Alternate Universe - Steampunk — Tag Meaning
Retrofits the world with brass, gears, and impossible Victorian technology — airships, clockwork limbs, tea served at ten thousand feet. Writers use the aesthetic for adventure romps and inventor romances alike, and the genre's tinkerer characters give canon engineers and scientists a natural new home.
What to Expect From "Alternate Universe - Steampunk" Fics
Goggles and gallantry aboard dirigibles; expect lovingly described contraptions alongside the courtship.
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Alternate Universe - Victorian
Corsets the cast into the nineteenth century: gaslit streets, rigid propriety, séances in parlors, and industry's smoke over everything. Writers use the era's repression as a pressure system — a gloved hand held a moment too long carries more charge than an explicit scene — and gothic and penny-dreadful flavors are always within reach.
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Alternate Universe - Fantasy
Moves the cast into a secondary world of magic, kingdoms, quests, and mythical creatures — fanfic's version of writing your own epic fantasy novel with borrowed protagonists. It covers everything from sword-and-sorcery adventure to quiet fairy-tale romance, so companion tags usually reveal the flavor.
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Alternate Universe - Science Fiction
The broad-spectrum SF relocation: cloning facilities, terraforming colonies, AI uprisings, biopunk experiments — anything where speculative technology defines the world. Authors use it when their premise is unmistakably science fiction but doesn't slot neatly into space, cyberpunk, or robot subtags.
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