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LullTheConqueror Love Freak from eternal loli Hell Since: Jan, 2001
#76: Sep 9th 2008 at 9:47:12 AM

JethroQWalrustitty wrote:

"(Quoted Fawriel)

  • waves limp wrist*

  • blows JQW and Fawriel kisses, bats eyelashes, minces*
  • the dice are loaded, the deck is stacked, the game itself will hold you back
    Fawriel Since: Jan, 2001
    #77: Sep 9th 2008 at 10:19:03 AM

    • slowly backs out of the room and stays away for like two weeks*

    • seriously*

    • well, might as well take this opportunity to tell people I'm gonna be absent on vacation for a while*

    ... so back on topic rite.

    Charlatan Since: Mar, 2011
    #78: Sep 9th 2008 at 12:54:16 PM

    • shakes his sexy ass*

    Back on topic:

    Dysfunction Junction - I have mentioned this already. I'm mentioning it again. This has happened at least twice-ish. Once with my "special" class in middle school (and I was the Only Sane Man, too), once with a tabletop RPG group (albeit on the net) that went to Evangelion-esque levels of pain/morbidity/angst. GREAT FUCKING TIMES.

    Awesomeness by Analysis - I have moments like this.

    Haven Planescape Hijack Since: Jan, 2001
    Planescape Hijack
    #79: Sep 20th 2008 at 4:11:37 PM

    (copied from the "Talk" thread)

    Haven: This topic proved surprisingly popular and enduring, so I'm starting it out again. Unlike last time, I will kick it off with systematically describing all the tropes that apply to me, rather than just occasionally posting one or two at a time. Let's go!

    To start with: I Know Kung Fu - more specifically, escrima, although I've also practiced a little kung fu, karate, and aikido. So Dual Wielding also applies - of one expertly crafted stick a friend gave me, and one I made myself. Not that I ever get in fights, though. But this is also a case of Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting, since I went away for a year, incidentally learned escrima, and when I came back a bunch of my friends knew it for some reason! A justification was attempted, and at first it was a Voodoo Shark but then it became Rule of Cool.

    I have four huge horizontal scars on my back, but I don't know if that counts as good or evil scars.

    I'm one hell of a Pungeon Master, because wordplay is fun and I get bored sometimes, so it manifests as puns.

    To an extent I was Raised by Wolves, though I seem to be maturing out of it and it's not quite as noticeable...at least, I hope so. I'm still not what you'd call perfectly adjusted, but who is?

    The Nakama trope tends to gets inverted in my life; those groups always seem to form around me, without me being a member in them in a way that's more than nominal. It sucks. On one occasion this was played straight, but it only lasted a few months and then we all drifted apart and went to college.

    I live in an Elaborate Underground Base in the Big Applesauce, and I do the Hand Behind Head thing as an "awkward" statement. I also have a bad habit of doing Obfuscating Stupidity for no particular reason.

    Oh, and I had an As You Wish situation recently, except with revealing myself to be a troper to someone, which was pretty cool. Maybe I'll put that in Troper Tales.

    There's probably more but...yeah.

    Productivity is for people without internet connections. -Count Dorku
    Tangent128 from Virginia Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
    #80: Sep 20th 2008 at 9:51:39 PM

    Haven wrote:

    "Oh, and I had an As You Wish situation recently, except with revealing myself to be a troper to someone, which was pretty cool. Maybe I'll put that in Troper Tales.
    Do tell. I'm interested...

    Do you highlight everything looking for secret messages?
    Haven Planescape Hijack Since: Jan, 2001
    Planescape Hijack
    #81: Sep 24th 2008 at 1:30:58 PM

    Heh, okay.

    So we were talking about the game Puerto Rico, specifically about the fact that, as the WMG page points out, they use little brown pieces for plantations. Someone pointed out that they were supposed to represent "colonists", and the other troper said "Sure, Let's Go with That", to which I replied "Yeah, definitely some Unfortunate Implications."

    (I was hoping that would lead to a Trope-Off, but then we just started talking about TV Tropes, which is cool too. :p)

    Productivity is for people without internet connections. -Count Dorku
    TheEnigma411 from New York Since: Dec, 1969
    #82: Sep 29th 2008 at 8:01:11 AM

    Sadly, I have a feeling I'm not the main character, not enough happens in my life to warrant it. :( If anything, I'm The Quiet One although I feel like I'm an extra sometimes.

