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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 "old LiveJournal days" spanning 2011, and Turnabout Toothbrush, starting in early 2014 and ongoing, moving to swcytsporks at the beginning of 2019.

The format has remained similar for its entire run: a set of anthropomorphic animals (not furries), shown to the right in their 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 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:

     The cats/SWCYT team 

As for the Pokémon featured (by the main sporker's brother) during the old LiveJournal days:

     The Pokémon 

Relevant tropes:

  • Accidental Innuendo: Gleefully invoked and inverted.
    Fic: 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 Angelanote  he's on now.
    Kiri: …now that sounds sexual out of context.
  • Acquired Situational Narcissism: Kiri gets a piece of fanart and immediately lets the fame go to her head.
  • Admiring the Abomination: Either that or Villain Respect, depending on if the 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.
  • All Crimes Are Equal:
    Silverpelt: Isn't [forcing 13-year-olds to view pornographic material] technically illegal?
    Hawksky: I download MP3s all the time. Do you think I care?
  • Alternate History: The French Revolution, 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 .
  • Alternate Universe Fic: Cat Instincts makes it abundantly clear that Silverpelt, Hawksky, Chill, and Kiri (nicknamed "The Dead Quartet" by other sporkers at least once) are Warrior Cats 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[.]"
  • Amazon Chaser: Cade. He and Aziz could probably fall under Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy, too.
  • Anarchy Is Chaos: An Inverted Trope 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.
  • And I Must Scream: Happens to Humblot while sporking My Favorite Girl.
  • And Now for Someone Completely Different: One character sporking featured absolutely none of the SWCYT team.
    • 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".
  • Aristocrats Are Evil: Fallen randomly endorses this vein of thinking during one sporking.
    Hawksky: Will guillotines be involved?
    Fallen: If needed. :)
  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Hawksky kidnaps Humblot; Humblot is most upset because she dared to offer him British food.
  • Ascended Meme: In a way. Hawksky finds the name of a particular Mary Sue amusing, and later a certain Servine bearing the same name is introduced.
  • Battle Discretion Shot: Occasionally.
  • Beat: Occasionally will be actually written out in the form of "(beat)" in between two lines of dialogue.
  • Belligerent Sexual Tension: Most of the sporkers make jokes about this between Silverpelt and Hawksky, although it comes across more as somewhere between Informed Attribute and Forced Meme, especially in 2011.
    • Interestingly, if the Lying to Yourself sporking is to be believed, Airey actually can write Unresolved Sexual Tension, even if that was presented as one-sided.
    • In retrospect, Dr. Sceptile and Humblot exhibited this.
  • Berserk Button: 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 flips out over classic literature and Trigun.
    • Airey herself flies into an Unstoppable Rage over 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.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Silverpelt, whom is surprisingly violent for the (supposedly) kindest one among them.
    Silverpelt: I was the patron goddess of the medicine cats before the Clans forgot about us… remember?
    Hawksky: Considering 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 Absurd Phobia.
  • Big "WHAT?!" / Big "WHY?!": Occasionally.
  • Big "NO!": Frequently.
  • Bilingual Bonus: Silverpelt, Hawksky, and Kiri occasionally speak in (untranslated) Gaeilge, Anglisc, Cornish, and/or Latin.
  • Bilingual Dialogue: Oddly enough, averted with Raskolnikov (and Razhumikhin) despite Airey's apparent love of foreign languages. Of course, this might be Translation Convention somehow...
  • Black Comedy Rape: Frequently joked about or even used, especially by the Plot Reaper. Cade is honestly the only one who has a particular problem with it.
  • Blank Stare: Every so often.
  • "Blind Idiot" Translation: Frequently in the LJ days, but much less so in the Turnabout Toothbrush era.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: The system for sorting cats into Silverpelt and Hawksky's respective afterlives runs off of this.note 
  • Bolt of Divine Retribution: Almost.
    Kiri: Athena Cykes suffered for your sins.
    (meanwhile, outside the sporking theatre)
    Silverpelt: Is that thunder I hear?
  • Bonus Material: The Breathing Is A Necessity sporking, while not part of the SWCYT "canon", gets some bits of Adaptation Expansion in the form of extra jokes and more Homoerotic Subtext was that not present (or at least less visible) in the original forum version.
