Urban Fantasy Bingo

1. Main character dates a serial killer but the show thinks he’s just a complicated bad boy
2. Codependent siblings
3. Rampant unintended homosexual tension
4. Incest
5. Creepy dolls
6. Exploitative shots of dead teenage girl’s corpse
7. Narrative unsympathetic when bitchy teenage girls gets murdered
8. Parent or significant other in law enforcement
9. Shady big pharma
10. Ugly and/or disabled girl with no personality flaws
11. Amnesia
12. Black best friend (bonus points if gay)
13. Love interest with no personality besides fucking and sports
14. Love interest with no personality besides being embroiled in supernatural bullshit
15. Someone dies during sex
16. Main character commits rape but narrative refuses to acknowledge it as anything but angsty manpain behavior
17. Randomly excellent episode in an otherwise lackluster show
18. Writer’s room fetishist on display
19. Bodyswap/bodysnatch/shapeshift/possession
20. Everyone cares about the blood feud
21. Hundred-year-old urban legends or local history shockingly relevant to small town youths
22. Narrative clumsily attempts to make serial killer sympathetic
23. “the ugly one” played by a hollywood ten
24. Mortal threat to a character’s life during a sports game
25. Murder at prom
26. Super special chosen one and/or ancient prophecy
27. Writers convinced that remorse is the same as redemption
28. Love triangle
29. Snarky put-downs towards clear sources of inspiration
30. Love interests swap because the bad boy character was too interesting to the audience
31. Musical episode
32. Fictional classic monster actually existed in-universe
33. Character witnesses an alternate timeline where they didn’t exist and/or died
34. Character comes back as a ghost but gets no speaking lines so the show could save on the acting fee
35. Evil twin
36. Reincarnated true love
37. Super sexy high femme who’s actually 200 years old
38. Manic monster dream girl
39. Weird hybrids
40. Masquerade ball
41. Characters in class receive a lecture on a topic relevant to the episode
42. Flashback episode
43. Villain has a weird kink
44. Illegitimate lovechild
45. Abusive parent has a favorite child
46. Someone cuts their palm for a blood sacrifice
47. Someone sacrifices a pet for an evil ritual
48. Black witches have more power
49. Scene at the morgue
50. Teenage alcoholism
51. Regular alcoholism
52. Visible manifestations of someone’s guilt and/or plot exposition in the form of dead loved ones
53. Dead perfect significant other
54. Characters get caught doing something and give transparently fake names of celebrities or pop culture references
55. Musical sequence that exists only to show that an actor can dance, sing or play an instrument
56. CPR brings someone back to life and doesn’t break any ribs
57. Character discovers secret power at last second before they almost die
58. Secret society has a ritual to decide who is the head honcho monster
59. Incongruous musical choice
60. Someone has a dark side/evil blood/a prophecy that they’ll go evil
61. Someone turns into a violent sociopath because they lose their soul and/or humanity
62. Somebody bleeds out the eyes or mouth, or has a nosebleed that someone else has to call attention to
63. Significant other hunts what you are
64. Halloween episode
65. “You tried to kill me and that takes grit, I’m proud of you”
66. “There’s nothing on the other side when you die” especially if we know ghosts exist
67. Inconsistent ghost rules
68. The enemy of my bigger enemy
69. Head in a box
70. Cold opening of teenagers getting eaten because of a dare, bonus points for haunted house
71. Racist one-off criminal encounter
72. “Cool costume, bro” to an actual monster
73. Halloween costumes significant to role character plays in the story
74. Wise mentor figure with colorful past and parental affection towards protagonist
75. The one normal guy who keeps getting pulled into bullshit
