Sandbox / TV Tropes First Person Cleanup

This is a list of entries that got cut or modified from one of the Website.TV Tropes pages for violating First-Person Writing.

Some of the text remains, which is mentioned by the notes. Some might be reusable for other pages, like TV Tropes Enhanced My Life.

Feel free to add stuff you cut.

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(The headers were put in this list for the sake of organization. Unless otherwise noted, they weren't cut from the page.)

The entire site is meant as a harvesting ground for the writers, actors, designers, and other industry professionals of tomorrow.

• FUTURE GAME DESIGNERS FOR THE WIN!
• Well, I hope so! I'm already working on a script!
• It's certainly why I'm here. Does that make this Canon?
• I'm here because of this, as well.
• Guilty aspiring writer and trope wiki addict/lurker here too. Writing with a fresh tropes dig in your mind is probably a bad idea, though.
• Also my sortof main reason to be here. The other is showing up losers in the Teen Titans (2003) fandom.
• I am also guilty.
• Guilty as charged.
• Yep, me too.
• Ditto.
• Another writer here.
• Time for me to join the club.
• Aspiring musician checking in.
• Guilty aspiring animator here. (Why else do you think I picked that title for myself?)
• I've started keeping a list of tropes I've used on my contributor page.
• I consider this wiki to be an invaluable tool in making fun of the media in general. Does that count?
• I am a theatre major interning at a multimedia corporation who spends most of my work day reading/refining the articles. That's as close to Word of God confirmation as you're likely to get.
• I am also a writer/amateur movie maker who loves to build up to a trope and then subvert it. This site is a Phlebotinum mine that never runs dry.
• So insanely guilty of this. What can I say; this place is interesting AND informative!
• Writing a novel about it.
• Guilty here, too - Got a Graphic novel idea, Sci-Fi thriller AND a children's fantasy book all in different stages of development.
• I sometimes write short stories and have a few in planning right now. I also plan on starting a Webcomic.
  • So am I. I've even come up with what I'll write on the commentary that links to this wiki:
    • "Yes, I know that this links to the site's warning page instead of the home page, but I can tell you that the warning should be the very first thing that people see when they discover this site. I would strongly definitely recommend that an aspiring writer or artist take at least one stroll on this wiki. Unless, of course, they value their time. Or their sanity. Or their capacity to simply enjoy a show instead of subconciously/obsessively trying to dissect the plot. You have been warned."
• I am working on a novel. If it ever gets published, I intend to upload a completed entry at midnight the night the book is released.
• In that case, I want my free job as a game designer so I can subvert/lampshade.
• I am an aspiring director/producer who just loves meta.
• Aspiring novelist/short story writer who aims to one day actually finish a work. (Not fully true, I did once write an awful play right to the end.)
• Subversion: I write for fun. If my book is published, kudos, but that isn't my profession.
• I admit it as well. I plan to become a video game designer and tropes will be put in subtly.
• I am guilty as well. I just finished a novel that I'm trying to get published now.
• I confess. I'm currently trying to finish up a novel.
• Another, even stronger subversion: I cannot write creative fiction at all. I just really like reading and analyzing it. (I have no problems writing when characters and plot aren't involved and have in fact been recognized for essays, but the creative spark just eludes me).
• I also would like to write for TV, plays, novels or whatever. Or be a physics professor. Also, I can't wait until my shows get WMG'd.
• Well, duh. Haven't you seen me promoting my work of fiction? Because you should totally check it out--new chapters on fictionpress every Tuesday. And if you want to help me towards my goal of turning it into a manga (I lack the necessary artistic talent), that's even better.
• I might be guilty, too, if not too lazy to do anything. You know, some otaku senshi fictions in DA need reading.
• Well, duh. Didn't you get the memo ? (note: This one was kept, but the troper link removed.)
• I'm not alone!?!? Awesome! I just finished my novel and now I'm making a pen and paper RPG. I've been trying to fit as many subversions as possible in to both.
• I am also writing a book. Or would be if I could stop futzing around on TVTropes and actually write something.
• I enjoy writing, but am not actually anywhere near good enough to have a hope in hell of being published. I suck.
• I'm here too! Yay, company! :D
• Yep, same here. Aspiring author, but wouldn't mind being a story writer for videogames.
• We can safely say this is a self-fulfilling/vicious circle sort of thing. I was a writer long before I found this site (though I'm not published yet), and I stumbled upon it from another writing wiki (or something like that). Who writes about writers? Other writers. (note: Only the second sentence was cut.)
• I will know I've 'made it' when something I do gets its own TV Tropes page.
• I would be an aspiring author if TV Tropes had not ruined my life.
• Might as well go ahead and add my name to the directory. Making a comic on Flipnote Studio (It's called FlipZone, look around for it), and I use large amounts of Lampshade Hanging and subversions.
• I want to be an author too. I love this place! I'm so looking forward to the day I can read about my own works here!
• working on a superhero novel here!
• I am using the site as part of my novel-writing project. TV Tropes counts as research, right?
• Aspiring comic writer/artist here. This place has actually helped me come up with new ideas.
• I am in the process of writing stories modeling characters and items for future video games. My profession is going to be video game artist.
• I'm an aspiring cartoonist. I have lots of original characters I draw, and I often come up with writing ideas that my best friend/fellow writer tells me are awesome when I have almost no idea what makes them awesome. Currently writing a graphic novel series and a comic book in the same continuity.
• I'm an aspiring graphic novelist and/or video game concept artist...
• I am an aspiring novelist. Enjoys finding tropes that fit my current project.
• I am guilty. FUTURE MANGA-KA. Hell yeah!
• I'm an aspiring video game designer/author, and they say TV tropes ruins lives.
• I hope to write a novel about dinosaurs one day.
• If I ever make it big one day as a musician, I will credit tvtropes.org as one of the things to thank for my success.
• I suppose 134th'd? I like writing TV shows, but they don't make enough sense. It's like Adventure Time on drugs!
• And yet another! I'm a web developer, who is currently reliant on Dreamweaver and ashamed to admit it. DON'T LOOK AT MEH!
• Never too late to join the crowd!
• Well, as a young aspiring novelist, I too am part of this group.
• I don't know about writer, but TV Tropes has certainly given me a few ideas.
• So, Confirmed? (note: Kept on the page, and merged into another paragraph.)
• I think it's probably unnecessary to add anything more to this WMG but, yeah, that's why I'm here.

