List of Fandom Kinks, Fetishes, Tropes, Genres, Characters and More
This is a list of fandom kinks grouped by different categories.
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--------Gender/Orientation--------
Androgyny
Aromantism
Asexuality
Bisexuality
Butch/Femme
Celibacy
Closeted
Coming out
Crossdressing
Forced feminisation
Gender confusion
Genderqueer/Genderbender
Hermaphrodites
Heterosexuality
Homophobia
Homosexuality
Intersexuality
Makeup on men
Omnisexuality/Pansexuality
Pangender
Polyamoury
Straight Men Who Have Sex with Men
Tomboy
Transgender
Transsexuality
--------Penetrative/Oral/Genitalia/Foreplay related--------
Penetration
Double penetration
Double fisting
Finger-fucking or fingering
Fisting
Pegging
Penetration with foreign objects
Penetration with genitalia
Triple penetration
Oral
Biting
Deep-throating
Felching
Fellatio (blowjob, giving head, ...)
Kissing/Snogging
Licking
Necking
Oral fixation
Tongue-fucking
Ass play
Anilingus (rimming, rim job)
Cheek spreading
Enema
Prostate play/milking
Vagina play
Clitoris worship
Cunnilingus
Douching
Tribadism (scissor fight)
Self-love
Autofellation (male)
Autolingus (female)
Masturbation (wanking, jerking off, ...)
Masturbilia
Usual Sex positons/type
Sixty-nine (69)
Axillary intercourse (armpit fuck)
Barebacking
Bottoming from the top
Doggy/From behind
Foot job
Frottage (frot, friction)
Hand job
Intercrural sex (thigh fuck)
Mammary intercourse (tit fuck)
Missionary
Mutual masturbation (double jacking, stimulate themselves or each other, ...)
Topping from the bottom
Orgasm
Coming in one's pants
Coming in or on partner
Coming without being touched
Delayed gratification
Forced orgasm
Multiple orgasms
Oversensitivity after coming (multiple times)
Orgasm denial
Simultaneous orgasm
--------Senses--------
Odor/Olfactory Fetish
Perfume
Personal smell (residual smell of someone on their pillows/clothes)
Scented Objects
Sweat
Voice Fetish
Accents
Commanding (order, give directions, ...)
Dirty talk
Magical (chants, spells, speech, language, ...)
Speaking a different language
Tone/Pitch (husky, purring, whisper, ...)
Touch
Cuddling
Massage
Nuzzling
Petting
Public Display of Affection (PDA)
Spooning
Stroking
Sensation play
Accidental stimulation
Blindfolding
Body-painting
Breath (breathing on skin and erogenous areas)
Cupping
Depilation (shaving, waxing, plucking, …)
Electrostimulation
Feathers
Figging
Fur
Hot (chilli, wasabi, rubbing alcohol, tiger balm)
Cold (ice, ...)
Padding
Pinching
Scratching
Sensory overload or enhancement
Silk
Stroking
Stuffing
Tickling
Urethral Sounding
Wax play
--------BDSM related--------
BDSM terms
Bondage and discipline (B&D)
Dominance and submission (D/s)
Discipline/Punishment
Sadism & Masochism (Sadomasochism)
Humiliation
Female dominance (femdom)
Leather Culture
Switching
Top/Bottom/Versatile
Edgeplay
Asphyxiation (autoerotic asphyxiation, scarfing, breath play, ...)
Bloodplay
Chocking/Drowning
Fireplay
Gunplay
Knife-play
Other weapon fetish
Bondage/Restraint
Belts
Hair bondage
Handcuffs
Resistance play (held down, forced, ...)
Immobilisation/Mummification
Magical
Ropes
Shibari
Spreader bar
Suspension
Tape
Tie
Impact Play
Caning
Flagellation/Flogging/Whipping
Paddling
Punching
Slapping
Spanking
Others
Begging
Breast ridicule
Anal torture
Cock and Ball torture (CBT)
Cunt torture
Nipple torture
Chastity devices
Claiming or ownership
Cock ridicule
Collar
Conditioning/Taming/Breaking
Crawling
Cuckholding
Displays of subservience
Domesticity
Exposure
Face-sitting
Feet/boot worship
Hair pulling
Marking (bruises, hickey, scratches, …)
Prohibitions or restrictions on clothing
Slave auction
(also see sensation play)
----------- Roleplay/Fantasy -----------
Ageplay
Adult baby
Age difference
Age regression
Profession Fetish
Aristrocracy/Royalty
Authority figure
Law Enforcement
Medical fetish
Military
Prostitute/Client
Teacher/Professor
Others
Animal play (ponyplay, pup-play, ...)
