Includes emotional pain, likely to make you reach for your hankerchiefs

anxiety, heartbreak, agony: very prevalent in fanfics

Also known as Sturm und Drang (storm and stress). In roleplaying, a module exploring existential anxiety, guilt or remorse. Angst modules grew out of the realisation that a good cathart is hard to come by, and that catharsis every three hours during a roleplaying convention is just too hard on everyone. (See Catharsis).

(ahnxt) German: anxiety; psychological suffering; fear without really knowing what you are afraid of (since WWI)

A feeling of anxiety, apprehension, or insecurity. Or in MOO terms, the role-play of undue display of emotionally charged situations involving feeling of anxiety, apprehension, or insecurity. More details on Angst and MOO rules dealing with Angst.

the german word for 'fear'. angst-fic heaps on the pain, messing with the heads of the characters involved and presenting the reader with a seasoned dish of misery. there very often isn't a happy ending. Miriam points out that while it has a very specific meaning within existentialist philosophy, its fandom usage cheerfully disregards this and uses it to mean "oh, gloom" generally.

usually seen as a warning on a fic, means that the characters will be subjected to some sort of emotional distress.

an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom

A fanfiction term that usually describes a character's inner anxiety, or torture on a subject, usually a loved one.

a story that involves one or more of the characters in a deeply emotional and stressful situation

Angst is a Dutch, German, and Scandinavian word for fear or anxiety. It is used in English to describe an intense feeling of emotional strife.

Angst (which means fear in German), is a supermarket chain of 19 stores in Romania. It has a range of 10,000 products, mainly foodstuffs, and is the second largest Romanian supermarket chain, in a country where the retail industry is still dominated by independent shops and supermarkets, not chains. Angst is owned by a Swiss-Romanian joint venture.

dramatic, very sad; usually involves a character death, molestation, self mutilation, drug abuse, depression, or all of the above.

In my own words, pity driven RP. An extreme example - your mother died when you were 12 and your father married your great aunt who abused you every day by beating you with a wet noodle and she made you scrub the hold top to bottom and fed you nothing but tubers. This is, of course, why you don't like tubers. Ok, so this is an extreme example. But most people, while they'll agree that angsty things such as death and serious illness have their places, prefer that angst 1) be kept to a minimum and 2) not be the sole reason for RPing. If you're going to use angst, use it sparingly and with the permission of the people you're RPing with.*See RP

a descriptive term, but not in itself a video category; angst should be considered a subgenre of other categories (narrative, character study, episodic, etc.). A video may be filled with angst-ridden lyrics and scenes, but there's usually a story behind it.