...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

The Dogs

223 statements
43 feature instances
7 referencing feature instances

The Dogs	type	TVTItem
The Dogs	label	The Dogs
The Dogs	page	TheDogs
The Dogs	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Dogs is a series of erotic novels, joined by a pair of short story collections, by Christopher Veidt.The first novel was begun in April of 2012 as an experiment in transformation fetish stuff for a Furry audience that eventually mushroomed into a full-fledged novel when the original notes for the story were codified and revised in August of 2013.Broadly speaking, the novels and short stories, which make up a wide, interconnected world of its own, comprise an effort by the author to revive a more old-fashioned, regionalist approach to literature, as well as to bring a more refined and literary veneer to Erotic Literature and, more specifically, Transformation Fiction.Many of the stories are, as a result, highly NSFW, and possess a potent sense of tragedy and dread. (The novels are a little more romantic and sweet, but that's not saying much.) Using real-world folklore and local history, the stories usually bring in the geographic location where they are set as a central engine of the characters' actions and personalities. More often than not, it posits that the abrupt and traumatic abandonment of how life used to be causes people to lose touch with their true selves...which can come back to haunt them in unsettling and shocking ways. The whole thing is deeply steeped in the lore, traditions, and culture of Appalachia, West Virginia in particular.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })While almost exclusively featuring homosexual content, Veidt insists it is not Furry, nor LGBT, nor mpreg fiction. That being said, it's sort of hard to pin down what category these stories would fall under.You can read the first novel here.This page covers the main novels of the series, which are: Not Exactly Night, which introduces the main trio of characters — Bligh Lynch, Andrew Lightfoot, and Cody Tyree, and how they came together. Litany, which focuses more on Andrew's brother Stephen, and the burgeoning mystery of something strange and terrible that happened long ago. Hand In Heart, currently in production, brings the action of the last two months to a head, but ends with more questions than answers, with room for a fourth or even fifth book.The novels are joined by two short story collections, which are:Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) Before Time After, a volume of prequel stories from different characters which narrates how the events, characters, and people of the main novels eventually coalesce as told and seen by several people over the course of almost three centuries. What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse, which takes place in the same universe as ''The Dogs'', but codifies most of Veidt's work wherein the main cast either doesn't appear or only has a cameo.Has a character sheet, under construction.
The Dogs	fetched	2022-09-04T20:28:20Z
The Dogs	parsed	2022-09-04T20:28:20Z
The Dogs	isPartOf	DBTropes
The Dogs / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The Dogs / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: Comes with the territory, and somewhat lampshaded by Andrew, a Biology major, who struggles mightily with what transpires in front of his very eyes because he refuses to believe science can't explain it. Andrew's brother doubly lampshades both this and Cody's pregnancy when they are first revealed to him in Litany:
The Dogs / int_18aff462	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_18aff462	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_18aff462
The Dogs / int_18cc27ca	type	Accent Slip-Up
The Dogs / int_18cc27ca	comment	Andrew and Stephen both sound like they are from southeastern West Virginia in their youth, and Andrew up until he moved to Florida when he deliberately changed the way he spoke to fit in, which provides a dramatic Accent Slip-Up moment in the first novel.
The Dogs / int_18cc27ca	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_18cc27ca	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_18cc27ca
The Dogs / int_1ad6e2da	type	Little Bit Beastly
The Dogs / int_1ad6e2da	comment	Little Bit Beastly: What happens when humans (like Bligh) turn into half-dogs. Although apparently human while wearing a hat and pants, half-dogs have external traits of being completely furry and canine below the waist complete with tail, have pointed furry dog's ears, and sharpened canine teeth, as mentioned.
The Dogs / int_1ad6e2da	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_1ad6e2da	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_1ad6e2da
The Dogs / int_2346a8ec	type	Metamorphosis
The Dogs / int_2346a8ec	comment	Metamorphosis: A central theme of the novels, both physical and emotional.
The Dogs / int_2346a8ec	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_2346a8ec	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_2346a8ec
The Dogs / int_25c60be7	type	Only in Florida
The Dogs / int_25c60be7	comment	Only in Florida: The main action of the first novel takes place in Tampa; the dramatic confrontation that sets in motion the rest of the plot between Andrew and Bligh occurs on a Tampa Bay beach. Additionally, Cody was born near Plant City (on a strawberry farm — Plant City is famous on the East Coast for this crop), and was living homeless in an actual bad part of Tampa, Nebraska Avenue, before they met. Andrew goes to the University of South Florida.