Class difference
Daddy!kink
Erotic Objectification (human furniture, ...)
Fantasies
Incest fantasy
Master and slave
Mummy!kink
Rape fantasy
------------Body-------------
Bodily Fluid/Secretion Fetish
Dacryphilia (tears, crying in sexual situations)
Saliva
Spitting
Come marking
Comeplay
Creampie
Facials
Premature ejaculation
Snowball
Swallowing
Felching
Soiling/Wetting yourself
Bladder desperation/Omorashi
Golden showers/watersports
Brown showers
Coprophagia
Scat
Lactation fetish
Menstruation fetish
Vomitplay
Body Part Fetish
Cock and balls worship
Docking
Erogenous zones
Facial hair
Feet fetish (shrimping, ...)
Hair fetish
Hand fetish
Immobility (fat admiration: state in which someone has either given up walking and exercise in order to gain more weight quicker)
Nipple-play
Pubic hair
Scars
Size queens
Teabagging
Vagina worship
Belly sex
Inflation
Body Modification
Branding
Piercings
Scarification
Tattoos
Weight gain
Body Type Fetish
Fat fetishism/Fat admiration
Feederism
Hairy/Hirsute
Morphophilia
Muscles
Pregnant fetish
Twink
----------Accessories----------
Clothes fetish
Apron
Chainmail
Corset
Glasses
Gloves
Jewellery (cuffs, bracelets, rings, necklaces, chokers, ...)
Kilts
Latex/Rubber
Leather
Masks
Shoe fetish
Underwear fetishism (panty fetishism, panty sniffer)
Uniform fetish (military, medical, ...)
Sex Toys/Protection
Anal beads
Artificial anus
Artificial vaginas
Butt plugs
Cock rings
Condom
Dildo
Fucking Machines
Gags (mouth gag, ties, …)
Hairbrushes
Hood
Improvised Toys
Nipple clamp
Pumps
Sex doll
Showerhead
Vegetables
Vibrators
Wandplay
Chemical Alteration/Under the influence
Aphrodisiacs
Bodyswitch potion (polyjuice, ...)
Alcohol
Drugs
Love potion (amortentia, ...)
Rohypnol/roofies (other date!rape drugs)
Smoking
Substance abuse
Truth potion (veritaserum, ...)
-------------Others-------------
Group sex
Bukkake (group sex: coming on a person)
Circle jerk
Daisy Chain
Gang-bang/Train
Lucky Pierre
Orgy
Swapping/Swinging
Threesome
Sex/Entertainment For Hire
Courtesans
Escorts (call girl/boy)
Geisha
Peep show
Pole dancers
Pornstar
Pro Phone Sex
Prostitute (rentboy, streetwalker, ...)
Sex Masseur/Masseuse
Strippers
Other
Corrupting innocence
Dirt (filth, mud, ...)
Exhibitionism
Foodplay
High libido
Mirrors
Pornography
Somnophilia
Virgins/Inexperience
Voyeurism
----------Darker Themes---------
Nonconsensual
Peeping Tom/Spying
Child Abuse
Domestic/Intimate partner violence
Frotteurism
Sexual abuse
Emotional abuse
Torture
Stalking
Extreme Paraphilia
Acrotomophilia (guro, castration...)
Apotemnophilia
Biastophilia (rape)
Cannibalisme
Erotophonophilia (snuff, lust murder, ...)
Necrophilia
Paedophilia (infantophilia, prepubescent children)
Vorarephilia (being eaten or eating others)
---------Character/Mind and Body/Relationship------------
Behaviour/Personality
Alpha/Strong male
Amazonian/Strong women
Animalistic (dominant)
Animalistic (submissive)
Anti-hero (good villain, villain with principles, ...)
Bad boys
Bad girls
Beautiful characters
Charismatic
Cheerful/Happy
Class Clown
Clumsy
Dark
Dominant
Emo
Emotional
Empath (sense emotion)
Flawed
Genius/Intelligent
Gentle/Tender
Good boys
Good girls
Heroic
Hiding behind mask/emotions
Jealous
Needy
Patient
Protective
Psychopath
Pushy bottom
Rogues/Outlaws (pirates, gangsters, ...)
