vigilantly taxonomish
Creepy Changing Artwork? Loses the assonance, but is more encompassing.
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I don't think it actually really matters. It's a point that comes up in renames, small parts of tropes like this, and experience tells me that tropers can handle the synecdoche. They'll use a pothole and change the last word, they'll throw in statue examples anyway, they'll possibly even just be a bit better at describing the trope.
On the other hand, saying painting gives a more straightforward mental image, it suggests qualities about the artwork that are hard to classify with any other group (art that can have faces or bodily figures etc.) without being needlessly restrictive.
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Observationally Locked Artwork?
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
That goes in the same family as Perception Paralyzed Painting. They are "thesaurus equivalent". I imagine the same lack of popularity.
So at this point the crowner has stabilised. Creepy Changing Painting shot up to about +8 early on and then it went up incrementally with some fluctuations up and down while the others failed to even get the same number of raw votes. We've pasted three days, we've got a 4.33 ratio, I'm going ahead with moving the trope over.
I've done the few wicks and the redirect. I'll do a little wick seeding later but for now all it needs is a discussion page moving.
edited 30th Jul '11 5:45:43 PM by SomeSortOfTroper
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Vote up for yes, down for no.
The problem (and I'll admit it's a mild one) with Creepy Changing Painting is that they're not always paintings. Statues would qualify. Also, they're not necessarily creepy; the trope can be played for humor (Gunnerkrigg Court comes close to this with hand-drawn faces on a couple of robots). Of course, Tropes Are Flexible....
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