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  1. Wait are Biblical Adam and Eve the first ever 'Soulmates ' ?

    It never occured to me that the trope is sooooo old. ?

    #Trope #SoulMate

  2. The "take me to your leader" #trope assumes that #aliens have a concept of #hierachy

  3. @glynmoody
    #SciFi Clarke suggested we need 3 communication satellites. #GEO
    #MurrayLeinster wrote "Space station" suggesting one would be launched in #LEO
    #StanleyKubrick showed us one big wheel in #2001

    #Computronium is a #trope A solar system becoming concentric shells and rejecting waste heat as infrared.

    #KenMacleod posited a green tinge spreading from a point as stars were surrounded by orbiting habitats, bubbles with airtrees.

    I think Bezos may be premature and excessive.

  4. @glynmoody
    #SciFi Clarke suggested we need 3 communication satellites. #GEO
    #MurrayLeinster wrote "Space station" suggesting one would be launched in #LEO
    #StanleyKubrick showed us one big wheel in #2001

    #Computronium is a #trope A solar system becoming concentric shells and rejecting waste heat as infrared.

    #KenMacleod posited a green tinge spreading from a point as stars were surrounded by orbiting habitats, bubbles with airtrees.

    I think Bezos may be premature and excessive.

  5. Mon #vendredilecture avec un peu d'avance...

    𝐉'𝐚𝐢 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭é 𝐥𝐚 #𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 !
    Je me suis promis de tester pour sortir de mes habitudes de #lecture .
    𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧:
    👉 Un début agréable. De l'humour. Le #trope est le #fakedating ( les deux protagonistes font croire qu'ils sont ensemble et se prennent finalement au jeu). Une ambiance bien construite de comédie romantique.
    👉 C'est certes caricatural, mais je l'ai lu très vite et avec plaisir. Un genre léger, parfois drôle, avec des personnages charmants.
    #amour #TheLoveHypothesis #livres #RomanceContemporaine #romance

  6. Oh boy... we've crossed some kinda threshold here. 👀

    "At a political event in #SanFrancisco on Wednesday afternoon, individuals present chanting “tax the rich” switched their chant to “tax the #Jews,” San Francisco Mayor #DanielLurie stated.

    “This was an event I put on with [District Five] Supervisor [Bilal] #Mahmood, labor leaders, and dozens of workers to announce a plan that creates more jobs for those workers and housing for #SanFranciscans,” #Lurie said of the event in a post to X/Twitter.

    “Suggesting that Jews are wealthy is a tired #trope, and targeting our community at an event focused on creating economic opportunity for San Franciscans is decidedly #antisemitic,” the Democratic mayor added."

    jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitis

  7. Oh boy... we've crossed some kinda threshold here. 👀

    "At a political event in #SanFrancisco on Wednesday afternoon, individuals present chanting “tax the rich” switched their chant to “tax the #Jews,” San Francisco Mayor #DanielLurie stated.

    “This was an event I put on with [District Five] Supervisor [Bilal] #Mahmood, labor leaders, and dozens of workers to announce a plan that creates more jobs for those workers and housing for #SanFranciscans,” #Lurie said of the event in a post to X/Twitter.

    “Suggesting that Jews are wealthy is a tired #trope, and targeting our community at an event focused on creating economic opportunity for San Franciscans is decidedly #antisemitic,” the Democratic mayor added."

    jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitis

  8. Oh boy... we've crossed some kinda threshold here. 👀

    "At a political event in #SanFrancisco on Wednesday afternoon, individuals present chanting “tax the rich” switched their chant to “tax the #Jews,” San Francisco Mayor #DanielLurie stated.

    “This was an event I put on with [District Five] Supervisor [Bilal] #Mahmood, labor leaders, and dozens of workers to announce a plan that creates more jobs for those workers and housing for #SanFranciscans,” #Lurie said of the event in a post to X/Twitter.

