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[[caption-width-right:350:Slowly going insane since 2011.]]

''So, What Colour Is Your Toothbrush?'' (sometimes abbreviated SWCYT) is an {{MST}}[=/=]sporking theater featuring that can be clearly separated into two eras: the [[http://airey-kun.livejournal.com "old LiveJournal days"]] spanning 2011, and [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com Turnabout Toothbrush]], starting in early 2014 and ongoing, moving to [[http://swcytsporks.wordpress.com swcytsporks]] at the beginning of 2019.

The format has remained similar for its entire run: a set of [[InsistentTerminology anthropomorphic animals]] ([[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial not furries]]), shown to the right in their [[HumanityEnsues human forms]], occasionally joined by talking Pokémon and/or human guest sporkers. (Sometimes the actual author, Airey, will spork something, but those sporkings never involve the other characters.) The [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/spokers main team]]'s personalities all changed slightly somewhere in the gap between 2011 and 2014. They (referred to as "the cats" in the LJ era and "the (SWCYT) team" in the Turnabout Toothbrush era) are:

[[folder: The cats/SWCYT team]]
* Silverpelt, the [[BlatantLies nice]] one. Formerly the ButtMonkey, in the more recent sporkings she's becoming more of a TeamMom (or rather an ApronMatron). Noted for having terrible taste and pointlessly praising the writing that they're sporking. Other than that, usually the StraightMan. Same as Hawksky, she was [[Really700YearsOld born in 43 CE]], and [[PosthumousCharacter died shortly after that]].

* Hawksky, the [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain evil]] one. Jokes usually include insulting or [[ComedicSociopathy threatening to harm]] the other sporkers. [[DissonantSerenity Not much gets to her]]. Has some [[MysteriousPast history]] with Silverpelt, which other sporkers think of as having been very LesYay. They're [[ArchEnemy Arch-Enemies]] now. Frequently accused by other sporkers of being in a TransparentCloset.

* Kiri [[GratuitousFrench des Spectres]], revealed in 2014 to be Hawksky's daughter. Described as a BrilliantButLazy ManipulativeBastard. Nowadays is the most obvious AuthorAvatar (although WordOfGod [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/127980644574/im-with-raskolnikov-here-how-exactly-are-all implies]] that all the whole SWYCT team is [[AuthorAvatar Author Avatars]]). Used to be TheStoic but has gradually become NotSoStoic due to her tendency of [[RantComedy ranting]] about [[ComicallySerious literature and shippings]]. Cade thinks she's a {{Tsundere}}, Kiri says she's just a [[HatesEveryoneEqually misanthrope]]. Hawksky notes that she's actually a PersonOfMassDestruction. [[AdaptationSpeciesChange Changed species 2011-2014 from cat to "alien cat".]]

* Chill, revealed in 2014 to be Silverpelt's daughter. A bit of CloudCuckooLander who is assumed to be [[ChildrenAreInnocent more innocent than she actually is]]. Both she and Kiri are [[Really700YearsOld Really 1500 Years Old]]. Usually pretty [[MellowFellow relaxed]] but will sometimes join Kiri for an AuthorFilibuster. [[AdaptationSpeciesChange Changed species 2011-2014 from cat to owlcat.]]

* Fallen Succubus, the resident GenkiGirl. Previously described as [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg "just kind of... there"]] but is nowadays the TeamMom even more than Silverpelt is. [[AdaptationSpeciesChange Changed species 2011-2014 from cat to...]] [[AmbiguousSpecies something]].

* Aziz Succubus, Fallen's sister. [[InformedAttribute Previously described]] as an ElectiveMute, nowadays is noted more for being the [[CasualKink kinkiest sporker]]. Pretty much the biggest DeadpanSnarker this side of [[Literature/CrimeAndPunishment Raskolnikov]]. [[AdaptationSpeciesChange Changed species 2011-2014 from cat to...]] [[AmbiguousSpecies something]].

* Anna Jekyll, previously the direct AuthorAvatar but nowadays the [[ComicallyMissingThePoint team idiot]]. Usually just plays the StraightMan to the Plot Reaper. [[AdaptationSpeciesChange Changed species 2011-2014 from cat to robotic jackal.]]

* The Plot Reaper, a [[SuperPoweredEvilSide parasitic alien "extracosmic trickster goddess" who occupies Anna's body]]. Also employs jokes that are actually just [[TooFunnyToBeEvil threatening the other sporkers]]. Very fond of BlackComedy and offending people. [[MadeOfIron Nothing gets to her.]] [[NoIndoorVoice Talks in all caps]], [[EvilSoundsDeep and is described as having a deep voice]].

* Cade, the CasanovaWannabe, [[AllLoveIsUnrequited in love with Aziz]]. [[SuddenNameChange Name changed in 2014]] from Untitled #137. Current ButtMonkey and tries to present himself as the OnlySaneMan. Token male (and alleged token heterosexual), typically treated as the TeamPet. Only showed up [[OneShotCharacter in one sporking]] in the old LJ days, but [[AscendedExtra a regular part]] of the SWCYT team now. [[AdaptationSpeciesChange Changed species 2011-2014 from cat to mothcat.]]
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As for the Pokémon featured (by the main sporker's brother) during the old Website/LiveJournal days:

[[folder: The Pokémon]]
* [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Sceptile]] [[IncrediblyLamePun A. Sceptile]], the CEO of [[MegaCorp SceptiCorp]] who may or may not be a CorruptCorporateExecutive. He's also a [[TimeyWimeyBall time traveler]] who works for [[OlympusMons Dialga]], and is described as having [[EvilBrit a British accent]]. A bit of [[{{Jerkass}} a]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold jerk]]. Arguably an AuthorAvatar and a definite DeadpanSnarker, and TheRival to Humblot.

* Marquis "Jacques" [[BlueBlood de Humblot]], a [[TokenMinority French]] [[FrenchJerk Servine]] and [[AllMenArePerverts quite]] [[LoveableSexManiac the]] [[TheCasanova ladies' man]]. Yet another JerkWithAHeartOfGold who does not like Louis XVI for [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified vague reasons]]. TheRival to Dr. Sceptile, although they may be similar. He is also a YuriFan and in favor of quick resolutions to [[LoveTriangle love triangles]]. Also a GrammarNazi.

* Dusknoir, [[OlympusMons Dialga's right-hand]] [[IncrediblyLamePun mon]] and a firm believer in MyMasterRightOrWrong. TheComicallySerious due to his [[TheStoic nature]]. [[MadeOfIron Tends to fare the best when viewing fanfiction]] - only two fanfics have ever harmed him. [[MoralGuardian Takes offense to Humblot often times]] and [[AllergicToLove cannot stand most romance]].
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!!Relevant tropes:
* AccidentalInnuendo: Gleefully invoked and [[InvertedTrope inverted]].
-->'''Fic:''' [[Manga/{{Trigun}} Wolfwood]] ran his hand up and down his shaft applying the lubricant.
-->'''Fallen:''' This actually sounds less sexual out of context.
-->'''Aziz:''' Yeah. It just sounds like he's teaching Vash how to fix whichever Angela[[note]]a motorcycle[[/note]] he's on now.
