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3	''A Guide to Not Making Your Tribute Suck'', published on Fanfiction.net began as ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Originally posted a straightforward list of dos and don'ts (but mostly dont's) in the creation of [[OriginalCharacter original characters]] in Literature/TheHungerGames {{Fandom}}, it had gone through several evolutions, both at the author's whim and in attempts to better conform to the Fanfiction.net content guidelines.
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5	Currently, the story features an actual plot, centering around Gamemaker Deyna Balthazar. As the OnlySaneEmployee, he tries to teach his fellow Gamemakers how to choose tributes that won't make the public suspect the reaping are less than random. Eventually he leads them on a Sue-hunt through the internet, joined by a ParodySue they nickname Spot.
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7	The story was written by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2022734/FoalyWinsForever FoalyWinsForever]], but has since been deleted. The former link to the fanfic can be found [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6232300/1/A_Guide_to_Not_Making_Your_Tribute_Suck here]].
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10	!!''A Guide to Not Making Your Tribute Suck'' provides examples of:
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12	* AbusiveParents: Spot offhandedly mentions that her father beats her horribly.
13	* AuthorTract: The story is, primarily, the author telling people to ''stop writing Sues''.
14	* AntiHero: The Gamemakers fancy themselves this, some of the time.
15	* BooksOnTrope: It primarily addresses SelfInsert tropes in Literature/TheHungerGames fanfictions.
16	* BrainBleach: Cleo is promised some after a brush with a lemon fic.
17	* DeadpanSnarker: Deyna, and the author in the editions where she addressed the audience directly.
18	* TheDitz: Most of the Gamemakers aren't brilliant, but Tibbi stands out.
19	* {{Expy}}: [[Literature/TheHungerGames Katniss]] expies are strictly forbidden. And judging from the rule after that, it's possible that this also goes for Peeta expies.
20	* GenderFlip: ''"No one wants their tribute gender-switched or something like that. ...Unless they do. Fanfictioners are weird like that sometimes. But still."''
21	%% Administrvia/ZeroContextExample * HairOfGold: Spot, unless she has black hair.
22	* HammerSpace: Where Cleo stores paper and writing utensils.
23	* ImprobableWeaponUser: Deyna tells the others to avoid reaping these, at all costs.
24	* INeedADrink: Deyna, all the time. He also downs a lot of headache pills.
25	* {{Lemon}}: Cleo stumbles across one while in the internet.
26	* MarySueHunter: Deyna works to shape the Gamemakers into a team of them.
27	* MediumAwareness: The Gamemakers, at the moment.
28	* NoAntagonist: Discussed. Deyna points out that the story, now having a plot, needs an antagonist.
29	* NoFourthWall: Throughout the fanfic, Deyna addresses the audience and the fandom regularly, advising them against writing powerhouses. It gets more overt in the second chapter, to the point Deyna straight up notes that the story has no respect for the fourth wall. Then it goes on to break [[BeyondTheImpossible the 0th wall]] so the cast can go look at other fanfics. By chapter 3, the characters are interacting with the narrator.
30	* NoodleIncident: Tibbi's first mass murder.
31	%% Administrvia/ZeroContextExample * OnlySaneEmployee: Deyna.
32	* OriginalCharacter: The story offers a guideline for designing Literature/TheHungerGames tributes.
33	* OverlyLongName: Liana Raolin Kiyera Rosemary Abigail Reyna Catalina Milania Sunshine Glitterwings Mc Fluffysparkle.
34	* ParodySue: Spot is one, between her OverlyLongName (see above) and ridiculously PurpleProse-heavy description (see below).
35	%% * PromotionToParent: The story condemns it as overused.
36	* PurpleProse: The story's longest non-dialogue paragraph is the description of Spot's appearance when she first appears, containing [[{{Pun}} gems]] such as her "shimmering violet eyes like amethysts that you could drown in" and hair that is somehow both "a midnight raven licorice black with a hint of onyx" and "as blonde as wheat and sunshine" at the same time.
37	%% * RougeAnglesOfSatin: A story summary is mentioned to contain this.
38	* ShoutOut:
39	** To ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'', when Deyna mentions in his list of requirements that Ebony [[PunctuationShaker "Darkness"]] Dementia Raven Way is not an acceptable name for a tribute.
40	** ''WebOriginal/LOLCats'': The Gamemakers discuss them briefly.
41	* SurroundedByIdiots: The first chapter is even entitled "Deyna Balthazar Is Surrounded by Idiots".
42	* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction:
43	-->''Disclaimer: All fics, users, and tributes mentioned in this story are completely fictional. Any resemblance to existing fics, users, or tributes, living or dead, is purely coincidental, although it might mean you're doing something terribly wrong. On second thought, if you're a dead user and you're reading this, that's kind of awesome. How are you doing that?''
44	* UnexplainedRecovery: Spot gets blasted in the chest with a machine gun. Two sentences later, she's fine.
45	* VillainProtagonist: One of the Gamemakers suggest they are this.
46	* WhatBeautifulEyes: Deyna warns against the use of fantastically entrancing eyes.

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