Roughnecks (cowboys, ...)
Seer
Sex slaves (concubine, forced prostitution, …)
Shy
Snarky
Snow Prince/Princess
Sociopath
Stoical
Submissive
Superhero/human/special powers (super strength, speed, ...)
Super!slut
Temperamental (hot-tempered, abrasive, ...)
Tough/Strength in character
Underdog
Villain
Violent
Vulnerable
Disability/Illness
Amnesia
Blindness
Depression
Deafness
Insanity
Mute
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Phobia
Physical disability
Amputation
Cerebral palsy
Limping
Multiple sclerosis
Paralysis
Pairing/Relationship
Arranged Marriage
Awesome/Baddass family
Beloved enemies
Black sheep (does not fit in, prodigal son, ...)
Bodyguard scenarios
Buddy cop scenarios (two law enforcement agents, or one law enforcement agent and a civilian, aurors)
Colleagues
Dysfunctional/Screwed up family
Employer/Employee
Experienced lover/Inexperienced lover
Fake marriage (bearding, con, marriage of convenience ...)
Father/Son relationship (daddy issues, Severitus, bonding, …)
Forced Marriage
Friendship
Friendship turns into romance
Fueding families/friends
Fuck buddies
Geek/jock
Guardian/child (godfather, godmother, temporary carer, ...)
Hero/sidekick
Incest (twincest, ...)
Infidelity
Lady and the Tramp pairings
Marriage (husband/wife, husband/husband, wife/wife, bonded, ...)
Master/Apprentice (mentor/student, ...)
Master/Servant (prince/man- or maidservant, lord/stablehand, …)
One big happy family
Original characters (OC pairing)
Pederastry (ancient definition: sexual or chaste relationship or bond and inculcation of moral and cultural values between an adult man and an adolescent boy)
Predator/prey
Seme/Uke
Siblings (sibling rivalry, big brother, ...)
Underaged partners (teens, adolescent, chan ...)
-------------Setting/Activity/Genre----------------
Activity
Bar/Clubbing
Camping
Dancing
Quests
Road trip
Sword-play
Travelling
Location
Alley
Bath/Shower
Bath houses
Beaches
Broomstick
Brothels
Furniture
Graveyard
Harem
Animalback (horseback, ...)
Kitchen
Locker room
Massage parlour
Public toilet
Swimming Pool
Vacation destination
Vehicles
Wilderness
Trapped/Imprisonment
Basement
Cabin
Cage
Caves
Closet
Coffin
Deserted island
Elevator
Prison/Dungeon
Safehouse
Snowstorm
Anonymous sex
Bathouses
Buddy booth
Glory holes
Masquerade (mask, costumes, ...)
Games
Betting
I've never
Spin the bottle
Strip Poker/Games
Truth or Dare
Genre
Action/Adventure
Alternate Reality
Angst
AU
Creature
Crossover
Dark!fic
Death!fic
Denial!fic (canon event ignored e.g. EWE)
Drama
Episode tag (after the end of an episode, book, ...)
Fluff
Fix-it!Fic (fixing canon plot holes, ...)
Future!fic
Happy endings
Humour
Hurt/comfort
Mindfuck
Mirror universe
Missing scene (filling a gap)
Modern AU
Non-magic AU
Parody/Crack
Past!fic
Preslash
PWP
Recasting!fic (genderflip casting, resorting, ...)
Romance
Schmoop
Smut
Tragedy
Violence
Setting/Cultural Themes
Ancient myths (time of magic and dragons, ...)
Dystopia/Apocalypse/Zombies
Far Eastern
Historical and period
Holiday (Christmas, Valentines, Halloween, ...)
Medieval civilisation (kings, knights, ...)
Modern royal family
Music (band, choir, …)
Nautical (pirates, sea, ship, …)
Noir Detective
Political themes
Religious themes
School/Education (boarding school, university, ...)
Space
Sports (football, quidditch, ...)
Spirit world
Steampunk
War
Western (wild west, cowboy, ...)
Underworld
--------------Beings--------------
Animagus/Ability to turn into animals
Bestiality (horses, canines, ...)
Interspecies
Sentient abode/vehicle ("living" castle, ...)
