Magic-Users — Tag Meaning
A broad tag for characters who wield magic — witches, sorcerers, mages of any tradition — frequently used when an AU grants powers to canonically mundane characters. It flags magic as a character attribute rather than just ambient world flavor.
What to Expect From "Magic-Users" Fics
Expect spellcraft as skill and identity, magical training or secrecy plots, and power with personal cost.
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Magic
The broadest arcane tag on the Archive, covering any story where magic features meaningfully — canon magic explored more deeply, new magic introduced, or magic as the texture of an AU. Authors often pair it with specifics, but on its own it signals that the impossible is load-bearing somewhere in the fic.
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Witches
Practitioners of witchcraft in all fandom's flavors: cottage herbalists, coven politics, hereditary craft, and modern witches with Etsy shops. Witch fic skews toward intuition, nature, and community magic — and witch/familiar or witch/hunter romances.
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Wizards
The scholarly arm of the magical professions — staff-and-tower types, academy-trained spellcasters, and Gandalf-flavored wanderers. Outside Harry Potter's specific usage, the tag evokes book-learned magic, long apprenticeships, and arcane institutions.
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Alternate Universe - Magic
Adds magic to a mundane canon or rebuilds the setting around spellcraft — covens, magical academies, hedge witches in modern apartments. Broader than the fantasy tag, it covers any 'what if they could do magic' premise, and authors often give each character a signature discipline that comments on their canon self.
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