    “Suggesting that Jews are wealthy is a tired #trope, and targeting our community at an event focused on creating economic opportunity for San Franciscans is decidedly #antisemitic,” the Democratic mayor added."

    jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitis

  9. Oh boy... we've crossed some kinda threshold here. 👀

    "At a political event in #SanFrancisco on Wednesday afternoon, individuals present chanting “tax the rich” switched their chant to “tax the #Jews,” San Francisco Mayor #DanielLurie stated.

    “This was an event I put on with [District Five] Supervisor [Bilal] #Mahmood, labor leaders, and dozens of workers to announce a plan that creates more jobs for those workers and housing for #SanFranciscans,” #Lurie said of the event in a post to X/Twitter.

    “Suggesting that Jews are wealthy is a tired #trope, and targeting our community at an event focused on creating economic opportunity for San Franciscans is decidedly #antisemitic,” the Democratic mayor added."

    jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitis

  10. Oh boy... we've crossed some kinda threshold here. 👀

    "At a political event in #SanFrancisco on Wednesday afternoon, individuals present chanting “tax the rich” switched their chant to “tax the #Jews,” San Francisco Mayor #DanielLurie stated.

    “This was an event I put on with [District Five] Supervisor [Bilal] #Mahmood, labor leaders, and dozens of workers to announce a plan that creates more jobs for those workers and housing for #SanFranciscans,” #Lurie said of the event in a post to X/Twitter.

    “Suggesting that Jews are wealthy is a tired #trope, and targeting our community at an event focused on creating economic opportunity for San Franciscans is decidedly #antisemitic,” the Democratic mayor added."

    jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitis

  11. Wherein Jewish Currents creates a mysterious question about Jewish identity that falls into the trope they describe. So fucking dumb. Jew knows Jews is not weird.

    "Faced with this old #antisemitic #trope of a wealthy, sexually perverse #Jewish #cabal that controls the interlocking worlds of #finance, #media, #academia, and #politics, we can bring a corrective clarity by pointing instead to #capitalism itself as the #conspiracy; we can also locate Epstein within a much broader and not distinctly Jewish #elite network that is bound together not by a shared identity but by a deep #misogyny and desire to protect powerful men from accountability for #sexualmisconduct and crimes. What’s less clear, however, is what to make of the many banal markers of Jewish identity that run through the story Epstein and his friends told about themselves. One can recognize a nostalgic, almost kitschy relationship to Jewish identity that plenty of ordinary #Jews tend to indulge in."

    jewishcurrents.org/the-line-be

  12. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    In the jungles of central Klatch there are, indeed, lost kingdoms of mysterious Amazonian princesses who capture male explorers for specifically masculine duties. These are indeed rigorous and exhausting and the luckless victims do not last long.*
     
    * This is because wiring plugs, putting up shelves, sorting out the funny noises in attics, and mowing lawns can eventually reduce even the strongest constitution.

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld No. 9, Eric (1990)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8226…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #eric #amazons #battleofthesexes #chores #genderroles #household #males #masculinity #men #trope #women #jungle

  13. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    In the jungles of central Klatch there are, indeed, lost kingdoms of mysterious Amazonian princesses who capture male explorers for specifically masculine duties. These are indeed rigorous and exhausting and the luckless victims do not last long.*
     
    * This is because wiring plugs, putting up shelves, sorting out the funny noises in attics, and mowing lawns can eventually reduce even the strongest constitution.

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld No. 9, Eric (1990)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8226…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #eric #amazons #battleofthesexes #chores #genderroles #household #males #masculinity #men #trope #women #jungle

  14. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    In the jungles of central Klatch there are, indeed, lost kingdoms of mysterious Amazonian princesses who capture male explorers for specifically masculine duties. These are indeed rigorous and exhausting and the luckless victims do not last long.*
     
    * This is because wiring plugs, putting up shelves, sorting out the funny noises in attics, and mowing lawns can eventually reduce even the strongest constitution.

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld No. 9, Eric (1990)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8226…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #eric #amazons #battleofthesexes #chores #genderroles #household #males #masculinity #men #trope #women #jungle

  15. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    In the jungles of central Klatch there are, indeed, lost kingdoms of mysterious Amazonian princesses who capture male explorers for specifically masculine duties. These are indeed rigorous and exhausting and the luckless victims do not last long.*
     
    * This is because wiring plugs, putting up shelves, sorting out the funny noises in attics, and mowing lawns can eventually reduce even the strongest constitution.