    My community and family is full of Stepford Smiler(s) and Gossipy Hens.

    I just hope I at least get a Lower-Deck Episode someday.

    As I wonder this, I think of Shakespeare's quote: All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

    edited Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:01:43 by TheEnigma411

    Epiblast Cyan and Indigo Morality from Seattle-ish Since: Jan, 2001
    Cyan and Indigo Morality
    #83: Sep 29th 2008 at 6:44:43 PM

    To the above poster: Life has the ultimate ensemble cast.

    I am/enact:

    • Nightmare Fetishist. I am fascinated by the things others despise.
    • Übermensch, but not archetypally. I'd be a full, unequivocal Übermensch...
    • ...were it not for my Fatal Flaw. (Unfortunately, it would take overly long and delve excessively into my personal life to explain precisely what this flaw is.)
    • (I'm definitely not a Nietzsche Wannabe, though.)
    • Spock Speak and Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. I try not to get too obnoxious with it.
    • Covert Pervert. That said, I'm not always actively covert about it; more often, it's a case of...
    • ...You Didn't Ask. Which I find happens a lot in other areas as well. People often find themselves flabbergasted to find out something about me that I simply didn't have any reason to tell them before.
    • The Watcher, although in some cases it's more like...
    • ...Big Brother Mentor.
    • The White Prince is subverted. I have a public persona that leads people to believe I'm heavily sheltered and naive, but on many occasions I've demonstrated myself to be much more knowledgeable than they think, in some cases more so than the people who think that of me. (I say "subverted" and not "averted" because there are some things I'm genuinely ignorant about.)
    • Slipknot Ponytail. It usually means something when my hair is down.
    • Beard of Evil. I have a tidy little mustache-and-soul patch combination. This has sometimes been extended to a handlebar stache.
    • Evil Laugh. I have quite a few different laughs, but some of them sound, quite incidentally, like an overblown villainous cackle or a sinister "heh, heh, heh..." chuckle.

    My life in general contains:

    • Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism is averted, if you can believe that. Not one of the ends; the scale itself. As far as I can tell, my life can't be easily mapped to a particular position anywhere along the scale.
    • Naked People Are Funny. I'm a context-sensitive nudist myself (although I've never been to a resort or other place with nudity as a formal institution), and there's also been lots of gratuitous nudity in odd places and times in my life.
    • Arc. It's hard to explain well, but my life really does feel at times like it's divided into arcs.
    • Ho Yay. I have lots of good-natured faux-sexual teasing with my straight male best friend. Since Bi The Way applies to me and he's aware of this, I made sure to determine early on that he wasn't bothered or threatened by such humor. Quite a few of my other friends also have Ho Yay or Ship Tease with each other.
    • I suspect the Ho Yay between me and the aforementioned friend is Fanservice for his girlfriend.
    • No Fourth Wall, marginally. This conversation is very far from the only time I've felt like a character in a story.
    • My boyfriend is One Head Taller than me. I don't think the Seme and Uke stereotypes fit us very well, though.

    edited Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:29:41 by Epiblast

    Boo.
    TheEnigma411 from New York Since: Dec, 1969
    #84: Sep 30th 2008 at 9:17:13 AM

    Interesting post, Epiblast. Life is the hugest ensemble cast ever, or a polyphony if we're looking for a literary version.

    Now that I think about it, I see The Watcher in myself too. With many people I discuss books, movies or television with I'm Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness, although I try not to be obnoxious or an Insufferable Genius about it.

    Especially amongst my peers, The White Prince is subverted because of the You Didn't Ask moments where I surprise people with the topics I have knowledge in. Everyone tends to think I'm more sheltered and naive than I really am too.

    As cliche as if sounds, my life feels like it's divided into arc because of graduating from or transferring to different schools. If something out of the ordinary occurs in the regular pace of my life, I consider that an arc too.

    Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism is a lifelong struggle in my life and is the basis of the many morals I learn. Getting into it would have to let me explain my entire life story.

    Wow! As crazy as it sounds, thanks for giving a me new insight into my life.

    edited Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:33:20 by TheEnigma411

    MorkaisChosen from Learning Since: Jan, 2001
    #85: Oct 6th 2008 at 8:43:33 AM

    I pulled an Awesome but Impractical last Friday night- went to a party with a mask theme in a ninja mask.

