Gun Violence — Tag Meaning
A canonical tag flagging firearm violence specifically, applied with particular care in modern-setting works where shootings carry real-world weight. Crime, cop, and superhero fandoms account for much of its use.
What to Expect From "Gun Violence" Fics
Shootings or armed threats on the page, with injuries tagged separately. Readers sensitized to gun violence can exclude it independently of other violence tags.
How to find Gun Violence fics on AO3
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Three Shots
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Baby doll, you're perfect
by BTSLarryAf
In My Dreams
by MaryaDmitrievnaLikesSundays
Shots
by LogicalBookThief
Same Shit, Different Day
by Short_honey_badger
Build a Wall Around Me
by notevenyou
Related Tags
Violence
A general-purpose flag for violent content that exceeds the incidental but may not warrant the archive's Graphic Depictions warning. Authors use it to cover fights, assaults, and brutality, trusting readers to combine it with the fic's rating to judge intensity.
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Murder
A canonical tag for unlawful killing within the work, whether the fic follows the killer, the investigators, or the bereaved. Crime fandoms use it descriptively; others use it to warn that a death is violent and intentional.
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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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Hostage Situations
Compresses the standoff into a pressure chamber: hostages, demands, negotiators, and clocks. Fanfic configurations are well-mapped — the negotiator talking down someone they know, the secret operative among the hostages, the villain discovering which captive matters most to the hero by watching his face — and the bank-lobby bottle episode remains a fandom favorite.
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