Concussions — Tag Meaning
Head-injury fic's workhorse tag: characters knocked out, dazed, and stubbornly refusing rest while someone keeps them awake and watched. The concussion is whump's most domestic injury — serious enough for vigil, mild enough for soft caretaking.
What to Expect From "Concussions" Fics
Expect dizzy, confused patients, caretakers enforcing rest, and concussion protocols as intimacy delivery.
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Related Tags
Injury
A straightforward content tag flagging that a character gets physically hurt. It covers everything from sprained ankles to battlefield wounds, and authors typically add it for reader awareness even when the injury is brief, since some readers seek out injury fic and others avoid it.
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Caretaking
Focuses on the act of caring for someone — feeding them, cleaning wounds, helping them rest, managing their bad days. Where Hurt/Comfort emphasizes the arc from pain to relief, Caretaking zooms in on the care itself as the emotional center, and it appears in romantic, platonic, and familial contexts alike.
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Hurt/Comfort
A genre as old as fanzines: one character is hurt — physically, emotionally, or both — and another cares for them, with the caretaking deepening their bond. On AO3 it spans everything from bandaging wounds after battle to talking someone through a panic attack. The 'comfort' half is essential; without it, the tag is Hurt No Comfort.
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Sickfic
A whole subgenre built on one premise: a character gets sick and someone takes care of them. Colds, flu, fevers, and stomach bugs are the classics, with the illness functioning as a trust exercise — the sick character must accept help, and the caretaker gets to show devotion through soup, blankets, and worry.
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