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Edited to be a thread header.

Edited by nombretomado on Mar 3rd 2019 at 6:12:58 AM

Delibirda from Splatsville Since: Sep, 2020 Relationship Status: I wanna be your dog
#2976: Jul 26th 2021 at 1:23:11 AM

Ditto.

"Listen up, Marina, because this is SUPER important. Whatever you do, don't eat th“ “DON'T EAT WHAT?! Your text box ran out of space!”
Berrenta How sweet it is from Texas Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
How sweet it is
#2977: Jul 27th 2021 at 7:40:38 AM

Can Characters.SCTV be saved? It's got plenty of ZCE's.

Edited by Berrenta on Jul 27th 2021 at 9:40:47 AM

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Libraryseraph Showtime! from Canada (Five Year Plan) Relationship Status: Raising My Lily Rank With You
Showtime!
#2978: Jul 28th 2021 at 11:16:56 AM

Survivor Hag Island has nothing on its main page and no real contextualized tropes on its character page. Is anything salvagable?

Edited by Libraryseraph on Jul 28th 2021 at 2:18:27 PM

Absolute destiny... apeachalypse?
Shadow8411 Since: Jul, 2019
#2979: Jul 28th 2021 at 11:23:19 AM

What surprises me the most is that the main page just has a question mark and nothing else. Also, the character page has quite a few YMMV tropes. We could move some of the character tropes to the main page (after expanding on them), but given that the main page has remained effectively blank for almost a year, I'm not sure it's worth it (the page isn't indexed either).

Libraryseraph Showtime! from Canada (Five Year Plan) Relationship Status: Raising My Lily Rank With You
Showtime!
#2980: Jul 28th 2021 at 1:20:56 PM

Yeah like the fic isn't even linked, so I have no idea how to expand the character page tropes

Absolute destiny... apeachalypse?
Delibirda from Splatsville Since: Sep, 2020 Relationship Status: I wanna be your dog
#2981: Jul 28th 2021 at 1:27:49 PM

Now I am so damn curious to whatever the hell it can be! Damn it!

"Listen up, Marina, because this is SUPER important. Whatever you do, don't eat th“ “DON'T EAT WHAT?! Your text box ran out of space!”
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Crossover-Enthusiast from an abaondoned mall (Lucky 7) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#2983: Jul 28th 2021 at 8:43:13 PM

It's late and I'm in dewick mode, so dropping Missing Stars here.

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Happyfrybreath Pls stop calling everything Harsher in Hindsight Since: Aug, 2018 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
Pls stop calling everything Harsher in Hindsight
#2984: Jul 28th 2021 at 11:42:22 PM

Ah no sorry!

I got into a period around that time where I was like "I must create a new Tv Tropes page for EVERYTHING I ever do!" but didn't really have the attention span to do it (worked pretty well for Among us tho).

I can add the link, it's a very long Survivor fanfic (linked in Series/Survivor fanfics and this very sentence) and I'm sorry about that.

Edited by Happyfrybreath on Jul 28th 2021 at 11:42:31 AM

Delibirda from Splatsville Since: Sep, 2020 Relationship Status: I wanna be your dog
#2985: Jul 28th 2021 at 11:50:00 PM

[tup]

"Listen up, Marina, because this is SUPER important. Whatever you do, don't eat th“ “DON'T EAT WHAT?! Your text box ran out of space!”
Happyfrybreath Pls stop calling everything Harsher in Hindsight Since: Aug, 2018 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
Pls stop calling everything Harsher in Hindsight
#2986: Jul 29th 2021 at 12:12:10 AM

I just realized I have no idea what to do for the page image

NitroIndigo ♀ | Small ripples lead to big waves from West Midlands region, England Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
♀ | Small ripples lead to big waves
#2987: Jul 29th 2021 at 4:15:40 AM

From AscendedExtra.Literature:

Eva, Naomi, Peter, Toby, Tom and Erek in the Animorphs books. Erek is a particularly interesting example: he was introduced in #10 as a one-off character, named after a fan who won a contest. However, he had the perfect skill set to spy on the Yeerks and was also established as knowing that Marco's mother was Visser One's host, making him an easy catalyst for reintroducing her in #15, his second appearance. By #20, Marco (who narrated #10, #15, and #20) considers his dropping in with information more or less routine, and Marco's next book, #25, establishes the plot-enabling concept of having Erek and his friends impersonate the Animorphs so that their families won't miss them if they have to go on longer missions. The very next book, narrated by Jake, has Erek act as a Guest-Star Party Member and the book after that, focuses on rescuing him. He was created as a Character of the Day, but he ends up being so convenient and helpful to both the author and the characters that he was, in the end, probably the most influential of the side characters, facilitating and enabling numerous plots throughout the series and playing a huge role in the final battle.

But what about everyone else listed?

