Tropers / Bisected 8

2024, 3 years after going from a tiefling player to tiefling cosplayer!

2021, when I decided to get back into cosplay for my tiefling D&D character^{Click to see} 

Mother's Day, 2019^{Click to see} 

How I rang in 2016^{Click to see} 

My contribution to Christmas 2014^{Click to See} 

My contribution to Christmas 2013^{Click to See} 

Just some English 90's girl with bleach blonde hair, hailing from the Midlands. Her hobbies include: Gaming (mainly of the computer and video variety, occasionally D&D), Cosplay and Baking.

Photos of various baked goods can be found on my DeviantArt account.

I stream games on twitch Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays here!

For me-related tropes and vandalism, here's my Troper Wall~!

Yes, that's me in my avatars.

Now in moderator flavour!

Articles launched by Bisected (If you make an edit on these, I'll probably be scrutinising it)

Tropes:

• All Psychology Is Freudian - The idea that only Freudian psychology appears in media.
• Archaeological Arms Race - Fighting a war while racing to dig your weapons out of the wreckage.
• Avenging the Villain - A loved one of the villain appears to take on the heroes after the villain's defeat.
• Author Catchphrase - A phrase, character type, etc that an author keeps using throughout their work.
• Bodyguarding a Badass - Someone is assigned to protect a much more powerful character.
• Book Snap - Slamming a book shut because you're angry.
• Charlie and the Chocolate Parody - A Whole-Plot Reference to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (either one of the films or Roald Dahl's book)
• Canon Identifier - Player Characters without distinguishing features have specific titles so you can be clear which one you're talking about.
• Class Clown - That one kid who always has to be the centre of attention in school.
• Clone by Conversion - Creating a copy of someone by transforming somebody else into them.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder - They might be funny to you, but someone's got to keep an eye on them.
• Conspicuous in the Crowd - Someone in a crowd stands out because they're acting differently.
• Constrained Writing - When a writer (or similar creative mind) sets themselves some sort of limit to follow.
• Contagious Cassandra Truth - Someone finally convinces someone else of their Cassandra Truth...and nobody believes them either.
• Cool Teacher - A teacher...who is cool.
• Cooperation Gambit - Making a fair, short term deal with your enemy.
• Coup de Grâce Cutscene - When a video game boss' defeat is followed by a cutscene of the Player Character giving the finishing blow.
• Death of Personality - A person is killed by losing what makes them "them", rather than physically dying.
• Delayed Narrator Introduction - The narrator is introduced as a character part way through and points themselves out.
• UsefulNotes.Digital Distribution - A guide to electronic media being sold via downloads.
• Disability Immunity - Not being harmed by something (as opposed to being superhuman) because of a disability.
• Disguised Hostage Gambit - Disguising someone you've taken hostage to trick their own allies into attacking them.
• Dungeon-Based Economy - Dungeon Crawling is the major local industry.^note Original YKTTW by bigdork
• Dying Declaration of Love - Renamed it from Going Down with the Ship to free up the title for another trope.^* The original trope was launched by hollow49.
• Enhanced Archaic Weapon - Supertrope for chainswords, lightsabres, rocket powered hammers, etc
• Equipment-Based Progression - Getting more powerful in a video game by getting better weapons rather than Experience Points.
• Equipment Upgrade - Modify your gear to make it better.
• Evil Luddite - A Well-Intentioned Extremist who's decided technology (and everyone who uses it) is evil.
• Exploited Immunity - Expose yourself and a (not) friend to something which will harm them, but not you!
• Expose the Villain, Get His Job - Your reward for defeating the villain is the job he held.^{Launched by...} I wrote the OP and gathered the examples, but the trope itself was launched by Wack'd while I was waiting for three people to agree on the title.
• Exposition Diagram - The audience (and possibly the characters) have things explained to them with a handy diagram.
• Fictional Disability - A character has a handicap that doesn't exist in the real world.
• Game Over ^note While I didn't actually come up with this, I contributed the initial opening (the description that followed was done by Wyvernil) and eventually launched the YKTTW (done by CAD) - Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
• Going Down with the Ship ^* After renaming the trope now known as Dying Declaration of Love to free up the title. - A Captain must go down with his ship as it sinks (or at least be the last one off).
• UsefulNotes.Graphical Perspective - How to draw a 3D image on a 2D medium.
• Hand Hiding Sleeves - Long sleeves. Basically a YKTTW that I and a couple of other tropers salavaged, rather than one I started myself. Now cut and turned into a disambiguation.
• Hollywood Game Design - The ways in which the process of making games is portrayed.
• Horror Hates a Rulebreaker - In the horror genre, the supernatural hates rule breakers.
• I Don't Know Mortal Kombat - Someone who's good at something failing miserably at a simulation of it.
• Improbable Use of a Weapon - Using an actual weapon wrongly (not to be confused with Improbable Weapon User).
• Increasingly Lethal Enemy - The longer the fight goes on, the hard it is to defeat.