-->'''Kiri:''' …now ''that'' sounds sexual out of context.
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Kiri gets a piece of fanart and immediately lets the fame go to her head.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: Either that or VillainRespect, depending on if the [[{{Jerkass}} sporkers qualify as villains]] or not. Airey (and the team, by extension) actually comes to like [=HIEQ2=] towards the end of it, praising the author for all her improvement and the fact that Airey ended up being invested in its plot and characters.
-->'''Aziz:''' Lord knows this fic wasn't good.
-->'''Fallen:''' It wasn't. But... it ''meant'' something.
* AllCrimesAreEqual:
-->'''Silverpelt:''' Isn't [forcing 13-year-olds to view pornographic material] technically illegal?
-->'''Hawksky:''' I [[EvilIsPetty download MP3s]] all the time. Do you think I care?
* AlternateHistory: UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution, in more ways than just taking place in a Pokémon world. For instance, Humblot refers to Louisiana as an "industrial wasteland powered by slave labor".
** There's also this notable exchange:
-->'''Kyurem:''' *as Misty* No, he’s the Pope, silly.
-->'''Humblot:''' *confused* How? He’s dead.
-->'''Kyurem:''' As in the Pope, a generic, living one. I would think--
-->'''Humblot:''' No, no. There is no Pope. He’s dead.
-->'''Kyurem:''' Why do you-- *starts grumbling*
-->'''All else besides Raikou:''' *vaguely unnerved*
** Also, the Weights of Liberty [[note]]that is, guillotines being used for crushing instead of decapitation[[/note]].
* AlternateUniverseFic: Cat Instincts makes it abundantly clear that Silverpelt, Hawksky, Chill, and Kiri (nicknamed "The Dead [[FourManBand Quartet]]" by other sporkers at least once) are Literature/WarriorCats [[OriginalCharacter Original Characters]]. But they "deviate from canon so far that all [they]’re really using is the naming mechanics [and] a few bits of setting[.]"
* AmazonChaser: Cade. He and Aziz could probably fall under MasculineGirlFeminineBoy, too.
* AnarchyIsChaos: An InvertedTrope in, admittedly, the unlikeliest of places: Aziz explicitly says that they have an "anarchist sporking theatre"; attention is called to the fact that there is no Management and the main sporkers can leave any time they like frequently.
* AndIMustScream: Happens to Humblot while sporking My Favorite Girl.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/111290994594/stiff One character sporking]] featured absolutely none of the SWCYT team.
** [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/94765304819/breathing-is-a-necessity-part-one Another sporking]] did the same thing, although in that case it was just a backup of an unrelated sporking, not a part of the SWCYT "canon".
* AristocratsAreEvil: Fallen randomly endorses this [[EatTheRich vein of thinking]] during one sporking.
-->'''Hawksky:''' Will [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution guillotines]] be involved?
-->'''Fallen:''' If needed. :)
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Hawksky kidnaps Humblot; Humblot is most upset because she dared to offer him [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment British food]].
* AscendedMeme: In a way. Hawksky finds the name of a particular Mary Sue amusing, and later a certain Servine bearing the same name is introduced.
* BattleDiscretionShot: Occasionally.
* {{Beat}}: Occasionally will be actually written out in the form of "''(beat)''" in between two lines of dialogue.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Most of the sporkers make jokes about this between Silverpelt and Hawksky, although it comes across more as somewhere between InformedAttribute and ForcedMeme, especially in 2011.
** Interestingly, if the Lying to Yourself sporking is to be believed, Airey actually ''can'' write UnresolvedSexualTension, even if that was presented as [[AllLoveIsUnrequited one-sided]].
** In retrospect, Dr. Sceptile and Humblot exhibited this.
* BerserkButton: Dr. Sceptile has a berserk keyboard.
** In the old LJ days, hitting Anna's would cause the Plot Reaper to appear, although in the Turnabout Toothbrush era she is her own separate character.
** Kiri [[RantComedy flips]] [[HeroicBSOD out]] over classic literature and ''Manga/{{Trigun}}''.
** Airey ''herself'' flies into an UnstoppableRage over [[Literature/LordOfTheFlies Lord of the Flies]].
** It's implied that Cade's is dirty kitchens. He kept himself restrained the only time it's really come up so far, though.
** Silverpelt gets ''extremely irritated'' over improper astronomy.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Silverpelt, whom is surprisingly violent for the ([[DeliberateValuesDissonance supposedly]]) kindest one among them.
-->'''Silverpelt:''' I was the patron goddess of [[Literature/WarriorCats the medicine cats before the Clans]] forgot about us… remember?
-->'''Hawksky:''' Considering [[JerkassGods you never gave a shit about who lived or died]], I don’t see why I should have.
** Cade specifically calls her out, along with Fallen and Chill, as being "the nice ones"... who still force him to spork a fic that involves his AbsurdPhobia.
* BigWhat / BigWhy: Occasionally.
* BigNo: Frequently.
* BilingualBonus: Silverpelt, Hawksky, and Kiri occasionally speak in (untranslated) Gaeilge, Anglisc, Cornish, and/or Latin.
* BilingualDialogue: Oddly enough, averted with [[Literature/CrimeAndPunishment Raskolnikov (and Razhumikhin)]] despite Airey's apparent love of foreign languages. Of course, this might be TranslationConvention somehow...
* BlackComedyRape: Frequently joked about or even used, especially by [[ObviouslyEvil the Plot Reaper]]. Cade is honestly the only one who has [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/128037268309/sudden-birth-part-one a particular problem with it]].
* BlankStare: Every so often.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: Frequently in the LJ days, but much less so in the Turnabout Toothbrush era.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The system for sorting cats into Silverpelt and Hawksky's respective afterlives runs off of this.[[note]]Specifically, it's based off of ''malice'' - apparently which acting upon is not necessary - as opposed to any concept of sin. Hawksky notes that a HotBlooded but otherwise kindhearted character would end up in [[{{Hell}} her realm]].[[/note]]
* BoltOfDivineRetribution: Almost.
-->'''Kiri:''' [[Franchise/AceAttorney Athena Cykes]] suffered for your sins.
-->''(meanwhile, outside the sporking theatre)''
-->'''Silverpelt:''' Is that thunder I hear?
* BonusMaterial: The Breathing Is A Necessity sporking, while not part of the SWCYT "canon", gets some bits of AdaptationExpansion in the form of extra jokes and more HomoeroticSubtext was that not present (or at least less visible) in the original forum version.
* BreathlessNonSequitur: Fallen and Chill are the biggest users.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Humblot and Dusknoir both think that Manga/CaseClosed is centered around this, initially.
* ButchLesbian: Hawksky, [[ForcedMeme supposedly]].
* CaptainObviousAesop: Sometimes invoked for comedy.
** "And remember, kids: herpes isn’t sexy."
** "I think a good rule of thumb is that if you wouldn’t touch it with your bare hands, and you wouldn’t put it in your mouth, you have no business putting it in your or anyone else’s vagina."
