Just a Face and a Caption: Flirty Stepsiblings

Just two random people. Nothing about them seems to suggest that they're stepsiblings. It even sort of looks one-sided from the girl's perspective.

I can't think of a convincing way to display this trope, so it doesn't really need one.

While they don't look like siblings (blood or no) to me,

is a weak (read: Sour grapes) argument. Let's try at least.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Without commenting about whether this is picturable or not, I will say that the current pic is JAFAAC, and should be pulled.

Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!

"Flirty" is easy. What says "stepsiblings"?

Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.

Did Not Blood Siblings encounter the same problem?

How's this?

Bump; any thoughts?

The writing's a bit small...

6 is better, but I'm still not sure about it. Anyway, here it is with larger text:

edited 11th Aug '12 3:06:04 PM by bananasloth

please don't capitalize my handle. I just don't like it.

Better.

It's confusing and I don't even see flirty there.

My attention span isn't long enough to read through all that. A good personal rule of thumb is that if I have to read the picture, I might as well just read the trope page.

I'm not sure if including the "stepsiblings" part in the page image is necessary. Since it says "Flirty Stepsiblings" right at the top of the page.

So, if the problem with the current image is that it doesn't illustrate the trope well enough, that argument seems a little suspect. If the problem with the image is just that it doesn't add anything to the page, I guess I can't argue, and there may as well be no image.

edited 11th Aug '12 5:44:21 PM by abk0100

That isn't an improvement. Current (by ^ reasoning) > nothing > suggestions so far.

Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.

Even if the pic isn't ideal, it shows they're flirty, and judging from the name of the trope, it's not to hard to figure they're step siblings, so yes, I would say Current > nothing > suggestions so far.

I don't get flirty from that, at all. Also ... is that one of those "read it from the right" things? Gotta remember that only hardcore manga fans are going to know that.

Goal: Clear, Concise and Witty

Or anyone who's tried reading manga the wrong way before?

Ever since they started releasing manga in English non-flipped, the back, or should I say "front" pages have been dedicated to pointing out the correct reading direction.

An example of a spoof of it from a non-manga book. (Can't find one of the actual ones online)◊

I still agree that it's not a good image. Though, unlike most people here, I'd opt for imageless, given how nothing's actually going to say "stepsiblings".

edited 11th Aug '12 8:16:13 PM by burnpsy

No, it's just a bad image in the first place.

I have an idea for what the image could be, but I have no idea how to add pictures, seeing as I'm new to TV Tropes. Could someone help me? It's a picture of Derek and Casey from Life with Derek. They're one of the examples on the page.

edited 26th Aug '12 9:53:54 PM by AwstruckChick93

Use this tool to upload an image from your computer. The image must be less than 350 pixels wide; this site is good if you need a resizer. After you upload it, it should give you some text along the lines of [[quoteright:number:https://static.tvtropes.org/RestOfTheImageURL]]. Copy that and paste it into your post to display the image, or just copy the full URL and surround it with [[ ]] to make it a link.

That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.

Clock is set.

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