Maybe we could call these metacommunications.
The story We Tell, the patterns and tools and structures we use to tell it.
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Was just watching Colbert here
Tvtropes covers nonfiction also even though there's more coverage of fiction on the site
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A trope is basically just a named pattern that appears across stories
And the patterns often have variations, and are sometimes "subverted" or appear in contrast to the common form of them
If you think about it, the line between fiction and nonfiction is pretty blurry when it comes to late night shows like Colbert's. Even though they're based on actual news events, they still use fiction tropes to create narratives about them for the sake of entertainment.
This is one trope where the tvtropes article focused on the fictional variants of the trope, but I'm more interested in looking at the reality variants... Battle in the mind between conflicting parts psychologically and involving real and complicated situations.
Me too!
Tvtropes as weapons used against each other -- awh that's sad!