The Dogs / int_25c60be7	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_25c60be7	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_25c60be7
The Dogs / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The Dogs / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Andrew when he gets frustrated, and Stephen almost every sentence.
The Dogs / int_35a858b3	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_35a858b3	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_35a858b3
The Dogs / int_3800c1ad	type	Totally Not a Werewolf
The Dogs / int_3800c1ad	comment	Totally Not a Werewolf: Despite nicknamed ''Wolfman'' in high school because he was so hirsute even at that age, and being a committed werewolf fan himself, Bligh rejects the label, referring to himself as a "dog." The others acquiesce to the idea.
The Dogs / int_3800c1ad	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_3800c1ad	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_3800c1ad
The Dogs / int_38e4b69d	type	Mister Seahorse
The Dogs / int_38e4b69d	comment	Andrew's brother doubly lampshades both this and Cody's pregnancy when they are first revealed to him in Litany:
The Dogs / int_38e4b69d	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_38e4b69d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_38e4b69d
The Dogs / int_44abc60d	type	FictionFiveHundred
The Dogs / int_44abc60d	comment	Fiction 500: Stephen and Andrew's family, the Lightfoots, are enormously wealthy and extremely old, tracing their roots back to when Jamestown was first settled in 1607. The disproportionate amount of money the family has amassed in a poverty-stricken area eventually disgusts and disillusions Andrew. Stephen, on the other hands, milks it for all its worth.
The Dogs / int_44abc60d	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_44abc60d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_44abc60d
The Dogs / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
The Dogs / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: How Bligh's dialogue is written, in addition to Andrew's and Stephen's in flashbacks, attempting to replicate the Greenbrier Valley dialect.
The Dogs / int_48d9e12d	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_48d9e12d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_48d9e12d
The Dogs / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Dogs / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Both West Virginia and Florida are given this treatment.
The Dogs / int_49d59be9	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_49d59be9	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_49d59be9
The Dogs / int_5ff9310b	type	Painful Transformation
The Dogs / int_5ff9310b	comment	Painful Transformation: It's actually described to be pretty traumatic and highly taxing to the body, particularly the final stage, where the heart morphs into a canine's, which is felt in the form of something akin to an agonizing heart attack.
The Dogs / int_5ff9310b	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_5ff9310b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_5ff9310b
The Dogs / int_63be4131	type	Pretty Boy
The Dogs / int_63be4131	comment	Pretty Boy: Cody, and to a different extent Stephen.
The Dogs / int_63be4131	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_63be4131	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_63be4131
The Dogs / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Dogs / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: The large amounts of references, gone over above, coupled with deliberately dream-like nature imagery and sometimes long, complicated sentences and vocabulary mean that this becomes a common complaint for some readers.
The Dogs / int_641cf81d	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_641cf81d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_641cf81d
The Dogs / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
The Dogs / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: A recurring theme.
The Dogs / int_6a696742	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_6a696742	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_6a696742
The Dogs / int_6cdb15b4	type	With a Friend and a Stranger
The Dogs / int_6cdb15b4	comment	With a Friend and a Stranger: Andrew spent his entire childhood and teenage years with Bligh, and has been dating Cody for a year. Bligh and Cody, as a result, do not know each other well at all but that changes completely the first night Bligh is there.
The Dogs / int_6cdb15b4	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_6cdb15b4	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_6cdb15b4
The Dogs / int_704a3bbb	type	Real Men Cook
The Dogs / int_704a3bbb	comment	Real Men Cook: All three of the main trio are decent cooks, with different specialties between them.
The Dogs / int_704a3bbb	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_704a3bbb	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_704a3bbb
The Dogs / int_7b7f1657	type	Canine Companion
The Dogs / int_7b7f1657	comment	Canine Companion: Although both deceased well before the start of the events of the first novel, this was Duke for Bligh, and Walker, the Beagle, for Stephen.
The Dogs / int_7b7f1657	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_7b7f1657	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_7b7f1657
The Dogs / int_7eda7f78	type	Transformation Horror
The Dogs / int_7eda7f78	comment	Transformation Horror: A salient feature of all of Veidt's work.
The Dogs / int_7eda7f78	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_7eda7f78	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_7eda7f78
The Dogs / int_7f67b0c6	type	Hated Hometown
The Dogs / int_7f67b0c6	comment	Hated Hometown: Tempest, West Virginia, the hometown of Andrew, Bligh, and Stephen.
