I do stuff with Playing With pages, mostly. It's fun.
Examples
Since I don't want to write a biography, and "examples" on troper pages usually lean towards unoriginal Self-Deprecation and/or Saying Too Much, this will just be my shitposting box. Think of it as a Deconstructive Parody, or the Tropers/ equivalent of [Trope Name] Injokes.
- Ambiguous Gender: Averted, This Troper is male.
- Ambiguously Human: Averted, This Troper is completely human.
- Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: Averted in general.
- The Index Is Watching You: Averted, the index is not sentient and cannot watch anyone.
- This Troper: Exaggerated Up to Eleven. This Troper is exactly This Troper.
- Not Zany Enough To Describe Himself Using Tropes: Untwisted. Or is it?
- How to Alphabetize Things: Partially averted.
- Word Cruft: How did we miss another double partial aversion: this page. Full stop.
- A Nice Person: I think iwantedtoaddsomething is a Pretty Cool Guy. Eh adds something and doesn't not add of anything. poop i missed
- Nerd: Fully played straight. iwantedtoaddsomething is a quirky, geeky, Adorkable, nerdy Cloudcuckoolander with fanboy tendencies who is so nerdy and awkward on the internet, guys; right?
- Berserk Button: Just don't tell This Troper that Level 33 of Chip's Challenge is "the easy one", and then off-handedly tell This Troper that you just strangled everyone in his family to death, or else This Troper will beat you up wit self-defense skills that neither of you ever knew he actually had.
- Real-Person Fic: Yep, This Troper has his own fanfics dedicated to him. By none other than iwantedtoaddsomething.
- Averted Trope: Averted.
- Third-Person Person: Partially reconstructed with the revival of This Troper's usage of This Troper.
- Chaotic Neutral: Obviously, otherwise This Troper wouldn't get to do all the wacky stuff he does today.
- Magnificent Bastard: Yea, that's right. I'm smart, I'm brilliant, and I'm evil. (I am not Chaotic Neutral, I'm Lawful Evil, get it right!)
- iwantedtoaddsomething: Played straight, to an extent.
- Not Zany Enough To Describe Himself Using Tropes: On second thought, this would go under something more like Double Untwisted.
- Subverted Catchphrase: He doesn't have a catchphrase.
- But sometimes when he hears important news, he snaps his fingers and goes "now that's a poppin' headline!" and then everybody in the studio audience laughs. This troper is just so funny.
- BURRITO NARWHAL TACO NINJAS! You did NOT see that coming.
- CANDLE JACK CANDLE JACK CANDLE JACK GUYS WHAT DOES THE SPOILER TAG DO CANDLE JACK CANDLE JACK CANDLE JACK
- Desert Bus: Yeah, of course TV Tropes wouldn't have a page for it yet. It's too obscure. But of course, being a hipster, This Troper found it out anyways.
- If iwantedtoaddsomething wanted to describe themselves using three characters, he would choose:
- Isaac, who reflects how lonely and sad he feels, and this one time I went into my basement and there were a ton of spiders down there.
- Atlanta Nights actually he forgots who the characters from this are, he just chose it because he likes reading.
- Everyone Is Satan in Hell: Also averted.
- Closet Geek: iwantedtoaddsomething is a big fan of Show Name Here but tries to keep it a secret from his fellow tropers. Good thing it's only him in here.
- Pet-Peeve Trope:
- Complete Monster. Writers should just make a character have some nice traits and not only bad stuff. It makes me scared when I read a book including a character who is this mean and evil. Why can't we all be kind people? :|
- Word Cruft. Why do people still do this? It has been strictly forbidden by the TVTropes admins. The fact that people use this trope anyways confuses me. We should all be smarter people. :|
- Cloudcuckoolander: Sure, being out of touch with reality is not a good thing, but by now it's essential to his character! How can iwantedtoaddsomething be iwantedtoaddsomething without the quirks and uncanny traits he's grown into and can't bother trying to correct?