*** "Very nice, but I can only hope that no one actually takes life advice from this blog."
** "Remember, kids: know your audience!" "And inside jokes are for suckers."
* CardCarryingVillain: Hawksky
* CharacterFilibuster: Too many to list. Due to the [[AuthorAvatar nature]] of the SWCYT team, they usually double as [[AuthorFilibuster Author Filibusters]].
** [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/128340571421/les-mis-talia Les mis-talia]] is almost entirely ''comprised'' of [[AuthorTract this sort of thing]].
* ChildrenAreInnocent: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Chill [[DoubleSubversion twice]]. She's definitely child''like'' and is often treated like KidSidekick of the team (especially by Kiri and Silverpelt), but she's just as world-wise and sometimes cynical as any of the other sporkers. She's also [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Really 1,500 Years Old]].
* ChirpingCrickets: Every so often, ''no one'' can come up with anything to say. Sometimes comes in the form of descriptive narration.
* ChristianityIsCatholic: Obviously averted due to the "Amazing [[{{UsefulNotes/Mormonism}} Mormon]] Sporker" thing. Doesn't stop Silverpelt (and Chill) from doing the sign of the cross in one sporking. (Justified since they both lived through Catholicism's heyday, though.)
* CollectiveGroan: The typical response to either something really stupid in the fic, or Hawksky making a pun.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: In the LJ days, everyone had their own more-or-less-unique text color. Of course, the only time it's [[LampshadeHanging commented on]] is the one time Humblot and Fallen (both the same shade of green) interact.
* CombatPragmatist: Silverpelt, judging by her "No such thing as 'cheat tactics' - anything goes on the battlefield" comment.
* ComicalOverreacting: Made it [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/127980644574/im-with-raskolnikov-here-how-exactly-are-all here]].
* CompleteImmortality: The Plot Reaper is generally assumed to have this, although sometime it's also commented that none of the other sporkers are sure "how death is defined for someone like her".
* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: "Welcome to Celebrian, where the most depraved things you’ve probably ever seen garner the response of, 'So what?'"
* ContinuityCameo: Or a reference, anyway.
-->'''Cade:''' I still got stuck in here overnight! I think this place is haunted…
-->'''Chill:''' With what, the Ghost of Sporkers Past?
-->'''Fallen:''' You didn’t happen to meet, say, a British Sceptile, or maybe a [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution Robespierre]]-esque Servine?
-->'''Cade:''' Um… you mean Humblot? No, I didn’t.
-->'''Silverpelt:''' I kind of miss Humblot, actually. I wonder what happened to him.
* CoolShades: Kiri and her 175,00 € sunglasses, as seen in the Soundless sporking.
* CrossPoppingVeins: Silverpelt's now-disused "angry" character portrait.
* CoughSnarkCough: "That was the most judgmental contagious coughing fit I’ve ever heard."
* CruelMercy:
-->'''Kiri:''' See, now I’m just wishing someone would MercyKill ''us''.
-->'''PR:''' I’D OFFER, EXCEPT I WANT YOU TO SUFFER.
* DamnedByFaintPraise: Fallen is a master of backhanded compliments.
* DeadpanSnarker: All of them to a certain extent, but Raskolnikov pretty much blows everyone else out of the water.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: ''Silverpelt''.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Frequently paged; Dr. Sceptile even has a GlassesPull to go along with it.
* DiedDuringProduction: Invoked, sort of. Back in 2011, a sporking was done of a fic whose author had allegedly committed suicide. [[JerkAss Sith Droideka]], in all his [[SarcasmMode sensitivity]], took off a point (giving it a better rating) because "it...will never update again."
* DownerEnding: [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/128037268309/sudden-birth-part-one This sporking]] ends with Cade getting [[ComedicSociopathy locked in the theatre overnight]] after he faints due to a panic attack.
* DreamWeaver: An off-hand comment during the Website/LiveJournal days suggests that Hawksky may be one. Makes sense when [[Literature/WarriorCats the canon she's based off of]] is taken into account - but of course if you think about that, then you'd also have to guess that Silverpelt (and possibly Chill and Kiri) is one as well.
* DrinkingGame: Hawksky played it a lot during the old LJ days; she's also known as a boring drunk, though.
** Temporarily brought back during APH Mori Bouken Part 2. Kiri later uses the leftover [[InsistentTerminology grape juice]] to get drunk during the second maggot story.
*** When this happens, Aziz references an LJ-era drinking game that had Kiri and Chill KissingUnderTheInfluence and notes that Kiri used to be an affectionate drunk, but is now an angry one. Chill replies that both she and Kiri [[LampshadeHanging "got more]] [[SelfDeprecation definitive]] [[CharacterDevelopment characters]] [[HypocrisyNod since then."]]
** During the re-do of Celebrian, Hawksky suggests the [[NoFourthWall readers]] do a drinking game.
-->'''Silverpelt:''' ''So, What Colour is your Toothbrush?'' is not responsible for any alcohol-poisoning-related incidents caused by listening to Hawksky.
** Hawksky goes through three bottles of [[InsistentTerminology grape juice]] taking shots every time [[TheSociopath the main character of HIEQ2]] runs up a red flag.
%%* DysfunctionJunction
%%* EarNotch: Hawksky has one.
%%* EmotionlessGirl: Aziz.
* EncyclopaedicKnowledge: Considering the oftentime AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle [[NonSequitur moments]], just about everyone comes across as this at ''least'' once. Kiri and The Plot Reaper are the biggest offenders.
* EscapeFromTheCrazyPlace: [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/120702601732/the-worst-trigun-fic-ever-chapter-eight-little Vash and Wolfwood]] attempt to escape the sporking theatre after sending Silverpelt off to get donuts. It ends when [[spoiler: they abruptly discover that all of their ammunition was confiscated when they got conscripted into the MST.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Occasionally, everyone is rendered speechless. And Hawksky cares about [[NoFourthWall the readers]] in the Pokémon Story sporking.
** She also goes slightly MamaBear over Inappropriate Innocence. Silverpelt specifically names this trope at the end of it...
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Every single guard in the Stiff sporking. Specifically, there's Random guard in the back, Random guard off to the left, Guard (who is apparently [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents Southern]]), Random guard off to the right (who faints), Other guard off to the right, Random guard near the exit (who gets fired), Nearby guard, Other nearby guard, [[OverlyLongGag Other other]] nearby guard, Random guard (who tasers themselves), and Other random guard.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The 'totally not smut fanfics' book that two [[OldShame Old Shames]] were pulled from. None of the fics in it were actually explicit.
* ExoticEquipment: The possibility of [[Manga/{{Trigun}} Plants]] having this is discussed in Fortuitous Rapture. Kiri dismisses it by saying, "This isn't [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Homestuck]]."
** Later during Secret, a typo causes this exchange:
-->'''Cade:''' *stares at screen* …''ridged'' member?
-->'''Chill:''' There’s your weird Plant dick, Kiri!
-->'''Kiri:''' Oy…
* EyeScream
--> '''Silverpelt:''' And I suddenly feel the urge to stab my eyes out with a rusty poker.
--> '''Hawksky:''' *obliges*
** Fallen seems to have [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/87615841424/becoming-one a particular problem with this]].
* FacePalm: Sometimes written as [[FurryReminder "facepaw"]] instead.