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld No. 9, Eric (1990)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8226…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #eric #amazons #battleofthesexes #chores #genderroles #household #males #masculinity #men #trope #women #jungle

  16. 5 Romance Books That Subvert Common Tropes

    These romance books subvert romance novel tropes by playing around with reader expectations and creating unique story elements.
    bookriot.com/romance-books-tha

    #KissingBooks #RomanceErotica #AllAccess #romancetropes #trope

  17. a #revolutionary character/leader of a #rebellion later becoming a #cop is the #WORST #trope on the planet don’t piss me off !!!

  18. Random sci-fi idea. Public domain, feel free to use.

    The Thing, but it's invading a radiotelescope astronomy station. The "tell" is that the superorganism cells communicate by some kind of wifi while they are assimilating (once they finish doing their thing, they can "close up" the signal and communicate internally so they stop leaking radio).

    The survivors trace back assimilation instances by going over their radio logs and realizing the unexplained "WOW" signals they've been exploring / trying to filter were instances of their colleagues being taken over.

    (Bonus points if the particular radio leakage also sounds like that interference you can get on badly-grounded heaphones with a cord just the right length when someone's cellphone picks up a phone call. youtube.com/watch?v=uPYyrS7fc7g)

    #scifi #fiction #trope

  19. A quotation from Terrance Dicks

    BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: You know, just once I’d like to meet an alien menace that wasn’t immune to bullets.

    Terrance Dicks (1935-2019) English screenwriter, author [pseud. Robin Bland]
    Doctor Who (1963), 12×01 “Robot,” Part 4 (1975-01-18)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/dicks-terrance/4640/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrancedicks #doctorwho #fourthdoctor #alien #bulletproof #firearms #trope #immunity #military

  20. A quotation from Terrance Dicks

    BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: You know, just once I’d like to meet an alien menace that wasn’t immune to bullets.

    Terrance Dicks (1935-2019) English screenwriter, author [pseud. Robin Bland]
    Doctor Who (1963), 12×01 “Robot,” Part 4 (1975-01-18)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/dicks-terrance/4640/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrancedicks #doctorwho #fourthdoctor #alien #bulletproof #firearms #trope #immunity #military

  21. A quotation from Terrance Dicks

    BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: You know, just once I’d like to meet an alien menace that wasn’t immune to bullets.

    Terrance Dicks (1935-2019) English screenwriter, author [pseud. Robin Bland]
    Doctor Who (1963), 12×01 “Robot,” Part 4 (1975-01-18)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/dicks-terrance/4640/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrancedicks #doctorwho #fourthdoctor #alien #bulletproof #firearms #trope #immunity #military

  22. A quotation from Terrance Dicks

    BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: You know, just once I’d like to meet an alien menace that wasn’t immune to bullets.

    Terrance Dicks (1935-2019) English screenwriter, author [pseud. Robin Bland]
    Doctor Who (1963), 12×01 “Robot,” Part 4 (1975-01-18)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/dicks-terrance/4640/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrancedicks #doctorwho #fourthdoctor #alien #bulletproof #firearms #trope #immunity #military

  23. The women in refrigerators #trope I took literally at first cos one show had a woman cryogenically frozen.

    #writing #stories

  24. #PennedPossibilities 780 — Do you have any favorite tropes (not clichés) that you enjoy writing?

    I'm not altogether sure what a #trope is.

    Dictionaries define it as a figure of speech, the use of words in a non-literal sense. But people (myself included) have tended to use it to mean something like a theme or motif. Perhaps it is something writers need more clarity on

    #writing #writingcommunity #tropes

  25. #Reading
    Alright, I have a question about a trope I have come across now twice in book descriptions and I have absolutely no idea what it is supposed to mean:
    "Who did this to you?"

    What's the subtext here?
    "Tell me who it was so I can punish them?"
    Or is it more general: "Who would ever do such a thing to a person?"
    Or does it means something else?