    The main problems were an inability to drink or smile...

    CentralAvenue Literally A Princess from The Palace of Serenity Since: Sep, 2014
    Literally A Princess
    #86: Oct 8th 2008 at 8:59:01 PM

    Ooh! This ought to be fun!

    Well, let's see. I'm the Teen Genius, but I'm also a TV Genius, and I have a natural inclination toward Spock Speak, though when I want to be casual I use a bit of Buffy Speak and I Pulled a "Weird Al". In my first year or two of high school, my best friend was a girl, and I often had to tell people that She Is Not My Girlfriend. I'm a huge Grammar Nazi, and I'm an example of Loners Are Freaks. I'm an Inversion of No Sense of Direction—name a street anywhere in the city, and I can get you there. There's also Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!...I once had to have a teacher repeat her explanation of ADD and ADHD because I wasn't paying attention. And there's Dawson Casting...I've always looked a couple of years older than I really am. Oh, and Annoying Younger Sibling...I have two.

    I also have a funny example of a real-life Sorry, I Left the BGM On, with a dash of Isn't It Ironic?: While writing an assignment about drug abuse, iTunes randomly began playing "We Are All On Drugs" by Weezer. It was hilarious.

    That's all I can think of at the moment, but I'm sure I'll find more later.

    Heapers’ Hangout
    gs68 Insert coins - Credit 0 from Santa Clara, California Since: Dec, 1969
    Insert coins - Credit 0
    #87: Oct 13th 2008 at 10:26:08 PM

    Most of these tropes apply to my ongoing college experience:

    • Awesome, but Impractical - I'm taking Japanese. Not the best language to learn when your hometown's Asian population is largely comprised of Vietnamese, Koreans, and Filipinos, and very few Japanese. In fact, what few Japanese restaurants are around here are run by Koreans.
      • Similarly, railed transportation. I live in the San Jose, CA area (Santa Clara, specifically), and I use the bus to get to and from campus. The nearest light rail station is well up north. I've made one practical CalTrain round trip and one BART trip for the hell of it (BART has absolutely no coverage in the San Jose region.)
    • Difficulty Spike - Calculus II. It was easy up until this section I'm on, now it's taken the Shinkansen to Nintendo Hard territory.
    • The Scrappy - I fell into this status among a group of friends that I no longer hang out with. This also applies to me and Super Smash Bros; it doesn't help that I favor Brawl over Melee.
    • Expy - Some of my friends somewhat remind me of past friends. For example, I have one female friend who looks like an older verson of another, younger friend with the same first name.
    • Blessed with Suck - Again, I ride the bus to campus. Sounds very economical (save gas, don't have to pay for or fight for parking on campus, don't have to pay for dorm or apartment, etc.) until I realize that it puts a hamper on my college social life.
    • And Now for Someone Completely Different - My first days in college.
    • All Love Is Unrequited - Let's just say that I'm 19, have had zero girlfriends and gone on zero dates, with the closest to a date being getting asked to a school dance, and leave it there.
    • Anti-Climax Boss - Some of my exams, some of which I can speedrun and finish in under half the time.
    • Gannon-Banned - I dare you to mistake Santa Clara for another part of San Jose.
    • Self-Deprecation:
      • (setting: a clubroom. There's a Wii hooked up in there, and people almost exclusively play Melee on it)
      • gs68: I want Brawl, dammit!
      • gs68's friend: Fuck Brawl.
      • gs68: But I want Brawl! So that way casualtards like me can play!
      • gs68's friend: Shut the fuck up!

    edited Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:01:22 by gs68

    http://gs68.livejournal.com/
    KrazehPenguin Since: Jan, 2010
    #88: Oct 24th 2008 at 9:42:32 PM

    I myself, am a Card-Carrying Villain Villain Protagonist Manipulative Bastard. I gennerally act diffirently around diffirent people, being either a Cloudcuckoolander or a Dead Pan Snarker (sometimes both.) My humor is dark, being that my friends and I joke about everything, so much that it Crosses the Line Twice (probably more than twice.) I like being a Large Ham Just for Fun. Somewhat of an Anti-Villain. Has several Weaksauce Weakness.

    edited Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:45:47 by Krazeh Penguin