* {{Fainting}}: "…and Raskolnikov fainted when the oral sex started. [[RunningGag As usual.]]"
* FakeGuestStar: [[Literature/CrimeAndPunishment Raskolnikov]] ends up being one, kind of. Technically a guest sporker, but definitely a regular.
* FandomRivalry: Cade invoked this between Series/DoctorWho and Franchise/StarTrek - and came down firmly on the latter side, of course.
* {{Fangirl}}: Anna first greets Raskolnikov with a [[TheGlomp Glomp]]. [[note]][[SympatheticMurderer Could arguably be]] considered an example of MonsterFangirl[[/note]]
* FantasticArousal: Cade tells Hawksky that [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/81202580831/celebrian-chapter-seven-part-one he'll report her for sexual harassment if she touches his antennae]].
** In Sudden Birth, part one, the Plot Reaper [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale tests this out]].
-->''(The Plot Reaper silently walks up to Cade and pointedly [[BlackComedyRape yanks on one of his antennae.]] He freezes, whimpers briefly, then goes limp and falls to the floor.)''
-->'''Cade:''' A-Ah... d-damn you...
* FantasticRacism:
-->'''Silverpelt:''' I suppose this is as good a place as any to say that I hate elves. [[ScrewYouElves Seriously.]] Those obnoxious, tree-hugging, prancy motherfuckers. Kill ‘em all.
* FascinatingEyebrow: Usually followed by a LampshadeHanging FurryReminder that none of them actually ''have'' eyebrows. Same thing also happens with suggestive eyebrow wiggles.
* FateWorseThanDeath: According to Fallen, having lived a life without ever eating soup.
* FeminineWomenCanCook: Or feminine men, anyway. Cade's cooking skills (and the fact that he bakes when angry) are mentioned several times.
%%* FlatWhat: Used too many times to count.
* FlayingAlive: Airey describes a horse whose skin had been burnt off by a nuclear blast in [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/149798940709/a-haze-in-equestria-2-the-twi-als-of this sporking]] to justify her hatred of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie]].
* FlexingThoseNonBiceps: Cade telling Anna to feel his arms has shades of this.
** Anna pokes his stomach and asks him if he [[YouAreFat really likes his cream and butter or what]].
* FoodPorn: When [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/129034840254/gone-when-you-wake-up one fic]] described someone's tongue as "wet and hot and delicious," Hawksky, Silverpelt, and Chill responded by posting pictures of delicious-looking beef tongue dishes.
** There was also some FoodPorn posted during the WesternAnimation/SausageParty liveblog.
* FootnoteFever: A fairly mild example in [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/132548006029/the-visitors The Visitors]] - Mormon-specific terminology is explained because the entire audience is assumed to be non-LDS.
* ForeignCussWord: See BilingualBonus above.
* FourManBand: The "Dead Quartet".
** Chill is the OnlySaneMan. Kiri is TheSmartGuy. Hawksky is The Pervert, or more specifically the ComedicSociopath. Silverpelt is the ButtMonkey, albeit an unusual example because she's more [[{{Pride}} blind to her own flaws]] (which the others are quick to pick on) than she is an ExtremeDoormat or TheDitz.
* FreudianTrio: Aziz (the [[TheSpock superego]][[note]] although Kiri fits this particular trope a lot better, and Chill could be easily considered TheKirk, they're lacking an id[[/note]]), Cade (the [[TheMcCoy id]]), and Fallen (the [[TheKirk ego]]) are frequently put together.
* FurryReminder: Typically, the only way to actually remember that the SWYCT team consists of [[FunnyAnimal Funny Animals]] is the occasional action tag that includes the word "paws" or "tail". Or a condescending comment about humans.
* {{GASP}}: Not as common as the other reactions, but still used.
* GenreBlind: Dr. Sceptile, who had [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} GLaDOS]] installed. Yes, ''[[AxeCrazy that]]'' SelfDemonstrating/{{GLaDOS}}.
* GenreSavvy: While guest sporkers are fairly frequently brought in, [[Literature/CrimeAndPunishment Raskolnikov]] is the only one who really ''understands'' the sporking theatre, even though "We implant certain knowledge into our guest sporkers when they get here."
** [[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright, Maya Fey, Miles Edgeworth, and Kristoph Gavin]] also display this during Stiff, but in that case it's because they're all part of a [[http://forums.court-records.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=21506 different sporking continuity]].
* GirlfriendInCanada: Humblot makes frequent references to his maids... who don't actually exist [[spoiler: for [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution reasons other than what this trope usually means]]...]]
* GirlOnGirlIsHot:
--> Humblot: ! This getting even better! Surprise lesbians are awesome~
* GratuitousFrench: Averted by [[FrenchJerk Humblot]].
** The Maid In The Malfoy Manor sporking.
** Aziz and Fallen make fun of Kiri for having a French last name despite being [[IAmVeryBritish British]].
** A "Your Name the Hedgehog" game revealed that Silverpelt and Hawksky's [[HumanityEnsues human]] names are "Céleste" and "Aliénor" (nicknamed "Arlette") respectively. Although they're also British...
** Airey is a big fan of Stromae, and as such loves to find ways to [[ShoutOut reference his songs]].
** One sporking started with a rather long and completely irrelevant discussion of cheese and croque monsieurs.
* GratuitousGerman: Usually around Darkrai.
* GratuitousJapanese: The actual Website/LiveJournal username is ''airey_kun''.
* GratuitousRussian: Anna had a tendency of doing this in the LJ days.
** An OldShame being sporked ended up being [[BlindIdiotTranslation mocked mercilessly over this]].
-->'''Fic:''' Нитко безопасной
-->'''Kiri:''' … *snickers* According to Google Translate, that means “No harmless”.
-->'''Chill:''' We never made any claims to actually ''knowing'' Russian…
-->''(later)''
-->'''Chill:''' The actual way to say “None of you are safe” in Russian is Никто из вас не в безопасности (Nikto iz vas ne v bezopasnosti)!
-->'''Kiri:''' …well, we got one word correct.
-->''(still later)''
-->'''Fic:''' Нитко безопасной. Нитко безопасной… Нитко безопасной!
-->'''Chill:''' No harmless. No harmless... No harmless!
* GroinAttack: Repeatedly recommended as PayEvilUntoEvil for [[AssholeVictim the king]] [[{{Understatement}} in Celebrian]].
** When [=HIEQ2=] asked "What more could a stailion [sic] ask for?"
-->'''Anna:''' Castration.
-->'''Chill:''' Emasculation.
-->'''Cade:''' I don’t even want to hear what Silverpelt has to add to this list.
-->'''Silverpelt:''' No, you probably don’t.
* HatesEveryoneEqually: Both Kiri and the Plot Reaper. They [[EnemyMine especially hate]] [[SubvertedTrope each other.]]
* HaveAGayOldTime
-->'''Dusknoir:''' What are you babbling about now, Dr. Sceptile?
-->'''Humblot:''' He's trying to prove that [[Literature/HarryPotter Draco Malfoy]] and [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Sora]] aren't gay.
-->'''Dusknoir:''' *perplexed* Why aren't they happy?
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Silverpelt drops this while sporking Maid In Malfoy Manor.
