It was a boring day. The 16 year old lad from Britain was browsing the forums on the Escapist, when he learned of Required Secondary Powers. Eventually, this lad grew to adore TV Tropes, clicking on lots of different tropes. He eventually got indoctrinated in the daily practise of reading tropes. Until one day, he drew his plans towards the forums. -cue dramatic music-
"You'd never do something as irrational as dying."Back in December of 2009, 22 years old Dream Huntress was googling for articles about how animation is always considered for children, even though it can be aimed at a more mature audience, that in turn took me to an article of the animation age ghetto,which in turn had a link to the TV Tropes article. Long story short, I spent hours reading about different tropes, and since I've been enamoured with this site.
I can't have you close, so I become a ghost and I watch you, I watch you.Once, a geeky young Straw Feminist was watching a video on Alex Day’s youtube channel, in which he filmed his reaction while watching something called “The Unicorn and The Wasp.” At one point he said, “What a stupid woman!” and flipped the bird at a character called Donna Noble. The straw feminist angrily posted, “Stupid person, not stupid woman,” and unsubscribed. She then realized she should probably research the fictional character she had just defended.
Many, many Doctor Who episodes later, she noticed that some fans used the term Mary Sue in their reviews of "The Doctor’s Daughter.” She searched the internet for definitions, and found various sites describing Mary Sues, but none of them were as exhaustive and amusing as this one.
She somewhat regrets her overreaction to Alex’s comment, but Doctor Who and this site were worth it. And Donna Noble is still her favorite companion.
edited 20th Jun '12 3:40:08 PM by apathetice
Journey before destination.It happened back in the summer of 2009. Our hero, the dashing young lad called Malph, was 18 at the time and was hanging around Game FA Qs' Cartoons and Animation board. That place is essentially our Western Animation board, so it mentioned tropes from time to time and had links to the pages here for context. However, he never really paid much attention to the links.
Then one day there was a discussion on how many dads on TV are bumbling morons with a link to the appropriate page in the OP. The OP mentioned it had a bunch of examples beyond the 2 obvious ones (Homer Simpson and Peter Griffin) so Malph decided to follow the url to the page and read.
He decided to read other pages too. Then he decided he wanted to add an example and got known. And thus Malph was a Troper.
He never did post anything in the Game FA Qs topic that lead him here.
edited 20th Jun '12 6:05:19 PM by Malph
I kept hearing the name "TV Tropes" popping out everywhere. It didn't quite catch my attention until I read about it on a blog on Screw Attack. To put it simple, it was an analysis of different types of villains in media, and in the comments section, I read someone mentioning "You got it off TV Tropes, didn't you?"
Fast forward a few weeks, where I come across the Creepypasta article here, just reading up on the subject. This was about two years ago, so it was the old layout (how old, I've got no clue). So I read up a bit, then I started Wiki Walking, but I got off and didn't come back for a while.
Months later, I'm in class in high school, bored, and decide to read Creepypasta for a while. Suddenly, I remember this place and I come here to read.
And I read. And read. And read. And read. And read. It became a hobby of mine. This wiki sucked me in and didn't let go.
So I did until the mid point of last year, where I decided to get on the forums. Was on the videogames forums for a while, but drifted off...
And then, few months later, late last year, I came back in a fit of boredom.
And I found the Blaz Blue thread. I had so much fun there I eventually just settled here, and then I started coming to Yack Fest, and here I am, six months later.
I should point out: The people I've met here have really helped me through some of my... Worst moments. I'm really, really grateful for all of the friends I've met in this place. They'll know exactly why. Really, I'm grateful. *Raises glass* Toast?
Once upon a time, I didn't like the bedtime story format, and this was too short to spin as a yarn.
I started reading Starslip (then Starslip Crisis) and since the artist was part of Halfpixel at the time, the Starslip forums were the Halfpixel forums, so I got involved there. After Halfpixel split up, Straub hosted his own forums at Nightlight Press, his own imprint before his self-titled branding. I don't remember if it was on Halfpixel or NLP that somebody described the main character as being either a Cosmic Plaything, or a Woobie, with link.
