Pat. St. of Archive Binge
Lots of them!
- Avatar The Last Airbender (yes,another fan
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- Irresponsible Captain Tylor
- Runaways
- El Goonish Shive
- Deadpool
- Sailor Nothing
- Empowered
- PS238
I've also been expanding my musical repertoire through all the links in Ear Worm
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edited Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:49:00 by AckSed
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.I'll add more since I've discovered more since the last time I posted.
- Death Note
- Code Geass
- Darths And Droids
- Serial Experiments Lain
- Veronica Mars
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer
(okay, I didn't 'discover' those last two, I had known about them before, I just never watched them).
edited Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:56:32 by JohnADreams
life is the sleep of no dreaming; stories allow us to dream againTV Tropes introduced me to Sluggy Freelance. I've become something of an Entry Pimp to pass the favor along.
Clearly, I need to go read Sailor Nothing now.
Things this Wiki either introduced me to or forced me to watch/read/experience:
- Princess Tutu. (Bright Blue Ink, ILU.) I think my exact thoughts were: "This is a Magical Girl show about a ballet-dancing duck girl. Whhhhyyyy am I so intrigued?" Answer: Because it's awesome. Oh, and I got my grandma to watch it with me and she liked it too!
- Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Yes, yes, I know—I'm a bad geek. I knew this show existed, but did not actually track it down until this wiki A) threw repeated references to Space Mutiny in my face and B) linked me to the Eye Of Argon MST. I actually didn't find the Space Mutiny episode all that great, but others (such as Robot Holocaust) were OMG awesome.
- Disgaea. Where's that DS version copy? I haven't actually played it, but I definitely want to now. I just know it's gonna drive my 100% Completion-est nuts, though.
- Yume Nikki. Mmm, Japanese horror and Freudian motifs! What's not to love?
- Jonathan Coulton as an artist in general—I'd had Still Alive for eons, but never actually bothered to look into him further. Now I consider "I'm Your Moon" one of the prettiest songs ever.
- Dr Horribles Sing Along Blog, because I suddenly saw it being Entry Pimped everywhere and decided I had to go and see what all the fuss was about for myself. I'm not much of a "Fall-for-celebs" gal, but even I got the squiggles hardcore from Neil Patrick Harris' voice. *le sigh*
(Worth noting: I liked Avatar pre-TV Tropes, and was often at a loss to explain its appeal to people. "No, no, you don't understand! I swear it's a lot more than just an Animesque children's show!" Now I can just link them to the page on the show and let that talk for me!)
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~MadrugadaYou do need to read Sailor Nothing. You quite categorically need to read Sailor Nothing. Just don't read it alone on a dark night...
And I've just remembered that I discovered Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha through this wiki. That was...not so pleasant.
This site got me to read Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou and it is wonderful indeed. Avatar The Last Airbender, too, in fact. I wanted to see this show that somehow subverts all the tropes in the book.
Feedback Of Heteronormative Gender Stereotypes in AnimeI hadn't heard much about Girl Genius before this site, last I'd heard of it it was still in print comics. Finding out here it'd totally gone online got me hooked. Thanks! :)
And as for Archive Binges... I got up to present in less than 3 days, over a weekend. It's that easy to get hooked!
edited 18th Mar '09 6:12:47 PM by Carrie
Everything can be improved somehow with SWAT Kat equipment. Everything. Especially with the Turbokat.Well, add Darths And Droids to that list, now.
Summon Bigger Fish!
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~MadrugadaUrgh... this one's gonna be interesting.
- Code Geass
- Eureka Seven- Pure win. Multiple Crowning Moments Of Awesome.
- FLCL- Dear lord, I couldn't stop laughing.
- SWAT Kats- Already knew this one, but I had to look.
- Currently making a fic
of it. Had to know which tropes I absolutely had to change...