• Lady Legionnaire Wear - Segmented skirts show that a female character means business.
• Large Ham Title - A title someone frequently has appended to their name.
• Literally Prized Possession - Someone goes out of their way to win something that isn't their primary goal, showing off something about their character.
• Living Weapon - A weapon...that is alive. Eventually split into;
  • Attack Animal
  • Equippable Ally
• Lower-Class Lout - The less well off counterpart to Upper-Class Twit
• "Marathon Man" Now renamed Plot-Powered Stamina - Sleep is for the weak real!
• Manual Leader, A.I. Party - When the player in a game controls one character and has a Player Party of AI controlled allies.
• Model Dissonance - Assets in a game are fudged to look right or make the game run better, which looks weird if you peek behind the scenes.
• Mugging the Monster - When a low level crook tries to rob someone more powerful than they expected.
• Multiple Reference Pun - A pun which references several different things at once.
• Mutual Disadvantage - When two sides in a fight or battle can't get an advantage over each other, meaning its either drawn out or could go either way.
• Mysterious Backer - Does the job of a Big Good without any of the benevolence.
• Natural Weapon - Weapons which the user is born with.
• New Ability Addiction - You've got it and thus you are going to use it, dammit!
• The Nicknamer - A character who enjoys handing out nicknames.
• No Scope - Killing someone with a long range weapon (typically a Sniper Rifle) without using the attached scope.
• Not Rare Over There - You find someone who has what you've been searching for...and they're amazed you want something so trivial.
• Obsolete Mentor - A mentor of a character who hasn't kept up with the times.
• The One with a Personal Life - The one member of the crew who still has a life outside of adventuring.
• Online Alias - Usernames as they appear in fiction.
• Opposed Mentors - The hero has two mentors...and they both have very different plans for them.
• Our Robots are Non-standard ^note YKTTW'd by me, launched by an Unknown Troper - The ways in which robots vary from work to work.
• Passive Rescue - Saving someone from captivity by giving them the means to escape rather than just breaking them out.
• Precautionary Corpse Disposal - A setting or situation where anyone who dies will become a monster, or otherwise dangerous.
• Phlebotinum Muncher - A creature which needs to eat whatever substance drives the plot to survive.
• Player Data Sharing - Exchanging user generated content between single player video game campaigns.
• Police Brutality Gambit - Pretending the cops beat you up to force them to let you go.
• Post-Adventure Adventure - A story deals with the aftermath of an adventure that took place off screen.
• Randomly Generated Loot - Loot in games has random stats and effects.
• Recruited from the Gutter - Rescuing someone from a crappy life by recruiting them to your cause or organisation.
• Restrained Revenge - "Forgiving" someone by taking a token lesser revenge rather than just letting them off the hook.
• Retro Upgrade - A new advancement gives obsolete technology a new lease of life.
• Reviving Enemy - An enemy in a video game which can't be defeated permanently (at least without exploiting some sort of weakness).
• Roaming Enemy - An enemy in a video game which in some way travels the in-game world.
• Role-Reversal Boss - A boss battle where the player controls the boss character instead.
• Scary Flashlight Face - Chin + Torch -[Upwards]-> TERROR!
• Sealed Cast in a Multipack - When the heroes and/or villains are all sealed away separately and have to be recovered.
• Series Mascot - A mascot of a given series of games, films etc or a company which produces them.
• Seriously Scruffy - When someone's too busy to groom themselves.
• Standard RPG Items - The items you get in every RPG worth its salt.
• Starter Equipment - The equipment you begin the game with.
• Sticky Fingers (rewrite, with The Kleptomaniac added as an alt title) - Someone who can't help but steal things.
• The Story That Never Was: The only way to get what you're after is to Ret-Gone the entire events of the plot!
• Subverted Punchline - An obvious joke is telegraphed...and replaced by another.
• Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person: A tran's person has their gender confirmed by a supernatural force of some sort.
• Tattoo Sharpie - When a permanent marker is permanent, even on skin.^note Taken over by me; original draft and description by Total Drama Rox 97
• The Team Benefactor - The member of the team who picks up the cheque.
• Time-Delayed Death - When someone is killed by an earlier injury.
• Translate the Loanwords, Too - A translater fails to recognise a word isn't like the others....
• The TV Tropes Cast List - A list of characters used on trope pages.
• Uniformity Exception - One of a bunch of identical characters gets a hat or something.
• Unintentionally Notorious Crime - A criminal gets away with their crime but draws unwanted attention in the process.
• Unknown Character - Someone who moves the plot along without ever being shown.
• Utility Weapon - A weapon which is used to bypass obsticles as well as kill enemies.
• Weapon Jr. - "Baby" versions of a weapon weilded by a younger version of a character or someone training for the same position.
• We Have Those, Too - When someone assumes another culture doesn't have something that they do.
• Weirdness Search and Rescue - Someone who shows up to help a stranded character find their way home.
• You Have to Burn the Web - Burning away spider webs.

