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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: [[WordOfGod The author]] has described the book as being closely inspired by the controversy surrounding Creator/BryanSinger and the numerous allegations of rape and sex abuse that has follow him for years.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: [[WordOfGod The author]] has described the book as being closely inspired by the controversy surrounding Creator/BryanSinger and the numerous allegations of rape and sex sexual abuse that has follow him for years.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: [[WordOfGod The author]] has described the book as being closely inspired by the controversy surrounding Creator/BryanSinger.
* TheVillainKnowsMoment: Jonah's relationship to Richard goes horrifically sour after he writes a dramatic scene where a fictional {{Expy}} of Jonah confronts "Richard" for sexually assaulting him. Jonah falls asleep and leaves the laptop open, causing Richard to read the scene on the laptop. For a while it appears that things ''might'' be okay, but it soon becomes clear to Jonah that it won't and Richard will make him suffer.
* TheVillainKnowsMoment: Jonah's relationship to Richard goes horrifically sour after he writes a dramatic scene where a fictional {{Expy}} of Jonah confronts "Richard" for sexually assaulting him. Jonah falls asleep and leaves the laptop open, causing Richard to read the scene on the laptop. For a while it appears that things ''might'' be okay, but it soon becomes clear to Jonah that it won't and Richard will make him suffer.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: [[WordOfGod The author]] has described the book as being closely inspired by the controversy surrounding Creator/BryanSinger.
Creator/BryanSinger and the numerous allegations of rape and sex abuse that has follow him for years.
* TheVillainKnowsMoment: Jonah's relationship to Richard goes horrifically sour after he writes a dramatic scene where a fictional {{Expy}} of Jonah confronts "Richard" for sexually assaulting him. Jonah falls asleep and leaves the laptop open, causing Richard to read the scene on the laptop. For a while it appears that things ''might'' be okay, but it soon becomes clear to Jonah that it won't and Richard will make himsuffer.suffer.
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* TheVillainKnowsMoment: Jonah's relationship to Richard goes horrifically sour after he writes a dramatic scene where a fictional {{Expy}} of Jonah confronts "Richard" for sexually assaulting him. Jonah falls asleep and leaves the laptop open, causing Richard to read the scene on the laptop. For a while it appears that things ''might'' be okay, but it soon becomes clear to Jonah that it won't and Richard will make him
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: [[WordOfGod The author]] has described the book as being closely inspired by the controversy surrounding Creator/BryanSinger.Creator/BryanSinger.
* TheVillainKnowsMoment: Jonah's relationship to Richard goes horrifically sour after he writes a dramatic scene where a fictional {{Expy}} of Jonah confronts "Richard" for sexually assaulting him. Jonah falls asleep and leaves the laptop open, causing Richard to read the scene on the laptop. For a while it appears that things ''might'' be okay, but it soon becomes clear to Jonah that it won't and Richard will make him suffer.
* TheVillainKnowsMoment: Jonah's relationship to Richard goes horrifically sour after he writes a dramatic scene where a fictional {{Expy}} of Jonah confronts "Richard" for sexually assaulting him. Jonah falls asleep and leaves the laptop open, causing Richard to read the scene on the laptop. For a while it appears that things ''might'' be okay, but it soon becomes clear to Jonah that it won't and Richard will make him suffer.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: The book is set in two time periods, 2009 and 2018 (2019 at the latest), and was released in 2021.
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* {{Expy}}: Mace is one for Creator/BradRenfro (among others), but [[spoiler:he ultimately earns his happy ending and is SparedByTheAdaptation.]]
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* {{Expy}}: Mace is one for Creator/BradRenfro (among others), but [[spoiler:he ultimately earns his happy ending and is SparedByTheAdaptation.]]others).
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Evan tries to stand up for Jonah and gets murdered as a result. Possibly.]]
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* BondageIsBad: In so far that Richard is very into it, and he's also a depraved serial rapist and likely a murderer.
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* ImpliedRape: It's explicitly confirmed that Richard and his friends rape and molest guys. However, it's implied that TheChainOfHarm might have begun with Richard's mother, Patricia, who may have molested him, since he told Jonah that his play about ParentalIncest was autobiographical, and she is ''infuriated'' by it.
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* FalseRapeAccusation: Jonah falsely accused his father of molesting him after being subjected to a great deal of conversion therapy and hypnotism by his family's church, who are believers in RapeAndSwitch.
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''Yes, Daddy'' is a 2021 literary psychological thriller by Jonathan Parks Ramage. It revolves around Jonah, a struggling and aspiring playwright who briefly dates his hero, the multi-millionaire playwright Richard. However, when he arrives at Richard's summer house, events take a violent turn.
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''Yes, Daddy'' is a 2021 literary psychological thriller horror by Jonathan Parks Ramage. It revolves around Jonah, a struggling and aspiring playwright who briefly dates his hero, the multi-millionaire playwright Richard. However, when he arrives at Richard's summer house, events take a violent turn.
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* ShoutOut: Richard calls Evan [[Literature/{{Rebecca}} "Mrs Danvers" and "Mrs DeWinter"]], while Evan refers to burning the house down. It's also {{Fauxshadowing}} because [[spoiler:while Mrs Danvers was heavily implied to be a lesbian spinster, Evan is not there by choice, and actually tries to help Jonah - which results in his likely death.]]