Many months later, I finished my Wiki Walk, and the NLP forums had been taken down due to spambots. I got bored, and ended up on the TVT forum.
Fresh-eyed movie blogOh, how many times have I told this story...
I used to frequent FacePunch Studios, the official forums of Garrys Mod. A few years ago, I believe was browsing a thread there by a user named "Bean-O," and someone (probably himself) linked to More Dakka. I was amazed at the page in front of me: a collection of examples from stuff I've heard of involving lots of firepower, a nice description, and, to top it off, an image of an Ork firing more guns than should be logical.
After a while, I came to stay here.
A few years ago, there was a young lad who would become Telcontar. His elder brother frequented an amusing site about fiction and trends in it — its name was TV Tropes, as far as he can remember. The brother kept talking about the pages on this site, and how they could explain stuff and were linked to in the parts of the 'net that he hung out in. Telcontar was intrigued. He was always following in the footsteps of his brothers, and came to the tropes site. It took a few visits, but then he was trapped in his first Wiki Walk. Through many pages he tramped, taking care to not used tabbed browsing until the temptation to do so was irresistible. (He still remembers one of the first pages he saw, one that he hasn't been able to find since; it is now his quest to locate it.)
Telcontar read the site for a couple of years, taking the odd break but always being drawn back. He grew familiar with tropes and how they applied to his favorite works. And finally, on the fourth of February this year, he became known.
His first edits were nothing special — trying to make a Darth Wiki page for some bad story he was writing, and so on — but then he made a new discovery, missed in years of lurking. The Forums.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.Once upon a time, there was a studious sixteen-year-old girl looking up an article about George Orwell's 1984. She came across the Trope page for 1984 and noticed curious little links to other pages. Once a link was clicked, there was no turning back.
Then, this studious sixteen-year-old girl discovered the forums...but that's a different story.
MISSED ME?!?!I made a friend, one day, and we talked about video games, anime, and media in general. He talked about the site, during one of our conversations, so a few days later, i searched the site, and a few months later, i joined the forums.
If you wanna PM me, send it to my mrsunshinesprinkles account; this one is blorked.Once upon a time, there was a young man who was a fan of the popular series Avatar The Last Airbender. He was also fond of image editing, and so there came a time where he wished to edit a certain image of main character Toph Beifong into a scene from a current film. Unable to find the image through conventional means, he resorted to Google searching the character's name with some keywords that described the scene.
None of the results returned were of the image, but one of them was of a little site known as TV Tropes.
I was like: Huh?
He was like: Do you know TV Tropes and how good is your English?
I was like: No and good enough.
In the next message he gave me links to said tropes. And the rest is history.
Once, there was a dude staying up in the wee hours of the morning, looking at a Harvest Moon message board. One of the topics said something about Tropes given to the characters. Said dude was curious, and clicked on the link. Then he clicked on another... He had a good time reading stuff, like the Pokemon page, to the late Troper Tales page. After so many years of just reading, the shy dude summoned enough courage to sign up for TV Tropes... And that, is how Diurnal Brocolli was born.
Just floating around...Once upon a time a person of the AHR species would trawl the internet to enjoy laughing at Mary Sues. One site was very good for Harry Potter sues. But the AHR was very confused, as frequent mentions were made to this "Draco Trilogy."
The AHR had never heard of such a thing. So, one day, the AHR asked the website what it meant. the AHR got two links.
One to fandom wank, and one to the trope Draco In Leather Pants.
From that day forward, the AHR was forever enraptured with the concept of Tv Tropes.
Read my stories!A long, long time ago, when skyflower was but a mere 8 year old lass, she was meandering around her older brother's computer. All of a sudden, out of all the open tabs, she found this little diamond, a place called "TV Tropes". It was open to a page on people getting better, after having their face melted off! She was intrigued. She searched it up on her own computer, and read tropes like there was no tomorrow! Then, by some cruel act of fate, she moved across the country, and the trauma caused the Place of Tropes to be forgotten.
