Captain Tropea adjusted her eyepatch (a literal plot device that let her see narrative structure). “Crew, we’ve got a trope overload in Sector YA. Set course for the Sea of Subplots.”
“Only if you earn it,” Tropea said, boarding his ship with a cutlass shaped like a red herring. “Now—surrender your plot holes, or we’ll fix them for you.” tv tropes pirates
One foggy evening, the Cliche intercepted a distress signal from a sinking novel: “Help us. The author has fallen into a trope singularity. Too many ‘chosen ones.’ Too many ‘it was all a dreams.’ Send tropes—no, send anti -tropes.” Captain Tropea adjusted her eyepatch (a literal plot
They sailed into a storm of redundancy. Lightning bolts were just deus ex machinas. Waves were rising action that never crested. And there, in the eye of the chaos, floated the Author’s Block , a ghost galleon manned by the spirits of abandoned story ideas. “Now—surrender your plot holes, or we’ll fix them
Tropea grinned. “That’s where you’re wrong. Crew—deploy the Subversion Cannons !”
The author nodded. And somewhere in the distance, a thousand fresh metaphors began to grow.