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[[File:TOF_TVTropes_5137.png|frame|[[Big No|NOOOOOOOO!!!]] Why did it have to be the Teevee? [http://www.taleoffiction.com/chapter-3-episode-3/ Now we'll never know how the third season of "Unhuman Rogue Wrestlers" ends]!]]
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{{quote|''After all, you didn’t even bother to name your particular species; we defined the whole bunch of you as being NOT-human, so you must be a what, monster? That makes sense. After all, you are digging the mines, I am writing – as in, putting words together, making stuff up, naming things.''|'''I am not fiction''', Baruch Caan's blog}}▼
 
▲{{quote|''After all, you didn’t even bother to name your particular species; we defined the whole bunch of you as being NOT-human, so you must be a what, monster? That makes sense. After all, you are digging the mines, I am writing – as in, putting words together, making stuff up, naming things.''|'''I am not fiction''', Baruch Caan's blog}}
An English-language webcomic written and drawn by Felix Schittig and Kilian Wilde and updated on Mondays and Thursdays. [http://www.taleoffiction.com/ ''A Tale of Fiction''] is the continuing story of the adventures of [[Chick Magnet|Harper]], his roommate [[Playful Hacker|Vauxhall]] (or '[[Only Known By Their Nickname|Room]]'), and a [[Shapeshifting]] <s>monster</s> unhuman [[Identity Amnesia|they've]] [[In Series Nickname|named]] [[Meaningful Name|'Sneaky']] and their [[La Résistance|fight]] against the [[The Empire|Department of Unethical Fiction (or DUF)'s]] [[Villain World|government]] of Fictionaria. ▼
|'''I am not fiction''', Baruch Caan's blog}}
 
▲An English-language webcomicweb comic written and drawn by Felix Schittig and Kilian Wilde and updated on Mondays and Thursdays. [http://www.taleoffiction.com/ ''[[A Tale of Fiction]]''] is the continuing story of the adventures of [[Chick Magnet|Harper]], his roommate [[Playful Hacker|Vauxhall]] (or '[[Only Known Byby Their Nickname|Room]]'), and a [[Shapeshifting]] <s>monster</s> unhuman [[Identity Amnesia|they've]] [[In -Series Nickname|named]] [[Meaningful Name|'Sneaky']] and their [[La Résistance|fight]] against the [[The Empire|Department of Unethical Fiction (or DUF)'s]] [[Villain World|government]] of Fictionaria.
The comic oscillates between gag strips, often based off real-life experiences of the comic's authors or their friends, and an over-arching storyline dealing with the aforementioned DUF. Major questions still abound about the circumstances surrounding their rule, how they gained power and what happened to the former ruler, the mysterious King. ▼
 
▲The comic oscillates between gag strips, often based off real-life experiences of the comic's authors or their friends, and an over-arching storyline dealing with the aforementioned DUF. Major questions still abound about the circumstances surrounding their rule, how they gained power and what happened to the former ruler, the mysterious King.
A Tale Of Fiction has a large amount of background material on the world and other goodies available on the site via Vauxhall's "Dragbook", including an in-universe news feed, an ambiguously DUF-critical [http://www.taleoffiction.com/dragbook/browser/im-not-fiction/ web-column] (updated roughly twice a month) and an [[Show Within a Show|in-universe webcomic]] called "Bison and the Boar Boys" (originally updated every Tue/Thu/Sat, but often subject to [[Schedule Slip]], now on indefinite hiatus). ▼
 
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▲''A Tale Ofof Fiction'' has a large amount of background material on the world and other goodies available on the site via Vauxhall's "Dragbook", including an in-universe news feed, an ambiguously DUF-critical [http://www.taleoffiction.com/dragbook/browser/im-not-fiction/ web-column] (updated roughly twice a month) and an [[Show Within a Show|in-universe webcomic]] called "Bison and the Boar Boys" (originally updated every Tue/Thu/Sat, but often subject to [[Schedule Slip]], now on indefinite hiatus).
=== ''A Tale of Fiction'' provides examples of: ===
 
It can be read [http://www.taleoffiction.com/ here].
 
