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1''Epic Storytime'' refers to the series of [[StoryWithinAStory Stories Within a Story]] from ''Blog/{{Bronyism}}''.
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3"[[Franchise/StarWars Lord Bane]]" and sidekick Harrison have both turned [[TheStoryteller Storytelling]] into a regular hobby. These tales can range from general horror stories to "Awkward moments" and from Crack Fics to [[ImageBoards green-text]] stories, and everything inbetween. Zane releases his on his tag page while Harrison has his own page titled Epic Storytime when he writes for his own fans.
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5Regulars on the cast include:
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7* '''Zane''': A "badass, rugged mofo" who doesn't play by society's (or physics, for that matter) rules. Well, not actually. Zane sub-universe is often a child with unusual or superhuman abilities who is set off by the smallest of thing where he then going out on a {{Roaring Rampage of|Revenge}} [[DisproportionateRetribution Revenge]]. Either that, or he just does what he does ForTheEvulz.
8* '''Harrison''':
9* '''Zane's little brother''': A perpetual [[TheChewToy Chew Toy]] to his older brother.
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12!!This series contains examples of:
13* AbnormalLimbRotationRange: Zane turned his head 90° to face his dad.
14* AbusiveParents: Zane's mother beat him when he did not change his baby-sister's diaper.
15* AntiVillain: Harrison.
16* TheAlcoholic: Harrison and Satan, who became drinking-buddies after college.
17* AxCrazy: Both of them.
18* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Harrison formed an impenetrable bodysuit out of his.... thing, during his counter-attack on the French.
19* BlackComedy/ SurrealHumor: [[RuleOfFunny Pretty much runs on this.]]
20* BloodKnight
21* BloodyHilarious: Deconstructed and Inverted, in a way, by using this trope as the intention but being played out in a serious manner.
22* BodyHorror: Zane made a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human/horse hybrid]] out of his little brother.
23* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Harrison picked up and threw a motorcycle as if it was a mere football.
24* TheChewToy: Zane's little brother.
25* CombatPragmatist
26* DeconstructiveParody/ TakeThat: "Awkward moments".
27* DepravedBisexual: Zane.
28* DisproportionateRetribution: Harrison ''destroyed'' a kid who farted while he was trying to do his classwork.
29** In the same story, he also stapled a Platform/GameBoy to the face of a Game Stop employee when he told him they did not have ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee''.
30** The premise of every "Awkward moment".
31* DontGoInTheWoods: The 10/5/12 episode.
32* GenuineHumanHide: Zane applied for a job at UsefulNotes/McDonalds wearing this.
33* GroinAttack: How Harrison had fended off a number of France's troops.
34* HairTriggerTemper
35* HeroicComedicSociopath
36* ImprobableAge: Harrison graduated college some years before the "French Attacks" story took place and it is revealed that he is only ''eight'' years old by the end.
37* KarmaHoudini
38* LifeOfTheParty: {{Satan}}.
39* MoodWhiplash: At least once every paragraph.
40* NoNameGiven: "Zane's little brother" is all he's ever known by.
41* PsychopathicManchild: Averted when they're ''actual'' children in the stories.
42* SanitySlippage: Happens to a man tripped in a deep hole with his beloved wife who then eats her after turning AxCrazy.
43* ShmuckBait: Accepting ANY of the offers Zane gives at the end of his "Awkward moments".
44* TheStoner: Satan again.
45* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Zane's family usually gets killed off in one installment and come back for the next.
46** Zane justifies this, as he claims to have "resurrection powers".
47* TheUnfettered
48* VillainProtagonist
49* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Harrison used powers like these to morph into a bat and freak out his friend.

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