  • Breathless Non Sequitur: Fallen and Chill are the biggest users.
  • Brother–Sister Incest: Humblot and Dusknoir both think that Case Closed is centered around this, initially.
  • Butch Lesbian: Hawksky, supposedly.
  • Captain Obvious Aesop: 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."
  • Card-Carrying Villain: Hawksky
  • Character Filibuster: Too many to list. Due to the nature of the SWCYT team, they usually double as Author Filibusters.
  • Children Are Innocent: Subverted with Chill twice. She's definitely childlike and is often treated like Kid Sidekick 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 Really 1,500 Years Old.
  • Chirping Crickets: Every so often, no one can come up with anything to say. Sometimes comes in the form of descriptive narration.
  • Christianity is Catholic: Obviously averted due to the "Amazing 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.)
  • Collective Groan: The typical response to either something really stupid in the fic, or Hawksky making a pun.
  • Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: In the LJ days, everyone had their own more-or-less-unique text color. Of course, the only time it's commented on is the one time Humblot and Fallen (both the same shade of green) interact.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Silverpelt, judging by her "No such thing as 'cheat tactics' - anything goes on the battlefield" comment.
  • Comical Overreacting: Made it here.
  • Complete Immortality: 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".
  • Conditioned to Accept Horror: "Welcome to Celebrian, where the most depraved things you’ve probably ever seen garner the response of, 'So what?'"
  • Continuity Cameo: 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 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.
  • Cool Shades: Kiri and her 175,00 € sunglasses, as seen in the Soundless sporking.
  • Cross-Popping Veins: Silverpelt's now-disused "angry" character portrait.
  • *Cough* Snark *Cough*: "That was the most judgmental contagious coughing fit I’ve ever heard."
  • Cruel Mercy:
    Kiri: See, now I’m just wishing someone would Mercy Kill us.
    PR: I’D OFFER, EXCEPT I WANT YOU TO SUFFER.
  • Damned by Faint Praise: Fallen is a master of backhanded compliments.
  • Deadpan Snarker: All of them to a certain extent, but Raskolnikov pretty much blows everyone else out of the water.
  • Deliberate Values Dissonance: Silverpelt.
  • Department of Redundancy Department: Frequently paged; Dr. Sceptile even has a Glasses Pull to go along with it.
  • Died During Production: Invoked, sort of. Back in 2011, a sporking was done of a fic whose author had allegedly committed suicide. Sith Droideka, in all his sensitivity, took off a point (giving it a better rating) because "it...will never update again."
  • Downer Ending: This sporking ends with Cade getting locked in the theatre overnight after he faints due to a panic attack.
  • Dream Weaver: An off-hand comment during the LiveJournal days suggests that Hawksky may be one. Makes sense when 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.
  • Drinking Game: 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 grape juice to get drunk during the second maggot story.
    • During the re-do of Celebrian, Hawksky suggests the 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.
  • Flaying Alive: Airey describes a horse whose skin had been burnt off by a nuclear blast in this sporking to justify her hatred of Pinkie Pie.
  • Flexing Those Non-Biceps: Cade telling Anna to feel his arms has shades of this.
  • Food Porn: When 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.
  • Footnote Fever: A fairly mild example in The Visitors - Mormon-specific terminology is explained because the entire audience is assumed to be non-LDS.
  • Foreign Cuss Word: See Bilingual Bonus above.
  • Four-Man Band: The "Dead Quartet".
  • Freudian Trio: Aziz (the superegonote ), Cade (the id), and Fallen (the ego) are frequently put together.
  • Furry Reminder: Typically, the only way to actually remember that the SWYCT team consists of 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.
  • Genre Blind: Dr. Sceptile, who had GLaDOS installed. Yes, that GLaDOS.
  • Genre Savvy: While guest sporkers are fairly frequently brought in, 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."
  • Girlfriend in Canada: Humblot makes frequent references to his maids... who don't actually exist for reasons other than what this trope usually means...
  • Girl on Girl Is Hot:
    Humblot: ! This getting even better! Surprise lesbians are awesome~
  • Gratuitous French: Averted by Humblot.
    • The Maid In The Malfoy Manor sporking.
    • Aziz and Fallen make fun of Kiri for having a French last name despite being British.
    • A "Your Name the Hedgehog" game revealed that Silverpelt and Hawksky's 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 reference his songs.
