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{{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>}}
 
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 (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]'', ''[[Harry Potter]]'', and ''[[Portal (Video Gameseries)|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]])
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* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/667171/1/Gone Gone] ''([[Invader Zim]])''
* Invader Bre-Z: Secrets ''([[Invader Zim]])''
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5469971/1/Defying_Destiny Defying Destiny] ''([[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]])''
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5102928/1/Harry_Potter_turns_to_the_Lord Harry Potter Turns to the Lord] ''([[Harry Potter]])''
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6730422/1/bHow_b_bZim_b_and_bTak_b_bfirst_b_bmet_b How Zim and Tak First Met] ''([[Invader Zim]])''
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* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6932008/1/bHalf_b_bIrkens_b Half Irkens] ''([[Invader Zim]])''
* [[My Immortal]] ''([[Harry Potter]])''
* [[ItsIt's My Life (Fanfic)|It's My Life and Teen Fortress 2]] ''([[Portal (Video Gameseries)|Portal]] / [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]])''
* [[Me in Invader Zim Oh Kami (Fanfic)|Me in Invader Zim? Oh Kami]] ''([[Invader Zim]])''
* Holes (''[[Portal (Video Gameseries)|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 (Fanfic)|Invader Zim: Born Again Christian]] (''[[Invader Zim]]'')
* Matryoshka (original) (''[[Portal (Video Gameseries)|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 (Video Gameseries)|Portal]]'')
* [[Forbiden Fruit the Tempation of Edward Cullen (Fanfic)|Forbidden Fruit: The Temptation of Edward Cullen]] (''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]'')
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7718524/1/Surviving_Middle_School_at_Aperture_Science Surviving Middle School at Aperture Science] (''[[Portal (Video Gameseries)|Portal]]'')
 
The blog also occasionally features guest [[MST|MSTs]]:
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Due to her popularity, Skepkitty has also done co-MSTs which usually are held outside her blog:
 
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-4mBA679TGjU_Nh6klZ-KlN_o6dZ4uakMQZM3rvBT7E/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1 Aperture Nikki] (''[[Portal (Video Gameseries)|Portal]]'') (co-MST with [[Telltale Fanfic Theater 3000]])
* [http://sssporkings.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/the-softest-touch-a-bad-fanfiction-by-yuna-angel/ The Softest Touch] (''[[Portal (Video Gameseries)|Portal]]'') (co-MST with sssporkings)
* [http://sssporkings.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/just-aperture-science-a-bad-fanfiction-by-pasadena-opossum/ Just Aperture Science] (''[[Portal (Video Gameseries)|Portal]]'') (co-MST with sssporkings)
* [http://sssporkings.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/i-fixed-it-a-bad-fanfiction-by-pasadena-opossum/ I Fixed It] (''[[Portal (Video Gameseries)|Portal]]'') (co-MST with sssporkings)
* [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 (Fanfic)|ASBusinessMagnet]])
 
