#tropes — Public Fediverse posts
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Same as yesterday. What I read is what I write. #books #tropes #writer #readers #zapwhampow
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Headline : "This new Cyberpunk Game is Studio Ghibli meets Judge Dredd! "
Me: Something tells me you don't actually understand what ~any~ of those chosen identifiers * actually mean *
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19 Overused Tropes, Why We Hate Them, and How to Use Them Better
Writing is fun and reading is arguably even better. But there are a few things that really derail the whole reading experience, at least for me. Sometimes the occasional trope is fun to read and gives the reader a good idea of where the story is headed, but when the same tropes keep appearing everywhere, they start getting way too predictable. And sometimes, they are straight-up harmful to our ideas of relationships (more on that later). These are 19 such tropes and my explanation for why […] -
Tropes and cliches are like pizza and milkshakes and fries. They may not be astounding and new, but they are delicious and we all have our favorites.
So tell me, what's your favorite trope?
https:www.LianaEdits.com?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Editing
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I’ve enjoyed Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, but this fourth season is one-of-each:
E01 time travel, dinosaurs
E02 horror
E03 shore leave comedy
E04 1930s noir + Nazis
E05 ‘it was all a dream’ (+Muppets)Now awaiting:
E06 godlike omnipotent beings
E07 arena combat
E08 ghosts
E09 evil incompetent admiral
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This book has tropes... but what about the plot?
Tropes are a lot of fun, and there are certain ones I'm a sucker for, but I worry that fiction will soon be watered down by them if it hasn't already been.
#Books #Writing #Fiction #Tropes #BryantReview
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This book has tropes... but wh... -
This book has tropes... but what about the plot?
> Tropes are a lot of fun, and there are certain ones I'm a sucker for, but I worry that fiction will soon be watered down by them if it hasn't already been. Ever feel like you're reading the same book over and over again?
#Books #Writing #Fiction #Tropes #BryantReview
https://gardinerbryant.com/tropification-in-fiction/?utm_campaign=widget&utm_source=mastodon
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Cool, a video game about an advanced mysterious civilization that vanished, and no one knows why, but left relics and ruins everywhere.
This videogame trope sounds totally new to me 🥱
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"Levitating" is a song by English singer #DuaLipa from her second studio album, #FutureNostalgia (2020). The song was written by Lipa, #ClarenceCoffeeJr., #SarahHudson, and #Koz, who produced the song with #StuartPrice, and stemmed from a #RolandVP330 #synthesiser sample played by Koz. The song is an #electrodisco and #nudisco track with several #disco #tropes. It incorporates elements of #dancepop, #popfunk, #powerPop and #spaceRock, as well as #1970s, #1980s.
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Writers and readers of Mastodon! What are your favorite 'guilty pleasure' fantasy, horror, or sci-fi tropes?
A big one for me is magic systems that require a flowchart to understand 😅
#writing #reading #books #fantasy #scifi #horror #novels #tropes #guiltypleasure #fantasybooks #scifibooks #horrorbooks
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A trope describes a story element. Almost by definition, stories are made of tropes even plotless randomness is a trope.
Like most things in writing they can be done well or badly. Some are often badly used or overdone. Some are rightly out of fashion through social change.
A trope is not a cliche. Done well, "boy meets girl (etc) but their parents/society disapprove" is not a cliche.
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More on that Blue Square poll/survey...
"More #Americans say questioning the #Holocaust is not #antisemitic and express agreement with anti-#Jewish stereotypes, according to a survey the #BlueSquareAlliance Against Hate released on Thursday.
The #poll of 7,053 #US adults, conducted from March 4 to April 3, found that 32% of respondents said they do not believe questioning the Holocaust is antisemitic, up from 26% in August 2025.
The #survey’s margin of sampling error is ±0.92 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
Agreement with all 10 antisemitic #tropes tracked by the survey—including claims that #Jews control #Hollywood and the #media or are more loyal to #Israel than the #UnitedStates—also increased since summer 2025. The rise in agreement with individual statements ranged from 12% to 38%, according to the survey."
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https://www.helloasso.com/associations/si-pas-maintenant/collectes/k-jeunesse
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Lancement de l'offre jeunesse de la Revue K.(https://k-larevue.com/) : les réalités juives européennes en tourmente expliquées aux adolescentsDepuis cinq ans, K. (https://k-larevue.com/) documente et analyse la situation des Juifs en Europe à travers des reportages, des enquêtes, des analyses et des entretiens.
Les textes exigeants de K. abordent en profondeur les sujets brûlants de l'actualité.
