Line #23 Tropers/Pig_catapult


1	Hi. I'm Piffy. Someone made a typo on "Piggy" and it stuck. Other variations on my handle are still fine. I'm married to a lovely man, have a small fluffy daughter, and like writing horror. My work includes a handful of [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCPs]], my original setting [[https://forestthatisamountain.tumblr.com/ The Forest That Is a Mountain]], and a drabble series called The Man With Eyes Like Polished Bone (available on [[https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/1169498 Pillowfort]] and [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23680231 AO3]]). Some things I'm not ready to share yet are more of the "With Eyes Like" universe and a fantasy novel my older brother and I are cowriting.
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3	! Tropes I see in myself
4	* ActualPacifist: I don't like hurting people or seeing other people being hurt. I recognize that any ideology becomes dangerous when taken to an extreme, but I believe that least violence is always something worth striving for.
5	* AngstAversion: Don't get me wrong, I want characters I love to go through the wringer, but anything bleaker than BittersweetEnding and I'm out.
6	* TheAntiNihilist: Optimistic existentialism is go.
7	* CreatureOfHabit: It's an autism thing.
8	* ForHappiness: I'm a secular humanist, and this is my morality. See also "Actual Pacifist" and "The Anti-Nihilist", above. I stan the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
9	* GoodFeelsGood: See "For Happiness".
10	* MeanCharacterNiceActor: I try to be as kind a person as I can. I also like to write horror.
11	* NiceToTheWaiter: Being polite to people who are doing something for you is good.
12	* NightmareFetishist: I've loved horror for longer than I can remember. I enjoyed WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm when I was three, even though the part where Batman pulled the newspaper away to reveal a gray Jokerified corpse made me scream every single time. WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas and Film/TheDarkCrystal are both lifelong faves, and I picked up {{Literature/Goosebumps}} in second grade.
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14	! Tropes I use often
15	* DarkIsNotEvil
16	* DeliberateValuesDissonance
17	* FantasticFragility
18	* FridgeHorror: I will find it, and I ''will'' run with it.
19	* GreenThumb
20	* MagicAIsMagicA
21	* MeaningfulName
22	* PowerIncontinence
23	* UncannyValley
24	* {{Worldbuilding}}
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26	! Other tropes I like
27	* {{Bizarrchitecture}}
28	* BlessedWithSuck
29	* BlueAndOrangeMorality
30	* CreepyCute: Cute-to-creepy is a spectrum and I love all of it.
31	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
32	* TheFairFolk
33	* InverseLawOfComplexityToPower
34	* {{Irony}}
35	* LightIsNotGood
36	* LogicalWeakness
37	* {{Magibabble}}
38	* NightmareFuelStationAttendant
39	* PureIsNotGood
40	* TheSacredDarkness
41	* StarfishAliens
42	* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic
43	* TokenEvilTeammate
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45	! Tropes I dislike
46	* ContrivedStupidityTropes
47	* CypherLanguage: I cannot maintain WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief around allegedly-alien languages that are really just obfuscated English.
48	* DeathByNewberyMedal: Legit had trauma related to being forced to read so many of these growing up.
49	* DiabolusExMachina
50	* DownerEnding
51	* GoalOrientedEvolution
52	* HumanAliens
53	* HumanoidAliens
54	* MenActWomenAre
55	* MiseryPoker
56	* NeverBeAHero
57	* PlayedForLaughs when the thing being laughed at is actually abuse, a trauma response, and/or a symptom of mental illness. For example:
58	** Creator/RumikoTakahashi's [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale romances]]. I just cannot, and I'm not sorry.
59	** Firo from LightNovel/Baccano is so scarred by an AttemptedRape in his teenhood that he's afraid of his own sexuality. Even fantasies as tame as premarital handholding fill him with horrible guilt. His inability to come clean to Ennis about his feelings is still a punchline in the 2000s, where he can't bring himself to call their cruise trip a honeymoon.
60	** The dynamic between Sinbad and Jafar in Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic is super exploitative, especially when you take into account that Jafar was a child slave who had just been discarded by his masters when Sinbad swept in with his dazzling charisma all like "serve me instead" and Jafar latched onto that for dear life. As an adult in the main series, Jafar has an anxiety disorder (''breaking out in hives'' when separated from work for too long is not a sign of good mental health, nor is having "work" listed as one's hobby in the databook) fueled by Sinbad's careless and irresponsible behavior, and he's treated like a nagging sitcom wife for it.
61	* RubberForeheadAliens
62	* ShootTheShaggyDog: Really fast way to render a plot or subplot completely pointless. Don't waste my time like this.
63	* {{Slapstick}}
64	* OmniscientMoralityLicense
65	* ThanksForTheMammary
66	* TrueArtIsAngsty

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