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{{quote| (Furgonomics? Was everything in the future going to become a bad pun?)}}
* [[Broken Masquerade]] – Even early on, before the [[Weirdness Censor|"Reality Distortion Field"]] comes down, some unChanged characters start to notice odd things about Changed and either manage to see them, or convince them to explain what is going on. Characters who have been let into the "conspiracy" in this way are called "Known".
* ~But I Can't Be Pregnant!~ – In one of Eirik's stories, "Reverberations", a gender-bent character's unexpected pregnancy {{spoiler|invokes the setting's [[Ret
* [[Capital Letters Are Magic]] – Characters who have been through a change are called the Changed; non-Changed who know about them are called Known (although, technically, it should ''probably'' be Knowers, Knowing, or Knowledgeable, given that they ''know about'' rather than ''are known by'' Changed).
* [[Cassandra Truth]] – Frequently applies to characters who try to convince others that they are now actually [[Funny Animal|Funny Animals]] but just don't ''look'' that way. There are ways to short-circuit the [[Weirdness Censor]] temporarily, however.
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* [[Discount Lesbians]]: Averted: Christopher Mattiaz from MatthiasRat's stories, {{spoiler|unwilling to become a "lesbian", has not been intimate with his wife in the two years since he changed gender six days after they were married}}.
* [[Fiction As Cover Up]] – Inverted. In the years leading up to the dawning of [[The Unmasqued World]], a greater-than-normal number of shows and stories featuring anthropomorphic animals were featured in popular entertainment—apparently to get the general public acclimated to seeing them around.
* [[Full
* [[Gender Bender]] – A small percentage of Changed also change their gender. Given the [[Wish Fulfillment]] nature of the setting, the number of gender-Changed who appear within stories is somewhat disproportional to the amount that exist setting-wide.
* ~Girl's Night Out Episode~ – Slightly subverted in that, in the story occasions in which this happens ("Election Fever", "Family Tree"), it is frequently in order to help someone involuntarily female get comfortable in her new femininity.
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* [[Pinocchio Syndrome]] – Affects most characters after the Change, especially the ones who changed gender at the same time. One particularly poignant case affects Christopher Mattiaz , a character from MatthiasRat's stories, {{spoiler|who changed genders six days after getting married and hasn't been able to be intimate with his wife for the past two years at the time the story begins}}.
* [[Reality Warper]] – [[The Virus]] responsible for the Change is not a biological virus, but rather {{spoiler|a computer virus altering reality in a simulation running on a post-Singularity computronium computer}}.
* [[Ret
* [[A Shared Suffering]] – Changed, especially from the early waves where they are few and far between, often fear they're alone or outright going crazy. After spending weeks, months, or even years alone, they are so relieved to find out there are others like them that they might break down and cry.
* [[The Singularity]] / [[The Virus]] / [[Charles Stross]] – {{spoiler|[[Word of God]] is that the world of Paradise is actually a simulation running inside a Charles Strossian post-Singularity computer, and the Changes are caused by a couple of intelligent computer viruses that snuck in.}} Of course, since this will probably never be known ''within'' the setting itself (save for the brief [[Author Avatar|author cameo]] who spouted off the "theory" in "Tall Tales"), it can be entirely ignored in terms of writing or reading the stories.
* [[Soap Opera Disease]] – Inverted. In order to prevent Changed from being injured by medical practitioners because of physiological differences the medics can't see, the Changed invented a fictitious ''real-world'' disease—"Sleeping Sickness (Ivory Coast Variant)"—and issued medical alert bracelets for it so that a Changed or Known physician could be alerted at need.
* [[Something Only They Would Say]] – Used several times by Changed to convince friends or loved ones that their new [[Funny Animal]] form is "really them".
* ~Something's Different About You Now~ – As part of the [[Ret
* [[Tampon Run]] – Many newly male-to-female gender-Changed find themselves effectively doing Tampon Runs for ''themselves'' (before the [[The Unmasqued World|masquerade breaks down]], at least): still apparently male, they must shop for feminine accessories and hygiene products.
* [[There Are No Global Consequences]] – After [[The Unmasqued World|the unmasquing]], the world seems to go on largely the same as usual (with one or two notable exceptions), with Changed being generally accepted into society. This is probably due to lingering effects of the [[Weirdness Censor|"Reality Distortion Field"]], which may still be influencing humanity even as it lets them see the Changed's true faces. (It may also be that stories in which more global consequences do happen simply haven't been written yet.)
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