    Strawberry ...Ninjas. from Canuckia Since: Jan, 2001
    ...Ninjas.
    #89: Oct 26th 2008 at 9:20:24 AM

    I\'m a Deadpan Snarker The Daria with a Those Two Guys family (though my dad veers into Education Mama territory) and a Fish out of Water Straight Man in my college. My high school was a prime example of Everyone Is Bi (particularly the music students) and I was generally The Urkel partly due to Raised by Wolves homeschooling. However, it wasn\'t usually that noticeable among such classmates as a Fun Personified New-Age Retro Hippie, a Freaky Is Cool contortionist and a Strawman Political Nintendo addict.

    edited Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:01:03 by Strawberry

    LatwPIAT Since: Jan, 2001
    #90: Oct 26th 2008 at 11:37:49 AM

    OK, well, I'm Crazy Prepeared with my Hyperspace Arsenal, with witch I both Rumage Fail and have to go through Extended Disarming (Airport Security is fun!) I have a Nostalgia Filter when it comes to computers, people often think I'm a Teen Genius, and I speak in Spock Speak with Sesquipedadian Loqui.... A, screw that, I don't know how to spell it, but my speech uses phrases like "rodent friends" (rats, gerbils, etx.) "eating implement" (fork) "advanced computation device" (Computer) and similar phrases with which I obscure the minds of those with a lesse vocabulary, mostly in order to humour myself, as I don't continually use this speech pattern, as it complicates daily life, but I have found it especially hillarious to include a quip or two when speaking of mundane, everyday objects to my academic mentors.

    Ah, crap. I did it again...

    Things I like: Ghost In The Shell |Serial Experiments Lain |Eden: It's an Endless World! |Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri |Aeon Natum Engel
    Matrix Since: Jan, 2001
    #91: Nov 5th 2008 at 1:11:43 PM

    Well...

    I'm an Ineffectual Loner and an example of Loners Are Freaks because all my childhood friends were Put on a Bus. I guess I'm a Genius Ditz because everyone says that I'm supposed to be smart, yet my grades and lack of wit would say otherwise. I'm probably a Cloudcuckoo Lander sometimes. Oh, I was once a Cute Shotaro Boy. I'm probably a male Shrinking Violet. That said, I'm also a Butt-Monkey. My good friends (who I know only on the internet) consist of a Deadpan Snarker, The Idiot from Osaka, a Cloudcuckoolander, and... I can't think of any troped for the last one except the one that leads into the next trope... Five-Man Band. The Hero, who would be the one I couldn't think of any other tropes for. The Deadpan Snarker would be The Lancer, while The Idiot from Osaka would be The Big Guy, the Cloudcuckoolander would be... Well, we don't really have The Smart Guy. Though The Hero and The Lancer usually double as The Smart Guy, and I do at times as well. As for me, well... I'm probably The Chick. I have a bit of Gender Bender from that time that I wished I was a girl. Oh, I'm a Wholesome Cross Player. I like playing female characters, however I actually like to give them some dignity, i.e. no Breast Plate Stripperiffic stuff, if possible. If I DO put them in something like that, it's in private and for my enjoyment only. Goes to show how desperate I really am. Oh yeah, Beware the Nice Ones. I have fantasies of Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds.

    If I can think of any more tropes I'll post 'em up!

    Oh, right. Berserk Button. Well, don't make fun of me and you'll be okay. Oh, and don't diss stuff I like, like Heroes, Doctor Who, Chuck, RPGs, Kirby, Brawl, etc. Oh yeah, never say "oh well." Especially when it's about me. I HATE that line. Sadly... I can't do much.

    edited Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:41:38 by Matrix

    Fawriel Since: Jan, 2001
    #92: Nov 5th 2008 at 2:39:21 PM

    I have fantasies of Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds. [...] Oh, and don't diss stuff I like, like Heroes, Doctor Who, Chuck, RP Gs, Kirby, Brawl, etc.

    OH SHI-

    ...

    so how u doing

    ...

    ANYWAY! As I was saying, hugs to all our newcomers! Except those that want to kill me. I like my internal organs where they are.

    edited Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:40:25 by Fawriel

    Matrix Since: Jan, 2001
    #93: Nov 5th 2008 at 2:51:09 PM

    OH SHI-

    ...

    so how u doing

    ...

    lol. I'm fine. How about you?

