Everything2
Everything2, (a.k.a Everything, a.k.a E2) is a cross between a Wiki and a massive multi-user Blog.
Each page of Everything2 is called a "node". A node is just a title - a topic for discussion or elucidation. Attached to the node are "writeups" - written descriptions, essays, anecdotes, fiction or poetry on the subject of the node.
A node without any writeups - that is, created in anticipation of some other user's writeup - is called a "nodeshell". It is surprisingly common practice for some noder to create a bizarre, contrived node name[1] without specifying a writeup to go with it, instead waiting patiently for some other user to write their own interpretation of that title. This (creating a writeup for an intentionally empty node) is known as a "nodeshell rescue".
(This explains those occasions where a node's title proclaims one opinion loud and clear, but has a corresponding writeup that has a more reserved opinion of the subject.)
Also contains categories - lists of collected nodes sharing a like premise or theme.
Home to such fiction series as New York Magician, Fine Structure, and the Metro City Chronicles.
Tropes used in Everything2 include:
- Abandoned Hospital: "The Blacke Asylum"
- Adjective Noun Fred: "Why are so many Anime called {Adjective} {Occupation} {Proper Name} ?"
- Adventures in the Bible A proof in time. It doesn't end well for the time traveler.
- After the End: Many stories, including an entire Category listing After the End related writeups. Some examples of fiction include:
- If I'm right, you'll be here to read this any day now. An Apocalyptic Log as the world is being destroyed in a sci-fi-ish Ragnarok
- The Penguin Game.
- Alternate Reality Game: Of a sort, and often unintentionally. The site hosts both fiction running the gamut from wildly fantastic to Slice of Life, and bloggy anecdotes which tend toward the strange-but-true. With a lot of entries, it's hard to tell which one it is, and even on the more unlikely fiction entries it lends an ARG-like feel.
- Animal Assassin: "How to assassinate a third world despot with only a butt plug and a litre of raspberry coulis"
- Apocalyptic Log: "The Lovecraftian compulsion to keep writing even as one is being devoured"
- Apocalypse How: "How to destroy the Earth", the best-known non-fiction text on level X
- Batter Up: "Standing on a mountaintop in northern Siberia under the rapidly descending bulk of asteroid McAlmont, with a calculating expression and a baseball bat"
- Beary Funny: The Bear FAQ
- Beige Prose: "Six Word Story: Cake And Pie!"
- Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce: "I lost my uvula in the war
- Buried Alive / Robots Enslaving Robots: "Why there is no moloch13"
- Companion Cube: Webster 1913
- Connect the Deaths: "secret city map with pins set at the places their eyes had met"
- Deal with the Devil: "The Consequence of Depravity"
- Combined with Jackass Genie, Cruel and Unusual Death, and Came Back Wrong in "The demon was just under three feet tall"
- Diabolical Mastermind / Mad Scientist: "I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity"
- The Drifter: The "Walking Man" series
- Easily-Thwarted Alien Invasion: "Why is it that the alien mortal enemies of humanity always have some fatal flaw?"
- Elvis Lives: "The King, Multidimensional"
- Fairy Tale: An entire list of public domain Grimm fairytales.
- Fallen Angel: A series of short stories follows Satan and his titular fall. First can be found Here.
- "Faux To" Guide: Quite a few, including (but not limited to)
- Freak Lab Accident: "What happens if somebody messes up in lab"
- Fusion Fic: "The Matrix a la Veggie Tales,"
- For Dummies: "The Teach Yourself to be a Dummy in 24 Hours Bible"
- Gadgeteer Genius / Cerebus Syndrome: "Ed stories"
- Gangsta Style: "Shooting people with your gun at a -90 degree transformation"
- God Test: "Creating a password to convince yourself you have traveled back in time"
- Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter: "Two Gentlemen on Veronica"
- Hell Hound: "Tales of MYSTERY and the UNEXPLAINED"
- Kiss of Death: "Being licked to death by kittens"
- Killed Mid-Sentence: "Incomplete two-word sentences with which to end your life"
- Let's Meet the Meat: "Deconstructing that creepy McDonald's filet-of-fish commercial"
- The Library of Babel: I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
- Long Title: A good portion of nodes have entire sentences for titles.
- Lovecraft Lite: Again, many stories. Usually played for humor. Here's a short list. Some examples:
- How I bested Cthulhu and saved the world.
- How to turn a kraken house into a kraken home.
- On the more horrific (but not quite Cosmic Horror Story scale) side: Shub-Internet.
- Mad Scientist: The poem The chemist.
- Magic From Technology: Played straight in "How the scientists discovered magic"; Inverted in "How mages discovered the scientific method"
- Magical Realism: Many stories. Notably a series of (probably fictional) daylogs by one user named complexmessiah, found here.
- Mechanical Lifeforms: The series of daylogs following Moloch36 and his days in shaft thirteen, level ninety-nine. First can be found here.
- Mushroom Samba: "Summit in Savannah"
- Necromancer / Villain Protagonist / Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain / So Bad It's Good: A series of daylogs by an inept, Jerkass, wannabe necromancer. The first can be found here, but to get to the others, just go here and start from the bottom.
- Our Angels Are Different: Again, several stories.
- Nephilim, a brief tale of urban warfare, part one and part two.
- Played for humor in It could use a spaceship, said the angel.
- Played for horror in Requiem Aeternam.
- Our Fairies Are Different: There is a detailed set of instructions of how to gather pixie dust.
- Our Vampires Are Different:
- Our Zombies Are Different: A small category dedicated to zombies. Some examples include:
- Out with a Bang: several nodes, among them "How I nearly killed myself masturbating"
- Overly Long Gag: "I hate this god damn robot"
- Pals with Jesus: "Me and Sue and Ricky and God"
- Plant Person: The Meadow, Dark and Moist combines it with Involuntary Shapeshifting and Body Horror.
- Another story, Wereshrub, is Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
- Poke in the Third Eye
- Private Detective: "The Kim Li Diaries"
- Punch Clock Villain: It's a hard knock life for a cosmic horror cultist.
- Ridiculously Human Robot: **You are not alone.
- Not so much in looks, but in personality. I tried to laugh, but my photocells were cold from the night.
- Robot Girl: And? Combines it with Bittersweet Ending and hints of What Measure Is a Non-Human?.
- Saving Christmas: "How Jenna Jameson Saved Christmas"
- Screw You, Elves: "Fifteen Elvish ways to die"
- Shaggy Dog Story: "The most Disappointing Joke Ever".
- Shapeshifter Mode Lock: The horror story We don't make good wives explains why one should never do this to a shapeshifting snake woman, no matter how much of a Cute Monster Girl you think she is.
- Stable Time Loop The longest science fiction story ever.
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: ""Oh, bother," said the Borg. "We've assimilated Pooh.""
- Undead Child / So Bad It's Good / Former Child Star : "Bag of Crushed Child"
- Walking the Earth: "Follow the Sun"
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: "Immortality blows"
- What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: "My RPG will be a work of art"
- What Would X Do?: "What would Cthulhu Do?"
- Wiki Walk: the site, by virtue of the 'related nodes' table at the bottom of each page.
- Worst News Judgment Ever: "TWO HUB MEN DIE IN BLAST; New York also destroyed"
- You Are Number Six: "Student #478993320 went on a shooting rampage today"
- Zany Scheme: "A Polymer Wang: My police record and me"
See also:
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