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* It is a trope essential to Gothic literature and the Romantic movement. You can find it in all sorts of works, from [[wikipedia:Caspar David Friedrich|Caspar David Friedrich]]'s bleak, moody landscapes to [[Edgar Allan Poe|Poe]]'s ''The Fall of the House of Usher''. |
* It is a trope essential to Gothic literature and the Romantic movement. You can find it in all sorts of works, from [[wikipedia:Caspar David Friedrich|Caspar David Friedrich]]'s bleak, moody landscapes to [[Edgar Allan Poe|Poe]]'s ''The Fall of the House of Usher''. |
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* Some [[Stephen King]] novels have a tendency to display fearsome weather patterns that parallel the steady build towards whatever climactic conflict will finish off the story. Examples include the cataclysmic thunderstorms of ''[[IT]]'' and ''[[Bag of Bones]]'' and the blizzard in ''[[The Shining]]''. |
* Some [[Stephen King]] novels have a tendency to display fearsome weather patterns that parallel the steady build towards whatever climactic conflict will finish off the story. Examples include the cataclysmic thunderstorms of ''[[IT]]'' and ''[[Bag of Bones]]'' and the blizzard in ''[[The Shining]]''. |
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* The [[Discworld]] country of [[Überwald]] is noted for this. Experienced residents [[Dramatic Ellipsis|pause]] before saying |
* The [[Discworld]] country of [[Überwald]] is noted for this. Experienced residents [[Dramatic Ellipsis|pause]] before saying portentous words to give thunder time to roll or [[Howl of Sorrow|wolves to howl mournfully.]] |
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** To balance this out, whenever Lord Vetinari wants to demonstrate the Wonders of Urban Development and other benefits of living in Ankh-Morpork, there is either thick fog blocking the view or a pissing dog, graffiti, or a drunken dwarf nearby. Apparently this man generates an anti-Emphatic Environment field—when he is being assaulted, it's either a beautiful day or merely a little cloudy. |
** To balance this out, whenever Lord Vetinari wants to demonstrate the Wonders of Urban Development and other benefits of living in Ankh-Morpork, there is either thick fog blocking the view or a pissing dog, graffiti, or a drunken dwarf nearby. Apparently this man generates an anti-Emphatic Environment field—when he is being assaulted, it's either a beautiful day or merely a little cloudy. |
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** Also, in ''The Truth'', Otto Chriek, Vampire (but he [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampires|swore off the sticky stuff]] and now much prefers a mug of cocoa and a singsong, my vord yes.) mourns this |
** Also, in ''[[The Truth]]'', Otto Chriek, Vampire (but he [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampires|swore off the sticky stuff]] and now much prefers a mug of cocoa and a singsong, my vord yes.) mourns this fact — he always makes dramatic pauses, used to Uberwald's environment, but Ankh-Morpork does not care. When it does, however, he uses it whilst it lasts and is overjoyed. [[Funetik Aksent|Vat a big... castle Yes! Vunce more mit feelink!]] |
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** Granny Weatherwax's ire is known to cause any and all natural noises to stop in their tracks and can, indeed, cause empathic weather on top of it. Even though Granny's a witch, these events seem to occur without her consciously making them so. (Being skilled in headology, that's just what she wants you to think.) |
** Granny Weatherwax's ire is known to cause any and all natural noises to stop in their tracks and can, indeed, cause empathic weather on top of it. Even though Granny's a witch, these events seem to occur without her consciously making them so. (Being skilled in headology, that's just what she wants you to think.) |
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** There's also the "gnarly ground" mentioned in ''[[ |
** There's also the "gnarly ground" mentioned in ''[[Carpe Jugulum]]'', a patch of magically-altered land in the Lancre mountains which actually changes its appearance to match the mood of visitors. A person who's in a nervous mood will see the small field as a brambly moor, the stone over a brook as a flimsy stone bridge over a deep canyon, and the hollow in the side of the mountains as a system of deep caves. |
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* If there's a heat wave (or other unpleasant weather pattern) at the start of a crime wave, it will be relieved when the crime is solved. |
* If there's a heat wave (or other unpleasant weather pattern) at the start of a crime wave, it will be relieved when the crime is solved. |
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** The heat waves in ''Cat of Many Tails'' and ''Cop Hater''. |
** The heat waves in ''Cat of Many Tails'' and ''Cop Hater''. |
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