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* GottaShipEmAll: Invoked. Do you have any idea how many ships Liz has going? 14.

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* GottaShipEmAll: Invoked. Do you have any idea how many ships Liz has going? 14. (Later edited to be 7, but still.)



* ShoutOut: To ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'': Liz is a Pricefield shipper.

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* ShoutOut: To ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'': Liz is a Pricefield shipper. (This was sadly removed later, with "Pricefield trash" changed to "Absolute trash.")

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->''(You dream you are the sheriff of a wild west town populated entirely by bird people. Your bird deputy scrutinizes you closely as you mosey along beneath the bright pink sky.)

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->''(You dream you are the sheriff of a wild west town populated entirely by bird people. Your bird deputy scrutinizes you closely as you mosey along beneath the bright pink sky.))''


''Birdland'' is a multiple award-winning work of ChooseYourOwnAdventure-style InteractiveFiction by Brendan Patrick Hennessy about Bridget Leaside, a 14-year-old girl at summer camp whose strange dreams about birds begin to bleed into reality.

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''Birdland'' is a multiple award-winning work of ChooseYourOwnAdventure-style InteractiveFiction by Brendan Patrick Hennessy about Bridget Leaside, a 14-year-old girl at summer camp whose strange dreams about birds begin to bleed into reality.


* ShoutOut: To LifeIsStrange; Liz is a Pricefield shipper.

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* ShoutOut: To LifeIsStrange; ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'': Liz is a Pricefield shipper.


* TheButlerDidIt: Parodied in the detective dream.

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* TarotTroubles: Hidden away in the pirate dream, with randomized and obfuscated cards all derived for details accurate to the rest of the plot.
-->''(She flips over the last card. It's numbered VI and shows two naked humans holding hands underneath a giant bird.)''
-->FORTUNE TELLER: The Romantically Involved Individuals. A companion of yours will prove like-minded in a way that you had intensely hoped but had not allowed yourself to believe.
-->YOU: Wait, what was that last one again?
* TheButlerDidIt: Parodied [[spoiler: and subverted]] in the detective dream.


''The Writer Will Do Something'' is a multiple award-winning work of ChooseYourOwnAdventure-style InteractiveFiction by Brendan Patrick Hennessy about Bridget Leaside, a 14-year-old girl at summer camp whose strange dreams about birds begin to bleed into reality.

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''The Writer Will Do Something'' ''Birdland'' is a multiple award-winning work of ChooseYourOwnAdventure-style InteractiveFiction by Brendan Patrick Hennessy about Bridget Leaside, a 14-year-old girl at summer camp whose strange dreams about birds begin to bleed into reality.


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* SpockSpeak: How all the birds talk.


* GottaShipThemAll: Invoked. Do you have any idea how many ships Liz has going? 14.

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* GottaShipThemAll: GottaShipEmAll: Invoked. Do you have any idea how many ships Liz has going? 14.

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* GottaShipThemAll: Invoked. Do you have any idea how many ships Liz has going? 14.


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* ShoutOut: To LifeIsStrange; Liz is a Pricefield shipper.


* AnimalAthleteLoophole: After all, there's no rule saying grub-hunting isn't an official camp sport.



* CallBack: To ''Bell Park, Youth Detective''.

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* CallBack: To Several, to ''Bell Park, Youth Detective''.


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* LoopholeAbuse: The ultimate downfall of [[spoiler:the birds]].


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* PrecisionFStrike: Played for laughs in the musician dream: "Hate. This is a song about me. ♪ I hate myself / I hate myself / I hate my goddamn self / Hate hate hate hate /Hate hate hate hate hate / Fucking / God damn it / Motherfucker"


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* RunningGag: "What is the function of the __________"?


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* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: Most of Bridget's songs in the musician dream hint at her crush.


* OpposingSports Team: [[spoiler:The birds, eventually]]. Their choice of events doesn't help.

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* OpposingSports Team: OpposingSportsTeam: [[spoiler:The birds, eventually]]. Their choice of events doesn't help.

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* CloudCuckooLander: Mackenzie.
* {{Gayngst}}: Justified, as Bridget is still in her very early teens and anxious in general.


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* InsultBackfire: Bridget, to a bird: "Your mama lays eggs." "That is an anatomically correct statement."
* OpposingSports Team: [[spoiler:The birds, eventually]]. Their choice of events doesn't help.


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* RulesLawyer: An ''entire race of them'': [[spoiler: the birds are forbidden from doing anything illegal, interpreted very, very broadly.]]
* SummerCampy: The setting.
* TheButlerDidIt: Parodied in the detective dream.


* Incompatible Orientation: Implied to be why Bell and Cassidy drifted apart.

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* Incompatible Orientation: IncompatibleOrientation: Implied to be why Bell and Cassidy drifted apart.

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->''(You dream you are the sheriff of a wild west town populated entirely by bird people. Your bird deputy scrutinizes you closely as you mosey along beneath the bright pink sky.)
->''DEPUTY: (monotonously) State your job title.''
->''YOU: Sheriff.''
->''DEPUTY: And what is the function of a sheriff?''

''The Writer Will Do Something'' is a multiple award-winning work of ChooseYourOwnAdventure-style InteractiveFiction by Brendan Patrick Hennessy about Bridget Leaside, a 14-year-old girl at summer camp whose strange dreams about birds begin to bleed into reality.

It can be played [[http://birdland.camp/ here]].

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!!The work designated Birdland provides examples of the following tropes:
* BadLiar: Bridget. Very very much.
* CallBack: To ''Bell Park, Youth Detective''.
* Incompatible Orientation: Implied to be why Bell and Cassidy drifted apart.
* PunnyName: Most characters are named after some Canadian or Torontonian landmark.
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