Line #41 Literature/FunnyBusiness


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2	->''"Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope? Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? Will he keep begging you for mercy? Will he speak to you with gentle words? Will he make an agreement with you for you to take him as your slave for life? Can you make a pet of him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls? Will traders barter for him? Will they divide him up among the merchants? Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears? If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the struggle and never do it again! Any hope of subduing him is false; the mere sight of him is overpowering."''
3	--> -- [[Literature/BookOfJob Job 41:1-9]] [[note]][[NeverTrustATrailer Never actually quoted in the book.]][[/note]]
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5	%% Even though the line from Job does not appear in the book, Brendan Rizzo has requested that editors not delete it.
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7	''Funny Business'' is Tropers/{{Brendan Rizzo}}'s first attempt at writing a DeconstructorFleet. It can be read [[http://www.fictionpress.com/s/3111488/1/Funny-Business here]].
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9	Jeanette Swanson is a new student at Maude Wilkins Elementary School. After an event involving untied shoelaces, she accidentally reveals to her fellow classmates that she [[RealityWarper can do anything]], without regards to physics or [[LogicBomb logic]]. HilarityEnsues, for a while... [[{{Deconstruction}} but things turn out to be not as nice as they seem]].
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12	!!Provides Examples Of:
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14	%%The bitch part?* AlphaBitch: Isabella. Sharon and her friends are [[DownplayedTrope a minor example]].
15	%%See [x] is not context* AllJustADream: See DoingInTheWizard below.
16	* CerebusSyndrome: Before and during the baseball game, the story is rather light-hearted. After the baseball game, [[spoiler:the main character is revealed to suffer from major neuroses]].
17	%%Need an actual example of a cheerful child* CheerfulChild: The main cast. [[spoiler:Though in Jeanette's case, this is just a facade so that nobody worries about her mental health.]]
18	* ContrivedCoincidence: Lewis's last name being Boltzmann given the importance of [[spoiler:[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain Boltzmann brains to the story.]]]]
19	* CosmicFlaw: When [[RealityWarper Jeanette]] is upset about her poor performance in a math test, she alters mathematics to make the answers she gave the correct ones - physics soon follows suit, and a black hole approaches the solar system.
20	%%How are the troped deconstructed* DeconstructorFleet: While writing, the author tried to deconstruct as many tropes as possible.
21	%%Does what to herself?* {{Depower}}: At the very end, [[spoiler:Jeanette does this to herself, for good]].
22	%%Needs more detail.* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Jeanette]] has lived on the wrong side of this trope for [[spoiler:more than seven years]].
23	* DoingInTheWizard: [[spoiler:The reason Jeanette is a RealityWarper is because she is actually a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain Boltzmann brain]] simulating the setting.]]
24	* EideticMemory: A [[RequiredSecondaryPowers Required Secondary Power]] of Jeanette. If she forgets anything, the time in which the forgotten event happened, as well as all later times, would ''[[CriticalExistenceFailure cease to exist]]''.
25	* EnfantTerrible: {{Deconstructed}}. [[spoiler:As a toddler, Jeanette was like this, because toddlers don't comprehend that other people have feelings and can be hurt. Once she grows out of it, she suffers a major HeroicBSOD which continues to the time of the main story.]]
26	%%Is it an example then?* EvilOldFolks: Well, he's more [[AntiVillain schizophrenic]] than evil, really.
27	%%* {{Flashback}}: Which takes up about half the story.
28	%%"Expy of Lucy" is meaningless. Describe the actual characters* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: The extended flashback reveals that [[spoiler:Isabella]] used to be an {{Expy}} of Lucy until Jeanette [[GoneHorriblyRight made her more social]].
29	%%The god like part?* GooGooGodlike: Jeanette as a toddler.
30	%%Made what happen?* HardLight: Jeanette makes this happen once. The effects are more widespread than she anticipates.
31	%%Enters what? Actually describe the angst here.* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Jeanette entered one as a young child after [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone seeing the consequences of frivolous use of her powers]] and remains in such a state until the very end of the book.]] [[StepfordSmiler She just hides it really well.]]
32	* InexplicablyAwesome: {{Subverted}}. [[DoingInTheWizard Jeanette's powers are eventually explained.]]
33	* {{Joisey}}: The story is set in Maple Shade and the flashback is in Marlton; both are real townships in the state.
34	%%Hit with what? Example a bit ambiguous, twice each?* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Frederick and Coco]] are hit with this twice, because Jeanette thinks that they'd hate her if they knew what really happened.
35	%%* LittleMissAlmighty
36	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Jeanette's parents are locked out of the knowledge that her powers even exist. [[spoiler: She believed that if they knew, they would never forgive her for all the trouble her powers of caused. Of course, when they inevitably do find out, they shrug it off.]]
37	%%Creates what? What happens after changing the rules of math?* LogicBomb: Jeanette accidentally creates one after changing the rules on arithmetic to do well on a math test.
38	* MouseWorld: The scale model of Maple Shade that Jeanette shrinks herself and her friends into.
39	* MythologyGag: Frederick and Coco were originally characters in a completely unrelated short story by the same author.
40	* NextSundayAD: The main story is set in the year 2026, but the only indication of future technology is Kylie's mention of quantum computers. The long flashback is, of course, even closer to the present, but still in the future from the time the story was written.
41	%%Describe that one scene, otherwise it is not an example.* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: The originally planned reason for why Jeanette [[spoiler:doesn't like her powers]], but by the time the story was actually written, Jeanette's motivation was changed, and this trope only shows up in [[TraumaSwing one scene]].
42	* TheOmnipotent: Lewis {{lampshade}}s the extent of Jeanette's powers when he has her demonstrate the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnipotence_paradox omnipotence paradox]].
43	* PalsWithJesus: Lucy and Lewis don't care much that their friend has the powers of a god. It's {{deconstructed}} when it turns out that [[spoiler:Lucy ''does'' view Jeanette as God, and so follows her without question]].
44	* ParentsAsPeople: Frederick and Coco. They may be focused on their own lives and oblivious to their child's situation[[note]]and in Coco's case, [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} not be all right in the head}}]][[/note]], but they still care about her, as proved when [[spoiler:TheMasquerade gets broken]].
45	%%Why is she horrified? Describe the self-loathing and guilt.* PersonalHorror: If Jeanette were not traumatized, there would be no story.
46	* RandomEventsPlot: There really isn't much connecting the various situations together.
47	%%* RealityWarper: The main character, of course.
48	* ShoutOut: Lewis's last name of Boltzmann, as a reference to the important plot point of [[spoiler:[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain Boltzmann brains.]]]]
49	* ScienceIsWrong: PlayedWith. Atoms do not exist, but the reason for this isn't that atomic theory is wrong, but that [[spoiler: the world is essentially a computer simulation.]] Even so, a BreakTheScientist situation still happens.
50	%%Type labels are not context* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler:Jeanette]] is a Type A.
51	* ThatCloudLooksLike: Jeanette and Lucy get bored and start watching the clouds to pass the time. Eventually, Jeannette starts to make the shapes real.
52	* ThereAreNoTherapists: {{Deconstructed}}. The character who desperately needs psychological help is actively ''preventing'' anyone else from learning of her problems, so they don't go away and only get worse.

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