I'm Only Sleeping
This topic won't go anywhere good.
@Topic: Wall Banger
edited 14th Feb '10 4:36:54 PM by Kinkajou
INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.
So that we get it clear, nothing under Bad Writing counts, neither do Double Standard tropes.
Embrace the mindscrew
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Slow Clap. Aaargh, I wish to disembowel with extreme hatred anyone who even considers using this.
Was that too much?
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@IG Clap... Clap... ClapclapclapclapclapCLAPCLAPCLAP *thundering applause*
edited 14th Feb '10 4:48:25 PM by Jimbobbowilly
nope
HIGH IMPACT SEXUAL VIOLENCE
Stalker with a Crush and Stalking is Love, both when they're played straight or attempted to be deconstructed or subverted.
ALL CREATURE WILL DIE AND ALL THE THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. THAT'S THE LAW OF SAMURAI.
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You're dead, Bro Diddley.
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Laugh it off, everybody
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Oh? I think Purple Prose can be really good if done well - which it rarely is.
Oh, All Guys Want Cheerleaders. Fuck that.
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Laugh it off, everybody
I thought the point of Purple Prose is that it isn't done well.
I can like lengthy description, but not prattling on about nothing.
I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....
(prepares for Internet Backdraft)
Memetic Mutation, most of the time.
I also bear a grudge against The Chosen One and The Messiah, which very easily can turn into Mary Sue and Spotlight-Stealing Squad.
edited 14th Feb '10 5:03:46 PM by Cliche
Too many to list. Rubber-Forehead Aliens and All Psychology Is Freudian are two major ones, though.
edited 14th Feb '10 5:04:50 PM by Miijhal
Some come up in consistently bad manners, though.
It's generally accepted that a trope that we dislike is generally invoked in an irritating fashion and occasionally they can be used in a more inoffensive manner.
Laugh it off, everybody
I'm pretty sure no one (moi included) likes Scary Black Man.
I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....
But that's not the trope's fault, it's the author's fault for mishandling the trope.
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
Laugh it off, everybody
Well, no, nothing can be an inanimate concept's fault.
But if that exists done well (I doubt it does), I've never seen it.
I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....
DUMB
Okay, how about we pretend the topic is called "Tropes that aren't usually used well", happy now?
[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.
No, tropes we dislike is perfect. The fact that a trope isn't inherently good or bad doesn't mean you are obliged to be neutral in your personal appreciation.
Wall Bang Her, Good People Have Good Sex
edited 14th Feb '10 6:03:18 PM by MadeofMeat
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Oh, wow, I read the topic as Tropers You Dislike. That would've gone to hell fast.
Support stupid freshness, yo.
Were there any tropes that downright annoyed you, or you're just getting sick of.
I didn't know where to truly put this I thought it would go of Trope Talk because it was mostly about specific tropes there.
Yep, I'm still here.