- All Men Are Perverts: You might think this is just his way of saying he's "horny and proud". You'd be wrong. This is a social theory he has developed that would apply to every male human on the planet, possibly including yourself.
- Hates Everyone Equally: Sure, there are some people he feels comfortable talking to and has no problem being around, but his definition of "hate" varies from yours. And there are some people he hates less equally than others. ...Shit, go back.
- Ambiguous Disorder: Actually a very defined disorder with a variety of symptoms that manifests in different ways from person to person, but he's fine with calling it ambiguous.
Playing With pages created
Most of my edits here go towards making and editing Playing With pages. I'm always a sucker for writing "Parodied" examples, and sometimes "Inverted".
- Unwinnable by Insanity: First PW page created. I revolved around this for a long time. My examples were usually overly detailed.
- Product Placement: And here, my examples were too zany. I finished nearly all of it by myself.
- The Red Stapler[?]: Cut for not being a trope. Pretty sure I'm to blame for creating this one.
- Hotline: This trope was featured on the home-page, so I rushed to make a PW page for it as quickly as possible. This marked a descent into a Dork Age in which I frequently created new pages with nothing more than examples for Straight and Parodied, and a "back to" gag if I was in the mood.
- By the Power of Grayskull!: Another featured trope. This was only a Straight example.
- Little Known Facts: Straight and Parodied. After this I stopped deliberately "claiming" PW pages for featured tropes.
- Lemony Narrator: Just a Parodied example, though my humor got somewhat better. William Radar Storm would greatly expand upon it four months later.
- Ironic Name: Here I cared enough to write a Downplayed example and an Invoked example.
- Launcher of a Thousand Ships: This started off as just Straight and Parodied, then 20 minutes later I added several more examples to make it look slightly less like a desert. This may have been Growing the Beard. Yes. I'm very proud of myself.
- Cut-and-Paste Environments: Same case as the above, except with more examples. So far the only edits have been by me.
- Auto-Revive: I'd filled out Straight, Exaggerated, Downplayed, Inverted, and Parodied, and only made more from there.
- Badass Santa: Definite quality increase.
- Offer Void In Nebraska: Still makes me cringe that I chose Quebec without having any clue why things were void in Quebec (laws regarding sweepstakes). I should clean it up.
- It May Help You on Your Quest: All done in one edit. I was definitely getting better about filling out most of the page before submitting it.
- Informing the Fourth Wall: After this I stopped making PW pages for a while. I forget why. I did, however, add examples to many others.
- Unwinnable by Mistake: This feels like my most successful one yet. I started out with just Straight and Exaggerated, added a few more, came back in two months to add more, and eventually it grew into what it is today.
- Meta Twist: It took me a whole month to realize the actual point of the trope after I created the PW page. Took a break again after this.
- Obvious Judas: On second glance, this page ended up looking somewhat similar to Captain Obvious Reveal, although this is focused specifically on an obvious Heel–Face Turn, while Captain Obvious Reveal can be any kind of obvious reveal.
- Who Needs Enemies?: I'm rather proud of this page, and I managed to fill out most of the content.
- (For a while, I had mistakenly shown Rock Paper Switch here, even though the article was first created by Snarky Ace, and later standardized by V Phantom.)
- One Scene Wonder I hadn't touched beyond the initial page creation. Turns out it's a YMMV trope.
- Debug Room: Another page with minimal examples and no contributions by other tropers. I'll expand this later.
- Moustache de Plume: I had a surprising amount of trouble coming up with fictional names here.
- Call a Hit Point a "Smeerp": For some reason I didn't have this listed for quite a while. Not too bad but could use quite some elaboration.
- Destroy the Product Placement: Examples are short and concise, yet not meaningless. I like this.
- Continuity Porn: As with the above.
- Applied Phlebotinum: I'm running out of things to say here. This text is mainly for self-reflection and maybe a history of the article, which usually doesn't apply to later articles.
- Capcom Sequel Stagnation: Needs to be slightly expanded.
- Pure Is Not Good: Here I got back to writing somewhat more detailed examples.
