Thunderstorms — Tag Meaning
Brings the weather indoors emotionally: power flickering, windows rattling, and — fanfic's favorite use — one character secretly terrified of storms and another discovering it. The storm provides cover for vulnerability, an excuse for shared beds, and a dramatic backdrop that authors time to the second for confession scenes.
What to Expect From "Thunderstorms" Fics
Comfort during the thunder; a tough character's hidden fear being gently handled is this tag's signature scene.
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Rain
Flags fics where rain matters — sheltering in doorways with a stranger, arguments in downpours, the kiss that genre tradition demands happen soaked to the skin. Weather as emotional amplifier is one of fiction's oldest tools, and fanfic uses rain for everything from melancholy mood pieces to the umbrella shared by people pretending it means nothing.
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Power Outage
Kills the lights and watches what happens: candles found, flashlights rationed, freezers anxiously monitored, and two people with nothing to do but talk in the dark. It's the urban apartment's version of being snowed in — a temporary suspension of normal life that authors use to force stillness on characters who avoid it.
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Sharing a Bed
The broader bed-sharing tag, covering every reason two characters end up sleeping side by side: necessity, nightmares, cold, comfort, or quiet mutual preference nobody examines too closely. Platonic or charged, the shared bed is fanfic's favorite vulnerability laboratory.
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Hurt/Comfort
A genre as old as fanzines: one character is hurt — physically, emotionally, or both — and another cares for them, with the caretaking deepening their bond. On AO3 it spans everything from bandaging wounds after battle to talking someone through a panic attack. The 'comfort' half is essential; without it, the tag is Hurt No Comfort.
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