Shape-shifter
Creature
Angels
Banshees
Centaurs
Demons
Dragons
Dwarves
Elves
Fairies
Forest nymphs
Furies
Giant Squid
Incubus/Succubus
Merpeople
Ogre
Sirens
Vampires
Veela
Werewolfs
Zombies
---------Other Fandom Tropes--------
Romantic
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Blind date
Courting/Seduction
Crush or unrequited love
Fairy tale
Flirting
Love affair/Tryst/Forbidden love
Love at first sight
Love triangles
Love/hate relationship
Magnetic powers/Pheromones
Matchmaking friends or family
Meeting the family
One True Love
Playing hard to get
Romeo and Juliet scenarios
Sexual
Aliens made them do it
Xenophilia (aliens)
Angry sex
Cleaning or wiping each other after sex
Comfort or H/C sex
Bringing someone to orgasm through talk (dirty talk, phone sex, ...)
Debauchery/Well-fucked
Desperate sex (must fuck now, ...)
Drunk sex
Erotic/wet dreams
First-time sex
Fuck or make out to escape trap
Fuck or die
Getting pregnant sex
"Giving" lover to another character for sex
Hate sex
Humping of upholstery/inanimate objects
Insatiable sexual appetite
Interrupted sex
Involuntary Arousal
Loud sex
Magical Healing Cock
Make-up sex
Mating/Being in Heat
One Night Stands
Partly/Fully-clothed sex
Rape recovery
Rough sex
Sexual exploration (erogenous zones, discovering sexual pleasure, ...)
Shower sex
Silent sex (trying to be silent, ...)
Slow/Careful sex
Straight men sexual scenarios (practicing sexual skills on each other, circle jerks, ...)
Striptease (undressing, ...)
Tentacle sex
Unresolved sexual tension (UST)/Sexual frustration
Magic/Supernatural
Afterlife
Age regression/de-aging due to potion/time turner/similar
Aged up due to potion/time turner/similar
Bodyswap
Bonds
Coming-of-age ritual
Cursed
Fate and prophecy
Fertility rituals
Ghost/Spirits
Magic reveal
MPREG
Parseltongue/Other magical languages
Possessed (ghosts, spirits, ...)
Reincarnation
Sex magic
Sex pollen
Telepathy (body link, mind link, soul link ...)
Time travel
Turn into animals/inanimate objects
Other Plot/Themes
Abduction
Amicably divorced
Anthropomorphic
Attention (from peers, classmates, ...)
Bathing/Washing (taking a bath together, washing partner's hair, ...)
Canon
Challenges/Competition (duels, triwizard championship, swordfight, conquer lands, ...)
Children (raising a child together, children from previous marriage, ...)
Damsel in distress scenarios
Domesticity
Epistolary (letters, emails, telegrams, ...)
Everyone is gay
Free will vs predestination
Genderswap
Huddling for warmth
Impending doom/death
Impotence
Loyalty or betrayal
Loved one being away (war, battle, work, ...)
Make-overs
Mistaken for gay
Mistaken for straight
Mistaken for murderer/villain
Mistaken identity
Misunderstood scenarios
Names and address (insults, endearments, pet names, …)
Near death experience/Crisis
New experiences
Penance or reform
Pregnancy
Physical responses (breathing heavily, face or ears burning, …)
Presume dead
Pretending to be gay
Pretending to be straight
Prisoner of war
Pursuing parental perils (pursue ambition that caused parents' death)
Rags to riches
Rescue (from danger)
Rescue (from servitude or family)
Reversal of fate/fortune
Rivals working together
Robot/Machines
Role swapping (House swapping, ...)
Secret admirers
Secret identity
Secret legacy (ordinary person becomes extraordinary due to inherited superpower, fortune, ...)
Secret past
Sharing a bed/room scenarios
Spoils of war
Surprises (party, gift, ...)
Teamwork (law enforcement, spies, projects, …)
Turning to the dark side
Unknown parentage
Wingfic
Woke up gay
Notes:
[1] Most of the categories are interconnected - I just needed a way to break it up to make it look more organised.
[2] Click on the linked entries for their definitions. Please note that some words have different meanings in fandom and in rl.
[3] Entries are written in a way that should fit most fandoms.
[4] Feel free to suggest more entries, better links, or use this list as ideas.
[5] Still a work in progress. Will post a survey soon.
