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0 7Parental Love Triangle
A Love Triangle featuring a parent and child, usually as rivals in love.
Created: May 9th 2024 at 4:15:53 AM
1 4"Be More Social" Plot (Needs Title Help!)
A plot where an antisocial character tries to be more social.
0 22Snack-Stealing Seagulls
Seagulls are portrayed as greedy food thieves. (Launching on 16/17 May)
Created: May 10th 2024 at 2:58:58 AM
0 1Unstable Horror Ally
A character in a horror work who genuinely wants to help the protagonist, but still manages to be scary or dangerous.
1 11Rejecting Help
Help, or an attempt to help, is rejected by the other party.
Created: Apr 29th 2024 at 4:15:27 AM
0 11Living Constellation (Image Pickin')
Constellations depicted as living beings
Created: Apr 7th 2024 at 5:53:02 PM
2 10Mistaken Assumption of Attraction
A person believes that someone they have no feelings for has feelings for them, only to find out that they do not.
Created: May 14th 2024 at 1:12:49 PM
0 4Ill-Timed Illness
A character gets sick right before a big event comes up.
Created: 6 hours ago
2 12Nonconsensual Pornography
A character has porn of themselves created and released without their consent.(Launching May 20)
Created: yesterday
7 23Arts and Crafts Episode (adopted by Stoutlyn)
Episodes where the characters or setting indulges in the world of Fine Art; making it, selling it, learning from it and satirizing it.
Created: Jun 7th 2022 at 4:45:22 PM
1 16Human Noises
Humans are shown speaking gibberish whenever an animal's perspective is shown.
Created: May 21st 2022 at 9:51:36 PM
0 16Hypocrisy Excuse
A character tries to justify or excuse their hypocrisy.
Created: Apr 22nd 2024 at 8:08:22 AM
0 42Accidental Pain Guilt
A character accidentally injures someone they care about or gives them a disease and is wracked with guilt.
Created: Feb 21st 2024 at 5:02:54 PM
3 9Vindicated by Adaptation
A work that was unpopular when it originally came out, but became more popular thanks to an adaptation of the work.
Created: yesterday
1 3Terrible Costume Decisions
When your costume inspires humor and embarrassment rather than fear and awe.
Created: May 13th 2024 at 9:23:03 AM
2 37Bug People (Up For Grabs)
Humanoids with insect/arachnid-like characteristics.
Created: Nov 4th 2012 at 11:44:34 PM
1 4Sounding Silent Letters
Silent letters are pronounced out loud.
Created: yesterday
0 6There In My Head
One character imagines another character is there, visualized by the two actors literally being in the scene together.
Created: May 13th 2024 at 10:37:02 AM
1 26Cycle Of Virtue
One act of kindness and happiness cascades, promoting more kindness happiness in others. [Adopted by EvilerThanThou]
Created: Oct 21st 2021 at 9:37:39 AM
One act of kindness and happiness cascades, promoting more kindness happiness in others. [Adopted by EvilerThanThou]
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1 27Terrified Transformation Witness
A character reacts to another character's transformation - the moment or the aftermath - with shock and fear.
Created: May 6th 2024 at 7:35:40 AM