting-traits.

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Values

Setting Interactions

• peal
• single-setting (for when a fic takes place entirely within a single setting that its characters are native to)
• cross-drop (for when a character is dropped, moved, or travels to another setting)

Plot Styles

• timetravel
• peggy sue (timetravel where a character travels back to their own past, landing in their own (or sometimes someone else's) body)

Other Genres

• angst
• romance
• gen (for works that aren't romance-genre; gen works can have no ships, or ships but a non-romance-centric focus)
• pre-ship (for when a fic ends or is abandoned before the main ship gets together)
• hurt/comfort
• hurt no comfort
• fluff