Funerals — Tag Meaning
Gathers characters to bury someone — canon deaths given the on-page mourning the source skipped, or original losses that reshuffle the survivors. Fanfic funerals are about the living: eulogies that say too much or too little, estranged characters forced into the same pew, and grief cracking open conversations long avoided.
What to Expect From "Funerals" Fics
Heavy emotional weather and aftermath focus; comfort offered at gravesides has a way of becoming something more.
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Browse "Funerals" works on AO3Related Tags
Grief/Mourning
The canonical tag for fic centered on loss and its processing — funerals, anniversaries of deaths, the long ache of absence. Some of fanfiction's most acclaimed character studies live under this tag, as writers give characters the space to mourn that serialized canon rarely allows.
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Anniversary
Tags fics organized around a meaningful date — of a wedding, a first meeting, a first kiss, or sometimes a loss. Anniversary fic is inherently retrospective: the occasion invites characters (and authors) to measure the distance between then and now.
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Post-War
Set after a canon conflict ends — Harry Potter's post-Battle-of-Hogwarts era and Avatar's post-Hundred-Year-War period are the tag's heartlands. The war is over but never really over: these fics deal in rebuilding, survivor's guilt, memorials, trials, and the strange guilt-ridden quiet of people bred for a fight that's finished.
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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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