Basic Trope: The setting of the story is the same place, or it's heavily inspired by the place, in which the author lives.
- Straight: Ian Inkstein lives in the relatively quiet and unknown town of Trope Falls, so when he writes a story it takes place in Trope Falls.
- Exaggerated:
- The setting of every single one of Inkstein's works is a carbon copy of his very bedroom.
- There is so much important stuff happening in Inkstein-verse Trope Falls that you can't help wonder how it hasn't become a major city yet.
- In Inkstein's works, Trope Falls is the capital of its country, a major city of the world, or even the seat of the One World Order.
- Downplayed:
- The setting of Inkstein's works is the author's country.
- Inkstein's works take place in a fictional universe, but all the photos and illustrations related to the book depict locations in Trope Falls.
- Justified:
- Inkstein wants to appeal to other inhabitants of Trope Falls, and/or the high amount of tourists who travel there each year.
- Inkstein mainly writes period dramas, and while Trope Falls is fairly quiet nowadays, a lot of juicy stuff took place in the town's history that he can use as inspiration.
- Inkstein is simply more comfortable writing about a place that he intimately knows.
- Inverted: The setting of the Inkstein's works are everywhere but Trope Falls.
- Subverted: The story starts in Inkstein's hometown, but as it develops things go nation-wide or international-wide, with major events taking place in really diverse locations.
- Double Subverted: Only for the climax and the final showdown to take place in Trope Falls, of all spots.
- Parodied: When Inkstein moves from Trope Falls to Clicheville, that town instantly becomes the center of the country/world/galaxy/whatever in Inkstein's verse.
- Zig Zagged: In some stories of a series the setting is Trope Falls, some other times it's elsewhere.
- Averted: The work has no precise spot in the setting to revolve around, with each of the stages of its plot taking place somewhere different.
- Enforced:
- Inkstein is suggested to choose his hometown, being cited the readers' weariness of the world's major cities being the most popular settings.
- Self-enforced: Inkstein doesn't know the outside world well, so he decides to Write What You Know.
- Tropetown's municipal government commissioned Ian to make a tourism promoting work.
- Lampshaded: "Why are our stories always in the same place, anyway?"
- Invoked: When Inkstein takes writing classes, his teacher encourages him to Write What You Know, and also gives him writing exercises where he's tasked to describe the same area from different characters' points of view (so he can practice developing different narrating styles for each).
- Exploited: A reviewer who just doesn't like Inkstein uses the fact that all of his works take place in Trope Falls as an excuse to call the books uncreative.
- Defied: "Why should I always write about my hometown? Hanging around one place is so boring! Let's go international!"
- Discussed:Narrator: "There is something about Trope Falls that keeps me coming back... Almost as if it was God's plan that I would spend the rest of my life here."
- Conversed: "It seems every writer wants his or her hometown as the center of the inhabited world."
- Implied: The central spot in the story's setting, while vague and unspecified, bears quite a bit of resemblance to Inkstein's hometown and/or current residience.
- Deconstructed: Inkstein includes a real-life company that was founded in Trope Falls, and depicts it as shady and corrupt. The company then sues him for defamation, and he's unable to pay the fees.
- Reconstructed: The controversy actually inspires more people to buy the book. While Inkstein does get into financial trouble, the work becomes Vindicated by History once the controversy dies down. By writing safer books about his hometown that don't depict any real people in a negative light he manages to get by financially in the end.
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