Works:

• Eliza - highly underrated Visual Novel about a burnt out former tech protege assessing the impact her work's had on the world.
• EOE: Eve of Extinction - A mediocre PS 2 title which I felt at least deserved a mention.
• The Great British Sewing Bee - A reality show along the same lines as The Great British Bake Off.
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces - A book on the plots found in classical mythology (also the trope namer for The Dragon, amongst other things).
• Hero Oh Hero - A fantasy webcomic which uses original pixel art (dun dun duuuuun!).
• Journey's End - The story of a group of officers in World War One.
• Murder in the First - A lawyer argues 3 years in a Maximum Fun Chamber is grounds for an insanity defence.
• Super Metroid - The SNES iteration of the Metroid series.
• Torchlight - A WRPG Dungeon Crawler.
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar - The classic children's picture book about a famished butterfly larva.
• Zeno Clash - An extremely strange First-Person Shooter/Beat 'em Up hybrid.

Playing With Wiki:

• PlayingWith.All Psychology Is Freudian
• PlayingWith.Archaeological Arms Race
• PlayingWith.Attack Animal
• PlayingWith.Bodyguarding A Badass
• PlayingWith.Clone By Conversion
• PlayingWith.Cloudcuckoolanders Minder
• PlayingWith.Contagious Cassandra Truth
• PlayingWith.Disability Immunity
• PlayingWith.Ballroom Blitz - Watch out for the man at the back.
• PlayingWith.Bandage Babe - Ways to play with a woman in bandages...no not like that!
• PlayingWith.Coup De Grace Cutscene
• PlayingWith.Death Of Personality
• PlayingWith.Delayed Narrator Introduction
• PlayingWith.Equipment Based Progression
• PlayingWith.Equipment Spoiler - There is a weapon in the shop which nobody in the Player Party can use. Somebody must be about to join it!
• PlayingWith.Equippable Ally
• PlayingWith.Evil Brit - Are Britons Always Chaotic Evil? Of Course not!
• PlayingWith.Evil Luddite
• PlayingWith.Exploited Immunity
• PlayingWith.Expose The Villain Get His Job - Even if I didn't get to launch the main article, I can still write the playing with! =P
• PlayingWith.Exposition Cut
• PlayingWith.Exposition Diagram
• PlayingWith.Face Monster Turn
• PlayingWith.Friendly Sniper - Because not all snipers are the Cold Sniper.
• PlayingWith.I Dont Know Mortal Kombat
• PlayingWith.Improbable Use Of A Weapon
• PlayingWith.Joggers Find Death - Watch out for corpses and killers on your morning run.
• PlayingWith.Lady Legionnaire Wear
• PlayingWith.Large Ham Title
• PlayingWith.Living Weapon
• PlayingWith.Malicious Slander - Don't believe everything you hear on the grapevine.
• PlayingWith.Manual Leader AI Party
• PlayingWith.Medals For Everyone - Feast optional.
• PlayingWith.Mysterious Backer
• PlayingWith.Not Rare Over There
• PlayingWith.Obsolete Mentor
• PlayingWith.Opposed Mentors
• PlayingWith.Pac Man Fever - To use games from after the 80's or to use modern games.
• PlayingWith.Passive Rescue
• PlayingWith.Phlebotinum Muncher
• PlayingWith.Police Brutality Gambit
• PlayingWith.Restrained Revenge
• PlayingWith.Reviving Enemy
• PlayingWith.Roaming Enemy
• PlayingWith.Sealed Cast In A Multipack
• PlayingWith.Seriously Scruffy
• PlayingWith.Spot Of Tea - Even the very British Must Have Caffeine.
• PlayingWith.Starter Equipment
• PlayingWith.Sticky Fingers
• PlayingWith.The Team Benefactor
• PlayingWith.Time Delayed Death
• PlayingWith.The Nicknamer
• PlayingWith.Uniformity Exception
• PlayingWith.Unintentionally Notorious Crime
• PlayingWith.Unknown Character
• PlayingWith.Weapon Jr
• PlayingWith.We Have Those Too
• PlayingWith.Weirdness Search And Rescue