The Dogs / int_7f67b0c6	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_7f67b0c6	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_7f67b0c6
The Dogs / int_7fd86888	type	Mountain Man
The Dogs / int_7fd86888	comment	Mountain Man: Pappy definitely qualifies, with Bligh following in his footsteps. And, in a strange example, Andrew's ancestor, Nicky Lightfoot — unwillingly.
The Dogs / int_7fd86888	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_7fd86888	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_7fd86888
The Dogs / int_809bcc37	type	Exotic Equipment
The Dogs / int_809bcc37	comment	Exotic Equipment: Not particularly exotic as it is canine, but yes.
The Dogs / int_809bcc37	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_809bcc37	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_809bcc37
The Dogs / int_83095fe8	type	Signature Scent
The Dogs / int_83095fe8	comment	Signature Scent: One of the ways Dogfolk know each other is by a rather complex, cologne-like smell. For instance, Bligh is said to smell something like petrichor and rotting agarwood.
The Dogs / int_83095fe8	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_83095fe8	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_83095fe8
The Dogs / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
The Dogs / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: All three characters, but Bligh especially. Stephen is less this than he is Chaotic Stupid; his bisexuality is par for the course.
The Dogs / int_83b44e80	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_83b44e80	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_83b44e80
The Dogs / int_87629455	type	No Communities Were Harmed
The Dogs / int_87629455	comment	No Communities Were Harmed: According to the author himself, Tempest, West Virginia, is roughly based on several small towns in Greenbrier County, namely Rupert, Rainelle, and Quinwood. Adkins County, where Tempest is supposedly located, is more or less the southern part of the real life Greenbrier County. Subverted with where Andrew and Cody live: several clues are dropped that it's the Tampa suburb of Rocky Creek.
The Dogs / int_87629455	featureApplicability	-0.3
The Dogs / int_87629455	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_87629455
The Dogs / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
The Dogs / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of the many common ideas and themes that tend to show up in erotic transformation stories and mpreg fics. Instead of being a sexy fantasy, the idea of transformation into a half-human creature and getting pregnant as a male is treated with brutal realism.
The Dogs / int_8ae880f7	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_8ae880f7	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_8ae880f7
The Dogs / int_8e1aef2d	type	Reference Overdosed
The Dogs / int_8e1aef2d	comment	Reference Overdosed: A plethora of (mostly passing) literary and pop cultural references which populate the novels, as disparate as It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia to The Picture of Dorian Gray. There are also large amounts of references to the culture and geography of both West Virginia and Florida.
The Dogs / int_8e1aef2d	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_8e1aef2d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_8e1aef2d
The Dogs / int_8e3b5b4d	type	Minimalist Cast
The Dogs / int_8e3b5b4d	comment	In the second novel, Cody's motherly Puerto Rican boss, Gabby, and her husband, Jomar, are introduced. They play a small but vital role in the early part of the book. Their presence lessens this trope somewhat, due to how how small the cast remains.
The Dogs / int_8e3b5b4d	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_8e3b5b4d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_8e3b5b4d
The Dogs / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
The Dogs / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: It's only barely hinted how, but Stephen is pretty much immune to every injury and sickness, just like his dad.
The Dogs / int_a5fb0d24	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_a5fb0d24	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_a5fb0d24
The Dogs / int_b087305e	type	Brand Names Are Better
The Dogs / int_b087305e	comment	Brand Names Are Better: Something all the Lightfoot family has in common — even Andrew, who spurns his rich upbringing — is the insistence on buying name-brand stuff.
The Dogs / int_b087305e	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_b087305e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_b087305e
The Dogs / int_c1967d3e	type	Retro Universe
The Dogs / int_c1967d3e	comment	Retro Universe: Played with. Despite nominally being an exact parallel to our own, people buy clothing from antiquated (and long-defunct) department stores like Burdines and Hecht's, which are assumed to be still flourishing in this alternate 2013.
The Dogs / int_c1967d3e	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_c1967d3e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_c1967d3e
The Dogs / int_c259861f	type	Accents Aren't Hereditary
The Dogs / int_c259861f	comment	Accents Aren't Hereditary: This actually comes up a lot as a form of Character Development: Andrew and Stephen both sound like they are from southeastern West Virginia in their youth, and Andrew up until he moved to Florida when he deliberately changed the way he spoke to fit in, which provides a dramatic Accent Slip-Up moment in the first novel. By the second novel, both Andrew and Stephen's accent soften to become something like their mother's — broadly Appalachian without being as shrill as Bligh's. Bligh, on the other hand, keeps his accent, and this never changes.