Écrits par des chercheurs, des spécialistes, ils sont peu adaptés à un jeune public.
Ce travail a permis de constituer un corpus unique de connaissances sur l'antisémitisme, la mémoire de la Shoah et les expériences juives d'aujourd'hui. Il était temps de le rendre accessible aux plus jeunes.
Les adolescents sont aujourd'hui en première ligne : à l'école, dans l'actualité, sur les réseaux sociaux.
Ils manquent pourtant de ressources fiables, accessibles pour eux, ajusté au niveau de connaissance d'un collégien ou d'un lycéen d'aujourd'hui en France, à propos de la pédagogie sur l’antisémitisme, l’antisionisme, le conflit israélo-palestinien.
En somme, les réalités juives dans la tourmente.
# Pourquoi ce projet est-il important ?
Pour répondre à une demande que vous êtes nombreux à nous adresser, nous bâtissons, à partir des contenus de la Revue K (https://k-larevue.com/)., une véritable bibliothèque pédagogique de 250 fiches claires, rigoureuses et directement utilisables, qui sera accessible à tous.
Une fiche pourra expliquer, à partir de cas concrets traités par la revue, ce qu'est l'antisionisme et en quoi il se distingue de la critique d'Israël ;
une autre, comment se propage un trope antisémite ;
une autre se demande pourquoi on se bat sur la définition même de ce qu'est l'antisémitisme ;
une autre en quoi la mémoire de la Shoah est-elle menacée ou dévoyée dans certains pays ;
une autre encore explique ce qui signifie la panthéonisation d'un historien comme Marc Bloch (à laquelle la Revue consacre cette semaine un numéro spécial: https://k-larevue.com/dossier-marc-bloch/).
En soutenant ce projet, vous nous aidez à transmettre aux adolescents les connaissances et l'esprit critique dont ils ont besoin pour comprendre ces sujets.
Vos dons sont essentiels pour le mener à bien, qui est la première étape avant une offre vidéo.
# Description des postes de dépenses
## Répartition prévisionnelle du budget
• 60 % – Création des fiches pédagogiques
Adaptation des articles de la Revue, rédaction des fiches et ressources complémentaires.
• 15 % – Comité pédagogique
Constitution et animation d'un comité réunissant des enseignants et spécialistes chargés d'accompagner le projet, de relire les contenus et d'en garantir la qualité pédagogique.
• 15 % – Développement technique
Intégration des fiches sur le site de la Revue K., amélioration de l'expérience utilisateur, accessibilité et maintenance.
• 10 % – Communication et diffusion
Présentation du projet auprès des enseignants, établissements scolaires, CDI et acteurs de la transmission afin de favoriser l'utilisation des ressources.
Chaque euro collecté contribuera à mettre à la disposition des jeunes des ressources rigoureuses sur l'antisémitisme, la mémoire de la Shoah et les réalités juives contemporaines.
# Bénéficiaires finaux de la collecte
Les fonds collectés seront utilisés par l'association Si Pas Maintenant (association éditrice de la Revue k.) pour financer le développement du projet.
Les bénéficiaires directs de la collecte sont les personnes et prestataires mobilisés pour la création des fiches pédagogiques, l'animation du comité pédagogique, le développement technique du projet et sa diffusion auprès des établissements scolaires.
Les bénéficiaires finaux sont les adolescents de 13 à 17 ans, leurs enseignants et leurs parents, qui auront accès à des ressources pédagogiques fiables et adaptées pour aborder l'antisémitisme, la mémoire de la Shoah et les réalités juives contemporaines.
Porteurs du projetL'équipe éditoriale de la Revue K. (https://k-larevue.com/)
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Voir aussi le chapitre "La construction du racisme chez l'enfant" du rapport 2025 de la CNCDH, https://www.cncdh.fr/sites/default/files/2026-06/CNCDH_Rapport%20racisme%202025.pdf, pages 20 à 47)
page 47, https://www.cncdh.fr/sites/default/files/2026-06/CNCDH_Rapport%20racisme%202025.pdf
# Recommandation no 3 : La CNCDH recommande, afin de renforcer la lutte contre la haine en ligne, la généralisation d’une éducation critique et approfondie aux usages numériques, familiarisant avec les algorithmes, la viralité et les dynamiques propres aux réseaux sociaux.
# Recommandation no 4 : La CNCDH recommande de soutenir des recherches pluridisciplinaires et des outils d’analyse permettant de mieux comprendre la fabrique du racisme dès le plus jeune âge et les moyens de lutter contre les préjugés, et d’adosser les politiques publiques à des bases scientifiques robustes.
