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1 15Love Makes You Saner
A person feels sane only because of their love for someone else.
Created: Mar 23rd 2012 at 2:52:13 PM
0 27Foreboding Carcass
A dead animal foreshadows that danger is coming for the POV characters. (adopted by harrietvanger)
Created: Mar 25th 2023 at 5:08:24 PM
0 2Zener Cards
Cards used in parapsychology to measure Psychic Powers. Often used as a shorthand for psychic tropes. [NEEDS EXAMPLES]
Created: 2 hours ago
4 9Beauty in Assimilation
Assimilation is portrayed as beautiful or comforting.
Created: Apr 8th 2022 at 5:05:14 PM
1 45Indifferent Mourning
A character dies and no one cares. [Adopted by EvilerThanThou]
Created: May 26th 2023 at 1:53:40 PM
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
2 17Language Fluency Reveal
A character reveals their fluency in the language everyone else speaks
Created: Apr 18th 2024 at 7:11:47 PM
0 15Space Is Introspective (split from Space Is Dreamy)
Space is associated with sentiment, hope, or existentialism.
Created: Apr 1st 2024 at 6:03:49 PM
0 21Space Is Sleepy (split from Space is Dreamy Ready to launch?)
The moon, the stars, or space in general is associated with sleep.
Created: Mar 26th 2024 at 12:21:04 AM
0 5Parental Love Rival
A Love Triangle featuring a parent and child as rivals in love.
Created: 19 hours ago
4 17Painful Confession
A character makes a confession that is particulary distressing for them (and sometimes others). (launching Friday)
Created: Apr 24th 2023 at 1:40:13 PM
7 30Emotional Language Shift (adopted by jhonsogflint)
Character reverts to their native language when surprised, scared, excited or annoyed
Created: May 21st 2011 at 7:46:17 PM
3 4Surprisingly Bad Native Language
Characters speak their native language poorly due to it not being the native language of the writer
Created: yesterday
8 9Big/Small Juxtaposition
A juxtaposition between something big and something small.
Created: Apr 10th 2024 at 8:46:02 PM
0 10Living Constellation
Constellations depicted as living beings
Created: Apr 7th 2024 at 5:53:02 PM
1 18Terrified 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
6 19Dramatic Incontinence (adopted by DRCEQ)
Incontinence Played For Drama.
Created: Dec 26th 2022 at 10:50:50 AM
3 1Prediction Meltdown
Precognition breaks somebody else's brain.
0 12Prenatal Gender Picking
A way to choose the gender of a baby before birth.
Created: May 4th 2024 at 4:53:09 PM
A way to choose the gender of a baby before birth.
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0 3Melting Pot Sci Fi Setting
Various different aliens interact frequently in this setting and this isn't considered unusual. Usually with some human presence too.
Created: 3 hours ago