Easter Eggs that haven't been spotted yet:

[Djmac1031]

You can make sigs show up if you turn the phone on it’s side. On my phone, anyways.

The more you know

 

[lovecraft68]

Spellbound has several classic horror movie references as the entire thing was a taboo homage to the genre.
Only one person called any out, the "Join Us" which was from the original Evil Dead.

 

[MetaBob]

In my first story here, Were-Tigress, I dropped a whole lot of Easter Eggs that no one commented on. Whether anyone noticed or not, I can't say, but I didn't put them in for readers so much as myself.

Star Wars, Dune, Monsters Inc., it went on from there. My publisher liked my Ozymandias callout. The Russians Are Coming! Space Battleship Yamato, Maya Angelou, This Is Spinal Tap, Dark Star, Scarface, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Godfather, Point Break, Beavis & Butt-Head, Caddyshack, the list goes on. C'mon, who's gonna keep up with all of that?

I toned it down in subsequent stories, but I admit to still doing it once in a while.

 

[Djmac1031]

In my first story here, Were-Tigress, I dropped a whole lot of Easter Eggs that no one commented on. Whether anyone noticed or not, I can't say, but I didn't put them in for readers so much as myself.

Star Wars, Dune, Monsters Inc., it went on from there. My publisher liked my Ozymandias callout. The Russians Are Coming! Space Battleship Yamato, Maya Angelou, This Is Spinal Tap, Dark Star, Scarface, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Godfather, Point Break, Beavis & Butt-Head, Caddyshack, the list goes on. C'mon, who's gonna keep up with all of that?

I toned it down in subsequent stories, but I admit to still doing it once in a while.

I've lost track of how many Star Wars references I've made

 

[Bramblethorn]

I don't know how many of mine have been spotted by people who didn't say anything.

In "Loss Function", there's a conversation where Nadja's wife calls her "cabbage" as a term of endearment. At least one Russian-speaking reader got the reference: it's a play on her last name, "Kapustina", which comes from "kapusta" = "cabbage".

The antagonist of "The Floggings Will Continue" is introduced as "Dr. Ashley Marchand, Occupational Psychologist". But spoken aloud, her name can be heard as "Ash LeMarchand". That was a gentle nod to one of my favourite novellas, where a Mr. LeMarchand is the maker of intricate puzzle boxes that bring people to destruction through their desires. Dr. Marchand plays a similar role in that story, although through different methods. If anybody's caught that one, they haven't mentioned it yet.

 

[KeithD]

Truth be told, I sort of don't bother much devising Easter Eggs for Literotica stories. Truth be told and contrary to what some post on the discussion board, I don't find Lit. readers to be all that sophisticated in creative writing appreciation. At the same time, reading for arousal here is just fine with me so I don't fight the room on that. I just don't have high expectations of Lit. readers reading with an eye to the Pulitzer Prize and commenting on what marvels they find.

 

[NoTalentHack]

I don't know how many of mine have been spotted by people who didn't say anything.

In "Loss Function", there's a conversation where Nadja's wife calls her "cabbage" as a term of endearment. At least one Russian-speaking reader got the reference: it's a play on her last name, "Kapustina", which comes from "kapusta" = "cabbage".

The antagonist of "The Floggings Will Continue" is introduced as "Dr. Ashley Marchand, Occupational Psychologist". But spoken aloud, her name can be heard as "Ash LeMarchand". That was a gentle nod to one of my favourite novellas, where a Mr. LeMarchand is the maker of intricate puzzle boxes that bring people to destruction through their desires. Dr. Marchand plays a similar role in that story, although through different methods. If anybody's caught that one, they haven't mentioned it yet.

I bet she has such sights to show us!

 

[Bramblethorn]

I bet she has such sights to show us!

Certainly things one wouldn't expect to see at a corporate team-building retreat...

 

[EmilyMiller]

Okay, every now and then, we all included tiny nods or Easter Eggs that no one seems to catch.

@Altissimus was the only one to catch my Easter Egg in Eldritch Pact; although he did catch it, so it doesn't count here.

@NoTalentHack published a great story that is basically one huge Easter Egg, but people caught it in the comments.

Anyone else got a small nod or huge reference that no one seemed to catch? NO CHEATING!

I'll go first. This is from my light coercion, resistance story, The Price of Embezzlement.



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[I was a kid when that PSA came out. Anyone else remember it?]

Coleoidphilia is basically a series of Sci-Fi Easter Eggs loosely held together by a sort of story.

If I get it done in time, my Summer Lovin’ story will be kinda the same, but geographic, rather than Sci-Fi references.

Em

 

[MrPixel]

I have a few Easter Eggs, and to my crushing disappointment haven't had a single comment on any! (Pout pout pout!)

My fave is from https://literotica.com/s/off-campus-03-pt-01 . It's in the first few 'graphs on the first page if you're curious.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

My fave is from https://literotica.com/s/off-campus-03-pt-01 . It's in the first few 'graphs on the first page if you're curious.

Nice reveal. It took me until coyote industries.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I'm constantly quoting and referencing. Sometimes I don't even know I'm doing it, until someone comments:
It was an undeniable fact that Emily loved being fucked in the ass. It was also a confirmed fact that Bradley loved doing it.
OMG! A Jane Austen quote! Squee!

Somehow I suspect that wasn't quite what Miss Austen had in her original...

I do have minor crossovers of characters between stories, which people may notice but don't generally comment on.

 

[NoTalentHack]

So there story's been up a few days now, and it has gotten caught by a few readers. Also-Ran is essentially an X-Men AU shoved into Loving Wives, although the genesis of it goes the other way around.