Other lists:
[1] H/D History Timeline
[2] A N00b's Guide to HTML
[3] Fandom Favourite H/D fanarts
[4] HP Artist Archive
Last Updated: 7th April, 2011
Number of entries: roughly 634
Some of you asked if you could use this list for a meme. That's completely alright, just copy the meme [ HERE]. :)
--------Gender/Orientation--------
Androgyny
Aromantism
Asexuality
Bisexuality
Butch/Femme
Celibacy
Closeted
Coming out
Crossdressing
Forced feminisation
Gender confusion
Genderqueer/Genderbender
Hermaphrodites
Heterosexuality
Homophobia
Homosexuality
Intersexuality
Makeup on men
Omnisexuality/Pansexuality
Pangender
Polyamoury
Straight Men Who Have Sex with Men
Tomboy
Transgender
Transsexuality
--------Penetrative/Oral/Genitalia/Foreplay related--------
Penetration
Double penetration
Double fisting
Finger-fucking or fingering
Fisting
Pegging
Penetration with foreign objects
Penetration with genitalia
Triple penetration
Oral
Biting
Deep-throating
Felching
Fellatio (blowjob, giving head, ...)
Kissing/Snogging
Licking
Necking
Oral fixation
Tongue-fucking
Ass play
Anilingus (rimming, rim job)
Cheek spreading
Enema
Prostate play/milking
Vagina play
Clitoris worship
Cunnilingus
Douching
Tribadism (scissor fight)
Self-love
Autofellation (male)
Autolingus (female)
Masturbation (wanking, jerking off, ...)
Masturbilia
Usual Sex positons/type
Sixty-nine (69)
Axillary intercourse (armpit fuck)
Barebacking
Bottoming from the top
Doggy/From behind
Foot job
Frottage (frot, friction)
Hand job
Intercrural sex (thigh fuck)
Mammary intercourse (tit fuck)
Missionary
Mutual masturbation (double jacking, stimulate themselves or each other, ...)
Topping from the bottom
Orgasm
Coming in one's pants
Coming in or on partner
Coming without being touched
Delayed gratification
Forced orgasm
Multiple orgasms
Oversensitivity after coming (multiple times)
Orgasm denial
Simultaneous orgasm
--------Senses--------
Odor/Olfactory Fetish
Perfume
Personal smell (residual smell of someone on their pillows/clothes)
Scented Objects
Sweat
Voice Fetish
Accents
Commanding (order, give directions, ...)
Dirty talk
Magical (chants, spells, speech, language, ...)
Speaking a different language
Tone/Pitch (husky, purring, whisper, ...)
Touch
Cuddling
Massage
Nuzzling
Petting
Public Display of Affection (PDA)
Spooning
Stroking
Sensation play
Accidental stimulation
Blindfolding
Body-painting
Breath (breathing on skin and erogenous areas)
Cupping
Depilation (shaving, waxing, plucking, …)
Electrostimulation
Feathers
Figging
Fur
Hot (chilli, wasabi, rubbing alcohol, tiger balm)
Cold (ice, ...)
Padding
Pinching
Scratching
Sensory overload or enhancement
Silk
Stroking
Stuffing
Tickling
Urethral Sounding
Wax play
--------BDSM related--------
BDSM terms
Bondage and discipline (B&D)
Dominance and submission (D/s)
Discipline/Punishment
Sadism & Masochism (Sadomasochism)
Humiliation
Female dominance (femdom)
Leather Culture
Switching
Top/Bottom/Versatile
Edgeplay
Asphyxiation (autoerotic asphyxiation, scarfing, breath play, ...)
Bloodplay
Chocking/Drowning
Fireplay
Gunplay
Knife-play
Other weapon fetish
Bondage/Restraint
Belts
Hair bondage
Handcuffs
Resistance play (held down, forced, ...)
Immobilisation/Mummification
Magical
Ropes
Shibari
Spreader bar
Suspension
Tape
Tie
Impact Play
Caning
Flagellation/Flogging/Whipping
Paddling
Punching
Slapping
Spanking
Others
Begging
Breast ridicule
Anal torture
Cock and Ball torture (CBT)
Cunt torture
Nipple torture
Chastity devices
Claiming or ownership
Cock ridicule
Collar
Conditioning/Taming/Breaking
Crawling
Cuckholding
Displays of subservience
Domesticity
Exposure
Face-sitting
Feet/boot worship
Hair pulling
Marking (bruises, hickey, scratches, …)
Prohibitions or restrictions on clothing
Slave auction
(also see sensation play)
----------- Roleplay/Fantasy -----------
Ageplay
Adult baby
Age difference
Age regression
Profession Fetish
Aristrocracy/Royalty
Authority figure
Law Enforcement
Medical fetish
Military
Prostitute/Client
Teacher/Professor
Others
Animal play (ponyplay, pup-play, ...)
