Politics — Tag Meaning
A tag for fics where governance, elections, factional maneuvering, or institutional power plays drive the plot. It spans wizarding Wizengamot drama, Star Wars senate intrigue, and modern campaign-trail AUs.
What to Expect From "Politics" Fics
Expect scheming, speeches, power blocs, and protagonists learning that the real battlefield is procedural.
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Power and Control
by temptresslove
irreconcilable differences (make for surprisingly good bedfellows)
by pocky_slash
A Spark to an Inferno, a Snowball to an Avalanche
by cjr2
The Pack Survives
by astolat
Battlesleep
by Reyairia
A True King
by hatredwithpassion
Related Tags
Court Politics
The knife-fight conducted in ballgowns: favorites rising and falling, whisper campaigns, and smiles that double as threats in a royal or noble court. Fantasy fandoms use it as their genre's chess game, where one wrong courtesy can end a family.
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Political Alliances
Marriages, treaties, and partnerships forged for strategy rather than sentiment — the standard scaffolding for arranged-marriage fic in fantasy and historical settings. The genre's pleasure is watching cold-blooded alliances grow inconveniently warm.
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Alternate Universe - Lawyers
Argues the cast into courtrooms and corner offices: prosecutors versus defense attorneys, rival firms, idealists versus sellouts. Opposing counsel is the genre's gift — two brilliant people professionally obligated to fight each other in public make excellent enemies-to-lovers raw material.
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Manipulation
Warns that a character deceives, gaslights, or psychologically maneuvers others within the story. The tag spans plot-level scheming (con artists, spymasters) and intimate, darker dynamics, so its weight depends heavily on the rating and surrounding tags.
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