Hospitalization — Tag Meaning
A canonical tag focused on the experience of being admitted: a character as patient, with the loss of autonomy and fear that entails. It is narrower than the Hospitals setting tag and centers the patient's perspective.
What to Expect From "Hospitalization" Fics
A character spends part of the story hospitalized, whether for injury, illness, or psychiatric care. Companion tags identify the cause.
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Related Tags
Hospitals
The non-AU hospital tag: canon characters in waiting rooms, recovery wards, and bedside chairs after the plot's violence catches up with someone. Where medical AUs change professions, this tag keeps everything canon and adds fluorescent lighting — vigils, bad vending machine coffee, and feelings confessed to unconscious patients who turn out to be awake.
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Medical Trauma
A canonical tag for trauma arising from medical experiences themselves: emergency interventions, painful treatment, experimentation, or care that crossed into harm. Sci-fi fandoms with lab-experiment backstories apply it constantly.
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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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Recovery
Tags stories about the long road back — from trauma, addiction, injury, grief, or canon events that left a character shattered. Recovery fic tends to be patient and realistic about setbacks, and many writers use it to give characters the healing their source material skipped over.
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