    #tropes #trope #writingcommunity

  26. 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: 𝑰𝒏 𝑫𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒚 -

    Riddle: What do Beowulf, Palmolive dish liquid, and Sarah Maas have in common? Hint: Ursula K. Le Guin knows!

    waywordsstudio.com/.../way.../

    #podcast #literature #books #bookworm #book #read #readreadread #ursulakleguin #jrrtolkien #lordoftherings #epics #art #gilgamesh #homer #amadisofgaula #beowulf #dungeonsanddragons #williammorris #lorddunsany #genre #trope

  27. 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: 𝑰𝒏 𝑫𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒚 -

    Riddle: What do Beowulf, Palmolive dish liquid, and Sarah Maas have in common? Hint: Ursula K. Le Guin knows!

    waywordsstudio.com/.../way.../

    #podcast #literature #books #bookworm #book #read #readreadread #ursulakleguin #jrrtolkien #lordoftherings #epics #art #gilgamesh #homer #amadisofgaula #beowulf #dungeonsanddragons #williammorris #lorddunsany #genre #trope

  28. 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: 𝑰𝒏 𝑫𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒚 -

    Riddle: What do Beowulf, Palmolive dish liquid, and Sarah Maas have in common? Hint: Ursula K. Le Guin knows!

    waywordsstudio.com/.../way.../

    #podcast #literature #books #bookworm #book #read #readreadread #ursulakleguin #jrrtolkien #lordoftherings #epics #art #gilgamesh #homer #amadisofgaula #beowulf #dungeonsanddragons #williammorris #lorddunsany #genre #trope

  29. 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: 𝑰𝒏 𝑫𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒚 -

    Riddle: What do Beowulf, Palmolive dish liquid, and Sarah Maas have in common? Hint: Ursula K. Le Guin knows!

    waywordsstudio.com/.../way.../

    #podcast #literature #books #bookworm #book #read #readreadread #ursulakleguin #jrrtolkien #lordoftherings #epics #art #gilgamesh #homer #amadisofgaula #beowulf #dungeonsanddragons #williammorris #lorddunsany #genre #trope

  30. 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: 𝑰𝒏 𝑫𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒚 -

    Riddle: What do Beowulf, Palmolive dish liquid, and Sarah Maas have in common? Hint: Ursula K. Le Guin knows!

    waywordsstudio.com/.../way.../

    #podcast #literature #books #bookworm #book #read #readreadread #ursulakleguin #jrrtolkien #lordoftherings #epics #art #gilgamesh #homer #amadisofgaula #beowulf #dungeonsanddragons #williammorris #lorddunsany #genre #trope

  31. 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑲𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑴𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝑺𝒉𝒆𝒍 𝑺𝒊𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒊𝒏: 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 -

    What do a children’s story and horror film have in common? Maybe our Suffering Child question, with very different approaches to it.

    waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/wa

    #podcast #literature #books #bookworm #book #read
    #stephenking #stormofthecentury #shelsilverstein #thegivingtree #formalism #genre #medium #trope #cliche #stereotype #formulafiction

  32. 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑲𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑴𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝑺𝒉𝒆𝒍 𝑺𝒊𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒊𝒏: 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 -

    What do a children’s story and horror film have in common? Maybe our Suffering Child question, with very different approaches to it.

    waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/wa

    #podcast #literature #books #bookworm #book #read
    #stephenking #stormofthecentury #shelsilverstein #thegivingtree #formalism #genre #medium #trope #cliche #stereotype #formulafiction

  33. A quotation from Ben Aaronovitch

    The original single-bulb light fittings had been ripped out and their cables rerouted to power a single line of fluorescent tubes. In accordance with the iron law of creepy ambience, every third or fourth tube was either out or flickering fitfully.

    Ben Aaronovitch (b. 1964) British author
    Amongst Our Weapons (2022)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/aaronovitch-ben/7698…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambiance #creepiness #lighting #spookiness #trope

  34. A quotation from Ben Aaronovitch

    The original single-bulb light fittings had been ripped out and their cables rerouted to power a single line of fluorescent tubes. In accordance with the iron law of creepy ambience, every third or fourth tube was either out or flickering fitfully.