76. Everybody in the cast dates each other as the writer’s room tries to figure out what the fans want
77. Immortal character put in a box
78. Non-human has to pass as human…badly
79. Ancient character has to adjust to modern day
80. Random regular human with an axe to grind
81. Bait and switch big bad at the end of the story, turns out to actually be a main cast member having a meltdown after taking out villain
82. Head of the secret council actually an evil puppet master
83. Police scanner
84. Debilititis
85. People randomly discovering superpowers around puberty
86. Character that main character hates for no good reason turns out to be evil all along
87. Plot-relevant celestial event
88. Someone telekinetically forces people to turn their guns on each other or themselves
89. Badly-pronounced French
90. The apocalypse originates in this small podunk-ass town
91. Unreasonable hometown pride
92. Latin as the mother tongue of magic
93. Local police covering up for high monster murder rate
94. Single parent is overworked medical practitioner
95. Guardian is not yet ready for this level of responsibility
96. Someone turned out to have a child they didn’t know about
97. Weird pregnancy (bonus if no sex actually happened)
98. Someone’s kid gets aged up to skip working with a child actor
99. Somebody sends their child “away” to keep them from getting embroiled in the bullshit and then they get embroiled in the bullshit anyway
100. Descendants of an immortal
101. Resurrection with no consequences
102. Resurrection or healing with consequences will haunt the protagonist
103. Protagonist has at least one dead parent
104. A friend of the main cast dies in the pilot
105. Candlelight vigil for a high school student
106. Fucked up mother-son dynamics
107. Daddy issues
108. “Fear makes the meat taste better” and/or “I like to watch them scream”
109. Souls get sold and/or girls get married to Satan
110. Deal with the devil turns you into a ticking time bomb
111. “you worded your wish wrong”
112. Alternate reality without magic
113. Real-world religions or spiritual practices treated as monsters of the week
114. All myths contain a grain of truth
115. Someone attacks a wedding
116. Mundane who really wants to be a monster
117. Redhead
118. Feral child raised by wolves
119. Bitchy cheerleader
120. Characters go undercover at a school
121. Mental institution episode
122. Protagonist framed for murder
123. Cold open of dog-walker getting eaten while dog runs away
124. Show starts off with missing or murdered girl
125. Animal motif or animal companion
126. Non-human but non-animal sidekick
127. “The council sent me to give you exposition”
128. Secret society of hunters
129. The Corporation
130. Death by bees
131. Jumpscare
132. Douchebro thinks he’s getting seduced but is actually about to get eaten
133. Siblings have pronounced disagreements over how to feel about their absentee parent
134. Deep South
135. Magic can solve everything except cancer
136. Beautiful sprawling mansion
137. Musical sequence intercutting one couple having sex and someone else dying or doing something else dramatic
138. Safehouse and/or bunker
139. “s/he was just trying to protect you” used as a justification for abjectly abusive parenting
140. Family with oodles of generational wealth
141. Groundhog Day Episode
142. Random skull in dark place
143. Someone punches a mirror
144. Black blood
145. Weird eye color signifies supernatural status
146. Wicker Man episode
147. Pagan gods
148. Faith healer
149. Couple going on a date gets eaten
150. Someone gets murdered in a church
151. Villain boasts that “maybe that works on wimpy monsters, but not me”
152. Chasing the murderer through a house of mirrors
153. Diner
154. Episode titles named after songs or famous books
155. Supernatural war
156. Getting out of a Faustian bargain
157. Someone wakes up tied to a chair at an insane dinner party full of corpses

