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''[[The Half-World]]'' is a blog primarily for [[Fanfic]] [[MST|MSTs]] run by
▲{{quote|<ref>Previous taglines<nowiki>:</nowiki>''"ramblings of a geeky teenager"'', ''"a blog full of super terrific horrible things"'', ''"a bloog bout haf worlds which is like Invader Zen"'', ''"a blog run by Da Barke Lord Skepkitty, and also by the Death Dealers"''.</ref>}}
She has MSTed these stories: <ref>She even gives a handy index at https://web.archive.org/web/20140722004617/http://theskepkitty.wordpress.com/mst-index/ with roughly what you could expect in each story and warnings/pairings.</ref> (Sorted in order of [[
▲The Half-World is a blog primarily for [[Fanfic]] [[MST|MSTs]] run by [[Tropers/Skepkitty|theskepkitty]], aka Control Brain Lillias on Operation Head Pigeons. It comprises of awful [[Fanfic|fanfictions]] from fandoms such as ''[[Invader Zim]]'', ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'', ''[[Harry Potter]]'', and ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]''; as well as various other posts (some of which are [[MST|MSTs]] in their own right, though not of [[Fanfic|FanFics]]). The site, which was started in September 2010 but didn't post any [[MST|MSTs]] or attract much attention until early 2011, is quickly expanding and now has over 150 chapters of [[MST|MSTs]].
▲She has MSTed these stories: <ref>She even gives a handy index at http://theskepkitty.wordpress.com/mst-index/ with roughly what you could expect in each story and warnings/pairings.</ref> (Sorted in order of [[MS Ting]])
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6534018/1/what_Tak_wants What Tak Wants] ''([[Invader Zim]])''
* The Chronicles of Zim, Tak, and Tek ''([[Invader Zim]])''
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* [[It's My Life|It's My Life and Teen Fortress 2]] ''([[Portal (series)|Portal]] / [[Team Fortress 2]])''
* [[Me in Invader Zim? Oh Kami]] ''([[Invader Zim]])''
* Holes (''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'')
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/800177/1/Love_Knows_No_Race Love Knows No Race] (''[[Invader Zim]]'')
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7307356/1/Zim_born_again Zim Born Again] (''[[Invader Zim]]'')
* [[Invader Zim: Born Again Christian]] (''[[Invader Zim]]'')
* Matryoshka (original) (''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'')
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7982184/1/Who_says_you_need_a_heart_to_love Who Says You Need A Heart To Love?] (''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'')
* [[Forbiden Fruit: The Tempation Of Edward Cullen|Forbidden Fruit: The Temptation of Edward Cullen]] (''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'')
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7718524/1/Surviving_Middle_School_at_Aperture_Science Surviving Middle School at Aperture Science] (''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'')
The blog also occasionally features guest [[MST
* Irken Dib ''([[Invader Zim]])''
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Yv6lM71HzHaCFu8bG3ilPhCyr3QiJD_7Y0m70IoRH_4/edit Dib's Other Sister: Zim's HUGE Crush] (''[[Invader Zim]]'') (co-MST with [[Portal: The 4th Millennium Franchise|ASBusinessMagnet]])
Posts up to August 2014 can be found [http://theskepkitty.wordpress.com/ at Worrdpress], posts from May 2014 to the end of 2018 can be found [https://thehalfworld.tumblr.com/ at Tumblr], and posts after that can be found [https://halfworld.squarespace.com/ at Squarespace].
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== MST Tropes ==
* [[Berserk Button]]: Many, many, things that show up in the fanfictions are these to
** (From Defying Destiny)
{{quote|Has it occurred to you, cullengirl13xxx, that NO ONE GIVES A [[Symbol Swearing|$%@#]] [[Costume Porn|WHAT YOUR CHARACTERS ARE WEARING?]]}}
**
** In fact, an MST blog inspired directly by The Half-World called itself [http://trollinmahpantz.wordpress.com/ "HIT THE BERSERK BUTTON!"]
* [[Big No]]: (From [[It's My Life]])
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE
{{quote|Sorry. Does "hate" still look like a word to you?}}
** [[
{{quote|'''Grant:''' I feel that this is time to introduce a catch phrase; I mean, Skepkitty has “The plot thickens”. Hm… ”The plot takes a U-turn”… ”The plot hits a fork in the road”…perhaps I should just stick with “Fuck it”}}
** JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY
** It just makes so… much… sense.
** It. Sporks. Itself.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Redundancy is practically a [[Running Gag]] on [[The Half World]], given how often it happens in the [[Fanfic|FanFics]] (which is always pointed out by
{{quote|And here’s another stupid chapter of the stupid fanfiction [[My Immortal]], which is stupid.}}
* [[Fan Nickname|Detractor Nickname]]: Invader Cakez, author of "Grazie the Beautiful New Girl", is almost always referred to by
* [[Five Second Foreshadowing]]: Skepkitty helps us out with the [[
{{quote|''Really really really bad feelings''}}
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Invader Cakez, originally the author of two of the fics subject to MSTing here, by May 2012 has become a hater of badfics herself.
