Curtis' text is simplistic and extremely adorable. I like the fact that this is a story that was told so often that the child practically memorized the story. It’s like their child’s adoption isn't a big secret that should stay that way. Cornell's illustrations are beautiful, colorful, and reminiscent of watercolor paintings. It gives a rather wistful and lovely atmosphere of the story. Kaepora Gaebora is a recurring character in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time who gives you exposition. At the end, he asks whether you would like to hear all that again. On the days when Mum does wake up, I go to preschool. Always, before we get out of the car, Mum reminds me that we are in Adelaide because Dad is here for work.

Shows up once in The Chronicles of Amber, when Corwin is talking to somebody who's under the impression Corwin is somebody else disguised as Corwin - and that the disguise shows he still can't accept the subject matter of the conversation and so needs to hear it all yet again. (Ultimately it becomes unclear whether the person was really deluded or knew from the start he was talking to Corwin, so this may or may not be an in-universe trope.)

My safe person

In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, despite the player being ostensibly an outsider to the titular region, s/he can come off as clueless when asking certain questions about the current political climate that anyone would have been familiar with. For example, they don't know about the Thalmor, the Great War and the circumstances behind Ulfric Stormcloak's rebellion. When asking Ralof about the latter, he replies in disbelief that the player character doesn't know, who replies in turn that they "haven't been informed on current events".

Pop, Mum’s dad, is my safe person: consistent, kind, calm. I am with him a lot, sometimes swimming, often fishing. He takes me away to his own mother-in-law’s, to Great-Grandma Lucy’s house on Yuin Country, where we fish every morning and he tells me all about our kin creatures who live in the river. The octopuses there are cheeky and steal our bait. I don’t want to be away from him, and I could tell by his face as Mum told him we were leaving that he was worried. He kept shooting glances at me and Lisa – I don’t want him to be worried. And yes, I personally know real-life women who managed to attain motherhood by these difficult paths, and many others.) It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: A scene will sometimes start with numbskull Charlie asking for the gang's new scheme to be repeated to him for the zillionth time. The energy of academic conferences isn’t like your average conference. It is the bringing together of academics from universities all around the country, sometimes around the globe, all working within similar or related specialisations. This means one thing: niche gossip and lots of it. There’s a reason why so many academics love reality television – we have intensely intellectual, oftentimes dry jobs, meaning much of the juicy elements of our roles come from the interpersonal relationships. An alternative to As You Know, this trope is when several characters have already explained something during a discussion, but one character asks the others to repeat the entire explanation. The reason is so that the audience can receive the exposition.Sometimes it's justified as an inverted Let Me Get This Straight..., in which the requester is so dubious of the explanation that he needs to hear it multiple times to believe it. Other times it's played for comedy by portraying the requester as stupid, and the people repeating the explanation will be frustrated. The avatar gave ver something approaching a look of exasperation, but Blanca pleaded stubbornly, "Remind me." The book is about a little girl who is adopted at birth by a couple who could not have children of their own. The book begins with the little girl asking to know about the night she was born. As the story continues the little girl continues to ask questions about the days and nights to come afterward and about her first time experiences, such as her first bottle and diaper change. As the book comes to an end the last request the little girl has is to hear about the night she was born again. Taken separately, I would give the text 4 stars and the illustrations 2 stars. The story is pretty sweet and straightforward - the "voice" of the book is a child who had obviously been adopted, reminiscing with her parents about the stories they've told her about the night she was born. The voice didn't sound much like a child, though, which was distracted me a little.