Other:

• SoYouWantTo.Make A Metroidvania

Favourite Works

Anime and Manga

• Death Note - A boy his shinigami and his Artifact of Doom.
• Azumanga Daioh - A series of humerous shorts staring a group of schoolgirls.
• Baccano! - Immortality, Anachronistic Order and The Mafia.
• Ghost in the Shell - Series based on the movie of the same name
• Bleach - A teenager becomes a shinigami. Swordfights ensue.
• Afro Samurai - Samual L. Jackson voices a samurai trying to avenge his father's decapitation.

Comics

• The Goon - A mob enforcer vs. zombies. As sensible as it sounds.
• Watchmen - Super heroes deconstructed...thirty-five minutes ago.

Film

• Rush Hour (when it first came out anyway)
• Shaun of the Dead
• Jurassic Park
• i, Robot Hardwired
• The Matrix
• Alien

Literature

• Ciaphas Cain
• A certain boy wizard novel which I've gone off because of the views of its author
• The works of Terry Pratchett
  • And thus Discworld (particularly the city watch and Rincewind/Unseen University novels)
• The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy
• The Zombie Survival Guide
• A great deal of nonfiction books on drawing manga, programming and robotics/electronics I won't bother listing (feel free to PM me if you need some recommendations though).

Video Games

• Team Fortress 2 - America's number one hat collection simulator (or a team based FPS if you prefer)
• Half-Life - The adventures of Badass Bookworm Gordon Freeman
• Portal - The cake is somewhat dishonest
• Fallout - The postapocalyptic RPG/Strategy series
• Borderlands - RPG meet FPS and Gun Porn
• Broken Sword - Classic point and click
• Left 4 Dead - co-op game in which players shoot through the undead to get to safety
• Torchlight - Addictive Dungeon Crawl RPG
• Zeno Clash - Surreal First-Person Shooter Beat 'em Up hybrid
• Metal Fatigue - an RTS based around giant robots
• Psychonauts - An awesome, under-rated platformer from Tim Schaffer himself
• Doom (including Doom 3) - The trope codifier for the entire FPS genre
• Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale - Sort of like Act Raiser, but with an item ship in place of a building sim
• Plants vs. Zombies - Tower Defence done very well indeed
• F.E.A.R. - Horror based FPS
• Oddworld - Surreal stealth based platformers
• Penumbra - Terrifying stealth based horror FPS
  • Amnesia: The Dark Descent - Spiritual Successor to Penumbra.
• Serious Sam - Old school style FPS action with modern graphics
• Tomb Raider - The classic series staring Ms. Croft
• Deus Ex - The FPS with RPG Elements
• BioShock - Under the sea...(well...)
• Pokémon - Gotta catch 'em all!
• The Legend Of Zelda - Classice Action/Adventure series
• Timesplitters - Awesome trilogy of console FPS
• Final Fantasy - The JRPG series
• Resident Evil - Cheesy dialogue, pants wetting horror
• World of Warcraft (recovered addict, clean since April 2009)
• BlazBlue - Anime style beat em up action from the makers of Guilty Gear
• Disgaea - Hardcore Turn-Based Strategy grindfest
  • Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? - Platform Hell spinoff series staring the Series Mascot
• Metroid - Part of the namer for the Metroid Vania genre

Web Comics and Web Original

• Red Vs Blue - Machinoma based on Halo
• The Adventures Of Dr McNinja - A very silly series about a ninja. Who is also a doctor.
• Gunnerkrigg Court - If Harry Potter was written by a cynical Brummie and was Science Fiction rather than fantasy.
• Looking for Group - An elf and his evil mage friend set off on an epic quest. Better than it sounds.
• Nodwick - The adventures of a hard put-upon lacky of a group of D&D style adventurers.
• PS238 - Super heroes' kids in primary school.
• A Path to Greater Good - Sprite comic following three protagonists. Updates erratically. Uses original sprites.
  • Hero Oh Hero a relaunch of the above.
• The Order of the Stick - D&D done in a stylised stick figure style. The forums were what brought me to TV Tropes
• 8-Bit Theatre - The grandaddy of all Sprite Comics. Uses sprites from Final Fantasy. Series is now completed.
• How I Killed Your Master - Kung foo based shenanigans from the maker of 8BT.
  • The Dreadful - Another comic written by Clevinger.

---