History SugarWiki / TvTropesWillEnhanceYourLife

* [[UsefulNotes/SchoolStudyMedia School]]!

* TVTropes introduced me to songs such as Star 69 by Music/{{REM}}. - {{Tropers/Dylanmc6}}

* Website/TVTropes allowed me to make friends and feel like part of a community for the first time. - Tropers/NajaNerd66, a young and very proud Troper.

* TVTropes introduced me to songs such as Star 69 by [[Music/REM]]. - {{Tropers/Dylanmc6}}

* TV Tropes can actually help you how to write stories. Remember, TropesAreTools, so first teach yourself how to construct a story using logical combination of tropes and when you gain more experience, you can then deconstruct, subvert, exaggerate any trope you want, you can then even make more bizarre trope combination. If you try hard enough, you might even invent a new trope, making your work a TropeMaker.

* TVTropes introduced me to songs such as Star 69 by [[Music/REM]]. - Tropers/Dylanmc6

* TVTropes introduced me to songs such as Star 69 by [[Music/REM]]. - [=Tropers/DylanMc6=]

* TVTropes introduced me to songs such as Star 69 by [[Music/REM]]. - Tropers/DylanMc6

* Humour! If comedy is your style, the site's informal yet witty manner can help you become a generally smarter, funnier and more approachable person. What's more, entries about AcceptableTargets (along with the page DudeNotFunny) can help you avoid cracking jokes likely to offend people.

* TV Tropes [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife "ruined"]] a life that needed “ruining”.

** Tv Tropes made me see this comment, which made my day, even if there only about six hours left in it. - GluteusMaximusTheFirst, formerly Tropers/FryingPanOfDoom

** Tv Tropes made me see this comment, which made my day, even if there only about six hours left in it.

* TVTropes allowed me to make friends and feel like part of a community for the first time. - Tropers/NajaNerd66, a young and very proud Troper.

So, you're spending a long time reading Wiki/TVTropes. You remember exactly every [[JustForFun/TropesOfLegend Trope of Legend]] and know by heart the whole CanonicalListOfSubtleTropeDistinctions. But still, even if it might [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife "ruin"]] your life, Wiki/TVTropes might also make it better in many areas. Besides, who needs a social life that has no nerds in it?

* Administrivia/{{Grammar}}! Even if you literally know nothing about it, there's always a GrammarNazi around to correct you, making you acknowledge the error and learn by fun, 'cause Wiki/TVTropes is fun.
* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=0000000000000000000001se Series]]! So, you read a {{trope}} or something, and there it is—a TV show, or maybe a comic, that sounds good. You'd [[JustForFun/TVTropesAsAGatewayDrug never know about its existence]] without Wiki/TVTropes.

** Wiki/TVTropes is helpful for literature classes because you start thinking about literary works in the context of analysis, which is the entire point of most literature classes. (Well, that and the whole EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory thing.) You just need to remember not to tell your college professor that the Ariadne myth [[LampshadeHanging hung a lampshade]] on the whole philandering-gods thing...

** Wiki/TvTropes is also great for history if you have a teacher who likes film and books—for example, the History of Manga.
** Try being a communication or media studies major and having notebooks FILLED with Wiki/TVTropes references.

* Writing! Wiki/TVTropes can tell you all about a possibly negative {{trope}} in your work that you didn't even know existed. Now there are all sorts of stories which have been improved thanks to this wonderful website!

* UsefulNotes is, in a nutshell, Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} if Wikipedia were a lot more practical and informal.

->''"According to some, a comprehensive knowledge of TV Tropes (which I won't link to, saving you all time, money and time) is a reasonable substitute for a degree in English Lit, years of training in the field of psychoanalysis and, in extreme cases, a medical license."''

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=0000000000000000000001se Series]]! So, you read a {{trope}} or something, and there it is - a TV show, or maybe a comic, that sounds good. You'd [[JustForFun/TVTropesAsAGatewayDrug never know about its existence]] without Wiki/TVTropes.