** Hawksky also brings it up during the maggot story. And again during CP Seven Minutes In Heaven (For Girls) - BEN.
* HeroicBSOD: Chill and Silverpelt were fond of this in the LJ days.
** Sometimes happens to Cade due to his AbsurdPhobia of [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes pregnancy and childbirth]].
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Fun DrinkingGame idea: go through the blog and [[ShmuckBait take a shot]] every time Airey (or, by extension, any of the SWCYT team) makes a joke about self-loathing and/or masochism. Take an extra shot if "I should be on medication for this" or any variation thereof is also bought up.
* HighSchoolAU: Fallen speculates on a Celebrian one; the Plot Reaper rages about the book ''Prom and Prejudice''.
* HumanityEnsues: The 2016 Halloween Special had Fallen, Aziz, and Cade explicitly in their human forms for the duration.
* HypocrisyNod: "I don’t think we have any right to call someone else a [[OccidentalOtaku weaboo]]."
* IceCreamKoan: A BlackComedyRape example: "It goes back to the old philosophical question of 'If two people try to rape each other, did a rape happen at all?'"
** "…I don’t really believe that’s an ‘old philosophical question’." "Also, wasn’t that basically the premise of Pity and Self-Loathing[[note]]A [[http://aireyverkhovensky.tumblr.com/post/116246324666/fic-pity-and-self-loathing fic]] that Airey wrote[[/note]]?"
* IdiotBall: It's ''massive'', and usually passed around the cats (even [[OnlySaneMan Silverpelt]]).
** Dropped post-2014, presumably because Airey got smarter.
* IHaveManyNames: Aside from the aforementioned ''Céleste'' and ''Aliénor'', the Plot Reaper is at one point called '''Mour'' by Fallen. Judging by the apostrophe, it's short for something, but at this point it hasn't been said yet.
** In a rare moment of [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther Hawksky being civil with Silverpelt]], the former refers to latter as ''[[GenderBlenderName Argentum]]''.
* ILoveTheDead:
-->'''Silverpelt:''' *affronted* And there’s something ''wrong'' with kissing a corpse? [[ThatCameOutWrong …hang on, I just realized what I said.]]
** A bit of a JustifiedTrope since Silverpelt is, after all, [[PosthumousCharacter dead herself]].
* ILoveTheSmellOfXInTheMorning: "I love the smell of bad writing in the morning. …night. …mid-afternoon." [[note]]A lot of sporkings are written in the middle of the night/early morning and then posted in the afternoon.[[/note]]
* ImAHumanitarian: According to the Pokémon, Brock is a cannibal pimp in "Romance 101".
** Kyurem eats people; Miss Lillian is considered by the sporkers to be a vampiric ice dragon. However, neither are humans.
** Silverpelt calls Hawksky a LiteralManeater at one point. Also,
-->'''Aziz:''' ...I'm hungry.
-->'''Chill:''' I really, really hope it was the mention of beef that made you hungry, not the mention of children.
* ImNotDoingThatAgain: A line often used at the end of a sporking.
** The lack of omegaverse fics after Winning Favor is the result of Airey pulling this.
* InformedObscenity: "Farshooka".
* InnocentInnuendo: Given Humblot's [[HandsomeLech reputation]], it's not surprising that the other sporkers will violently shut him up whenever he mentions his maid(s). But considering he's never actually ''finished'' one of these comments, and his other comments typically aren't ''that'' explicit, you really have to wonder...
** One sporking has a more classic example with [[Literature/CrimeAndPunishment Raskolnikov and Razhumikhin]] talking about their respective [[spoiler: heights]].
-->'''Raskolnikov:''' …I resent any implications that I’m ''small''.
-->'''Razhumikhin:''' It’s not my fault I’m bigger than you.
-->'''Raskolnikov:''' That doesn’t make me small!
* InsistentTerminology: Kiri would like to remind you that she is a ''cat'', and not anything else.
* IronicHell: Secret.
** "Oh, hell, is this some sort of divine retribution for openly wondering if [[Manga/{{Trigun}} Plants]] were [[{{Hermaphrodite}} hermaphroditic]] back during Fortuitous Rapture?"
* ItsWhatIDo: Why the sporkers spork.
* JawDrop: Because sometimes fics are just stupid.
* KillItWithFire: [[Literature/CrimeAndPunishment Raskolnikov]] seems to be under the impression that this is the way to get rid of the sporking theatre. [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/127245045762/one-late-night Unfortunately, his matches were confiscated.]]
** The Weak sporking did actually end with Chill (accidentally) lighting the theatre on fire. No mention of it was made in the next sporking.
* KissingUnderTheInfluence: Happens to Kiri and Chill during a drinking game in the LJ era.
%%* {{Ladette}}: Hawksky.
%%* LampshadeHanging: A whole lot.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: [[MistakenForRomance Silverpelt and Hawksky]].
* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: Every single guest sporker in the Turnabout Toothbrush era has been a human. [[HumanAliens With]] [[Manga/{{Trigun}} one]] [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/120702601732/the-worst-trigun-fic-ever-chapter-eight-little exception]].
* LittleNo: Used too many times to count.
* LivingForeverIsNoBigDeal: Silverpelt and Hawksky are TheUndead, Kiri and Chill are [[UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat possibly dead without having died]], and the Plot Reaper is a TimeAbyss. All five of them act as though nothing about this is weird. The normal-life-spanned sporkers also completely accept it, aside from the occasional jibe.
* LivingMacGuffin: Anna calls Kiri one. It's not really clear why.
* LookAlikeLovers:
-->'''Fallen:''' You know, I never noticed how similar Cade’s “irritated” expression looks to Aziz’s default expression!
-->'''Cade:''' Well, you know what they say about couples eventually starting to look alike~
** Aziz [[RejectionAffection calls him delusional in the next line]].
* LoopholeAbuse: A religious example:
-->'''Anna:''' I’m pretty sure there are worse Mormons out there, but whatever.\\
'''Fallen:''' Well, we are running a blog with an un-Mormonly amount of porn on it.\\
'''Aziz:''' It’s not supposed to titillate. I assume that’s [[ArtisticLicenseReligion an acceptable use of loophole]].\\
'''Anna:''' I… really don’t think you’re supposed to look for loopholes in commandments, but whatever.
* LostMyAppetite: Even though it's noted that food is banned in the sporking theatre, quite a few sporkings involve the sporkers snacking on something... only for them to set it aside in a moment of {{Squick}}.
** Notably, this never happens to Fallen, to the point of other sporkers accusing her of rubbing the fact that she doesn't have the same hang-ups as them in their faces.
** Aziz also turns this trope on its head during the second maggot story.
* LoveableSexManiac:
-->'''Humblot:''' How? His lechery will probably just repulse women, not attract them.
-->'''Dr. Sceptile:''' Ah, so you're the exception?
-->'''Humblot:''' But of course. I am a Servine of the people.
* LoveDodecahedron: Airey made some comments about her love life in a sporking and [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/111218138724/my-love-life-is-such-a-mess-and-im-not-even clarified on it]], giving us an apparent RealLife example of this trope.
