Tags on this site are a combination of incredibly specific scenes and the genres used on fanfiction.net
This document defines our use of said genres when labelling prompts and drabbles with tags.
Definitions
NSFW is considered a standard tag and replaces fanfiction.net's rating system. prompts and drabbles are either NSFW or they are not.
Adventure
A remarkable or unexpected journey, experience, or event that a person participates in as result of chance. literaryterms.net
Angst
A subset of drama which focuses on internal character turmoil. Usually paired with tragedy.
Crime
Genre of fiction dealing with crime, their detection, criminals, and their motives. Common follow a similar structure with the crime itself, an investigation, and an outcome or judgement.
Comedy
A broad genre which focuses on making the audience laugh.
Drama
(Broadly) any literary work. (More narrowly) any work that is not a comedy or a tragedy. Informally, it is used to describe works that focus more on interpersonal conflicts.
Family
A work that focuses on interpersonal relationships within a family.
Fantasy
A genre of speculative fiction that is not set in the real world. The amount it varies from the real world is varied and not a necessary part of the definition. In this context, it must be 'Fantasy' relative to HP canon.
Friendship
A work that focuses on the interpersonal relationship between friends. This often includes transitions prior to their friendship and possibly beyond to more.
Horror
A fiction whose purpose is to create feelings of fear, dread, repulsion, and/or terror in the audience. There are several subcategories which focus on specific types of horror.
Humor
A comedic work. It can also be the literary tool to relieve tension, break monotomy or boredom within a narrative.
Hurt/Comfort
A work which (often) focuses on a pair of characters where one provides comfort for the other which is somehow hurt or suffering.
Mystery
A work which focuses on a puzzling crime, situation, or circumstance that needs to be solved. Generally, they can be solvable or not depending on whether the reader can solve it through clues given in the story.
Parody
Imitating an existing original work in order to make fun of or comment on an aspect of the original.
Poetry
Based on the interplay of words and rhythm
Romance
Have a relationship issue as the main focus.
Sci-Fi
Imaginative, but based in science.
Spiritual
Suspense
Tragedy
A hero is brought down by his/her own flaws