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* [[Art Shift]]: Normally, the illustrations are drawn with a [[Stylistic Suck|calculated childishness]], but in "Wolves", the background trees, snow and wolves are actually pretty beautifully drawn, even though they're still rough.

* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: Allie has a genuine (professionally diagnosed, that is) case of ADHD. On the occasions where she makes posts while off her medication, it tends to get rather eccentric.

* [[Big Friendly Dog]]: Her dog, with the attendant lack of common sense.

* [[Blatant Lies]]: Her excuse for [[It Makes Sense in Context|peeing in the woods]] in "Skeleton Man".

** She does have another dog who seems to be of normal intelligence for a dog, but makes up for it by being incredibly neurotic.

* [[Drop in Character]]: Dubbed the "Well-Intentioned Social Terrorist" in one post.

* [[Genki Girl]]: Allie.

* [[Grammar Nazi]]: In order to repress her grammarian tendencies, she invents reasons why people on the Internet type the way they do--one of which has alot of popularity.

* [[No Name Given]]: She refers to her dogs as Simple Dog and Helper Dog, and her boyfriend as Boyfriend (although his real name, Duncan, is occasionally mentioned).

** She mentioned the simple dog's name [http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.117634731615812.9433.103009646411654&type=3 here]. It's {{spoiler|Kellie}}.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: In [http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/texas.html Texas], Allie tried to buy beer to celebrate for her 21st birthday, but the gas station refused to sell to her even with an ID because she "looked like a goddamn 16-year old." Eventually, one of her friends had to buy booze for her - a younger one with a fake ID.

* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]: A story of her younger self who devoured an entire cake and was sick for the rest of the day. She obviously considered it [[Worth It]].

* [[Verbal Tic|Varbal Tac]]: Spaghatta Nadle.

* [[Word Salad]]: One of the Google search queries that led to her site was "''i drew pictures of sharks instead im sorry for calling you small''", which Allie claims to have [[Mind Screw|kept her up all night]] [[Ice Cream Koan|searching for meaning]].

 

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