- Cessation of Existence: Wrote this at around 3 AM, well off my sleep schedule. Seems okay.
- Useless Item: If I could figure out the difference between Conversed and Discussed from a quick glance, this would be completely filled out (aside from the "optional" examples).
- Cut Song was another case of over-zealousy to fill out random pages with matching PW pages.
- Concealment Equals Cover: Another slightly lazy one, but whatever.
- Delicious Fruit Pies: Probably one of the best I've made in a while. Still incomplete.
- Filibuster Freefall: The Parodied example on this one used to be less blatant and I feared it might be viewed as not so funny. I've rewritten it somewhat and it's better now.
- Scary Musician, Harmless Music: Would have written more of this, but I was having a strange issue with the website that caused all of the links to be clickable in different places than they appear. Todo!
- Ordinary High-School Student: Pretty solid, more meaty than most since it has some shadow of actual "story" set up.
- Always Murder: Actually filled out Discussed and Conversed this time. From memory!
- "Gift of the Magi" Plot: Although on this one I couldn't think of anything to put in the Lampshaded-Conversed pit again.
- Conviction by Contradiction: Didn't start with much. I would have created this page much earlier if I didn't have so much trouble thinking of examples.
- The Real Remington Steele
- Description In The Mirror: Appears as a redlink for some reason.
- Troll Fic: Ditto.
- Empty Room Psych
- MacGuffin Turned Human: Hopefully this doesn't sound erotic. Blugh. I tried to keep it nondescript for that reason.
- Fourth Wall Greeting
Real Examples...?
When I describe myself, it always tends to start off with a rant of sorts on what I don't like. Yes, this is obvious and self-demonstrating, but it should say something about my ideals.
I dislike people branding themselves with terms like "adorkable" or "nerdy" and/or using self-deprecation to ignore their problems. Last time I tried to write a bio it ended up as a rant about backwater internet cultures like /r/meirl that glorify helplessness and depression. I also don't like when tropers use their pages to sum themselves up as clichéd character archetypes. e.g. I've parodied these phenomenons in the Examples section above.
Aside from things like that, I don't describe myself much. Mainly due to an issue I keep having regarding whether or not I have an inflated ego, and if it comes through while writing this - "ego is killing me; here, let me strongly express my disbeliefs." I even find myself not picking up certain games, books, or web originals because there's a community surrounding it that I don't like. I've rewritten this a lot, starting from scratch each time, because I kept ending up in a situation where I'd bookended an autobiography with "you can safely ignore anything I have to say" and then concluding that I have nothing to say. It's a lose/lose situation, but I've decided to go with actually letting others see what I'm typing.
I like listing my favorite works, though. I think it's a great way to relate with others. When it comes to video games, I'm mainly interested in non-casual platformers, top-down games, anything focused on exploration, and the occasional roguelite. Here's a list:
I dislike people branding themselves with terms like "adorkable" or "nerdy" and/or using self-deprecation to ignore their problems. Last time I tried to write a bio it ended up as a rant about backwater internet cultures like /r/meirl that glorify helplessness and depression. I also don't like when tropers use their pages to sum themselves up as clichéd character archetypes. e.g. I've parodied these phenomenons in the Examples section above.
Aside from things like that, I don't describe myself much. Mainly due to an issue I keep having regarding whether or not I have an inflated ego, and if it comes through while writing this - "ego is killing me; here, let me strongly express my disbeliefs." I even find myself not picking up certain games, books, or web originals because there's a community surrounding it that I don't like. I've rewritten this a lot, starting from scratch each time, because I kept ending up in a situation where I'd bookended an autobiography with "you can safely ignore anything I have to say" and then concluding that I have nothing to say. It's a lose/lose situation, but I've decided to go with actually letting others see what I'm typing.
I like listing my favorite works, though. I think it's a great way to relate with others. When it comes to video games, I'm mainly interested in non-casual platformers, top-down games, anything focused on exploration, and the occasional roguelite. Here's a list:
