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Vilui
Since: May, 2009
21st Sep, 2023 10:32:41 PM
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night is for uses of the phrase, or variations of it.
Weather Report Opening for beginning the story with a statement of the weather.
Empathic Environment for the weather matching the mood of the story at any point.
eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
22nd Sep, 2023 08:44:01 AM
I think it's exclusively as an opening trope.
ItWasADarkAndStormyNight
Is It Was a Dark and Stormy Night about dramatic things happening on stormy nights, or just about stories beginning on stormy nights? Like would a climax on a dark stormy night count?