Miscarriage — Tag Meaning
A canonical warning tag for pregnancy loss, applied with particular care because of how many readers carry this grief personally. Works range from realistic portrayals of loss within a relationship to backstory explaining a character's sorrow.
What to Expect From "Miscarriage" Fics
Pregnancy loss occurs or is central to the backstory, with attendant grief. This is a tag many readers exclude permanently, and the tagging culture respects that.
How to find Miscarriage fics on AO3
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Browse "Miscarriage" works on AO3Popular Fics Tagged "Miscarriage"
Real examples from AO3's most-kudosed works:
Sweet Whispers
by jenniferskywalker
i want trees instead of gravestones (and nothing to confess)
by Soulweaver
The Prince of Flowers
by Queen___Alba13
Broken Eggs and Bumpy Roads
by Lexicanum
When The Heartbeat Goes Silent
by Obsessive_fangirl101
Cheers to a love we cannot live
by Prince_De_Valois
Related 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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Pregnancy
Tags a pregnancy arc within the story: the discovery, the announcement, the nine months of escalating anticipation, and often the birth. Fanfic pregnancy fic ranges from glowing domestic fantasy to honest renditions of fear and bodily upheaval, usually pointed toward a growing family.
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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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Trauma
A broad flag that the fic deals with the lasting psychological impact of terrible events — wars, abuse, loss, violence — rather than just depicting the events themselves. It tells readers the story sits with damage and its consequences, usually with more specific tags identifying the source.
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