Hi, I'm Emma (she/her or ze/zir pronouns, no real preference between the two). I mostly hang out, clean up formatting/grammar, and add some examples. I'm also pretty active in the Complete Monsters and Magnificent Bastards Cleanup Thread. I like Forum Games too, and I'm fine with seconded questions in "Ask the Above Poster a Question"
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Tropes I've Launched
An incomplete list of stuff I like and subjects I'm interested in
Anime And Manga
- Berserk
- Chainsaw Man
- Delicious in Dungeon
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Fruits Basket
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
- The Promised Neverland
- Revolutionary Girl Utena
- Studio Ghibli
- Witch Hat Atelier
Comics
- The works of Grant Morrison
- The original, 1970s New Gods comics
- Sonic The Hedge Hog IDW
Literature
- Ancillary Justice
- The Cosmere
- Discworld
- Infinite Jest
- The Locked Tomb
- Baru Comorant
- The Works of N. K. Jemisin
- A Series of Unfortunate Events
- A Song of Ice and Fire
- Tolkien's Legendarium
- The works of Catherynne M. Valente
Live Action TV
Music
Tabletop Games
- Chronicles of Darkness
- Eberron
- Pathfinder
- Warhammer 40,000 (Lore fan only)
Toys
Video Games
- Animal Crossing
- Arknights
- Baldurs Gate 3
- Cookie Run
- Destiny 2
- Disco Elysium
- Dragon Age
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Genshin Impact
- Guild Wars 2
- Hades
- Kirby
- Live A Live
- Mass Effect
- Night in the Woods
- The Outer Worlds
- Pillars of Eternity
- Splatoon
- Touhou
- Undertale and Deltarune
Web Content
- Atop the Fourth Wall
- Awful Hospital
- Various hololive talents, and a few other english vtubers
- Hunter: The Parenting
- Kill Six Billion Demons
- The Magnus Archives
- RWBY
Western Animation
- Adventure Time
- Arcane
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- BoJack Horseman
- Hilda
- Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts
- Over the Garden Wall
- The Owl House
- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Real Life Subjects
- Animals, especially cats, birds, and cephalopods
- My cat
- Minerology and Gemology
- Prehistoric Life
Self-indulgent Trope list (and irl facts)
- Amazon Chaser
- Berserk Button: Don't remind me Games Of Thrones exists.
- Cloudcuckoo Lander
- Deadpan Snarker
- Friend to All Living Things: I can find just about anything cute.
- Kind Hearted Cat Lover
- Nice Girl: I try
- Nightmare Fetishist/Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
- Pungeon Master
- Rousseau Was Right
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
- Sophisticated as Hell: Not just with cursing; I tend to blend extremely formal language and complex vocabulary with more colloquial, casual language and slang.
- I have a bachelor's of arts in English (with honours!)
- I'm a lesbian, and autistic
- I like baking, cooking, and photography
- I want to work with disabled children in the future
Favourite tropes
- The Atoner
- Bittersweet Ending
- Cloudcuckoo Lander and associated tropes.
- Deadpan Snarker and associated tropes.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance, when examined in-depth and dealt with.
- Earn Your Happy Ending
- Eldritch Abomination
- Family of Choice
- In-depth, complex HeelFaceTurns
- Magic A Is Magic A
- Morality Kitchen Sink
- Narrative Filigree
- Our Monsters Are Different
- Our Monsters Are Weird
- Third Person Limited Point of View, with multiple PoV characters
- True Companions
- What You Are in the Dark
- World Half Full
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are
Least favourite tropes
- Always Chaotic Evil
- Anything related to irresponsible handling of minorities or sensitive issues.
- Butt-Monkey
- Cats Are Mean
- Downer Ending
- Easily Forgiven
- Hobbes Was Right
- Humans Are Bastards
- If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: There are plenty of ways to have a hero who is a pacifist or doesn't kill, or address the adverse psychological effects of killing people, that DON'T put killing a villain who can't be stopped any other way on the same level as what that villain had done.
- Ludd Was Right
- Pay Evil unto Evil, unless the point is that the character doing it is super fucked up and it's not meant to be cathartic
- Planet of Hats
- Romanticized Abuse
- Sympathetic Slave Owner