** Later comments indicate that she, [[spoiler:D-ko]], did end up dating [[spoiler:A/B-ko]], and then broke up [[spoiler:[[MoodWhiplash because A/B-ko was abusive]]]].
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: Vaguely implied that this is part of [[TheBaroness Hawksky]]'s backstory.
* MathematiciansAnswer:
-->'''Cade:''' A-Also, that’s not true!
-->'''Kiri:''' About being a virgin or being a whore?
-->'''Cade:''' Yes!
* MayDecemberRomance: Humblot thinks that a pairing is Brock/Agatha in Romance 101. Everyone else is squicked out.
* MeaningfulName: "des Spectres" means roughly "of the Ghosts". Makes sense because Kiri was raised by a PosthumousCharacter. (Why it's in French, though, has yet to be explained.)
* MeaningfulRename: An early gag involved Anna changing her name to [[FanFic/MyImmortal Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way]] and then responding to it later.
* MediumAwareness: Since there's NoFourthWall, of course.
* MegaCorp: [[{{Fanfic/Speargun}} SceptiCorp]], Dr. Sceptile's multi-universal corporation.
* MissionControlIsOffItsMeds: The theatre's management was [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} GLaDOS]] for a while, so what do you expect?
* MockSurpriseReaction: One of the fews things that will get someone criticized for being ''too'' sarcastic.
* MoodSwinger: Due to the nature of MSTing, where characters usually go from ScreamingAtSquick to HumorMode in the space of one line, ''everyone'' can come across as this, although it was particularly [[{{JustForFun/Egregious}} egregious]] when the ReactionShot character portraits were being used - you could literally see the sporkers going from :D to D: and back.
* MoodWhiplash: Airey randomly dropping "You're (about) seventeen. Love doesn't exist at this age." [[TearJerker To make matters worse,]] the sporking in question was published just a few months after Airey's eighteenth birthday.
** Several instances in [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/128643947465/cecilos-almost-smut-fanfic-needs-beta-ing this sporking]] of an OldShame go into a little more detail about that, culminating in "[T]ake it from us, readers: if your relationship with someone makes you feel guilty, get out of it. If you feel like you can’t talk about your problems in a relationship, get out of it. If the ''only'' reason you can come up with for staying in a relationship is “because I love them”, ''get out of it''. You’ll thank us later." Airey's personal problems being hinted at in sporkings is nothing new, but it's usually comedic SelfDeprecation, not OOCIsSeriousBusiness advice.
* {{Mook}}: According to the Pokémon, Sakura in "Romance 101" is Misty's minion.
** Kiri was once referred to as Hawksky's minion.
** The (borrowed) guards frequently chime in during Stiff.
* MoralGuardian: Kiri towards Chill. She gets mocked over it due to the fact that Chill is [[OlderThanTheyLook Older Than She Looks]] and therefore actually... knows about sex.
* MST3KMantra: Invoked as advice for fics/authors whose prose is "trying too hard".
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable:
-->'''Fic:''' I set them up at the table so we could have a nice dinner. Am I going mad? -Darryl Williams
-->'''Fallen:''' Tch, of course not! [[ComicallyMissingThePoint There’s nothing wrong with enjoying a nice dinner with your family!]]
-->'''Hawksky:''' But Fallen…
-->'''Fallen:''' Eh?
-->'''Hawksky:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint …the baby’s not even a month old yet! How is he supposed to eat with his parents? Or even sit up at the table!]]
-->'''Fallen:''' Oh, good point.
-->'''Hawksky:''' Yeah.
-->'''Fallen:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Good thing he’s]] [[SubvertedTrope dead. That way you can prop up the corpse.]]
* MusicalEpisode:
-->'''Dr. Sceptile:''' *summons gun, waves it like a sword* I will turn this into a musical if it's the last thing Darkrai does.
** One part of [[FanFic/MyImmortal My Immortal]] started off with [[http://airey-kun.livejournal.com/5369.html#cutid1 all the cats singing Journey's ''Don't Stop Believing'']]. [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime For some reason.]]
** [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/120619515673/the-worst-trigun-fic-ever-chapter-eight-little One sporking]] involved Silverpelt and Hawksky coming up with song lyrics to describe each other. Considering they were almost entirely [[BreakupSong Breakup Songs]], it was very LesYay.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg:
--> '''Humblot:''' *wanders in* Hello, my friends and British lizards. What is it today?
** Also, the fact that Spokers.java never randomly generates Cade, so ever since the debut of the program, almost every sporking that involved him announced his involvement with a screenshot of Sporkers.java showing his co-sporkers, with "...and Cade" written underneath it.
* NapInducingSpeak: Sporkers sometimes fall asleep during [[FetishRetardant bad sex scenes]].
* NightmareFetishist: Anna and Hawksky probably counted.
** In the Turnabout Toothbrush era, this title would probably go to Aziz or the Plot Reaper.
* NoFourthWall: For the cats, at least. It was broken in the first posted sporking and was never fixed.
* NoIndoorVoice: Dialga, Palkia, and the Plot Reaper.
* NoJustNoReaction: Used less frequently than a plain LittleNo, but still employed too much to count.
* NoodleIncident: One has to wonder how various things are accomplished...
** In the Turnabout Toothbrush era, most [[NoodleIncident Noodle Incidents]] come in the form of OffscreenMomentOfAwesome.
* OhMyGods: The cats all use deities from various mythologies as interjections.
** More or less dropped in the Turnabout Toothbrush era, but only in the sense that they'll use vaguer (or in the case of Silverpelt, Hawksky, and Kiri, more old-fashioned) exclamations.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Silverpelt and the time she praised the writing in Celebrian.
%%* OnlySaneMan: Silverpelt and Dusknoir.
%%** Later changed to just Cade, although Kiri sometimes takes this role.
%%*** As with StraightMan, pretty much everyone has their turn of playing it... and no one manages to be it consistently.
* OrWasItADream:
-->'''Raskolnikov:''' …I remember this place. Although at the time I had [[SelectiveObliviousness convinced myself]] afterwards that it was [[AllJustADream merely a fever dream]].
-->'''Chill:''' Yeah, you get those a lot, don’t you?
-->'''Silverpelt:''' [[ThatWasNotADream This is no dream.]]
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Cat Instincts, Chapter Three reveals that Hawksky had, at one point, a litter of six kittens. Kiri comments that that the idea of Hawksky being "an ''actual'' mother to anyone is [[EvilMatriarch strangely terrifying]]" and Silverpelt replies, [[WhamLine "Don’t worry, five of them]] [[MoodWhiplash died in the first few days."]]
* OverlyLongGag: Hawksky and [[Manga/{{Trigun}} "Some priest."]]
* PalsWithJesus: A "weird Jewish guy with a beard and a red cloak" helped the sporkers track down the author of [[http://airey-kun.livejournal.com/3820.html Rectified Anonymity]].
* PerpetualFrowner: The character portraits used at the beginning of the Turnabout Toothbrush era (ending only when Tumblr changed the way you make text posts) reveal that Aziz only has one expression. And it's not a happy one.
** Kiri and Aziz actually mock each other for only ever making one facial expression, although Kiri had the standard four character portraits.