The Dogs / int_c259861f	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_c259861f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_c259861f
The Dogs / int_c335b301	type	Cute Little Fangs
The Dogs / int_c335b301	comment	Cute Little Fangs: The only trait of the half-dog that can't be hidden. Although the teeth are described as sharp (as a dog's would), it's apparently not something people notice at first.
The Dogs / int_c335b301	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_c335b301	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_c335b301
The Dogs / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Dogs / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: For the first novel, but justified in that three of the four main cast are from West Virginia, a state where at least a few counties have, at least according to census records, no people of colour at all. In the second novel, Cody's motherly Puerto Rican boss, Gabby, and her husband, Jomar, are introduced. They play a small but vital role in the early part of the book. Their presence lessens this trope somewhat, due to how how small the cast remains.
The Dogs / int_ce0b2b21	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_ce0b2b21	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_ce0b2b21
The Dogs / int_d32cd9f5	type	Cast Full of Gay
The Dogs / int_d32cd9f5	comment	Cast Full of Gay: Kind of the point.
The Dogs / int_d32cd9f5	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_d32cd9f5	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_d32cd9f5
The Dogs / int_d8dde631	type	You Are Worth Hell
The Dogs / int_d8dde631	comment	You Are Worth Hell: More or less invoked by Andrew to both Bligh and Cody.
The Dogs / int_d8dde631	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_d8dde631	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_d8dde631
The Dogs / int_e33dc974	type	Uneven Hybrid
The Dogs / int_e33dc974	comment	Uneven Hybrid: After transforming, a newly joined member of the Dogfolk is permanently this. Despite the term used, these creatures are actually little over 60% canine, both externally and internally.
The Dogs / int_e33dc974	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_e33dc974	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_e33dc974
The Dogs / int_e399c1dd	type	Manly Gay
The Dogs / int_e399c1dd	comment	Manly Gay: All of the characters identified as gay, no matter how much homosexual sex they have, are pretty much indistinguishable as gay men.
The Dogs / int_e399c1dd	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_e399c1dd	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_e399c1dd
The Dogs / int_e8cae797	type	Freudian Trio
The Dogs / int_e8cae797	comment	Freudian Trio: Bligh, Cody, and Andrew for the first novel. Although unintentional, they end up representing, respectively, the Freudian concepts of the id, ego, and superego.
The Dogs / int_e8cae797	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_e8cae797	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_e8cae797
The Dogs / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
The Dogs / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: The dinner that Andrew's mother prepares for her family with Bligh and his grandfather as guests in a flashback. The main course is duck — endangered duck.
The Dogs / int_f23ad6de	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_f23ad6de	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_f23ad6de
The Dogs / int_f7bacf52	type	You Sexy Beast
The Dogs / int_f7bacf52	comment	You Sexy Beast: Bligh. At first, til the other two join him.
The Dogs / int_f7bacf52	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_f7bacf52	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_f7bacf52
The Dogs / int_ffb79066	type	Chromosome Casting
The Dogs / int_ffb79066	comment	Chromosome Casting: Intentional for the first novel, as the action of the plot didn't really allow for anyone outside of the main three main characters (and Stephen during the final act), who were all male. Female characters are mentioned, but not introduced. Stephen and Andrew's mother is briefly seen and heard in a flashback. In the second novel we have Gabby, Cody's boss. See Monochrome Casting, below.
The Dogs / int_ffb79066	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_ffb79066	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_ffb79066
The Dogs / int_name	type	ItemName
The Dogs / int_name	comment
The Dogs / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
The Dogs / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dogs	hasFeature	The Dogs / int_name
The Dogs / int_name	itemName	The Dogs

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

The Dogs	hasFeature	Cast Full of Gay / int_91b9681b
The Dogs	hasFeature	Cute Little Fangs / int_91b9681b
The Dogs	hasFeature	Erotic Literature / int_91b9681b
The Dogs	hasFeature	Little Bit Beastly / int_91b9681b
The Dogs	hasFeature	Totally Not a Werewolf / int_91b9681b
The Dogs	hasFeature	Web Serial Novel / int_91b9681b
The Dogs	hasFeature	You Sexy Beast / int_91b9681b

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.