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* [[All There in the Manual]]: Information on certain things mentioned in the comic (e.g., [[Mind Control Device|turn-masks]]) but not further explained can be found in the Dragbook.
* [[Art Evolution]]: The art style becomes more detailed and sharp as the series progresses,.
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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Harper's affair with {{spoiler|Sync's girlfriend. Sync and her later broke up after he found out. It understandably affects his job performance.}}
** Also, possibly, [[Epileptic Trees|Vauxhall's "education" of Sneaky in the more... graphic forms of human intimacy.]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Most of the main characters get a turn.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Pity the poor fool who shouts at a confused Sneaky...
* [[Distracted Byby the Sexy]]: Just about everyone in [http://www.taleoffiction.com/chapter-9-episode-40/ this strip]. By each other.
* [[Distressed Dude in Distress]]: {{spoiler|Harper and Vauxhall}} get a turn as this, as does {{spoiler|Baruch Caan}}, although his isn't over yet...
* [[Eleventh -Hour Superpower]]: When Gidders' airship {{spoiler|is shot down by the DUF}}.
{{quote| '''Sneaky:''' Fuzz flew away? Like... by himself? Without an avivessel?<br />
'''Gidders''': He does that from time to time. }}
* [[Face Framed in Shadow]]: In the [http://www.taleoffiction.com/hello-world/ very first strip], with the [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness|council]] pushing the [[Big Red Button|button]].
* [[Family -Unfriendly Death]]: Most characters killed in this comic are killed fairly graphically.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: A major plot focus. Unhumans are forced to live in slums in DUF-controlled territory and are generally discriminated against.
** Averted in Catherinesborough, where unhumans and humans seem to live in harmony since the DUF was ousted in the Bloody New Year's Eve.
* [[For the Evulz]]: Agent Nitz, as described in the Dragbook.
* [[Friends Withwith Benefits]]: Just about all of Harper's relationships to date seem to be this.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Suffered by Gidders when he learns of the fate of his avivessel.
* [[Holiday Nonupdate]]: Once so far, for "happy Jollidays".
* [[Identity Amnesia]]: Sneaky. [[Captain Obvious|Presumably a plot point.]]
* [[I Thought Everyone Could Do That]]: Sneaky doesn't realise that his shapeshifting is an unusual ability at first.
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* [[Oh Crap]]: A few times, very nicely [http://www.taleoffiction.com/chapter-5-episode-5/ here.]
* [[Porn Stash]]: Of ''epic'' proportions on the Dragbook. Unfortunately, it's password-protected.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Chapter 4 is all about DUF agents in their free time, having drinks and enjoying each others' company.
* [[Shout -Out]]: Several.
** Gidders and Fuzz remind us of a [[Star Wars|certain other human mercenary with a flying machine and his furry sidekick...]]
** The regularly used curse expression "frakk" seems to be a [[Shout -Out]] to the [[Future Slang]] of [[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' (although in Galactica the spelling would be with one 'k' only)
** [http://www.taleoffiction.com/chapter-2-episode-4/ This] strip seems to be a [[Shout -Out]] to [[Metal Gear]].
*** Confirmed by [[Word of God]].
** The [[True Companions]] trying to climb the DUF tower and getting caught is a [[Shout -Out]] to something similar that happened to the authors in Tokyo... well, minus the bloody killing of a police officer.
** Bison and the Boar Boys is a [[Shout -Out]] to a friend of the authors' whose online handle is Bison.
*** There are quite a few [[Shout -Out|Shout Outs]] to friends of the authors in the comic generally.
* [[Show Within a Show]]: Bison and the Boar Boys, a gag-a-day comic available on the Dragbook's "FictionFox Browser". [http://www.taleoffiction.com/dragbook/browser/im-not-fiction/ "I am not fiction"] may also qualify.
* [[Smoking Hot Sex]]: Mostly averted in the series, but one occurence in [http://www.taleoffiction.com/chapter-1-episode-13/ Chapter 1].
* [[Spock Speak]]: Sneaky falls into this quite often.
* [[Stripperiffic]]: The [http://www.taleoffiction.com/chapter-9-episode-40/ "CWBL host"].
* [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness]]: In the very first strip, no less.
* [[True Companions]]: The three main characters, occasional differences between roommates notwithstanding.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Tend to crop up at the end of chapters. Also, [http://www.taleoffiction.com/chapter-3-episode-37/ this.]
* [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?]]: Invoked in-universe by Special Agents in particular.
* [[Write Who You Know]]: Especially prominent in Harper in the more comic arcs.
 
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