Class difference
Daddy!kink
Erotic Objectification (human furniture, ...)
Fantasies
Incest fantasy
Master and slave
Mummy!kink
Rape fantasy
------------Body-------------
Bodily Fluid/Secretion Fetish
Dacryphilia (tears, crying in sexual situations)
Saliva
Spitting
Come marking
Comeplay
Creampie
Facials
Premature ejaculation
Snowball
Swallowing
Felching
Soiling/Wetting yourself
Bladder desperation/Omorashi
Golden showers/watersports
Brown showers
Coprophagia
Scat
Lactation fetish
Menstruation fetish
Vomitplay
Body Part Fetish
Cock and balls worship
Docking
Erogenous zones
Facial hair
Feet fetish (shrimping, ...)
Hair fetish
Hand fetish
Immobility (fat admiration: state in which someone has either given up walking and exercise in order to gain more weight quicker)
Nipple-play
Pubic hair
Scars
Size queens
Teabagging
Vagina worship
Belly sex
Inflation
Body Modification
Branding
Piercings
Scarification
Tattoos
Weight gain
Body Type Fetish
Fat fetishism/Fat admiration
Feederism
Hairy/Hirsute
Morphophilia
Muscles
Pregnant fetish
Twink
----------Accessories----------
Clothes fetish
Apron
Chainmail
Corset
Glasses
Gloves
Jewellery (cuffs, bracelets, rings, necklaces, chokers, ...)
Kilts
Latex/Rubber
Leather
Masks
Shoe fetish
Underwear fetishism (panty fetishism, panty sniffer)
Uniform fetish (military, medical, ...)
Sex Toys/Protection
Anal beads
Artificial anus
Artificial vaginas
Butt plugs
Cock rings
Condom
Dildo
Fucking Machines
Gags (mouth gag, ties, …)
Hairbrushes
Hood
Improvised Toys
Nipple clamp
Pumps
Sex doll
Showerhead
Vegetables
Vibrators
Wandplay
Chemical Alteration/Under the influence
Aphrodisiacs
Bodyswitch potion (polyjuice, ...)
Alcohol
Drugs
Love potion (amortentia, ...)
Rohypnol/roofies (other date!rape drugs)
Smoking
Substance abuse
Truth potion (veritaserum, ...)
-------------Others-------------
Group sex
Bukkake (group sex: coming on a person)
Circle jerk
Daisy Chain
Gang-bang/Train
Lucky Pierre
Orgy
Swapping/Swinging
Threesome
Sex/Entertainment For Hire
Courtesans
Escorts (call girl/boy)
Geisha
Peep show
Pole dancers
Pornstar
Pro Phone Sex
Prostitute (rentboy, streetwalker, ...)
Sex Masseur/Masseuse
Strippers
Other
Corrupting innocence
Dirt (filth, mud, ...)
Exhibitionism
Foodplay
High libido
Mirrors
Pornography
Somnophilia
Virgins/Inexperience
Voyeurism
----------Darker Themes---------
Nonconsensual
Peeping Tom/Spying
Child Abuse
Domestic/Intimate partner violence
Frotteurism
Sexual abuse
Emotional abuse
Torture
Stalking
Extreme Paraphilia
Acrotomophilia (guro, castration...)
Apotemnophilia
Biastophilia (rape)
Cannibalisme
Erotophonophilia (snuff, lust murder, ...)
Necrophilia
Paedophilia (infantophilia, prepubescent children)
Vorarephilia (being eaten or eating others)
---------Character/Mind and Body/Relationship------------
Behaviour/Personality
Alpha/Strong male
Amazonian/Strong women
Animalistic (dominant)
Animalistic (submissive)
Anti-hero (good villain, villain with principles, ...)
Bad boys
Bad girls
Beautiful characters
Charismatic
Cheerful/Happy
Class Clown
Clumsy
Dark
Dominant
Emo
Emotional
Empath (sense emotion)
Flawed
Genius/Intelligent
Gentle/Tender
Good boys
Good girls
Heroic
Hiding behind mask/emotions
Jealous
Needy
Patient
Protective
Psychopath
Pushy bottom
Rogues/Outlaws (pirates, gangsters, ...)
