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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 1Holding Back Backfire
A character's insistence on holding back in a competition/fight ends up screwing them out of a victory.
Created: May 13th 2024 at 8:26:15 PM
1 4Sounding Silent Letters
Silent letters are pronounced out loud.
Created: May 15th 2024 at 8:00:44 AM
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
2 16Deadly Game Of Chance
A villain uses a game of chance to decide whether a character will be killed, or at least harmed.
Created: Apr 30th 2024 at 2:45:37 PM
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: 1 hour 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
0 9Ill-Timed Infirmity
A character gets sick right before a big event comes up.
Created: yesterday
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
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 13Nonconsensual Pornography
A character has porn of themselves created and released without their consent.(Launching May 20)
Created: May 14th 2024 at 11:55:37 PM
0 42Accidental Pain Guilt
A character accidentally injures someone they care about or gives them a disease and is wracked with guilt.
Created: Feb 21st 2024 at 5:02:54 PM
0 7Big Weapon, Little Wielder
A weapon wielded by someone smaller than would be sensible.
Created: yesterday
0 5Giant Logistics
Great lengths are taken to accommodate, transport, or feed a giant person or animal.
Created: 19 hours ago
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
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
A character has something they don't need (or want) but refuses to let anyone else have it.
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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