- Currently making a fic
edited 28th Mar '09 11:15:27 AM by Slayer
So as I pray ,Unlimited Blade WorksHere're the ones I'm in Tv Tropes' debt for introducing me to:
- The Angry Video Game Nerd
- Avatar The Last Airbender
- Azumanga Daioh
- Berserk
- The Big O
- Cardcaptor Sakura
- Cave Story
- China Mieville
- Cromartie High School
- The Daughter Of Twenty Faces
- Genshiken
- Gunnerkrigg Court
- Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni
- HP Lovecraft
- I Wanna Be The Guy
- Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
- La Mulana
- Let's Play in general
- Magic Knight Rayearth
- The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya
- Mondo Medicals & Mondo Agency
- Mushishi
- Neuromancer
- Paranoia Agent
- The Proposition
- Raymond Chandler
- Saikano
- Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
- The Twelve Kingdoms
- Welcome To The NHK
- The Wire
- Yume Nikki
There's other stuff I watched/read because of this site, but am less enthusiastic about.
edited 28th Mar '09 1:11:37 PM by English Ivy
If I may, I'm going to amend the above: The art in Paranoia Agent is frequently hideous, which is so refreshing as an aversion to Generic Cuteness that it rocks.
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~MadrugadaBy gorgeous I meant the character designs are done in high detail for a TV anime. A lot of them are gonks, and a lot of others look like regular people instead of sparkling skinnybastards.
Sounds interesting. It's got put at the end of a long list of thing's I've been meaning to watch/read/reread.
On top is David Lynch's Lost Highway, in case you're wondering.
Mathematics Is A Language.I got hooked on Dwarf Fortress thanks to this site (and Boatmurdered.)
Found Eversion this way too and promptly sprung it on some unsuspecting friends...
This is a reeeeally late response, but—Freezair? ILU too <3 Glad to see my Entry Pimping is working!
Anyway, my list:
- Darths And Droids
- Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Mixture of this site and friends talking about it.)
- Gunnerkrigg Court (How did I never hear about this wonderful webcomic before?!)
- Mahou Sensei Negima (Only the first three volumes so far, but I've been enjoying it. Negi is cute!)
- That Guy With The Glasses
I think that's it so far.
Current project: Cleaning up the Chrono Crusade examples one at a time. God help me.Off the top of my head?
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Code Geass
- The Last Days Of FOXHOUND
- Metal Gear
- Most of the Gundam Metaseries (I had only watch Wing and SEED at the point when I arrived here)
edited 5th Apr '09 9:57:42 AM by Little_Serge
“This happy breed of men, this little world, this precious stone set in a silver’d sea.."Ciaphas Cain. I was already familiar with WH40K, but the Ciaphas Cain books made me believe that I could just maybe tolerate the gameworld lore without feeling disgusted. (It's the lack of subtlety that gets me.)
Ace Combat, mostly after hearing their entries on Crowning Music Of Awesome. I still think that the music is indeed awesome, and the gameplay should be taken out and shot. Damn tunnels.
I gave the reimagined Battlestar Galactica a chance based on this site. It was okay.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.I gave manga a chance thanks to TV Tropes, and have enjoyed a lot of it since; full list on my contributor page, but highlights include:
- Claymore: the first one to hook me enough to read the whole damn thing and rave about it to friends
- xxxHoLic: I like the beautiful artwork (especially the intro panels) and the slow, careful pace, as well as the casual wierdness.
- Gokusen: Ah, school more like I remember it, although mine didn't have nerdy-girl yakuza heir teachers. And it's a good one to give everyone who complains that they can't keep characters straight in manga because everyone looks the same; they don't here.
Oh so many... have I mentioned lately that I love you guys?
- Holycrapholycrapholycrap just started watching Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann! You were right! To a Wukongist like myself, this is like digging through a friend's basement and finding the director's cut version of the New Testament!
- If it weren't for you lot, I wouldn't know what scans_daily was, may it rest in peace. Without scans_daily, I'd never have heard of Deadpool (well, until you guys inevitably pimped him to me, I suppose). I owe you a life-debt.
- The Nostalgia Critic! And by extension, Linkara - the Most Moe Reviewer of Them All!
- Shinji And Warhammer 40 K; hell, now I've got to find those WH40K novels everyone's on about - I don't even 'game'! What the hell?
- Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure
- Black Jack (the page quote for Anime says it all)
- Code Geass
- The original Mobile Suit Gundam
'S all I can think of for now - if you'll just excuse me, I'm off to hook some poor sucker on Lupin III and Nora.
Edit: Oh - and most of the Abridged Series other than Yu Gi Oh, Naruto and Saiyuki.
edited 4th Apr '09 1:18:29 AM by FurikoMaru
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