# Recommandation no 5 : La CNCDH recommande de renforcer la formation initiale des professionnels de la petite enfance et de l’éducation nationale aux
processus de construction des préjugés chez les jeunes enfants.#Formation #Enfants #Adolescents #antisemitisme #antisionisme #tropes #antifas #CNCDH #Tropes #Préjugés
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Trying to find discussion about character-specific mouth shape tropes in manga/anime, and stumbled across this. Not exactly what I was looking for, but I love the sentence:
"Like the majestic flounder, some characters have features that drift to the side of their head."
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The Do-Over (The Miles High Club)
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#romance #books #kindle #fiction #women #literature #booksky #backpacking #love #friends #tropes
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What was the Zoom and Enhance of early 2000 police procedural, is now the perfect hashtag: People use the search function, enter quite random hashtags and immediately, the post, they look for opens.
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"The accusation that #Jews can never truly belong to the countries they call home is one of the oldest #antisemitic #tropes in history. In #Spain Jews were forced to convert to #Catholicism or face expulsion; in #France they were asked to #assimilate by practising their #Judaism in private; and in the #SovietUnion Jews were pressured to abandon religious practice and suppress expressions of #Jewish identity.
No matter how long the Jewish community contributed to a society, we were always suspected of serving someone else.
Time has passed and the language has changed but the accusation has not. For the past three years, I have seen this rhetoric become normalised. #Online forums and comment sections have become a cesspool of antisemitic abuse.
Add to that a layer of #misogyny and violent sexualised comments directed at my partner, and even harm wished upon our newborn baby."
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Fantasy with Friends: Favorite Fantasy Tropes
Briana and Krysta at Pages Unbound are hosting a fantasy discussion meme this year called Fantasy with Friends. Since fantasy is my favorite genre, I thought it would be fun to take part. This week, their question is:
What are some of your favorite fantasy tropes that you never get tired of?
I’ll be honest. I don’t pay much attention to tropes. I don’t pick books based on tropes. I don’t even pay much attention to them when I run across one while reading. I look at every book as a completely separate entity from anything else.
Unfortunately, even if there were tropes I liked and paid attention to, I would probably eventually grow tired of it. There are some parts of my life where I need things to stay the exact same (it makes it easier to keep up with everyone’s schedules and somehow remember to feed everyone and to get the kids to and from school). Then there are others where I just crave something new and different. Books fall right in the middle there. I love it when a story is new and different, but there are some things I do love. For a while, at least.
Of course there are some tropes I do generally enjoy. I like a good chosen one story, but I need the chosen one to be a complicated and complex character. I like found family, but, as a serious introvert, sometimes it feels a little stifling and I need some alone time. I sometimes enjoy a good prophecy, but it’s got to be a really good one that can be read multiple ways. Quests are always fun because I love exploring a world, but I need there to be some kind of time crunch otherwise it feels like a bunch of people frolicking around. Once upon a time I loved magical items. Fantasy had to have magical items. But that was when I was a kid and would eye the frying pan wondering if it was magical and could cook my lunch for me. As an adult, I find it tired and overused and really couldn’t care less if some fancy necklace imparts some great magic.
So, in answer to the question, no, there are no tropes I never get tired of. I eventually get tired of them all, but am more willing to circle back to some over others.
This blog is my home base, but you can also find me on:
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Der #Börsenverein hat ein PDF mit der sog. #GermanTropesList veröffentlicht. Da kann man auch im VLB die Tropes listen lassen (natürlich insbesondere bei #NewAdult). Bei German dachte ich spontan, ah, dann haben sie das jetzt alles umbenannt.
Weit gefehlt: Es sind weiterhin alles englische Begriffe 😅
Wen es interessiert:
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"Levitating" is a song by English singer #DuaLipa from her second studio album, #FutureNostalgia (2020). The song was written by Lipa, #ClarenceCoffeeJr., #SarahHudson, and #Koz, who produced the song with #StuartPrice, and stemmed from a #RolandVP330 #synthesiser sample played by Koz. The song is an #electrodisco and #nudisco track with several disco #tropes. It incorporates elements of #dancepop, #popfunk, #powerPop and #spaceRock, as well as #1970s, #1980s.
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Meanwhile, for your amusement, a study about the depiction of geologists in movies (and the shortage of singing or dancing involved in those depictions)
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Cover Your Story Scaffolding, Or, Grumbling About Monarch Season 2
Really, put in some effort.
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/fncc9
#craft-of-writing #writing #godzilla #plot #story #tropes
https://ideatrash.net/2026/04/cover-your-story-scaffolding-or-grumbling-about-monarch-season-2.html
