Dogs — Tag Meaning
A tag for fics featuring dogs prominently — service dogs, strays that follow heroes home, dog-park AUs, and canon canines like Dog (Good Omens) or Fang. The dog walk and the dog park are time-honored romance delivery mechanisms.
What to Expect From "Dogs" Fics
Expect loyal canine companions, leash-tangle meet-cutes, and dogs with better judgment about love interests than their owners.
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Pets
Stories where animal companions matter — adopted strays, canon pets given expanded roles, or couples whose relationship milestones are measured in shared custody of a cat. Pets in fic reliably function as icebreakers, matchmakers, and emotional support.
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Cats
Fics where cats hold court: aloof familiars, stray adoptions that adopt the human right back, and pets whose approval a new partner must earn. Cat-centric fic loves the comedy of indifferent felines and the symbolism of prickly characters who soften for one creature only.
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Meet-Cute
Borrowed from romantic comedy jargon: a first meeting that is charming, memorable, and a little absurd — colliding bicycles, mistaken identities, rescuing the same cat. In fanfic it powers countless AUs where canon characters get a softer, funnier origin than the battlefield where they actually met.
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Fluff
Fluff is AO3's catch-all label for sweet, low-stakes content designed to make readers feel warm rather than wrecked. Authors apply it when the heart of the fic is affection — characters being soft with each other, gentle humor, cozy moments — with conflict either absent or trivially resolved. It is one of the most-used freeform tags on the entire archive.
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