Dragon Writer
...Is it supposed to be a pun? *checks* Whew, thank heavens the trope isn't about the pun.
edited 19th Aug '11 8:03:30 PM by Stratadrake
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.
Rabid Fujoshi
Holy crap, is it supposed to be like "I digress?" Okay, that's just...it's just bad, is what it is.
SPATULA, Supporters of Page Altering To Urgently Lead to Amelioration (supports not going through TRS for tweaks and minor improvements.)
Zzzzzzzzzz
Yes, it is. I don't know why, but yes, it is.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Ok, so the trope is about people who can change the seasons. It needs something much more straightforward for a name, or at least a redirect since it has none.
These people are not responsible for changing the seasons, just what happens when the seasons change.
Rabid Fujoshi
The idea of the trope is that there are nature spirit things that run nature, like moving the sun up and down, manufacturing snowflakes or hanging dew drops.
edited 19th Aug '11 9:11:03 PM by NoirGrimoir
SPATULA, Supporters of Page Altering To Urgently Lead to Amelioration (supports not going through TRS for tweaks and minor improvements.)
Zzzzzzzzzz
No, not "change the seasons". Color or otherwise change the appearance of the outdoors. Jack Frost doesn't change the seasons, he just paints the leaves when the seasons change. The YKTTW is on the discussion page, take a look at it.
edited 19th Aug '11 9:10:57 PM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Cure Candy
So basically that My Little Pony episode about changing of the seasons and how Pegasui (I think thats right) make the weather?
Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!
Rabid Fujoshi
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
Basically.
edited 19th Aug '11 9:13:15 PM by NoirGrimoir
SPATULA, Supporters of Page Altering To Urgently Lead to Amelioration (supports not going through TRS for tweaks and minor improvements.)
Manipulators Of Weather, perhaps? The Weather Is My Job? Nah, too wordy.
Needs to be more general, I think.
Nature Is My Job? We Handle Nature? Fantastic Explanations For Nature? We Make Nature Work?
edited 19th Aug '11 10:07:13 PM by Servbot
Zzzzzzzzzz
No, it does not need to be made more general. Please read the YKTTW; it's linked on the discussion page.
And I'll quote it here to make it even easier:
"
Title is a pun on the phrase "I digress." Said personifications are not necessarily also evil and also into cats.
Can be a subset of The Fair Folk or Anthropomorphic Personification. "
There is nothing wrong with the trope itself. The name is horrible but the trope itself is not broken It does not need to be changed.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
I meant the names that DRCEQ was suggesting (since all of DRCEQ's names were focused on weather alone when this would include things like "Why do leaves change color in autumn?"), not the trope itself. Sorry for the confusion.
edited 19th Aug '11 10:20:39 PM by Servbot
I see the Awesomeness.
Rabid Fujoshi
Punch Clock Nature Architects? 
Zzzzzzzzzz
I apologize, Servbot. I was overly hungry and angry about something else entirely. But that's an excuse, not a good reason.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
I like the name because it makes me specifically think of the sort of creature who draws the frost on the windows or paints the autumn leaves brown.
I find it clear, I find it concise and...ok not witty but it makes me snirk a laugh.
No-one has painted a very good job of what they find wrong with it. I've got that it's "opaque" but this thread also spent half its time getting the trope wrong. Contrast that with the YKTTW which made the trope and which had people loving the name.
Rabid Fujoshi
How does "I Dye Grass" even remotely let you know what this trope is about? Presumably it's about a character that...dyes grass? I mean, what the heck even is that? how do you get from that to nature spirits that make the world work? Grass doesn't even change color, so that in itself makes no sense! I had no idea what the name meant, and I doubt anyone else would without clicking on it. And I don't find the the pun amusing at all, either. I didn't even realize it was a pun at first.
Cure Candy
I Dye Grass reminds me of a Golf Course in which they do dye the grass. (not related to this trope)
Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!
World's Toughest Milkman
I Dye Grass found in: 31 articles, excluding discussions.
This title has brought 69 people to the wiki from non-search engine links since 20th FEB '09.
Mediocre performance, but far from terrible, especially considering it's probably not the world's most common trope. I'd toss on some good redirects, then take another look in 6 months or so.
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.
Sprite Artist? Probably a better pun, but probably even less transparent.
Unrelated to the name does "why the leaves turn color in fall" make sense in American English? Because I would say change instead of turn (or turn red/brown/gold instead of turn color), but I'm not sure because I'd also use a different word for fall and a different spelling for color.
World's Toughest Milkman
"turn colors" (plural) is the usual idiom, I believe.
Zzzzzzzzzz
"Turn", meaning "change" is an American idiom.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Crown Description:
Previous crowner
showed consensus support for a rename.
I would never have found this under the current title, and I think it's pretty opaque. Can we get a rename on this?
SPATULA, Supporters of Page Altering To Urgently Lead to Amelioration (supports not going through TRS for tweaks and minor improvements.)