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Go Deep!
Oh the cliches, let me count the ways.... The Fiery Redhead The Brainy Brunette The Dumb Blond The Hot Blooded Hero The Overbearing Father And on and on and on…. Cliches, types, stereotypes, tro… more →
Sturm und Drang
LittleBigPlanet, Mega Essays and Modern Warfare
jdotspeed wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve been splitting my leisure time (that isn’t spent on recording music) between LBP an … more →
TvTropes Fic
reyendo wrote 3 weeks ago: I love TvTropes, and I was recently linked to this fanfic that anthropomorphizes the site and applie … more →
Go Deep!
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ralfast wrote 3 weeks ago: Oh the cliches, let me count the ways.... The Fiery Redhead The Brainy Brunette The Dumb Blond The H … more →
BVM vs. LHC
Eoin wrote 1 month ago: Reading this article on the NY Times this morning and considering all that has been vituperatively t … more →
Tsubasacon Review
The History Follower wrote 1 month ago: I went to Tsubasacon back on the 9-11th of October in Huntington, West Virginia. It’s sort of … more →
The Creebobby Comics Archetype Times Tables
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s2tephen wrote 1 month ago: “Comics Archetype Times Tables” by Creebobby/Jacob Borshard (via TVTropes) Or, as I like … more →
Etymology of the Zombie Film, and Zombieland's place
hoomanbeink wrote 1 month ago: My Zombieland post comes a little late. So sue me. It’s a big claim to call a zombie movie ori … more →
For the Inspirationally Challenged - Writing Exercise for Harried Poets
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manicddaily wrote 1 month ago: For those, like me, who want to write but have limited time and mental space, inspiration can be dif … more →
Where the Rough Pseudepigraphal God of War Meetings Are!
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Edward Cheever wrote 1 month ago: Okay, this post is going to be a little more rambling than my usual weekend posts. Mostly because I … more →
The Idea Store - The Laws
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bigwords88 wrote 2 months ago: While I was searching through my folders looking for suitable stuff to share, and there are many, ma … more →
Phantasia and Tropes #2
Dary wrote 2 months ago: This week, Lots and Lots of Characters! There are a lot of characters in Phantasia. Yeah, it was int … more →
The Devil came down to Maine one day
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Ben Godby wrote 2 months ago: I just finished reading Stephen King’s “Needful Things,” the first of Stephen King … more →
Argile and Sven discuss the psychological ramifications of sword-based home defense.
Sven wrote 2 months ago: 8:53 AM Argile: help! It’s like viral poison! http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomeP … more →
Speeding
myrkr wrote 3 months ago: “It started with me taking a seat at my computer. It was around noon then. You see, I was really cra … more →
The Call of Prophecy
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ralfast wrote 3 months ago: I like prophecies (at least in fiction). They make for great story telling frames. They are an easy … more →
At the barrel of a gun
Ben Godby wrote 3 months ago: I’ve seen two sci-fi movies in the past week: District 9 and GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra. D9 had … more →
Mighty Whitey
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abagond wrote 3 months ago: Mighty Whitey (1700s- ) is where the main character of a story is white and saves people of colour … more →
demon/strates
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eatslifefruit wrote 3 months ago: Erase/incise it like this: Demonstrates, and it becomes a concept of designifying erasure. I … more →
Woodstock and the myth of the Sixties
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godardsletterboxes wrote 3 months ago: So it is 40 years since Woodstock, which means we get people (who are cultural theory academics appa … more →