Cut to years later, skyflower is sitting around, bored. Suddenly, she remembers, "Hey, tropey!" The prodigal daughter has returned! She then discovers a completely different side of the tropes, the fora. She Gets Known, and a world of possibilities explodes in front of her eyes. She is here to stay.
edited 21st Jun '12 12:44:35 PM by skyflower
noI was lurking in the Haru Sari forums, and there was this thread that said "hey we made a TV Tropes page for Haru Sari check it out and contribute"... It feels like half a year ago to me, but I know that it must've been at least two years ago, maybe event three. And I clicked that link... and clicked another, and another, and another, and then suddenly two weeks had gone by, and I've been talking in tropes ever since.
cross dust to the porchesIt was a relatively normal day in Improviland. The grass was singing, the trees were arguing and the birds were... being birds. Improvisationally Yours was browsing her most crippling of internet addictions, TV Tropes: specifically, the Narm page. She'd long considered joining the website, and all she required to tip her over into Troperdom was a little push...
Scrolling down the Narm page, happy as you please, she encountered a section on one of her favourite series of games, Phoenix Wright. She was currently playing Trials and Tribulations (what she thinks was the last case) when — DUN DUN DUNNNN — a piece of vital information about the truth of the case, unspoilertagged. She signed up as quickly as she could, fixed the page in the hopes that no other unfortunate individual would have to go through her pain, and realised the sheer awesomeness of the world she'd just opened for herself!
Still, she's not yet had the stomach to go back to her unfinished Trials and Tribulations game.
edited 21st Jun '12 3:52:23 PM by ImprovisationallyYours
Signature? I HAVE NO SIGNATURE.Once upon a time in Middle School, a lad known as the 14 befriended a very clever young lad named Andrew who, among many things, introduced The 14 to the Grand List of Console RPG Cliches. The 14 found this list to be very hilarious and was determined to find more things like this for he realized that he liked finding patterns and things that were similar.
And thus he ventured onto the web, searching for anime cliches and the like, even stumbling upon the Evil Overlord's list. After finding a few amusing lists, his journey led him to this episode that had them all, not just for anime or video games, everything. And soon his visits were daily until it became one of his website mainstays he would shill everywhere and become a source of inspiration.
The Blog The ArtWell, there was a thirteen year old girl who liked looking things up on Wikipedia, and one day she looked up Ripley's Believe It Or Not and read the article. At the bottom of that article were several links to sites with odd tidbits of information. She studied them carefully, checking each one out, until she reached one labeled 'TV Tropes'. She clicked on it, intrigued, found the Giving the Sword to a Noob trope and thus began the great affair between Um Lovely and TV Tropes.
edited 21st Jun '12 4:54:16 PM by UmLovely
RISEA long time ago, I was reading up on the Atomic Rocket webpage, and came across the Common Misconceptions page. Space Is an Ocean was mentioned, and provided a link. Click.
My reaction: "Wow, a whole 'nother wiki to crawl? Awesome."
Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.In a land of hills and trees, there lived a girl doing a paper about One Foot In Eden by Ron Rash.
She was looking up religious symbolism, came across the page What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic? and then, a couple-months-long Wiki Walk later, she became known as Pulp Free Bookworm.
The baby bat/ Screamed out in fright,/ 'Turn on the dark,/ I'm afraid of the light.'

Okay, how did you discover tvtropes? Answer in the form of a story.
Once upon a time, there was a nerdy, cloudcuckoolanderish 14 year old girl obsessed with Total Drama who was also bored as hell. One day in March of the year 2012, she decided to get her bored self onto the computer and google Total Drama stuff. She came across a site called TV Tropes. So she looked at the tropes, found pages for other stuff she enjoyed, and had a good laugh at the toy section of the late Accidental Nightmare Fuel page. She decided to become a bigger part of the site and decided to get known. Thus, Explosivo25 was born.
I don’t even know anymore.