The code of TV Tropes is written to force users to use Tabbed Browsing.

• Tested by me repeatedly with Mozilla Firefox 2.x. Feel free to post your findings.
• I find that, not only is this true, my tabbed pages tend to double or more while on TV Tropes.
• My mouse has buttons on its side that function in exactly the same way as the Back and Forward buttons. Using these buttons, I have found that I manage to return to the position of the link that was clicked, rather than to the top of the page.
  • And I just right-click everything and open it in a new window.
• I might as well tape down Ctrl. If I don't have twenty or more new tabs open, I'm not on TV Tropes.
  • I, on the other hand, must tape the Ctrl and the Shift. I use Opera, you see...
• The only reason I use Internet Explorer is so I'll avoid returning to the top of the page when going forward/backwards.
• I not only have forwards/backwards buttons on my mouse and open at least 20 new tabs per TV Tropes visit, I also abuse the middle-click (opens site in new tab) and scroll wheel heavily (changing between tabs). I once crashed his browser by opening too many tabs. That's 100-200+ tabs!
• I have an entire folder of bookmarks for TV Tropes, because I always ends up with too many tabs to read at once. The folder generally hovers around the 90 to 100 range.
  • I tend to scream when my browser crashes with 20+ tvtropes◊ pages open.
• I also believe it can cause you to open multiple browsers, too. How else can you compare corollaries between shows and characters? (note: Kept, but removed the first four words)
• I had at one time 500+ tabs open, when I first discovered TV Tropes. Took a while to read through all of them.
• I have fallen so far, that I use a different browser for TV Tropes, so I can resume reading my tabs, and they don't interfere with normal browsing.