The Trope Pulse · updates weekly

Each trope's share of your lane, week on week.

TropeSmith counts trope mentions across romance lanes each week. Pick your lane to see each trope's share of that lane and whether it went up or down against last week — a hint, not a trend: recent weeks read low.

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Trope	Share of lane buzz	vs last week

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