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6 7Celestial Space School
Interplanetary or intergalactic schools often popular in sci fi
Created: May 5th 2024 at 2:26:25 PM
1 13Ambiguously Sentient Object (set to launch May 20)
An object shows signs of possibly being sentient, but not enough to prove that they are.
Created: Oct 7th 2023 at 2:49:23 AM
2 11Election Denial
When a democratic process is ignored or declared invalid by the losing party. Drama and/or Hilarity Ensues.
Created: May 12th 2024 at 3:44:51 PM
7 23Arts and Crafts Episode (Ready to Launch?)
Episodes where the characters or setting indulges in the world of Fine Art; making it, selling it, learning from it and satirizing it. (adopted by Stoutlyn)
Created: Jun 7th 2022 at 4:45:22 PM
0 7There In Their Head
One character imagines another character is there, visualized by the two actors literally being in the scene together.
Created: May 13th 2024 at 10:37:02 AM
0 9Trickster Transformee (LAST CALL FOR EXAMPLES)
Forcibly transformed characters can only succeed through sneaking and trickery.
Created: May 4th 2024 at 12:57:10 AM
0 11Living Constellation (Launching Sunday)
Constellations depicted as living beings
Created: Apr 7th 2024 at 5:53:02 PM
0 0Webcomic / Peter And Company (1998)
The first continuity of Peter and Company before being rebooted.
Created: 11 hours ago
0 16Do Nothing Housewife
A "housewife" that doesn't actually do any housework. (Launching May 19)
Created: Jan 20th 2024 at 10:16:57 PM
1 8Zener Cards
Cards used in parapsychology to measure Psychic Powers. Often used as a shorthand for psychic tropes.
Created: May 9th 2024 at 9:47:13 PM
0 5Giant Logistics
Great lengths are taken to accommodate, transport, or feed a giant person or animal.
Created: yesterday
6 24Pointlessly Possessive
A character has something they don't need (or want) but refuses to let anyone else have it.
Created: Jan 10th 2019 at 10:47:08 AM
16 20Romanticized Rape (Adopted from MacronNotes)
A rape victim falls in love with the rapist.
Created: Apr 3rd 2024 at 12:25:29 PM
4 1Deliberate Outlier Cap
Making Caps not follow the pattern of other caps of their type, because they apply to something special.
0 28Dying Object Drop Shot
A character's death can be signified by dropping something they were once holding.
Created: Aug 24th 2021 at 9:41:31 AM
2 2Metaphysical Energy Manipulation
The ability to manipulate a metaphysical Power Source.
Created: May 13th 2024 at 8:33:29 PM
1 13Rejecting Help
Help, or an attempt to help, is rejected by the other party.
Created: Apr 29th 2024 at 4:15:27 AM
0 1Mutually-Exclusive Love Triangle Resolution [open to title suggestions]
A Love Triangle resolves with every member of the triangle getting a different link to the object of their affections.
Created: May 13th 2024 at 6:03:31 AM
A Love Triangle resolves with every member of the triangle getting a different link to the object of their affections.
Sponsor: harrietvanger Created: May 13th 2024 at 6:03:31 AM Last reply: 17 hours ago by harrietvanger View draft
0 9Fake Religiosity
Someone joins a religious group/sect for material benefits despite not believing the group's creed
Created: May 15th 2024 at 2:04:43 AM