* PerpetualSmiler: Fallen has only two character portraits, one of which is a wide smile. The Plot Reaper only has one character portrait, a [[CheshireCatGrin Cheshire Jackal Grin]].
%%* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
* PunctuatedForEmphasis:
--> '''Dusknoir: '''*dual Ice Punch* We. Don't. Want. To. Know. Servine.
** Also,
--> '''Airey:''' Finally, get. a. fucking. English. speaking. beta. reader.
* PungeonMaster: Airey. Although admittedly she doesn't employ them enough to qualify the sporking theatre as a WorldOfPun.
* PunnyName: It's not that Chill's name is a pun, per se, but other sporkers making puns ([[AccidentalPun intentional or not]]) about her name is pretty common.
** Notably, Chill once uses her name to threaten to break up with Kiri: "Honestly, Kiri, you have no chill. …and if you keep it up, you can just go ahead and capitalize that chill."
* PuppeteerParasite: The Plot Reaper. [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/128488555682/lust-and-betrayal The beginning of one sporking]] implies that Anna's OS wouldn't work without [[LivingBattery her]]. Anna also says during General Motors that she can't survive on her own.
* RageQuit: [[http://airey-kun.livejournal.com/1836.html This sporking.]]
** Also [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/113124169764/the-worst-trigun-fic-ever-chapter-one-knivess this sporking]], although that one just ends the sporking when Airey gives up instead of just leaving the rest of the fic in unedited.
* RainbowSpeak: For some reason the word "neurotoxin" is colored differently than the surrounding text a few times it appears. No one comments on it, nor is it ever explained.
* RapidFireComedy
* RapidFireNo: A few.
* ReligiousRobot: Anna.
* RepeatAfterMe:
-->'''Dr. Sceptile:''' Say ‘canon’, Citizen Humblot.
-->'''Humblot:''' ‘Canon, Citizen Humblot’.
* ResetButton: Celebrian was sporked partway on Website/LiveJournal, but ended up getting restarted anyway. Silverpelt complained.
* RockBottom:
-->'''Hawksky:''' It could be worse.
-->'''Chill:''' …how so?
-->'''Hawksky:''' Uh… at least one of us could be on fire while we spork this. That’s how.
* RunningGag: In the LJ days: He's a ladies' man and a man's lady.
** [[ForcedMeme Posting a picture of a sheep on meth being tasered after saying "Lightbulb".]]
** Replacing "Oak" with "Dumbledore" in "Romance 101".
** If Anna's BerserkButton is pushed:
--> '''Anna (PR):''' *destroys downtown Tokyo*
** [[MegaCorp SceptiCorp]] has a product for that.
** The infamous rape alarm.
*** A few jokes are still made about it in the Turnabout Toothbrush era, including [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/129174679454/cecilos-almost-smut-fanfic-needs-beta-ing the actual use of a rape whistle in one sporking]].
** The usage of {{Religious Stereotype}}s about Mormons carries over into the Turnabout Toothbrush era.
*** In the LJ days, the [[Literature/TheBookOfMormon Book of Mormon]] would be used to perform exorcisms[[note]]despite not being an actual part of LDS doctrine[[/note]]. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]
** Silverpelt and Hawksky being into each other carries over into the Turnabout Toothbrush era.
** In the Turnabout Toothbrush era, referencing the works of [[Creator/FyodorDostoevsky Fyodor Dostoyevsky]] is so common that the joke often ends up being about [[LampshadeHanging the fact that such an esoteric reference was made in the first place]] instead of the reference itself. See [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/128872121804/a-night-with-vash-and-wolfwood this sporking]] for the most [[{{JustForFun/Egregious}} egregious]] example.
** A sparkly text macro that says "[[AnatomicallyImpossibleSex LUBE AND PREPARATION]], YOU [[PrecisionFStrike SHITFUCKS]]".
** Hawksky arguing with the narrator.
** "Good ending!"
* {{Sadist}}: [[AxeCrazy Hawksky]] and [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming the Plot Reaper]]. Aziz to a certain (kinky) extent. [[SilkHidingSteel Silverpelt]].
* SarcasmMode: Sarcasm levels sometimes reach suffocation in the sporking theater...
* SchmuckBait: "Hey, readers, I dare someone to quote this fic while having sex." "Are you ''trying'' to cause a divorce?"
* SecurityCling: Cade usually tries this with Aziz or Fallen when sporking something [[NightmareRetardant scary]] or [[ScreamingAtSquick disturbing]]. Fallen is a lot more receptive than Aziz, once letting him spend half the sporking on her lap. Meanwhile, Aziz punches him.
* SecondHandStorytelling: How all the sporkers get their backstories.
** It sometimes gets confusing because ''Airey's'' "backstory" is also related in the same way. Meaning that the [[AuthorAvatar sporkers]] will refer to things that happened to Airey.
*** In most contexts: if they use a plural pronoun, it's Airey's personal life. If they use a singular pronoun, it's the sporker themselves - since the sporkers all have characters outside of being an AuthorAvatar.
* SecularHero: Averted usually, since Mormon-ness is kind of the "gimmick" behind SWCYT. That being said, the only times religion has ever been seriously discussed have been when sporking ComicBook/ChickTracts... and even then, one of the "heathen" sporkers - Kiri, Hawksky, or Cade - is brought along to make sure that the sporking remains secular overall.
* SeenItAll: Specifically, Darkrai's seen ''worse''.
* SelfProclaimedLoveInterest: Cade, to Aziz.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend:
-->'''Silverpelt:''' What’s your problem?
-->'''Cade:''' Your fucking wife is my problem!! She locked me in here overnight!!
-->'''Silverpelt:''' What?! She’s not my-!
* ShipperOnDeck: All of the cats, but Anna in particular.
* ShipTease: Silverpelt and Hawksky, relentlessly. Also between [[BetaCouple Kiri and Chill]], but less important.
** Cade and Aziz, and to a certain extent, Cade and Chill. Mostly because Kiri gets [[ClingyJealousGirl jealous]].
* ShoutOut: Too many to name.
** Notably, [[Creator/FyodorDostoevsky Fyodor Dostoyevsky]]'s novel ''Demons'' is referenced a ''lot'', despite its obscurity... and irrelevancy. See RunningGag above.
* SignatureScent: What the theatre itself smells like (gunpowder, gasoline, and napalm) is commented on fairly often...
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids:
-->'''Fallen:''' Please don't. [[TheIdealist I actually like humanity.]]
-->'''PR:''' YES, WELL, YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER THAN TO BRING SILLY CONCEPTS LIKE THAT INTO THE SPORKING THEATRE.
* SignificantAnagram: When the bolded words/letters "breathing," "to," and "s" are scattered throughout a fic, Silverpelt and Hawksky are both pretty sure it's an anagram of "teasing throb."
** "So, hidden underneath the smut is… more smut?"
* SingleTear: Mocked.
-->'''Fallen:''' HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG A SINGLE DRAMATIC TEAR??? ARE YOU SERIOUS????????
* {{Slapstick}}: Common during the Website/LiveJournal days, barely mentioned during the Turnabout Toothbrush days.
* SmallNameBigEgo: This page is only maintained by Airey.
** Also, constant referencing and promoting of Airey's fanfics or even [[http://askprincessmyshkin.tumblr.com her askblog]].