I had a story I was trying to write that was basically about what "forsaking all others" in the wedding vows actually mean. So I thought, "hey, I'll write this story about a guy who's married to a woman that never really got over an old boyfriend. Never cheated on the husband, and she tried to hide it, but she would have dropped him in a heartbeat if the ex hadn't wanted to be travel the world to get experiences like Hemingway." I started writing it, got like 7K words in, couldn't make it work quite right, and put it away for a while.

When I came back with fresh eyes a few months later, I went, "This is the Scott/Jean/Logan love triangle from the X-Men, you idiot." And then I was like... "Yeah, it is. And that gives me an idea for the resolution, not just of the story, but of the relationship. And I bet I could have some fun with it, too." So, yeah. Go read it. Have fun looking for the references. There are some easy ones; the names of the three main characters (Scott, Jeanne, and James), but there are a BUNCH of X-Men Easter eggs and some structural stuff that's very comic book. People were like "what the fuck? Why is this so melodramatic? And what's with that ending?"

This was one I wrote for me and for the folks that would get it, though. And the people that did, other than the one that got mad because "Wolverine's awesome and Cyclops is a tool" seemed to dig it.

 

[MrPixel]

One I have in an unpublished story (difficulty resolving the ending) just came to mind. The FMC was complaining to the MMC after a day of sex with random guys at a nudist/swinger resort, "I can't get no satisfaction," to which he replies, "You can't always get what you want."

The infrequent recognizable line from popular music seems to fit in some instances.

 

[WyreBendr0417]

I never thought of them as Easter eggs, but I will occasionally use a well known lyric or part of one that just happens to fall in place for a particular line in a story.

In my last story published, I used the last names of three main characters in the movie '2010: The Year We Make Contact' for three minor characters. If anyone noticed them, they didn't say.

 

[Djmac1031]

In my last story published, I used the last names of three main characters in the movie '2010: The Year We Make Contact' for three minor characters. If anyone noticed them, they didn't say.

I just gotta give props to another fan of that movie. Most people don't even know it exists lol.

 

[WyreBendr0417]

I just gotta give props to another fan of that movie. Most people don't even know it exists lol.

That one has always been a favorite. I've watched it many more times than the first. 2001: A Space Odyssey.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Many of my early writings had references to Person of interest. This is close to what I wrote in one.

The waiting room was crowded. One small brat wiped his grimy nose on his sleeve and glared at the man across from him.

The bespectacled man handed the boy a handkerchief, "Use this, and feel free to keep it."

The receptionist called out, "Mr. Finch, Mr. Harold Finch."

Foureyes stood up. The boy grabbed his arm, held the handkerchief for him to take.

"No, you can keep it. Really, I don't mind."

"You afraid of catching something from him," the mother said. She glared at the man. "Kind-a paranoid seeing this is psychologist office, ain't it?"

"Being paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you," Finch said.

"The germs?"

"Yes, and the government, the police, and an artificial sentient intelligence."

"What?"

The man limped away toward the door, anxious to unburden himself. Which, of course, he couldn't do.

 

[RetroFan]

In my Summer Loving Story from last year 'Tonya, Tiffany & the Twins' the grouchy father Henry Grim is the nephew of the titular 'Grumpy Humphrey' from 'Grumpy Humphrey's Easy Wife', but nobody picked up on it, even though Henry reflects on attending his late uncle's funeral earlier in the year. Humphrey Grim, born the same day the Titanic sank (15-Apr-1912) met his end on his 77th birthday from lung and liver cancer, smoking and drinking himself to death in years of bitterness after his floozy wife Lorraine took him to the cleaners when they divorced.

 

[Carnevil9]

Another favorite of mine from the Star Trek story-
“What can you tell me about this alien civilization, Bones?”
“I’m a doctor, Jim, not an anthropologist!”
Guess what anthropologist tv show I was thinking of when I wrote that line.

Dr. Temperance Brennan from Bones?

The only other character on TV that I know of who is called "Bones" by exactly one person in the show and nobody else.

 

[Carnevil9]

Ah sorry, signatures don't display on the mobile site.

I caught the explicit sitting like riker reference, and the fact that the two guys are named Patrick and Stuart (Stewart) but that was all.

The only other one was the character name, "Mary Sue," which is a Star Trek Fan Fic term for a character who is too impossibly perfect to be believed. Actually the term is used in other Fan Fic universes, but it originated in Trek. Yes, I am a geek, why do you ask?

 

[MrPixel]

...the two guys are named Patrick and Stuart (Stewart)...

I like that! Would you be offended if I borrowed this for heretofore unnamed twins in a yet-to-be-published work?

 

[joy_of_cooking]

I like that! Would you be offended if I borrowed this for heretofore unnamed twins in a yet-to-be-published work?

Not mine. I was only reviewing someone else's work.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

Actually the term is used in other Fan Fic universes, but it originated in Trek

Ah, I did notice the Mary Sue but I had no idea that started with Trek. Very cool!

 

[MediocreAuthor]

The only other one was the character name, "Mary Sue," which is a Star Trek Fan Fic term for a character who is too impossibly perfect to be believed. Actually the term is used in other Fan Fic universes, but it originated in Trek. Yes, I am a geek, why do you ask?

Me: "Mary Sue didn't begin with Star Trek! It began with... -quick Google search- ...well shit. How did I forget that? I looked up the history of Mary Sue when everyone started using the term for Rey in Star Wars. Oh that's right! -snaps fingers- I'm an idiot with a memory akin to a gold fish! That explains it. "