    • One sporking started with a rather long and completely irrelevant discussion of cheese and croque monsieurs.
  • Gratuitous German: Usually around Darkrai.
  • Gratuitous Japanese: The actual LiveJournal username is airey_kun.
  • Gratuitous Russian: Anna had a tendency of doing this in the LJ days.
    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!
  • Groin Attack: Repeatedly recommended as Pay Evil unto Evil for the king 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.
  • Hates Everyone Equally: Both Kiri and the Plot Reaper. They especially hate each other.
  • Have a Gay Old Time
    Dusknoir: What are you babbling about now, Dr. Sceptile?
    Humblot: He's trying to prove that Draco Malfoy and Sora aren't gay.
    Dusknoir: *perplexed* Why aren't they happy?
  • Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: 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.
  • Heroic BSoD: Chill and Silverpelt were fond of this in the LJ days.
  • Heroic Self-Deprecation: Fun Drinking Game idea: go through the blog and 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.
  • High School AU: Fallen speculates on a Celebrian one; the Plot Reaper rages about the book Prom and Prejudice.
  • Humanity Ensues: The 2016 Halloween Special had Fallen, Aziz, and Cade explicitly in their human forms for the duration.
  • Hypocrisy Nod: "I don’t think we have any right to call someone else a weaboo."
  • Ice-Cream Koan: A Black Comedy Rape 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-Loathingnote ?"
  • Idiot Ball: It's massive, and usually passed around the cats (even Silverpelt).
    • Dropped post-2014, presumably because Airey got smarter.
  • I Have Many Names: 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.
  • I Love the Dead:
    Silverpelt: *affronted* And there’s something wrong with kissing a corpse? …hang on, I just realized what I said.
  • I Love the Smell of X in the Morning: "I love the smell of bad writing in the morning. …night. …mid-afternoon." note 
  • I'm a Humanitarian: 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 Literal Maneater 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.
  • I'm Not Doing That Again: 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.
  • Informed Obscenity: "Farshooka".
  • Innocent Innuendo: Given Humblot's 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...
    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!
  • Insistent Terminology: Kiri would like to remind you that she is a cat, and not anything else.
  • Ironic Hell: Secret.
    • "Oh, hell, is this some sort of divine retribution for openly wondering if Plants were hermaphroditic back during Fortuitous Rapture?"
  • It's What I Do: Why the sporkers spork.
  • Jaw Drop: Because sometimes fics are just stupid.
  • Kill It with Fire: Raskolnikov seems to be under the impression that this is the way to get rid of the sporking theatre. 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.
  • Kissing Under the Influence: Happens to Kiri and Chill during a drinking game in the LJ era.
  • Punctuated! For! Emphasis!:
    Dusknoir: *dual Ice Punch* We. Don't. Want. To. Know. Servine.
    • Also,
    Airey: Finally, get. a. fucking. English. speaking. beta. reader.
  • Pungeon Master: Airey. Although admittedly she doesn't employ them enough to qualify the sporking theatre as a World of Pun.
  • Punny Name: It's not that Chill's name is a pun, per se, but other sporkers making puns (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."
  • Puppeteer Parasite: The Plot Reaper. The beginning of one sporking implies that Anna's OS wouldn't work without her. Anna also says during General Motors that she can't survive on her own.
  • Rage Quit: This sporking.
    • Also this sporking, although that one just ends the sporking when Airey gives up instead of just leaving the rest of the fic in unedited.
  • Rainbow Speak: 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.
  • Rapid-Fire Comedy
  • Rapid-Fire "No!": A few.
  • Religious Robot: Anna.
  • Repeat After Me:
    Dr. Sceptile: Say ‘canon’, Citizen Humblot.
    Humblot: ‘Canon, Citizen Humblot’.
  • Reset Button: Celebrian was sporked partway on LiveJournal, but ended up getting restarted anyway. Silverpelt complained.
  • Rock Bottom:
    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.
  • Running Gag: In the LJ days: He's a ladies' man and a man's lady.
    Anna (PR): *destroys downtown Tokyo*
  • Sadist: Hawksky and the Plot Reaper. Aziz to a certain (kinky) extent. Silverpelt.
  • Sarcasm Mode: Sarcasm levels sometimes reach suffocation in the sporking theater...
  • Schmuck Bait: "Hey, readers, I dare someone to quote this fic while having sex." "Are you trying to cause a divorce?"
  • Security Cling: Cade usually tries this with Aziz or Fallen when sporking something scary or disturbing. Fallen is a lot more receptive than Aziz, once letting him spend half the sporking on her lap. Meanwhile, Aziz punches him.