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Wick checker for hire
#2988: Jul 29th 2021 at 8:21:49 AM

Welcome Episode is filled with examples that are just "Character name in Series title"

Edited by PhantomDusclops92 on Jul 29th 2021 at 5:22:10 PM

The best character is always the one-shot disguise.
RobertTYL Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
#2989: Jul 31st 2021 at 2:45:56 AM

Another "can this 2-year-dead page be saved?" enquiry once more.

Polychromatic looks pretty hopeless (and have 6 misplaced YMMV items, all which are also ZCE). Permission to cutlist?

EDIT: This one's arguably worse: Lamentable Nights

Edited by RobertTYL on Jul 31st 2021 at 5:47:31 PM

Berrenta How sweet it is from Texas Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
How sweet it is
#2990: Jul 31st 2021 at 5:11:09 AM

Film.Drive In Massacre

As much as I'd love to comment out the ZCE's, I am caught in another TRS cleanup effort.

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#2991: Jul 31st 2021 at 12:33:07 PM

Almost none of WesternAnimation.Lil Bush has any context at all. I'm not even sure how much of it is salvageable.

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Shadow8411 Since: Jul, 2019
#2992: Jul 31st 2021 at 1:01:32 PM

I've commented out a whole bunch of ZC Es. The page should look a bit tidier now.

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Shadow8411 Since: Jul, 2019
#2994: Aug 1st 2021 at 4:24:14 AM

Solstice Twins has a description that admits the webcomic has been taken down without it being archived (making it inaccessible), and is full of examples that have little to no context. All of the edits past 2013 involve formatting fixes and removing tropes that are no longer used, as well as updating the description to say that the webcomic is no longer available (and one case of the page being blanked, then restored). And the page's creator (who added pretty much everything to the page) has been inactive since 2013. I doubt it can be saved.

Edited by Shadow8411 on Aug 1st 2021 at 5:21:26 AM

RandomDSdevel Always with a song in their heart. from Kokomo, IN, USA Since: Apr, 2018 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
Always with a song in their heart.
#2995: Aug 1st 2021 at 9:30:09 AM

     I started drafting the following descriptor slug for an entry for Afterschool Dice Club's Miki Takekasa in 'Shy Blue-Haired Girl,' but it feels too long to me, and I also don't know whether all the links I added are really necessary:

  • Afterschool Dice Club: Protagonist Miki Takekasa is a serious, introverted high-schooler with subdued and repressed emotions who doesn't socialize much with her classmates. She's always had trouble understanding what other people enjoy about having fun but yearned to change this, yet doesn't quite know how to start doing that without help. One day after school on her way home, Miki crosses paths with happy-go-lucky fellow classmate and recent transfer student Aya Takayashiki. Her sunny disposition is infectious, and their chance meeting becomes the start of a close friendship. Later on in the middle of their shared walk home that same day, Aya unexpectedly spots their stickler-for-the-rules class representative Midori Ono entering The Dice Club — a specialty board-game shop, of all things — and drags Miki along on a little adventure to investigate. It turns out that Midori works there and also has a hidden side to herself: she's always enjoyed board games and even wants to make one of her own some day. The store's manager invites Miki and Aya to try one of the games he has in stock out, and Miki finds to her surprise and delight that she rather enjoys playing. Learning to play various different board games with Aya, and now also with Midori, soon ends up sticking as a routine pastime for Miki and her new-found friends and helps her grow out of her shell.

What could/should I do to improve this?

Edited by RandomDSdevel on Aug 1st 2021 at 4:03:24 AM

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RandomDSdevel Always with a song in their heart. from Kokomo, IN, USA Since: Apr, 2018 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
Always with a song in their heart.
#2996: Aug 1st 2021 at 1:07:20 PM

     I suppose I could go with something like:

Maybe that's about the right length…?

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WarJay77 Big Catch, Sparkle Edition (Troper Knight)
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
#2997: Aug 1st 2021 at 1:08:17 PM

The only thing missing is a mention of her hair color.

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RandomDSdevel Always with a song in their heart. from Kokomo, IN, USA Since: Apr, 2018 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
Always with a song in their heart.
#2998: Aug 1st 2021 at 1:49:50 PM

     (Facepalms.) Right, I'll add that in with my page edit.

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WarJay77 Big Catch, Sparkle Edition (Troper Knight)
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#2999: Aug 1st 2021 at 6:09:25 PM

Stumbled upon Cinderella Unni. From a cursory glance I'm not sure how much of it is keepable.

Edited by WarJay77 on Aug 1st 2021 at 9:09:35 AM

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RobertTYL Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
#3000: Aug 3rd 2021 at 12:11:21 AM

Can Baby Aliens even be saved?

ZCE and weblink abuse aside, the last update was 3 years ago, so...

EDIT: Well, just found another one, guess that's what Tempting Fate means.

Anyway, here be Augustos. ZCE? Check. First-person writing? Check. Obscure enough to show NO result on Google? Check. Last updated when Age of Ultron was still playing in theaters...

EDIT: Rule of Three strikes again!

... yeah, have fun with this one. Mushroom Go

Edited by RobertTYL on Aug 3rd 2021 at 4:17:11 PM


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