** Wiki/TvTropes is also great for history if you have a teacher who likes film and books - for example, the History of Manga.

** In fact, TV Tropes is a surprisingly effective way of learning about all sorts of factual topics, such as science, technology and history. Whenever a work of art has a mistake, TV Tropes is likely to correct it, and state how it actually goes in reality. You are much more likely to learn these things here than by reading a phone-book-sized dry textbook.
* Critical thinking! First, because carefully analyzing a work and breaking it down into its component tropes teaches you to carefully watch TV with a judging mind instead of just passively accepting the show. Second, because there's a reason you've became so acquainted with negative tropes, such as AuthorTract, as well as potentially negative tropes like FauxSymbolism: because they give you a solid base to justify why a show is bad!
** Spruce up your critical thinking in general by getting to know the LogicalFallacies that we helpfully list! Learn to spot weak or fallacious logic in the media around you. Then, you can re-examine or strengthen your own understanding, and poke holes in your enemies' arguments, to boot!
** Tropes don't just help you criticize a work that's bad, but can help analyze a work that's good. Maybe a work plays with a trope in an interesting way. Maybe they managed to play it straight but it just works so well in the story. Maybe they finally made you enjoy your PetPeeveTrope because they didn't do something that annoys you in every other work with that trope, proving that there's hope for every trope yet. Maybe they combined tropes that you'd never think would go together but resulted in a super original and entertaining story. Maybe a work just has a lot of tropes you like, and you want to explain just why those tropes work for you.

** Adding to tropes, or even posting in the forums, is a good exercise in thinking analytically and expressing yourself clearly. Practice it every day and you'll improve your writing skills!

* Friends! Out with someone and they suddenly make a reference to ParentalBonus? Instant BFF!
* Bored of your favorite shows, movies or book series? You will be able to enjoy your favorite things once more because all the WildMassGuessing combined with finding new content and the overall descriptions the tropes provide. Not only you can find new content to try out, but you have a new way of seeing your old shows and books as if you are reading them for the first time.

* TV Tropes helped me discover my love for Creator/WilliamAdolpheBouguereau.

* TV Tropes [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife "ruined"]] a life that needed "ruining".
* TV Tropes is ruining my life and I am here for it.

* TV Tropes is ruining my life and I an here for it.

* [[SchoolStudyMedia School]]!

* {{Grammar}}! Even if you literally know nothing about it, there's always a GrammarNazi around to correct you, making you acknowledge the error and learn by fun, 'cause Wiki/TVTropes is fun.

* Vocabulary! You never know what bizarre word a {{troper}} will use (especially if you're not native English) and you need to understand it! Then, whoa, you remember and start using it. Congratulations, your Vocabulary just got a +1 bonus!

So, you're spending a long time reading Wiki/TVTropes. You remember exactly every [[JustForFun/TropesOfLegend Trope of Legend]] and know by heart the whole CanonicalListOfSubtleTropeDistinctions. But still, even if it might [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife "ruin"]] your life, Wiki/TVTropes might also make it better in many areas. Besides, who needs a social life that has no nerds in it?

* The SugarWiki/SugarWiki as a whole: We like the good qualities of our favorite works so much, we can't stop [[SugarWiki/GushingAboutShowsYouLike gushing about them]] even though we know perfectly well it's just our totally subjective opinions. Proof that SugarWiki/SweetExists! See also TVTropesWillRuinYourLife, DarthWiki/TVTropesRuinedYourLife, JustForFun/TVTropesAsAGatewayDrug and JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary, though. If TV Tropes already ''has'' [[SugarWiki/TVTropesEnhancedMyLife enhanced your life]], let us know!

* TV Tropes [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife "ruined"]] a life that needed "ruining".

* TV Tropes [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife "ruined"]] a life that [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped needed "ruining"]].