Meet the Family — Tag Meaning
Stages the high-stakes introduction of a partner to parents, siblings, or the found family whose approval matters more. Fanfic versions add genre spice — meeting the family means meeting the pack, the crew, the team of superheroes — and the protective shovel-talk from a best friend is a ritual the tag practically guarantees.
What to Expect From "Meet the Family" Fics
Dinner-table interrogations, embarrassing childhood stories deployed as weapons, and approval won by the final scene.
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Real examples from AO3's most-kudosed works:
No Matter How Far Away You Roam
by lady_ragnell
Golden Days
by Ren
Say Goodbye to Yesterday
by melonbutterfly
All Hands on Deck (Batfam/Young Justice Crossover)
by PepperSoniRoni
something something true love
by ebeatrice
War Bride
by Speranza
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Holidays
The general celebration tag covering any holiday setting, used when a fic spans several festivities or when the specific occasion doesn't have its own tag worth reaching for. Holiday fic as a genre trades on heightened emotion: travel, family obligation, traditions kept or broken, and the loneliness or belonging the calendar enforces.
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Established Relationship
Skips the courtship entirely: the couple is already together when the fic begins. Authors use it to explore what comes after getting together — domesticity, conflict, growth, or simply love in operation — territory canon and getting-together fics rarely cover. It is among the archive's most-used relationship tags.
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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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