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Baltimore woman woke up to a ‘hey girly’ DM 4 months before her wedding. Then found out her fiancé’s grandmother’s ring was on someone else first

By Terrina Jairaj May 6th
The Dead Wife Trope Is Back With A Vengeance. What Are We Doing?!

By Leah Marilla Thomas Jan 10th
11 of the Best Enemies-to-Lovers Romances Sure To Get Sparks Flying

By Benedetta Geddo May 29th
‘Superman & Lois’ Has a Fridging Problem

By Rachel Ulatowski May 15th
Did the Washington Post Seriously Decide to Focus on What E. Jean Carroll Was Wearing?

By Erika Wittekind May 10th
Can We All Agree to Let These Toxic Plus-Size Romance Novel Tropes Die?

By D.R. Medlen Dec 29th
11 of the Most Iconic Femme Fatales in Cinema

By Benedetta Geddo Aug 5th
The Trope is the Point: How The Northman Uses Hamlet to Critique Traditional Masculinity

By Brittany Knupper Apr 24th
The Final Girl Trope in Horror Movies, Explained

By Benedetta Geddo Mar 29th
After Callouts for Ableist Tropes & Language, Author Thankfully Delays Book Release

By Alyssa Shotwell Mar 14th
Is “The Chosen One” Really Played Out?

By Princess Weekes Jan 1st
How Gossip Girl 2.0 Subverted One of the Most Problematic Teen Drama Tropes

By Princess Weekes Aug 16th
Ask the Mary Sues: Let’s Talk Reluctant Partners and the ‘Enemies to Friends’ Trope

By Chelsea Steiner Mar 20th
Please, Batwoman, Do Literally Anything Else Besides Killing Kate Kane

By Jessica Mason Jun 9th
Atlanta Newspaper Is Rightfully Outraged Over Clint Eastwood Movie Richard Jewell’s Depiction of Their Female Reporter

By Vivian Kane Dec 10th
Stranger Things Sure Loves to Sacrifice Those Lovable Side Characters

By Kate Gardner Jul 15th
This Video Shows How The Big Bang Theory Tries to Make Misogyny Look “Adorkable”

By Marykate Jasper Sep 2nd
Watch: Science Fiction and the Problem with the “Born Sexy Yesterday” Trope

By Marykate Jasper Apr 30th
There’s Another Terrible Beauty and The Beast Trope We’re Not Talking About

By Jessica Lachenal Mar 12th
Hey, Military Science Fiction Authors: Stop It With the Tropes Already

By Sam Riedel Nov 10th