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0 11Prenatal Gender Picking
A way to choose the gender of a baby before birth.
Created: May 4th 2024 at 4:53:09 PM
1 6Crossover Meme
A meme that involves multiple unrelated works of media.
Created: May 5th 2024 at 8:01:54 AM
9 0Sinister Funicular
A diagonal elevator of intimidating size
Created: May 5th 2024 at 1:58:16 PM
5 5Celestial Space School
Interplanetary or intergalactic schools often popular in sci fi
Created: May 5th 2024 at 2:26:25 PM
0 7Comically Tiny Arms
A character has comically short arms that make it hard for them to grab things.
Created: May 5th 2024 at 10:22:23 PM
0 9Absurdly Elderly Father
A man who's too old to have a baby...does.
Created: May 6th 2024 at 2:30:33 AM
1 12Terrified Transformation Witness
A character reacts to another character's transformation - the moment or the aftermath - with shock and fear.
Created: May 6th 2024 at 7:35:40 AM
0 6Funny Sick Bucket
An unconventional receptacle is used to catch vomit.
Created: May 6th 2024 at 10:01:32 AM
1 0Self Translation
A character tells a character something in one language and then repeats themselves in another for the benefit of another character
Created: May 6th 2024 at 6:46:10 PM
0 0Shoes On Simultaneously
A character puts both shoes on at exactly the same moment, instead of one at a time.
Created: yesterday
7 0Just For Fun/Averted Trope (needs more examples?)
Works that... don't use some tropes.
Created: yesterday
0 3Hell Is Lonely
A damned soul is punished by loneliness.
Created: 23 hours ago
0 1Surprisingly Bad Native Language
Characters speak their native language poorly due to it not being the native language of the writer
Created: 7 hours ago
1 1Serial Cthulhu Puncher
A mortal/underdog character who specializes in fighting deities, cosmic forces, and eldritch abominations.
Created: 7 hours ago
0 0Parental Love Rival
A Love Triangle featuring a parent and child as rivals in love.
A Love Triangle featuring a parent and child as rivals in love.
Sponsor: Chabal2 Created: 2 hours ago Last reply: 2 hours ago by Chabal2 View draft
0 6Trickster Transformee
Forcibly transformed characters can only succeed through sneaking and trickery.
Created: May 4th 2024 at 12:57:10 AM