Trope:Play - The Challenge

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Following an idea from Lilith in response to my (very) short story Trope: Averted...

Take a trope (but preferably one that tends to be associated with TG fiction, such as this list I compiled earlier [i.e. about 18 months ago])...

...and either avert it, subvert, invert it or otherwise play with it (the link contains brief examples of each).

Tales can be any length you like, although you may find it easier / quicker to churn out a single page story than a fifty page monster :)

There's no time limit - if you feel inspired, just scribble your story down and post it. To help differentiate it, may I suggest you use the following keyword:

Trope:Play

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I'm a bit slow here

I went to the site linked, and also to Trope of the week video, still not up on what you are suggesting, not a universe but a category or Genre much like video or drabble?

Tropes

Tropes are literary devices - not so much genres in themselves but literary plot devices or motifs. In TG fiction, there are numerous - there are probably at least half a dozen ways in which the victim can be trapped - one of the most common is "caught in the act", but there are other stories where the proverbial "point of no return" is reached with the victim still dressed in male clothes - perhaps she's secretly recorded his crossdressing, or has printed off the stories he's been submitting to TG sites or his online role-play sessions. Away from forced fem, intersex is a fairly common one - the protagonist believes he's TG, but a medical examination reveals the character's actually a fully-functional girl, albeit with a slight reconfiguration of the genitals. Hair removal creams that permanently kill the hair follicle with very little pain within 10 minutes are also fairly common in TG literature.

In terms of more general tropes, one of the most commonly used is "Lampshade hanging": something completely unbelievable happens. So how do you maintain suspension of disbelief? You draw attention to it, in the form of the characters not believing what's going on either! Then there's the "Shout out", a thinly veiled reference to another work of fiction. Paritcularly in fan fiction, you may encounter the "Author avatar", a character that looks suspiciously like an idealised version of the author - taken to extremes it could turn into the dreaded "Mary Sue" - a side character that pops up out of seemingly nowhere, is incredibly beautiful, and solves the problem / kills all the enemies etc. while the supposed heroes just look on and do nothing.

 

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There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't...

As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!

10 types of people?

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Hi Ben,

If base 2 is binary, is base 3 tertiary and base 4 quarnary or perhaps tetrary? Is base 5 quinery or pentary?

with query,

Hope

with love,

Hope

Once in a while I bare my soul, more often my soles bear me.

Base 5

Quinary, according to the fount of all knowledge.

6 is senary, 7 is septenary, 8 is octal, 9 is nonary, 10 is decimal (duh!).
The teens are fairly predictable: undecimal, duodecimal, tridecimal, tetradecimal, pentadecimal, hexadecimal (another base loved by geeks).
I suppose septademical, octadecimal, nonadecimal may be 17-19, although Wiki doesn't mention them.

--B


As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!