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{{quote|'''''Butt the worst thing was who the ppl who were shot in the dream where……………………… Lucian and Serious!111'''''
Serious-ly? }}
* [[In
** "''Still'' a better love story/fanfic than Love Knows No Race."
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: A comment on Zim Born Again, noting that {{spoiler|Zim was literally born again, not converted to Christianity}}, has led MarissaTheWriter into writing a fanfic "[[Invader Zim: Born Again Christian]]". It was promptly MSTed.
* [[Orwellian Retcon]]: While usually against changes in her published [[MST|MSTs]] when a mistake is pointed out, in the [[MST]] of Chapter 7 of Teen Fortress 2
** As a general rule, if the mistake is a minor one it's [[Orwellian Retcon|corrected]]. If the mistake was a bigger part of the [[MST]] a note is added.
* [[Rapid-Fire "No"]]: (From Love Knows No Race)
{{quote|[[Madness Mantra|no no no no no no]] THIS ISN’T HAPPENING no no no no THE AUTHOR DID NOT JUST IMPLY THAT {{spoiler|ZIM AND DIB ARE BROTHERS AND THE CHILDREN OF THE ALMIGHTY TALLEST}} no no no no no no no no no NO [[Precision F-Strike|FUCKING]] NO}}
* [[Reference Overdosed]]: Basically every post is like this, but particularly the [[MST|MSTs]] of "Grazie the Beautiful New Girl" and "Half Irkens" due to
* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]]: In response to comments by [[It's My Life|MarissaTheWriter]]:
{{quote|Perhaps I should rewrite this site’s tagline: “THE HALF-WORLD, [[Department of Redundancy Department|a bloog bout haf worlds.]]”<br />
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* [[Running Gag]]: Dib taking people to carnivals.
** Specific to the Zim's Future [[MST]]: Gaz throwing people (mostly Zim) into puddles.
* [[Sarcasm Mode]]: From the Love Knows No Race MST:
{{quote|'''''OKAY! I’m gonna explain a few things… I know it’s going really fast, but that’s only because the rest of the story is going to go really slow.'''''
Oh, fantastic. /sarcasm }}
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Even though
{{quote|[[My Immortal|Tara/Raven]] is the best pairing and you must ship it now.}}
** Also from [[My Immortal]]: [[No Yay|Voldemort/Draco]], after the line about Voldemort having Draco in "bondage".
** In fact, jokingly shipping two characters has become sort of a [[Running Gag]]. Many of the [[Invader Zim]] [[MST|MSTs]] contain [[Foe Yay|ZaDR]] jokes, there was at least one [[Les Yay|Chell/GLaDOS]] joke in the [[MST]] of [[It's My Life]], and in the [[It's My Life|Teen Fortress 2]] [[MST]]
{{quote|My OTPs are [[My Immortal|Tara/Raven]], [[Me in Invader Zim? Oh Kami|Sin/Mystie]], and [[Married to the Job|GLaDOS/testing]]. XP}}
* [[Shout-Out]]: "SIR/MADAM, I DOUBT THE VERISIMILITUDE OF YOUR..." is a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Topless Robot]].
** As is HATE HATE HATE, but [[The Half World]] actually uses that more than [[Topless Robot]] does.
** And "WELL, THIS AMAZING PLAN CAN'T POSSIBLY FAIL."
* [[Symbol Swearing]]: For a while, but then
* [[This Is Sparta]]: Used when the [[Catch Phrase]] "It. Sporks. Itself." is present, and many other times as well.
* [[All the Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary]]: There are many, many references to tropes on the site.
* [[Unusual Chapter Numbers]]: The MSTs have four separate counters: Horrible Fanfiction, guest MSTs, ''[[My Immortal]]'' and ''Surviving Middle School at Aperture Science''. Hence, Skepkitty acknowledged both [https://web.archive.org/web/20130604080809/http://theskepkitty.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/horrible-fanfiction-73-teen-fortress-2-a-team-fortress-2-portal-fanfic/ the 100th MST] and [http://theskepkitty.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/horrible-fanfiction-100-love-knows-no-race-part-6-an-invader-zim-fanfic/ the 100th HFF]{{Dead link}}.
** RingmasterJ5's MST of Half Humans, as it's only on the book and not on the blog, doesn't get a number, and is known as "guest MST #?".