  • Second-Hand Storytelling: 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 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 Author Avatar.
  • Secular Hero: 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 Chick Tracts... and even then, one of the "heathen" sporkers - Kiri, Hawksky, or Cade - is brought along to make sure that the sporking remains secular overall.
  • Seen It All: Specifically, Darkrai's seen worse.
  • Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: Cade, to Aziz.
  • She Is Not My Girlfriend:
    Silverpelt: What’s your problem?
    Cade: Your fucking wife is my problem!! She locked me in here overnight!!
    Silverpelt: What?! She’s not my-!
  • Shipper on Deck: All of the cats, but Anna in particular.
  • Ship Tease: Silverpelt and Hawksky, relentlessly. Also between Kiri and Chill, but less important.
    • Cade and Aziz, and to a certain extent, Cade and Chill. Mostly because Kiri gets jealous.
  • Shout-Out: Too many to name.
  • Signature Scent: What the theatre itself smells like (gunpowder, gasoline, and napalm) is commented on fairly often...
  • Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!:
    Fallen: Please don't. I actually like humanity.
    PR: YES, WELL, YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER THAN TO BRING SILLY CONCEPTS LIKE THAT INTO THE SPORKING THEATRE.
  • Significant Anagram: 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?"
  • Single Tear: Mocked.
    Fallen: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG A SINGLE DRAMATIC TEAR??? ARE YOU SERIOUS????????
  • Slapstick: Common during the LiveJournal days, barely mentioned during the Turnabout Toothbrush days.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: This page is only maintained by Airey.
    • Also, constant referencing and promoting of Airey's fanfics or even her askblog.
      • The fic-promoting gets lampshaded a lot with comments about how this blog is for bad fanfiction.
  • Sneeze Cut:
    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.
    (Meanwhile, in late-1860s Siberia…)
    Raskolnikov: *sneezes*
    Sonia: You’re not coming down with another illness?
    Raskolnikov: No… I don’t think so…
  • Snub by Omission: 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 The Power of Friendship.
  • Spit Take: Not very common (since food isn't allowed in the theatre), but used at least once.
  • Space Whale Aesop: The sporkers often find an Accidental Aesop 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 PlayStation!"
  • Stable Time Loop: (Ab)used by Dr. Sceptile to get a copy of the script for one of the sporkings.
  • Staring Contest: Chill and Anna do one during The Worst Trigun Fic Ever. Chill easily wins.
  • Strangely Arousing:
    Chill: (Wall of Text)
    Kiri: ... (Th-that was kinda hot.)
  • Stunned Silence: Almost one per sporking!
  • Suckiness Is Painful
    • The inverse is also apparently true, judging by Airey's ahegao reaction images where HIEQ2 actually had a good scene.
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial:
    Silverpelt: *very seriously* I am not a shotacon.
    • Also,
    Raskolnikov: Where do these authors even get this pairing from? It makes no sense.
    Razhumikhin: Right. None whatsoever. Absolutely no sense.
    • Airey, during an out-of-character sporking:
    I swear I'm not a serial killer.
  • Sweat Drop: One of Hawksky's now-disused character portraits.
  • Sweet Tooth: Kiri and Chill in the LiveJournal era.
  • Switch to English: Made fun of.
    Chill: What…
    Silverpelt: …é an ifreann? note 
    Fallen: English, Silverpelt.
    Silverpelt: Oh, right. …Iċ þæt ne undergiete. note 
    Fallen: Modern English.
  • Take That!: Usually followed by Lampshade Hanging.
  • Taking You with Me: Inverted by Hawksky. Of course, it 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 you actually care about my well-being…?
    Hawksky: No, I meant don’t do it unless you can take me with you.
    Silverpelt: …
  • Tears of Blood:
    Chill: ...is crying blood unhealthy?
    Aziz: It's a side effect of sporking. Get used to it.
  • Thanking the Viewer: One exit gag:
    (Exeunt sporkers. Roll credits.
    FIC: [expunged]
    HARRY POTTER: J.K. Rowling
    SPORKING: Airey
    AND READERS LIKE YOU)
  • The Smurfette Principle: Inverted with Cade, the only male on a team of women.
  • Transparent Closet: Hawksky, apparently.
    • Most blatant example: her starting the He See's Right Through Me sporking by talking about Silverpelt's thick thighs.
  • Trauma Button: Fallen and McDonald's.
    • One chapter of HIEQ2 included a Real Life example...
  • Threesome Subtext: Aziz, Cade, and Fallen (despite the latter being asexual) end one sporking by going on a date.
  • True Companions: Played with and occasionally 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.
  • Try to Fit That on a Business Card: A Real Life 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 Valerian.

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