Substance Abuse Web Novels

The substance-abuse tag on Tellura warns of addiction, intoxication, or drug and alcohol use as a significant element, whether in the present or the past. It is a content warning and a theme marker at once. Pairs with dark, mental-illness, and contemporary.

The warning matters because addiction arcs are often misread as edgy decoration when they are actually the engine of a character's decline or recovery. Authors who use the tag are promising to handle it with intent. Pair with found-family for the recovery end and with tragedy when the story follows the cost instead.