    SherlockPoirot Since: Dec, 1969
    #94: Nov 5th 2008 at 7:08:59 PM

    • Sherlock Scan: I trained for years in order to do that. I love to freak out my friends with crazy deductions, but honestly? Most of them are Awesome But Useless. 10% are real deductions. The other 90% is just pure Cold Reading. And that involves saying things that apply to everyone, but sound really deep. "You are having some kind of argument with someone."

    • Crazy-Prepared: ...I have recorded a video of me telling myself what I usually act like, and a short summary of my life, in three different languages' just in case I ever have amnesia, and everyone around me is dead. The three different languages thing is just in case I end up forgetting one or more of them, and if that language just happens to be my first language. It could happen. Unless Agatha Christie lied to me. Should I go to the psychologist?

    • Xanatos Gambit / Refuge in Audacity : I am used to using those. For no reason at all. I told a friend that I had a crush on his sister. Then, I told him I lied, despite the fact that I didn't. The reason? Said friend is a manipulative bastard who loves to find out stuff about people just to annoy them with it. And by telling him something that would do nothing but give him ammunition to annoy me, he figured that there was no way I was telling the truth. Even though I was. THEN, I took advantage of that, by telling him that the reason I pretended to like his sister was that another friend likes her and asked me to find out stuff about her. Then, he found out enough stuff about her to casually mention to her "gee, I can't understand how people think Monk is better than Psych." Which ended up resulting in a very long conversation. Another friend later pointed out, after I had asked her out, "why didn't you just talk to her? You know, the way normal people do." I honestly took about half a minute to finally answer "because...it's...more fun this way?". And that's wednesday. I tend to make useless Xanatos Gambits.....For EVERYTHING. No matter how trivial it is. I once took 5 hours carefully making a plan so that I would be able to successfully skip a math test. Despite the fact that I could have used those 5 hours to study for the test. This often has negative results
    • Fun Personified : ....As you probably have guessed by the other tropes i mentioned.
    • "Well Done, Son" Guy: ...Hasn't happened yet. But it will. Hopefully.
    • The Promise: Now THAT'S a long story.
    • The Gambler: I recently bet with my dad that I would get a book published before July. If I succeed, I will be able to stay in Toronto. If not, I will have to move to Ottawa with him. I tend to solve ALL my problems with some kind of bet. Which is a really,really dumb thing.

    .....God my life is like...A really bad tv show. I hope I have some kind of plot twist.

    edited Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:13:45 by Sherlock Poirot

    JethroQWalrustitty Since: Jan, 2001
    #95: Nov 6th 2008 at 1:24:02 AM

    Recently added a Troper Tales part in Springtime for Hitler; I deliberately tried to piss off my english teacher at creative writing by writing a Science Fiction story. He liked it.

    Idler Since: Oct, 2019
    #96: Nov 6th 2008 at 10:13:21 AM

    I actually was appointed as Secret-Keeper recently. Although the person with the secret has discussed it with me sufficiently loudly that it's probably possible that someone else knows about it. It's hardly a Big Secret anyway.

    lee4hmz 486-powered rotating frosted cherry Pop-Tart from A shipwreck in the tidal Potomac (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
    486-powered rotating frosted cherry Pop-Tart
    #97: Nov 9th 2008 at 1:52:17 AM

    Oh boy, where to start:


    (Edited: Some of this stuff was honestly kind of creepy.)

    edited 21st May '09 6:14:33 PM by lee4hmz

    online since 1993 | huge retrocomputing and TV nerd | lee4hmz.info (under construction) | heapershangout.com
    Matrix Since: Jan, 2001
    #98: Nov 9th 2008 at 3:30:59 PM

    Dead Little Sister: Not so much "dead" as "never had one in the first place, and wishes that weren't so".

    Same here, man, same here.

    Except, change little to older.

    Though it's led me different places than you....

    Incest Fetish. grin

    JotunofBoredom Left Eye from Noatun Since: Dec, 2009
    Left Eye
    #99: Nov 9th 2008 at 4:56:22 PM

    Thanks Matrix, now i can add Squick to my list.

    Umbran Climax
    Matrix Since: Jan, 2001
    #100: Nov 9th 2008 at 4:59:40 PM

    grin

    Edit: Woooo post # 100!

    edited Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:02:27 by Matrix


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