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I've been a Troper since 2010. I feel old with all these new-fangled changes. Trope Launch Pad will always be YKTTW in my heart.
Normally I pop in and out of the TRS. I like to keep threads moving towards action and resolution.
I've been inconsistent with my troping in the last few years... Life happens.
I also sometimes like to "adopt" abandoned drafts in Ykttw. I'll try to fix any major problems, get it trope-ready, and launch it. Although, I haven't done this in a while. It's been hard to find the time.
Here's some of the tropes I am either currently working on, or have launched.
Current Drafts
Pages I've Launched
- Auto-Doc
- Divorce Is Temporary: My first
childtrope. Wrote it from scratch way back in '10. Just checked the wicks and inbounds, they grow up so fast. - Euphemism Buster
- Extremely Lengthy Creation
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon
- Hollywood Magnetism
- Poison Is Evil
- Throwing Out the Script
- Useless Accessory
- World of Buxom: Yeah... This came from a long set of TRS discussions years ago that seriously discussed the taxonomy and misuse of boobs on the site. This trope was meant to solve one of a large set of issues, although I can't remember how exactly.
Pages I Helped Rename
Vandalism
Ramblings
- Honestly, I preface my sentences with "honestly" too much, especially IRL. Does that imply that when I don't say it I'm lying? Shoot, does that make me one of the labyrinth guards?
- You know, when I first started troping years ago, I thought TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life was an exaggeration. Sure, the wiki was, and still is addictive, but I thought that dissecting the tropes in media was a harmless hobby. Yeah.... I was wrong. Turns out, after years of internalizing a lot of tropes and overall story beats, it's gotten really hard to "turn it off" when I'm watching/reading/playing a movie/tv/book/game/etc. When a story pattern I recognize comes up, it really throws me out of the experience, like a disconnect from the temporary reality of the media. To pile onto that, it's really difficult to communicate about tropes with others. Even trying to define a "trope" to someone can take a while (sometimes involves a verbatim "you know that thing where ....."), but then trying to communicate the taxonomy of tropes, how the tropes interrelate, and of course, how to tie it to the piece of media we're currently discussing. It might be I'm not good at explaining, but it seems like even the fundamental idea of a "trope" is an uncommon concept.
- If I use the Third-Act Misunderstanding as an example. It should be simple to say "you know that thing in rom-coms where everything's going great, the relationship is sweet, but in the third part of the movie there's a miscommunication about something stupid. No one gets to explain themselves. There's a sudden hicccup in communication and boom the relationship is over. Then there has to be a big proclamation of love, usually at the last minute (wedding or airport) and suddenly things are okay again." That's a straightforward breakdown of a trope, could give a few examples from some movies, people tend to follow me up to there, and then I say "and that's what a trope is. Just like that is a specific pattern in romcoms, there are other patterns too. Some are plot patterns, such as Third-Act Misunderstanding, others are types of character relationships like The Lancer, or plot objects like MacGuffin". And no, I wouldn't dump all those on someone at once. But it's like the idea is not transitive. I can explain how each of those patterns work, and give specific examples from works we know, but the idea of a "trope" just eludes them. Is it me? Is it them? Is it just that trying to discect stories into distinct conceptual objects is not common thinking?
