History Fanfic / ThisTimeRound

* SameSurnameMeansRelated: Alexander Carter of Carter's Imports appears to be related to every fictional and real-life character with that surname.

* {{Spinoff}}: As you might have noticed, the Round spawns a ''lot'' of these. Look Who's Talking, the day care centre. H. G. Wells High School, the high school AU. Newman Primary, the primary school AU. Dunvworpin, the retirement home. Some Other Time Round, the mirror universe. This Toon Round, the animated version. We're still waiting on the genderbent Round, though...

* BerserkButton: The character Number One in the "To Die For" arc goes into an UnstoppableRage any time he hears the song "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". It's also not a good idea to mention the book ''Who Killed Kennedy'' in Dodo's presence. Or ''LostInAusten'' in Victoria's.

* {{Usenet}}: This Time Round originated on the [[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.drwho.creative alt.drwho.creative]] newsgroup, which remains the primary forum for posting and discussing stories (there is also a defunct [=LiveJournal=] community).
** Usenet-themed villains make very occasional appearances: the Spamites and the Order of the Cross-Post.

* MegaCrossover: The Round has been visited by characters from anime, literature, other televised series... Basically, anything for which there's been a crossover fanfic is fair game. Several crossover characters have become more-or-less regulars, such as Terry Pratchett's [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Death and the Librarian]], [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Wesley Crusher]], and [[EnidBlyton Gwendoline Lacey]].

This Time Round is a Series/DoctorWho fanfic setting, a pub that exists "Outside Continuity". At the time of writing, it has been home to roughly 700 complete stories by 57 different authors.

!! Tropes:

* FunnyAnimal: The inhabitants of Toonside (home to This Toon Round, the Round's animated equivalent) based loosely on a brief sequence in the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic strip that reinvented the Eighth Doctor as a cat called Tardis Tails.

* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: "[[http://www.ttrarchive.com/ncc1.html Nyssa's Christmas Carol]]".

* CovertPervert: Victoria, at least judging by the underwear [[RanmaOneHalf Happosai]] steals from her in "[[http://www.ttrarchive.com/lwfa1.html Like Water For Adric]]".

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Given the prevalence of this trope in the {{Whoniverse}}, it was kind of inevitable it'd get extended to the Round as well: This Time Round's Proprietor, Look Who's Talking's Supervisor, Dunvworpin's Manager...

* CelebrityParadox: In the Storytime! version of ''[[SherlockHolmes The Adventure of the Illustrious Client]]'', with Ace as Holmes, Shou Yuing from "Battlefield" as Watson, and the Dream Lord as Sir James Damery, the Dream Lord briefly transforms into one of the Double-O Men from the 1980s EdutainmentShow ''Jigsaw''. "Watson" recognises the costume, and describes the characters as "David Rappaport and that other guy... what was his name? SylvesterMcCoy. Whatever happened to him?"

** In "[[http://www.ttrarchive.com/tfm1.html The Feminine Mistake]]", [[{{Dilbert}} Catbert]] exacts revenge on a [[HonestJohn used car dealer]] by reporting him to the IntimidatingRevenueService, and every other Federal agency in the book.

* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: "[[http://www.ttrarchive.com/ncc1.html Nyssa's Christmas Carol]]".

* MegaCrossover: The Round has been visited by characters from anime, literature, other televised series... Basically, anything for which there's been a crossover fanfic is fair game. Several crossover characters have become more-or-less regulars, such as Terry Pratchett's [[DiscWorld Death and the Librarian]], [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Wesley Crusher]], and [[EnidBlyton Gwendoline Lacey]].

* MegaCrossover: The Round has been visited by characters from anime, literature, other televised series... Basically, anything for which there's been a crossover fanfic is fair game. Several crossover characters have become more-or-less regulars, such as Terry Pratchett's [[DiscWorld Death and the Librarian]], [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Wesley Crusher]], and [[EnidBlyton Gwendoline Lacey]].

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In the "To Die For" arc, Number One is fond of forcing his ineffectual minions to watch ''[[StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier Star Trek V]]'' when they screw up.

* FunnyAnimal: The inhabitants of Toonside (home to This Toon Round, the Round's animated equivalent) based loosely on a brief sequence in the ''DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic strip that reinvented the Eighth Doctor as a cat called Tardis Tails.

* [=~Do Wrong, Right~=]: In a scene in "Dark Carnival", the son of a mad scientist character recalls an occasion when, as a small child, he microwaved an egg to see what would happen; after it exploded, he received a scolding for making a mess and wasting food and not keeping notes during the experiment.

* [[{{Ptitle18g9sdk49s6q}} Thieves' Guild]]/WeirdTradeUnion: The Author Mafia, which is part-organised crime family, part Hollywood studio. To explain: every Whofic author basically runs their own production studio, but they've organised together as the Author Mafia.