the-spoopy-ghost-of-raejin99:

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mycoolstoryworld:

lennythepope:

y’all really recommend books like: title, there are gay characters, enemies to lovers, young adult, written by poc

not once do i ever see a summary

What more info do you need?

A SUMMARY

WHAT DO U MENA SUMMARY WHAT ELSE MATTERS ITS GAY POC AND ENEMIES TO LOVERS HOW OFTEN DO U CONE ACROSS THAT

i want to know what its about mainly. is it a romance? is there plot besides the romance? is it realistic fiction? sci fi? fantasy? historical? future? alternate history? whats the tone? what are the themes? what are the main characters’ NAMES?

I- it’s gay the gay

i value queer characters too. but i also want to know WHAT THE BOOK I’M READING IS ABOUT.

“GAY AND/OR RACIALLY DIVERSE” IS NOT A GENRE. nor is it an indicator of quality

do you know how many times I’ve been recommended a book solely because “it’s queer fantasy!”

do you know how many times those books have been so poorly written that I couldn’t finish them

Mostly, I want to know the tone. A 19th century war story isn’t gonna do it for me when I’m in the mood for a lighthearted austenesque romance - and those are both historical. A star warsy space romp isn’t gonna do it if I want to read about interplanetary political negotiations - and those are both sci fi. A fun gratuitious don’t-think-about-it-too-hard action story is not the same as a dark and complicated mob drama. A suspenseful thriller will bore me if I’m looking for a fast paced spy novel.

not providing a summary literally just shows how you treat marginalized people and their representation as this token woke thing that you can show off like a shiny trophy. no, people aren’t going to read something just because it has representation! that’s not how it works!

Okay but once you know a book exists and has things you like (gay characters, enemies to lovers, poc, etc) it’s very easy to look up the book and read the summary. So usually the poster isn’t worried about giving you every detail (because that’s very easy to find for yourself), they’re giving details and highlights to get your attention.

Also it’s not treating marginalized groups as tokens, it’s just wanting to read things that resonate with you and your experiences. People really out here acting like wanting diversity in media is a bad thing

Yeah you guys realize you can just GOOGLE THE PROPER SUMMARY, right? These short pitches are meant to pique your interest so that you look up more about the book to decide if it’s for you. Is everyone pitching or recommending a book supposed to describe the whole plot every time? How are you supposed to do that on places like Twitter or TikTok where there’s such limited space?

Recommendations based on representation isn’t tokenism; it’s just up to YOU to make sure the plot is something you vibe with instead of acting like a book is being forced into your hands with a dust jacket that says nothing but “THIS IS GAY” and there is no conceivable way of finding more info about it before you have to open it.

No one is asking for like…an entire summation of the plot, just a fucking elevator pitch. A quick blurb. Tropes and representation can be a part of that pitch but if you, the person pitching the book, can’t describe it in more than that in a quick pitch, why should I be assed to even look it up? There’s countless books out there, so if you want to pitch the book to me and tell me it’s something special, do that.

Is there a way to find out more on my own? Of course there is. But if you’re the one trying to recommend it and give such a half-assed attempt, don’t be surprised if they don’t check it out cause you gave them stale crumbs to go on.

“It’s gay!” can apply to Steven Universe, Killing Stalking, and Absalom, Absalom!. It tells me nothing.

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how dare you leave this in the tags

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miskwaadesiwag:

One of my favorite pages in the manga because same Nezuko

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frenchsiren:

[Text description:

Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.

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Richard Siken, the worm king’s lullaby; from “War Of Foxes”

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[ID: Tumblr user @slowwshoww writes:

suzanne collins killing prim after everything katniss did to save her………. THATS how you write a story about the brutality and futility of war ma'am thats what we call a compelling and fucked up narrative yessums thats storytelling babes!!!!

Tumblr user @books—and-cleverness adds a quote from an interview with the author of the book:

« That was one of the first questions I asked her when we sat down: ‘Did you always know that [Prim] was going to die?’ And she said, ‘Oh yeah, of course, that’s the whole point.’ » (x)

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[ID: Tumblr user @orpheuslament:

i love tragedy i love circular narratives i love ppl who cannot escape their fate & characters that have been dead since the beginning

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[ID: Tumblr user @faustandfurious:

the worst fictional deaths are actually the ones you see coming, where there is enough foreshadowing that you have time to hope, against all odds, that the character will survive, even as you realise that there’s no way out this time, they’re not going to make it, this was always how it was going to end.

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[Text description:

Do you still believe myths

can save you? Foolish creature

Let me be clear: every version of this story

Ends with you being slaughtered.

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Tory Adkisson, Anecdote of the Pig

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[ID: Tumblr user @sawasawako:

if you’re dead at the end of the story were you dead from the beginning. oh emily brontë we’re really in it now

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[Text description:

This was always going to happen. She’s been dead from the beginning.

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Aeschylus, The Oresteia

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[Text description:

This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.

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John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van

@williamsockner and I wrote a gay love series between a mortal and an immortal and the title of the series is Someday Dan Will Die and I just want to tell you all this here

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Bringing country back 😌

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This is the only vibe ✨

I’ve probably watched this 10 times in a row and that whipcrack sends me every time

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