But she finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps if she can quote instead of working out words on her own.
—Mrs. Which, A Wrinkle In Time
—Mrs. Which, A Wrinkle In Time
Tropes associated with this troper:
- Archive Binge
- Born in the Wrong Century
- Broken Bird (averted)
- Buffy Speak
- Casa Lane Parenting
- Cloud Cuckoolander
- Conversational Troping
- Deadpan Snarker
- Department of Redundancy Department
- Distracting Disambiguation
- Dysfunction Junction
- Ethical Slut
- Falling For Someone Never Met
- For Happiness
- Genki Girl
- Gratuitous French
- Heterosexual Life-Partners
- Hopeless Suitor
- Informed Judaism
- Knight in Sour Armor
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl
- Nice Hat
- No Fourth Wall
- Only Sane Man
- Out-of-Genre Experience (a Plucky capital-R Romantic Manic Pixie Dream Girl stuck in a 21st century Family Dramedy.)
- Parents as People
- Really 700 Years Old
- Seinfeldian Conversation
- Serious Business
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
- Shout-Out
- Stepford Smiler: (zig zagged)
- Spoonerism:
- Twin Tails
- Wide-Eyed Idealist
- Wrong Genre Savvy
I'm mostly fannish about Star Trek and the Whoniverse; I'm also an enormous Theater nerd, especially for Tom Stoppard and Shakespeare, who I tend to Entry Pimp.
starshine has had a hand in these pages:
- Covert Affairs: Launched
