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helloisalbani
Hive Book Club
2y
Enemies to lovers, age gap, slow burn...? I explain what a literary trope is and the meaning of each one of them! 📚✨[ENG/SPA]
Enemies to lovers, age gap, slow burn...? I explain what a literary trope is and the meaning of each one of them! 📚✨[ENG/SPA]
¿Enemies to lovers, age gap, slow burn...? ¡Te explico qué es un trope y el significado de cada uno de ellos!✨
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doyourselfafavor
Threespeak
3y
What Would We Do Without Air Ducts?
What Would We Do Without Air Ducts?
Well, what would we do without air ducts then? ▶️ 3Speak
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ahmadmangazap
DBuzz
6y
If there's one addiction I should grow out of, is TvTropes addiction. ...
If there's one addiction I should grow out of, is TvTropes addiction. ...
If there's one addiction I should grow out of, is TvTropes addiction. If I opened that website to look up something I could spend 12 hours without noticing! Luckily I was too busy to open it lately.
internutter
fiction
7y
Challenge #02474-F284: Conceptual Pretzel
Challenge #02474-F284: Conceptual Pretzel
The mysterious mentor, the hero's best friend, a cast of stock characters to pad out the story. Have fun or not and pick one with a twist. -- Knitnan [AN: If you're inserting stock characters to pad out
vaughndemont
anime
8y
Deconstructing an Anime Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Deconstructing an Anime Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Source Manic Pixie… what? In 2007, a film critic for The A.V. Club, Nathan Rabin, began a running feature he titled “My Year of Flops”, where he would examine movies that financially or critically bombed
adamwebb
kennethburke
9y
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A Read-Through of Kenneth Burke’s “The Rhetoric of Hitler’s Battle”
A Read-Through of Kenneth Burke’s “The Rhetoric of Hitler’s Battle”
For the original blog on Minds.com - For the full script - ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS
havok777
brainwashed
9y
Gotta Even Fight Back Movies To Not Be Brainwashed By The Tropes
Gotta Even Fight Back Movies To Not Be Brainwashed By The Tropes
The pure embodiment of the trope! Human robots, switches turning on and off. Act like opinion matters, don't like this, only like this. What am I a run ragged individual after all! The romantic dream of
boldnessofsouls
pingpong
9y
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How Ping Pong Uses a Hero Story As Its Basis
How Ping Pong Uses a Hero Story As Its Basis
As the title indicates, this post is about how Ping Pong uses a conventional hero, in an unconventional way mind you, as a means to tell its story. It does this by taking the tropes of generic hero stories
jacobtothe
games
9y
Role Playing Gamer Archetypes
Role Playing Gamer Archetypes
Contrary to some paranoid religious groups, Dungeons and Dragons is not Introductory Satanism 101; and contrary to popular culture depictions, gamers aren't all a bunch of maladjusted nerds. I do agree
cheah
writing
9y
Tired Tropes: It’s Only A Flesh Wound
Tired Tropes: It’s Only A Flesh Wound
You’ve seen versions of the scene a hundred times before. Our Hero is engaged in a gunfight with The Villain. The Villain takes a potshot at Our Hero. Our Hero staggers. When his sidekick catches up with
cheah
writing
9y
How Realistic Should A Story Be?
How Realistic Should A Story Be?
On Facebook, indie thriller group Brass Catchers asked the following question: What may strike me as an offensive oversight of a key feature or fact may not even register on another reader’s radar. So
cheah
writing
10y
Tired Tropes: The Superpowered Loser
Tired Tropes: The Superpowered Loser
Everybody knows That Guy. He’s in the corner in the dorky clothes, his eyes always trained on the floor, either mumbling in hesitant whispers or holding court in long droning tirades. He holds a dead-end
cheah
writing
10y
Tired Tropes: The Potato Protagonist
Tired Tropes: The Potato Protagonist
If a potato has more personality than the protagonist of a story, the writer is doing it wrong. The best stories are driven by their characters. The best characters aren't two-dimensional constructs of
leta-blake
reading
10y
S’up with Leta Blake? Let’s Catch Up! Part One – #KU #newrelease #wakeupmarried
S’up with Leta Blake? Let’s Catch Up! Part One – #KU #newrelease #wakeupmarried
This is Leta Blake. The author of the below books. And I have copied this info over from my usual blog. I'm transitioning things here instead of there. Anyway, I've had a pretty dang busy year in 2016

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