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** (From Defying Destiny)
{{quote| Has it occurred to you, cullengirl13xxx, that NO ONE GIVES A [[Symbol Swearing|$%@#]] [[Costume Porn|WHAT YOUR CHARACTERS ARE WEARING?]]}}
** [[Tropers/Skepkitty|Skepkitty]] doesn’t like it when you insult [[G La DOS]]. Or get her [[OOC|out of character]]. [[ItsIt's My Life (Fanfic)|Or kill her multiple times.]]
** In fact, an MST blog inspired directly by The Half-World called itself [http://trollinmahpantz.wordpress.com/ "HIT THE BERSERK BUTTON!"]
* [[Big No]]: (From [[Its My Life (Fanfic)|It's My Life]])
{{quote| OH GOD NO<br />
PLEASE NO<br />
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* [[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.
* [[I Do Not Own]]: (From Book One)
{{quote| The fanfics in this book are owned by their respective writers, and neither Skepkitty, Meadow, or [[Telltale Fanfic Theater 3000|RingmasterJ5]] claim any of them as their own. "[[Rebecca Black|Friday]]" and "My Jeans" are copyright Ark Music Factory, 2011. The two full-page ads featured here are the property of Richard W. Wetherill. "[[Invader Zim (Animation)|Invader Zim]]" is copyright [[Viacom]]. "[[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|Harry Potter]]" is copyright [[JKJ. K. Rowling]]. "[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]" is copyright [[Stephenie Meyer|Stephanie Meyer]].}}
** Justified, as an e-book is only one step away from a published book, which could earn money.
** Horrible Fanfiction #1 begins with "No, I didn't write it, okay?".
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{{quote| '''''Butt the worst thing was who the ppl who were shot in the dream where……………………… Lucian and Serious!111'''''<br />
Serious-ly? }}
* [[In Joke]]: "...and there was ____, looking extremely [[Precision F-Strike|fucking]] hot." (Based on a line from [[My Immortal (Fanfic)|My Immortal]])
** "''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 (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 [[Tropers/Skepkitty|Skepkitty]] actually did that.
** 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 [[Tropers/Skepkitty|Skepkitty]] playing through both [[Portal (Video Gameseries)|Portal]] and [[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]] at the time.
* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]]: In response to comments by [[ItsIt's My Life (Fanfic)|MarissaTheWriter]]:
{{quote| Perhaps I should rewrite this site’s tagline: “THE HALF-WORLD, [[Department of Redundancy Department|a bloog bout haf worlds.]]”<br />
Maybe I really ''should'' change the tagline. “THE HALF-WORLD, a bloog bout haf worlds which is like [[Invader Zim|Invader Zen]]”. Catchy. }}
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{{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.'''''<br />
Oh, fantastic. /sarcasm }}
* [[Shipper Onon Deck]]: Even though [[Tropers/Skepkitty|Skepkitty]] is against [[Shipping]] in most works, there are a few exceptions...
{{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 [[Its My Life (Fanfic)|It's My Life]], and in the [[ItsIt's My Life (Fanfic)|Teen Fortress 2]] [[MST]] [[Tropers/Skepkitty|Skepkitty]] mentioned wanting to ship [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Sniper]]/[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Caroline]] because their voice actors are married.
{{quote| My OTPs are [[My Immortal (Fanfic)|Tara/Raven]], [[Me in Invader Zim? Oh Kami (Fanfic)|Sin/Mystie]], and [[Married to Thethe 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 [[Tropers/Skepkitty|Skepkitty]] gave up; mainly because the [[Fanfic|FanFics]] she was [[MST|MSTing]] tended to use more language/mature content ([[My Immortal]], for example), and thus the posts were going to be [[NSFW]] anyway.
* [[This Is Sparta]]: Used when the [[Catch Phrase]] "It. Sporks. Itself." is present, and many other times as well.
* [[All Thethe 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 [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].
** 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 #?".
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{{quote| Since when did Ebony have a camera?}}
* [[Costume Porn]]: Many of the fanfics, particularly those featuring a [[Mary Sue]], are prone to this.
* [[Crossover]]: [[My Immortal]], [[Its My Life (Fanfic)|It's My Life]] and [[Me in Invader Zim Oh Kami (Fanfic)|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]])
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** {{spoiler|Though, Zim/Dib is actually incest (in the fic, as they're twins), [[Ho Yay]] (complete with [[M Preg]]) ''and'' [[Foe Yay]] (in the canon) ''in one place''.}}
*** {{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 [[I CarlyICarly|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 (Fanfic)|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.]
** 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 (Video Game)|Demoman]].
* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]]: [[This Is Sparta|All. The. Time.]] (From Half Irkens)
{{quote| '''''Then we started our normal Saturday retain (a/n I suck at spelling).'''''}}
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{{quote| {{spoiler|1='''<nowiki>UpsidePickle:</nowiki>''' All in all, incest, incest COMBO x2!!, incest TO THE SECOND POWER.}}}}
* [[Ur Example]]: Love Knows No Race was actually written in 2002, inciting Skepkitty to point something out...
{{quote| I was going to suggest that [[ItsIt's My Life (Fanfic)|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)
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