Roughnecks (cowboys, ...)
Seer
Sex slaves (concubine, forced prostitution, …)
Shy
Snarky
Snow Prince/Princess
Sociopath
Stoical
Submissive
Superhero/human/special powers (super strength, speed, ...)
Super!slut
Temperamental (hot-tempered, abrasive, ...)
Tough/Strength in character
Underdog
Villain
Violent
Vulnerable
Disability/Illness
Amnesia
Blindness
Depression
Deafness
Insanity
Mute
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Phobia
Physical disability
Amputation
Cerebral palsy
Limping
Multiple sclerosis
Paralysis
Pairing/Relationship
Arranged Marriage
Awesome/Baddass family
Beloved enemies
Black sheep (does not fit in, prodigal son, ...)
Bodyguard scenarios
Buddy cop scenarios (two law enforcement agents, or one law enforcement agent and a civilian, aurors)
Colleagues
Dysfunctional/Screwed up family
Employer/Employee
Experienced lover/Inexperienced lover
Fake marriage (bearding, con, marriage of convenience ...)
Father/Son relationship (daddy issues, Severitus, bonding, …)
Forced Marriage
Friendship
Friendship turns into romance
Fueding families/friends
Fuck buddies
Geek/jock
Guardian/child (godfather, godmother, temporary carer, ...)
Hero/sidekick
Incest (twincest, ...)
Infidelity
Lady and the Tramp pairings
Marriage (husband/wife, husband/husband, wife/wife, bonded, ...)
Master/Apprentice (mentor/student, ...)
Master/Servant (prince/man- or maidservant, lord/stablehand, …)
One big happy family
Original characters (OC pairing)
Pederastry (ancient definition: sexual or chaste relationship or bond and inculcation of moral and cultural values between an adult man and an adolescent boy)
Predator/prey
Seme/Uke
Siblings (sibling rivalry, big brother, ...)
Underaged partners (teens, adolescent, chan ...)
-------------Setting/Activity/Genre----------------
Activity
Bar/Clubbing
Camping
Dancing
Quests
Road trip
Sword-play
Travelling
Location
Alley
Bath/Shower
Bath houses
Beaches
Broomstick
Brothels
Furniture
Graveyard
Harem
Animalback (horseback, ...)
Kitchen
Locker room
Massage parlour
Public toilet
Swimming Pool
Vacation destination
Vehicles
Wilderness
Trapped/Imprisonment
Basement
Cabin
Cage
Caves
Closet
Coffin
Deserted island
Elevator
Prison/Dungeon
Safehouse
Snowstorm
Anonymous sex
Bathouses
Buddy booth
Glory holes
Masquerade (mask, costumes, ...)
Games
Betting
I've never
Spin the bottle
Strip Poker/Games
Truth or Dare
Genre
Action/Adventure
Alternate Reality
Angst
AU
Creature
Crossover
Dark!fic
Death!fic
Denial!fic (canon event ignored e.g. EWE)
Drama
Episode tag (after the end of an episode, book, ...)
Fluff
Fix-it!Fic (fixing canon plot holes, ...)
Future!fic
Happy endings
Humour
Hurt/comfort
Mindfuck
Mirror universe
Missing scene (filling a gap)
Modern AU
Non-magic AU
Parody/Crack
Past!fic
Preslash
PWP
Recasting!fic (genderflip casting, resorting, ...)
Romance
Schmoop
Smut
Tragedy
Violence
Setting/Cultural Themes
Ancient myths (time of magic and dragons, ...)
Dystopia/Apocalypse/Zombies
Far Eastern
Historical and period
Holiday (Christmas, Valentines, Halloween, ...)
Medieval civilisation (kings, knights, ...)
Modern royal family
Music (band, choir, …)
Nautical (pirates, sea, ship, …)
Noir Detective
Political themes
Religious themes
School/Education (boarding school, university, ...)
Space
Sports (football, quidditch, ...)
Spirit world
Steampunk
War
Western (wild west, cowboy, ...)
Underworld
--------------Beings--------------
Animagus/Ability to turn into animals
Bestiality (horses, canines, ...)
Interspecies
Sentient abode/vehicle ("living" castle, ...)
