The Chosen Ones and Other Tropes

It's weird, creepy and rarely works but we get into the weeds with this one. This trope is pretty toxic.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Un…

It's a weird one to talk about because it only really comes up when it's done badly. Tune in to hear us try and define it, whilst constantly contradicting our own definitions but sort of, vaguely get…

Opposites Attract is a classic but does it need some sprucing up? Can it sometime be used as an excuse to cover up some troubling issues?

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• M…

We all know it from Romeo and Juliet, but we went a bit darker than I think any of us expected in this episode. Maybe it was forbidden for a reason!

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game O…

Always interesting to see people coming together, clashing and eventually overcoming their differences to bond and become closer than they could ever have imagined. Or is it?!

• Naomi Gibson, author o…

Fake dating and relationships come in more shapes and sizes than any of us realised. It's not just Noah Centineo movies!

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, …

Enemies to Lovers to rivals to friends. It's an unending rollercoaster of twists and tales. Tune in to hear about how much we love this trope even though we know it can be very problematic!

• Naomi Gi…

Well paced and satisfying or drawn out and boring. Hear all about how Melissa approached the slow burn romance in her brand new novel, 'My Love Life and the Apocalypse'.

• Naomi Gibson, author of Ever…

To wrap up our first season, we're kicking off our tier list. Tune in for an extra long episode of us arguing about which grade to assign to each of the tropes we've talked about on this, our first s…

Heart-wrenching, infuriating or something else entirely? Here's one we'd never really thought about before but once we started down the rabbit hole, it turned out to be much deeper than expected.

• Na…

Special guest episode! Author and editor Kesia Lupo is here and she's put one of her most disliked to the team. It's the trope of super strong, badass female characters who cannot be stopped but ofte…

"It’s one thing to think that you’re the center of the universe—it’s another thing entirely to have this confirmed by an ancient prophecy."

- Douglas Adams

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, …

Why is it that so many female characters have their journey totally redirected at the last second to make room for a pregnancy. Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it's perfect, but a lot of the time it f…

Sometimes it can feel like there are more orphaned fictional characters than not. But is the trope really all that bad? Naomi and Melissa have both written characters with absentee parents in their b…

What started out as a parody of old school Star Trek fan fiction has transcended its humble origins and evolved into a term that is liberally used to describe hundreds of characters in books, televis…

Shoutout to all of the mentor characters, risking their lives in service of a protagonist who would probably be lost without them! Tune in to hear us chat about the Sean Bean of character archetypes …

A problematic polygon of paramores. Tune in to find out which of us is team Love Triangle!

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of The Undying Tower, M…

Is there such a thing as a reliable narrator? Tune in for our totally 100% reliable ramblings on the subject!

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You & Game Over Girl
• Melissa Welliver, author of …

Bookish, writer friends Jamie, Melissa and Naomi talk about their favourite tropes, their least favourite tropes and everything in between!

• Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You, Game Over Girl
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