    Ben Aaronovitch (b. 1964) British author
    Amongst Our Weapons (2022)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/aaronovitch-ben/7698…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambiance #creepiness #lighting #spookiness #trope

  35. A quotation from Ben Aaronovitch

    The original single-bulb light fittings had been ripped out and their cables rerouted to power a single line of fluorescent tubes. In accordance with the iron law of creepy ambience, every third or fourth tube was either out or flickering fitfully.

    Ben Aaronovitch (b. 1964) British author
    Amongst Our Weapons (2022)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/aaronovitch-ben/7698…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambiance #creepiness #lighting #spookiness #trope

  36. [Archive — 2023] CFPD: Crime Scene Investigation Mystery

    Vous n'aimez pas les séries policières qui alignent les clichés ? Alors cette BD est faite pour vous.

    ▶️ Lire cette BD : grisebouille.net/cfpd-crime-sc
    📗 Le livre best of : editions.ptilouk.net/gb10ans
    ❤️ Soutien : ptilouk.net/#soutien

    #archive #BD #GriseBouille #humour #cliché #trope #lieuCommun #série #TV

  37. [Archive — 2023] CFPD: Crime Scene Investigation Mystery

    Vous n'aimez pas les séries policières qui alignent les clichés ? Alors cette BD est faite pour vous.

    ▶️ Lire cette BD : grisebouille.net/cfpd-crime-sc
    📗 Le livre best of : editions.ptilouk.net/gb10ans
    ❤️ Soutien : ptilouk.net/#soutien

    #archive #BD #GriseBouille #humour #cliché #trope #lieuCommun #série #TV

  38. [Archive — 2023] CFPD: Crime Scene Investigation Mystery

    Vous n'aimez pas les séries policières qui alignent les clichés ? Alors cette BD est faite pour vous.

    ▶️ Lire cette BD : grisebouille.net/cfpd-crime-sc
    📗 Le livre best of : editions.ptilouk.net/gb10ans
    ❤️ Soutien : ptilouk.net/#soutien

    #archive #BD #GriseBouille #humour #cliché #trope #lieuCommun #série #TV

  39. It seems to be a common family #trope that parents have (or may appear to have) favourites amongst their children.
    It seems to work in reverse.
    My 7 year old great nephew has let it be known that although he loves his dad, he likes his mum better.

  40. What's the deal with hiding the McGuffin information in the lost Library of Doom, beyond the Temple of Death, and leaving obscure clues to find it, only in Times of Great Need?

    If it's instructions to activate the planet-saving thingy, or to destroy the elder evil god, publish that shit everywhere. Make songs and copies and festivals so it's never forgotten.

    If it's bad stuff that ends the world, why save it at all?

    You want it found and known, or you don't.

    #Fiction #trope #book #writing

  41. #WritersCoffeeClub Ch 16 Nbr 13 — What’s your favourite trope? Do you lean into it for your work or shy away?

    I've little interest in tropes, which I see as cliched bits of plot found frequently enough that a critic (read: not an author) decided could be well summarized in a few words. In my opinion, every plot has been written before, as has every character archetype.

    As authors, we should feel no shame, no angst, no fear borrowing ideas wherever we find them. We need combine our discovered treasures with whatever message and character moves us, and write. The self-harm of measuring against tropes, other authors, or critics needs be discarded for what it is: procrastination and insecurity. It stifles us from writing, it prevents us from realizing our characters' dreams when that's what we truly desire.

    [Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

    #BoostingIsSharing and #CommentingIsCool

    #gender #fiction #writer #author
    #WritingAdvice
    #writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
    #RSdiscussion #Trope #Tropes

  42. The disheveled teacher greedily hunting money for their school seem to be a C-drama trope. Frankly, I prefer that one over the schlaraffenland-adjacent British boarding school trope. Few of us went to Eton, many of us have attended worn down schools coldshouldered by financiers.

    #LegendOfAwakening #trope #CDrama #xianxia