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5 4Epanalepsis
A phrase has the same word at its beginning and end.
Created: Mar 15th 2024 at 10:55:27 AM
1 11Tear-Stained Stationery (Please help with the description!)
A person cries on a piece of stationery or photograph
Created: Mar 14th 2024 at 8:31:54 PM
2 14Scolded By A Stranger
Where someone is read the riot act by a random person who is caught up in their shenanigans.
Created: Mar 14th 2024 at 1:03:33 PM
1 15Unfair Mirror Match
Fighting someone who's your equal—except they have an additional advantage.
Created: Mar 14th 2024 at 12:31:58 PM
1 7Nitpicky About Living Arrangements
Someone has a certain standard of how to live.
Created: Mar 13th 2024 at 11:05:57 AM
2 9Constantly Spells Their Name
An individual who has a habit of spelling their name.
Created: Mar 13th 2024 at 6:31:17 AM
1 2Afterlife Tournament (Expanding scope per tropers' comments)
Tournament is held in an In-Universe afterlife between dead characters.
Created: Mar 12th 2024 at 7:19:22 PM
0 18Giant Board Game (launching 2024-05-15)
Board games that are much bigger than usual.
Created: Mar 12th 2024 at 4:28:32 PM
0 9Rekindled Sparks (WIP)
A Dead Sparks relationship is rekindled.
Created: Mar 12th 2024 at 1:09:50 AM
0 17Believe the First Person You See
The main characters, placed in an entirely new world or situation, trust the first characters they see about how the world works and who the good guys are.
Created: Mar 11th 2024 at 7:40:35 AM
3 14Talent Incubator
A show or publication launches many careers
Created: Mar 10th 2024 at 11:54:51 AM
1 23Not A Party Person (up for grabs)
A character is attending a party they'd rather not be at.
Created: Mar 10th 2024 at 11:29:28 AM
1 40Gratuitous Chinese
Using Chinese instead of the work's usual language in a non-Chinese language work. 時在原本不用中文作品內使用中文。 (adopted by AquaEclipse, under construction to define scope in fear of misuse)
Created: Mar 10th 2024 at 4:59:46 AM
0 1Live Service Game
Games with Weekly Updates
Created: Mar 10th 2024 at 12:25:58 AM
8 3Predator and Prey Live in Harmony
Healthy relationships between predator and prey. You know. Predator and prey actually being friends.
Created: Mar 9th 2024 at 4:06:27 PM
0 5Truce Over Idiocy
Quarreling characters finally agree on something when they both witness something idiotic happening.
Created: Mar 9th 2024 at 7:18:21 AM
0 4Illegal Art Collector
A person who thinks only they should appreciate and keep art, often at the expense of others.
Created: Mar 5th 2024 at 5:23:13 PM
8 10Cancel Culture Caricature
A lampooning of the absurdities of contemporary "cancel culture", especially online.
Created: Mar 4th 2024 at 8:44:54 PM
A lampooning of the absurdities of contemporary "cancel culture", especially online.
Sponsor: harrietvanger Created: Mar 4th 2024 at 8:44:54 PM Last reply: May 10th 2024 at 1:32:52 AM by Snicka View draft
8 0USS Fauxnix
A work featuring an otherwise real ship uses a fake name.
Created: Mar 15th 2024 at 11:41:15 AM