While I have been reading the current c’t, they called my attention to this website: TV Tropes

Build in the form of a wiki, it outlines countless schemas that appear in literature/movies/comics and gives these “tropes” catchy names. Yesterday I’ve been reading this site for 7(!) hours straight and I barely scratched the surface. One jumps from trope to trope and one stumbles across new tropes that one recognizes and continues to read there.

The last tropes I read yesterday:

Genre Savvy – Television Tropes & Idioms
Took A Level In Badass – Television Tropes & Idioms
Our Vampires Are Different – Television Tropes & Idioms

You can get really lost in there. 🙂