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prokopetz:
penguinsdemise:
prokopetz:
prokopetz:
More favourite tropes:
A bureaucratic institution has established forms and procedures for an extraordinarily unlikely event
A character saves the day using a skill they have no excuse for knowing, which they claim to have learned through a mundane hobby or profession
Explaining something patently absurd in a very matter-of-fact way, particularly while referring to the person receiving the explanation as “sir”
A specific object or substance that’s needed to overcome a great danger proves to have been on hand all along in an unrecognised form
A janitor, plumber, or other tradesperson reveals that they’re already aware of some esoteric threat and have dealt with it before
An existential threat is accidentally averted in the course of dealing with an unrelated and much less serious problem
indecisofan replied:
Can you prety prety please do more of these i love them.
I’ve done like a million of ‘em already. A few past highlights:
Shipping tropes
Size/scale tropes
Tabletop RPG tropes
Dialogue meme tropes
Weirdly specific tropes
Characterisation tropes
Incongruity-based tropes
Over/understatement tropes
When I saw ‘shipping tropes’ my first thought was ‘tropes about the transport of goods’. Not sure what this says about me.
Favourite shipping tropes:
A courier shows up to deliver an addressed parcel to an unlikely location – e.g., on the Moon – with no clear indication of how they got there
A postal worker casually evades or shrugs off various perils because Neither Rain Nor Snow Nor Et Cetera.
A character is asked to sign for delivery of an extremely large number of something no reasonable person would ever need nearly that many of
Enormous shipping containers that, when opened, prove to contain a single very small item
A parcel service is contracted to deliver an item at a specific time and place decades or centuries hence and actually follows through
A protagonist saves on transport or infiltrates a secure location by mailing themselves in a large crate
Being tasked to deliver a box with strict instructions not to open it, and – of course – opening it to discover something that Changes Everything™
A perilous or emotionally fraught confrontation interrupted by an indifferent postal worker looking for a signature
A character accidentally falls into an open shipping container moments before it’s sealed for transport and is sent to some remote locale
Address label mixups, particularly when it’s implausible that one of the parties involved would have a posted mailing address
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prokopetz:
penguinsdemise:
prokopetz:
prokopetz:
More favourite tropes:
A bureaucratic institution has established forms and procedures for an extraordinarily unlikely event
A character saves the day using a skill they have no excuse for knowing, which they claim to have learned through a mundane hobby or profession
Explaining something patently absurd in a very matter-of-fact way, particularly while referring to the person receiving the explanation as “sir”
A specific object or substance that’s needed to overcome a great danger proves to have been on hand all along in an unrecognised form
A janitor, plumber, or other tradesperson reveals that they’re already aware of some esoteric threat and have dealt with it before
An existential threat is accidentally averted in the course of dealing with an unrelated and much less serious problem
indecisofan replied:Can you prety prety please do more of these i love them.
I’ve done like a million of ‘em already. A few past highlights:
Shipping tropes
Size/scale tropes
Tabletop RPG tropes
Dialogue meme tropes
Weirdly specific tropes
Characterisation tropes
Incongruity-based tropes
Over/understatement tropes
When I saw ‘shipping tropes’ my first thought was ‘tropes about the transport of goods’. Not sure what this says about me.
Favourite shipping tropes:
A courier shows up to deliver an addressed parcel to an unlikely location – e.g., on the Moon – with no clear indication of how they got there
A postal worker casually evades or shrugs off various perils because Neither Rain Nor Snow Nor Et Cetera.
A character is asked to sign for delivery of an extremely large number of something no reasonable person would ever need nearly that many of
Enormous shipping containers that, when opened, prove to contain a single very small item
A parcel service is contracted to deliver an item at a specific time and place decades or centuries hence and actually follows through
A protagonist saves on transport or infiltrates a secure location by mailing themselves in a large crate
Being tasked to deliver a box with strict instructions not to open it, and – of course – opening it to discover something that Changes Everything™
A perilous or emotionally fraught confrontation interrupted by an indifferent postal worker looking for a signature
A character accidentally falls into an open shipping container moments before it’s sealed for transport and is sent to some remote locale
Address label mixups, particularly when it’s implausible that one of the parties involved would have a posted mailing address
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