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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 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.

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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)
  • How to become a mighty pirate.
  • How to write bad poetry.
• Freak Lab Accident: "What happens if somebody messes up in lab"
• Fusion Fic: "The Matrix a la Veggie Tales," [1]
• 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.
  • How to spot a powerful mage.
• 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:
  • I will stitch your heart together with filthy twine and sex.
  • Interview with a vampire
  • Some vampires actually get pissed when you tell them to have a nice day.
• Our Zombies Are Different: A small category dedicated to zombies. Some examples include:
  • Tell me a story about brains, combining Horror Hunger and literal Dead Baby Comedy.
  • The zombie revolution will not be televised, but it will be tweeted. An Apocalyptic Log that is Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
• 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:

• tv tropes@Everything2.com