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* BunkerWoman: A RareMaleExample. Jonah is trapped in Richard's remote "compound" in rural New York, drugged, plied with alcohol, and [[spoiler:repeatedly raped]], his cell phone broken when Rashad tries to reach him so that he has no way out.
** And then the HalfwayPlotTwist reveals that [[spoiler:rather, it's several. It's revealed that the handsome young men who look after Richard's house (and those of his friends) are "exes" of which Richard tired and forced them into essentially indentured servitude to "repay" their debts, which he had initially played off as gifts and rewards. They also all sleep in a shed where they're repeatedly raped and sexually abused.]]
** And then the HalfwayPlotTwist reveals that [[spoiler:rather, it's several. It's revealed that the handsome young men who look after Richard's house (and those of his friends) are "exes" of which Richard tired and forced them into essentially indentured servitude to "repay" their debts, which he had initially played off as gifts and rewards. They also all sleep in a shed where they're repeatedly raped and sexually abused.]]
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* BunkerWoman: BunkerWoman:
** A RareMaleExample. Jonah is trapped in Richard's remote "compound" in rural New York, drugged, plied with alcohol, and [[spoiler:repeatedly raped]], his cell phone broken when Rashad tries to reach him so that he has no way out.
** And thenthe HalfwayPlotTwist a twist reveals that [[spoiler:rather, it's several. It's revealed that the handsome young men who look after Richard's house (and those of his friends) are "exes" of which Richard tired and forced them into essentially indentured servitude to "repay" their debts, which he had initially played off as gifts and rewards. They also all sleep in a shed where they're repeatedly raped and sexually abused.]]
** A RareMaleExample. Jonah is trapped in Richard's remote "compound" in rural New York, drugged, plied with alcohol, and [[spoiler:repeatedly raped]], his cell phone broken when Rashad tries to reach him so that he has no way out.
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* BunkerWoman: A RareMaleExample. Jonah is trapped in Richard's remote "compound" in rural New York, drugged, plied with alcohol, and [[spoiler:repeatedly raped]], his cell phone broken when Rashad tries to reach him so that he has no way out.
** And then the HalfwayPlotTwist reveals that [[spoiler:rather, it's several. It's revealed that the handsome young men who look after Richard's house (and those of his friends) are "exes" of which Richard tired and forced them into essentially indentured servitude to "repay" their debts, which he had initially played off as gifts and rewards. They also all sleep in a shed where they're repeatedly raped and sexually abused.]]
** And then the HalfwayPlotTwist reveals that [[spoiler:rather, it's several. It's revealed that the handsome young men who look after Richard's house (and those of his friends) are "exes" of which Richard tired and forced them into essentially indentured servitude to "repay" their debts, which he had initially played off as gifts and rewards. They also all sleep in a shed where they're repeatedly raped and sexually abused.]]
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* CureYourGays: Jonah receives conversion therapy at the behest of his deeply religious parents.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Jonah's parents ''think'' they're helping him when they send him to conversion therapy (as they believe being gay is a mortal sin). When it "fails", they subject him to hypnotism and more "therapy" until he [[spoiler:falsely accuses his father of molesting him, as he had no physically intimate memories to use except that.]]
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* RapeAndSwitch: Jonah's deeply Christian family believes that the only way he would've "turned" out gay if he was molested by another man. They subject him to conversion therapy until [[spoiler:he (falsely) accuses his father under a great deal of pressure and hypnotism.]]
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Jonah yearns to be in a relationship with Richard, both because of his prestige and because he's very lonely. He gets it...for a while.
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* MostWritersAreWriters: Jonah and Richard are both playwrights, and Jonah later takes a job in journalism.
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* ShallowNewsSiteSatire: The website Jonah works for is essentially Buzzfeed by another name, though it has a more mixed reputation (possibly since he's supposed to work for the arm of what would be Buzzfeed News).
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* {{Expy}}: Mace is one for Creator/BradRenfro (among others), but [[spoiler:he ultimately earns his happy ending.]]
* TheNewTens: The latter half of the book (from Mace's trial to the ending) is set between 2011 and late 2018, possibly early 2019.
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* {{Expy}}: Mace is one for Creator/BradRenfro (among others), but [[spoiler:he ultimately earns his happy ending.ending and is SparedByTheAdaptation.]]
* TheNewTens: The latter half of the book (from Mace's trial to the ending) is set between 2011 and late 2018, possibly early 2019.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: [[WordOfGod The author]] has described the book as being closely inspired by the controversy surrounding Creator/BryanSinger.
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''Yes, Daddy'' is a 2021 literary psychological thriller by Jonathan Parks Ramage. It revolves around Jonah, a struggling and aspiring playwright who briefly dates his hero, the multi-millionaire playwright Richard. However, when he arrives at Richard's summer house, events take a violent turn.
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!! Tropes
* {{Expy}}: Mace is one for Creator/BradRenfro (among others), but [[spoiler:ultimately earns his happy ending.]]
* TheNewTens: The latter half of the book (from Mace's trial to the ending) is set between 2011 and late 2018, possibly early 2019.
* TheTurnOfTheMillennium: The first half of the book is set in 2009.
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!! Tropes
* {{Expy}}: Mace is one for Creator/BradRenfro (among others), but [[spoiler:ultimately earns his happy ending.]]
* TheNewTens: The latter half of the book (from Mace's trial to the ending) is set between 2011 and late 2018, possibly early 2019.
* TheTurnOfTheMillennium: The first half of the book is set in 2009.