*** The fic-promoting gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] a lot with comments about how this blog is for ''bad'' fanfiction.
* SneezeCut:
-->'''Chill:''' *sigh* Bored now… but I don’t want to go back to sporking random xreaders…
-->'''Silverpelt:''' Yeah, I suppose the xreaders were getting a little dry… but they’re so funny. We just need to liven it up… somehow.
-->''[[MeanWhileInTheFuture (Meanwhile, in late-1860s Siberia…)]]''
-->'''[[Literature/CrimeAndPunishment Raskolnikov:]]''' *sneezes*\\
'''[[Literature/CrimeAndPunishment Sonia:]]''' You’re not coming down with another illness?\\
'''Raskolnikov:''' No… I don’t think so…
* SnubByOmission: Anna accidentally(?) does this to Cade. He brings it up again two sporkings later - and while the rest of the sporkers find it annoying, they still reassure him of ThePowerOfFriendship.
* SpitTake: Not very common (since food isn't allowed in the theatre), but used at ''least'' once.
* SpaceWhaleAesop: The sporkers often find an AccidentalAesop or two in the fics they're sporking, but they always end up like this. For example, "Don’t do drugs, and you won’t wind up getting haunted by spoo~ooky scary ghosts in your Platform/PlayStation!"
* StableTimeLoop: (Ab)used by Dr. Sceptile to get a copy of the script for one of the sporkings.
* StaringContest: Chill and Anna do one during The Worst Trigun Fic Ever. [[spoiler: Chill easily wins.]]
* StrangelyArousing:
-->'''Chill:''' ''([[WallOfText Wall of Text]])''
-->'''Kiri:''' ... (Th-that was kinda hot.)
* StunnedSilence: Almost one per sporking!
* SuckinessIsPainful
** The inverse is also apparently true, judging by Airey's ahegao reaction images where [=HIEQ2=] actually had a good scene.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
-->'''[[MistakenForPedophile Silverpelt]]:''' *very seriously* I am not a [[LoliconAndShotacon shotacon]].
** Also,
-->'''[[Literature/CrimeAndPunishment Raskolnikov:]]''' Where do these authors even get [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/120944427815/lying-to-yourself this pairing]] from? It makes no sense.
-->'''[[Literature/CrimeAndPunishment Razhumikhin:]]''' Right. None whatsoever. Absolutely no sense.
** Airey, during an ''out-of-character'' sporking:
--> I swear I'm not a serial killer.
*** Even better, [[{{Irony}} that was preceded by]] [[PsychoForHire a reaction image of]] [[Literature/{{Baccano}} Vino]].
* SweatDrop: One of Hawksky's now-disused character portraits.
* SweetTooth: Kiri and Chill in the Website/LiveJournal era.
** Ironically, Kiri could have been a GeniusSweetTooth if the trait [[CharacterDevelopment had carried over]] [[SuddenIntelligence to the Tumblr era]]... but it didn't.
* SwitchToEnglish: Made fun of.
-->'''Chill:''' What…
-->'''Silverpelt:''' …é an ifreann? [[note]]"...the hell?" - Gaeilge (Irish)[[/note]]
-->'''Fallen:''' English, Silverpelt.
-->'''[[LiteralMinded Silverpelt]]:''' Oh, right. …Iċ þæt ne undergiete. [[note]] "...I don't understand." - Anglisc (Old English)[[/note]]
-->'''Fallen:''' ''Modern'' English.
* TakeThat: Usually followed by LampshadeHanging.
* TakingYouWithMe: Inverted by Hawksky. Of course, it [[DeadAllAlong doesn't work]].
-->'''Silverpelt:''' It’s time for me to go, too. *pulls out sawed-off shotgun*
-->'''Hawksky:''' Wait! Don’t do it!
-->'''Silverpelt:''' Eh? Don’t tell me [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther you actually care about my well-being…?]]
-->'''Hawksky:''' No, I meant don’t do it unless you can ''take me with you''.
-->'''Silverpelt:''' [[VisibleSilence …]]
* TearsOfBlood:
-->'''Chill:''' ...is crying blood unhealthy?
-->'''Aziz:''' It's a side effect of sporking. Get used to it.
* ThankingTheViewer: One exit gag:
-->''(Exeunt sporkers. Roll credits.''
-->''FIC: [expunged]''
-->''[[Literature/HarryPotter HARRY POTTER]]: J.K. Rowling''
-->''SPORKING: Airey''
-->''AND READERS LIKE YOU)''
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Cade, the only male on a team of women.
* TransparentCloset: Hawksky, [[RunningGag apparently.]]
** Most blatant example: her starting the He See's Right Through Me sporking by talking about [[HumanityEnsues Silverpelt's]] thick thighs.
* TraumaButton: [[http://turnabouttoothbrush.tumblr.com/post/124403526454/creepypasta-special Fallen and McDonald's.]]
** One chapter of [=HIEQ2=] included a RealLife example...
* ThreesomeSubtext: Aziz, Cade, and Fallen (despite the latter being asexual) end one sporking by going on a date.
* TrueCompanions: Played with and occasionally [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] with the SWYCT team.
--> ''It’s a touching moment of camaraderie, and at some point they will come to their senses, remember that they pretty much all hate each other, and leave.''
* TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard: A RealLife example is brought up during the introduction to one sporking: Emperor Caesar Publius Licinus Valerianus, Patriotic, Favored, Unconquered Augustus, Conqueror of the Germans, Chief Priest, seven times Tribune, once Emperor, four times Consul, Father of the Fatherland. Also known as simply [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Valerian]].
%%* {{Tsundere}}: Kiri, Hawksky (and Silverpelt) if the accusations are to be believed.
* ValleyGirl: The cats mistake Daisy in "Romance 101" for another ValleyGirl, [[{{Crossover}} Pol]][[Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers and]].
* VisibleSilence: There's at least one instance in practically every sporking.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Everyone, really.
* WallOfText: Constant.
* WasntThatFun: Another line often used at the end of a sporking.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotDidactic: Invoked for ''[[WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster The Brave Little Toaster Goes To Mars]]'', of all things. Anna swears that the [[spoiler: climactic musical number is actually a philosophical debate between objectivism and nihilism]]. Chill says she's, like, 99% certain that that really wasn’t what the writers intended.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to the pictures Anna took in the Chibiusa's Seventh Birthday sporking?
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Cade's [[http://airey-kun.livejournal.com/14729.html first appearence]] involves him being [[DraggedIntoDrag forced into]] [[InstantCosplaySurprise the dress of]] [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Glinda the Good]].
* WhyAreYouLookingAtMeLikeThat: Almost everyone (including guest sporkers) has pulled this at least once.
* WorldOfSnark
* WrongGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:[[Franchise/AceAttorney Godot]] in the Stiff sporking.]]
** [[Literature/CrimeAndPunishment Raskolnikov]] knows what ScienceFiction is, but he uses it to refer to modern concepts like digital alarm clocks.
* YaoiFangirl: Hawksky and Anna. Actually, the cats in general.
** Much less so in the Turnabout Toothbrush days.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Shortly followed by an attempt at calling PoesLaw.
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