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Author: SeptimusHeap

Feb 28th 2012 at 3:26:17 AM

^It's a supertrope that is used as an index.

"It's used for complaining. And the name itself implies something negative."

Yes, it's true, but editorial intent is not particularly relevant here - TropesAreTools, after all, regardless of intent of those who list them.

DidNotDoTheResearch went through TRS for misuse as a trope and a rename was rejected because of 35k inbounds. There it was also said that it's a supertrope that is used as an index and not as a trope to avoid overuse - not all instances would be tropes, some are PeopleSitOnChairs. We are supposed to put all instances in ArtisticLicenseIndexes and then into a subtrope of DNDTR if there are enough examples for one. I don't know if the complaining issue came up, but in the You Fail threads I read that it was the ''name'' which invites {{Natter}} by sounding negative (the ''concept'' isn't negative).

ArtisticLicense itself is unrelated (other than by name) to ArtisticLicenseIndexes, otherwise it would need a differentiation between ''deliberate'' and ''accidental'', which does nothing other than creating subjectivity.

Incidentally, are there other supertropes that must noe be used themselves, but their subtropes can?