Shape-shifter
Creature
Angels
Banshees
Centaurs
Demons
Dragons
Dwarves
Elves
Fairies
Forest nymphs
Furies
Giant Squid
Incubus/Succubus
Merpeople
Ogre
Sirens
Vampires
Veela
Werewolfs
Zombies
---------Other Fandom Tropes--------
Romantic
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Blind date
Courting/Seduction
Crush or unrequited love
Fairy tale
Flirting
Love affair/Tryst/Forbidden love
Love at first sight
Love triangles
Love/hate relationship
Magnetic powers/Pheromones
Matchmaking friends or family
Meeting the family
One True Love
Playing hard to get
Romeo and Juliet scenarios
Sexual
Aliens made them do it
Xenophilia (aliens)
Angry sex
Cleaning or wiping each other after sex
Comfort or H/C sex
Bringing someone to orgasm through talk (dirty talk, phone sex, ...)
Debauchery/Well-fucked
Desperate sex (must fuck now, ...)
Drunk sex
Erotic/wet dreams
First-time sex
Fuck or make out to escape trap
Fuck or die
Getting pregnant sex
"Giving" lover to another character for sex
Hate sex
Humping of upholstery/inanimate objects
Insatiable sexual appetite
Interrupted sex
Involuntary Arousal
Loud sex
Magical Healing Cock
Make-up sex
Mating/Being in Heat
One Night Stands
Partly/Fully-clothed sex
Rape recovery
Rough sex
Sexual exploration (erogenous zones, discovering sexual pleasure, ...)
Shower sex
Silent sex (trying to be silent, ...)
Slow/Careful sex
Straight men sexual scenarios (practicing sexual skills on each other, circle jerks, ...)
Striptease (undressing, ...)
Tentacle sex
Unresolved sexual tension (UST)/Sexual frustration
Magic/Supernatural
Afterlife
Age regression/de-aging due to potion/time turner/similar
Aged up due to potion/time turner/similar
Bodyswap
Bonds
Coming-of-age ritual
Cursed
Fate and prophecy
Fertility rituals
Ghost/Spirits
Magic reveal
MPREG
Parseltongue/Other magical languages
Possessed (ghosts, spirits, ...)
Reincarnation
Sex magic
Sex pollen
Telepathy (body link, mind link, soul link ...)
Time travel
Turn into animals/inanimate objects
Other Plot/Themes
Abduction
Amicably divorced
Anthropomorphic
Attention (from peers, classmates, ...)
Bathing/Washing (taking a bath together, washing partner's hair, ...)
Canon
Challenges/Competition (duels, triwizard championship, swordfight, conquer lands, ...)
Children (raising a child together, children from previous marriage, ...)
Damsel in distress scenarios
Domesticity
Epistolary (letters, emails, telegrams, ...)
Everyone is gay
Free will vs predestination
Genderswap
Huddling for warmth
Impending doom/death
Impotence
Loyalty or betrayal
Loved one being away (war, battle, work, ...)
Make-overs
Mistaken for gay
Mistaken for straight
Mistaken for murderer/villain
Mistaken identity
Misunderstood scenarios
Names and address (insults, endearments, pet names, …)
Near death experience/Crisis
New experiences
Penance or reform
Pregnancy
Physical responses (breathing heavily, face or ears burning, …)
Presume dead
Pretending to be gay
Pretending to be straight
Prisoner of war
Pursuing parental perils (pursue ambition that caused parents' death)
Rags to riches
Rescue (from danger)
Rescue (from servitude or family)
Reversal of fate/fortune
Rivals working together
Robot/Machines
Role swapping (House swapping, ...)
Secret admirers
Secret identity
Secret legacy (ordinary person becomes extraordinary due to inherited superpower, fortune, ...)
Secret past
Sharing a bed/room scenarios
Spoils of war
Surprises (party, gift, ...)
Teamwork (law enforcement, spies, projects, …)
Turning to the dark side
Unknown parentage
Wingfic
Woke up gay
Notes:
[1] Most of the categories are interconnected - I just needed a way to break it up to make it look more organised.
[2] Click on the linked entries for their definitions. Please note that some words have different meanings in fandom and in rl.
[3] Entries are written in a way that should fit most fandoms.
[4] Feel free to suggest more entries, better links, or use this list as ideas.
[5] Still a work in progress. Will post a survey soon.
Other lists:
[1] H/D History Timeline
[2] A N00b's Guide to HTML
[3] Fandom Favourite H/D fanarts
[4] HP Artist Archive
Last Updated: 7th April, 2011
Number of entries: roughly 634