== Fanfiction Tropes ==
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* [[Crossover]]: [[My Immortal]], [[It's My Life]] and [[Me in Invader Zim? Oh Kami]].
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Happens constantly in the [[Fanfic|FanFics]] on the site, and is made fun of whenever it happens.
** (From [[My Immortal]])
{{quote|'''''Dumbldore yelled at them but they didn’t stop. All of a sudden…… a terrible man with red eyes and no nose flew in on his broomstick. He had no nose and was wearing a gray robe.'''''
Wait, so did he have a nose? }}
** (From Grazie the Beautiful New Girl)
{{quote|'''''“A diary…” I was walking home from Skool when I tripped over the Diary.'''''
Well, now we know where Grazie is from. She’s from the Department of Redundancy Department. }}
** (From Teen Fortress 2)
{{quote|'''''This is the new studant hes new.'' '''
The new student is new? No points for guessing that all these guys passed their Redundancy classes of redundancy. They probably got A’s. }}
* [[Exposition Beam]]
* [[Fandom
** There's also a blog post about [[Fandom
* [[Forgotten Phlebotinum]]: In many instances. See [[Gratuitous German]] below.
* [[Gratuitous Foreign Language]]:
** [[Gratuitous German|German]]: (From Grazie the Beautiful New Girl)
{{quote|'''''“Hallo, mein Name ist Grazie, ich freue mich darauf, Sie kennen zu allen! Ach ja, und Frau Bitter ist ein horribe Lehrer und hat keine Ahnung, was ich sage, so HA! Toodles!”'''''
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*** [[Tropers/Skepkitty|Skepkitty]] had to be told what "kami" means, because she didn't know that. <ref>It's Japanese for "God" or "deity"</ref>.
* {{spoiler|[[Incest Is Relative]]: Love Knows No Race practically runs on incest. Red/Purple, then Zim/Dib (Red and Purple's kids), and then Purple/Sek (Zim and Dib's kid).}}
** {{spoiler|Though, Zim/Dib is actually incest (in the fic, as they're twins), [[Ho Yay]] (complete with [[
*** {{spoiler|If Dib wasn't Irken all along, it would have been [[Interspecies Romance]] as well.}}
* [[Instant Humiliation - Just Add YouTube]]: Grazie's prank in Grazie The Beautiful New Girl was an [[iCarly|air-cannon rigged cookie basket]] left on Zim's doorstep. Grazie filmed it and put it up on YouTube, under the name DEATH BY COOKIES.
* [[Lost Forever]]: Often Skepkitty will MST fics that end up being deleted from FF.Net, [[My Immortal]] was removed even before Skepkitty was active, and [[Me in Invader Zim? Oh Kami|Me in Invader Zim Oh Kami]] was removed while it was in progress ''and'' Skepkitty was MSTing it, leading to her [http://theskepkitty.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/ding-dong-oh-kamis-dead/ officially acknowledging the loss.]{{Dead link}}
** Recently Invader Cakez removed the Grazie saga ''because'' Skepkitty MSTed it.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: In the universe of Invader Zim: Born Again Christian, the plot of It's My Life replaced Portal 2.
** Also from Invader Zim: Born Again Christian, both [[Tropers/Skepkitty|Skepkitty]] and the reviews pointed out the "former" relationship between Gaz and [[Team Fortress 2|Demoman]].
* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]]: [[
{{quote|'''''Then we started our normal Saturday retain (a/n I suck at spelling).'''''}}
* [[Self-Insert Fic]]: What many fanfictions that [[Tropers/Skepkitty|Skepkitty]] features is based around. It also counts as a [[Berserk Button]] for her.
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{{quote|I was going to suggest that [[It's My Life|Marissa]] try to get a part in this, but then I realized that this story was written in 2002. Since it’s such an old Zimfic, maybe, instead of just borrowing every Zimfic cliché in the book, the author helped invent those clichés, [[It Got Worse|which makes it worse in a way.]]}}
** Which also makes it older than My Immortal, which by The Half-World's present day (2012) had become a badfic classic.
* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]: (From My Immortal)
{{quote|'''''“Thou must!” he yelled. “If thou does not, then I shall kill thy beloved Draco!”'''''
“Thou dost”, not “thou does”. [[Subject 101|Ye Olde English 101.]] }}
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** Though really, all these two have in common are the name and the author.
{{quote|Be warned: the site’s title may be “the (other) half-world”, but it’s quite a bit different from this half-world, and if you follow me you’ll have to put up with a lot of [[Fan Girl]] behavior.}}
* [[Review]]: A few non-MST reviews have appeared. [http://theskepkitty.wordpress.com/category/fanfic-reviews/ Listed here.]
* [[Word Salad Title]]: The title comes from a phrase in Skepkitty's family:
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