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One thing I've noticed is that for all how the page for They Might Be Giants claims them to be the unofficial official band of this wiki, there's relatively few people on this site who seem to ever reference them.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Oct 13th 2024 at 12:59:03 PM

NitroIndigo ♀ | Small ripples lead to big waves from West Midlands region, England Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#15026: Jan 27th 2023 at 8:52:07 AM

[up][up][up]Reminds me of when the recap page for Friendship is Magic's semifinale seemed to crop up in ATT every day for weeks.

MacronNotes (she/her) (Captain) Relationship Status: Less than three
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#15027: Jan 27th 2023 at 10:18:13 AM

The revived Trope Report project is the same age as the original one since I started the thread back in the summer of 2020 (2009-2012). I didn't expect the project to actually lift off let alone be as big as it is now. I also didn't know that the original trope report was only 12 pages long.

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#15028: Jan 27th 2023 at 1:19:20 PM

We need a proper reply button For the Trope Lanuch Pad

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Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
we must dissent (it/they)
#15029: Jan 27th 2023 at 2:20:22 PM

Paul Ekman has a model of six basic emotions, and we have Moments subpages celebrating when works are able to produce four of them: joy, sadness, fear, and surprise. Anger and disgust are missing, replaced with two other variants of joy. (Nausea Fuel would be disgust, but it hasn't ever been popular enough to need its own namespace.)

Edited by Noaqiyeum on Jan 27th 2023 at 10:20:43 AM

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#15030: Jan 27th 2023 at 2:21:45 PM

anger would be It just bugs me change/wallbanger pages

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Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
we must dissent (it/they)
#15031: Jan 27th 2023 at 2:28:59 PM

Oh, I suppose so. That's still an interesting exception, though. It suggests that when a work makes people happy or disgusted or afraid, it's on behalf of the characters in-universe, but when it makes them angry they're angry at the writer.

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WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#15032: Jan 27th 2023 at 2:30:20 PM

What about Squick?

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Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
we must dissent (it/they)
#15033: Jan 27th 2023 at 2:36:55 PM

I don't think I've ever seen that as a subpage? That seems like it goes with Nausea Fuel, actually. People can identify moments that disgust them, but it isn't popular to praise them as good writing. "You should read this, it's incredibly gross" must not be as common a reaction as it theoretically could be.

(Granted, I suppose it also gets slipped into Nightmare Fuel regularly as well, so it might just be that fear and disgust tend to be used together.)

Edited by Noaqiyeum on Jan 27th 2023 at 10:41:38 AM

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#15034: Jan 27th 2023 at 3:04:25 PM

I'm not saying Squick counts as a moment, but it does cover the emotional reaction.

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Bluethorn CHOMPION from Partash Since: Jan, 2018 Relationship Status: Star-crossed
CHOMPION
#15035: Jan 27th 2023 at 3:17:19 PM

I guess anger would be villain tropers like Complete Monster or Hate Sink. When something in a story is supposed to make you angry, it's usually the villain.

Tbh I never really hated his minigames in the original, but they did make them better in the remake.
FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#15036: Jan 27th 2023 at 3:46:17 PM

What about the two lesser-remembered emotions, trust and anticipation? The latter, I guess Wild Mass Guessing, but the former?

Edited by FernandoLemon on Jan 27th 2023 at 8:52:06 AM

Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
we must dissent (it/they)
#15037: Jan 27th 2023 at 3:56:51 PM

Lesser-remembered because they're from a different model of emotions. :P

WMG as anticipation is brilliant. Maybe Heartwarming could be considered trust, instead of or in addition to another form of joy?

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FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#15038: Jan 27th 2023 at 4:09:04 PM

[up] I guess that's not too much of a stretch, considering tenderness stems from trust.

WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#15039: Jan 27th 2023 at 4:12:32 PM

Trust is YMMV, though there people are more likely to whine about broken trust for the work to fit their exact standards tongue

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FernandoLemon Since: Aug, 2015
#15040: Jan 27th 2023 at 4:15:23 PM

I was confused when I saw anger as the opposite of fear, but then I remembered the concept of fight-or-flight response.

So yeah, for anger: what triggers your fight response?

MacronNotes (she/her) (Captain) Relationship Status: Less than three
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#15041: Jan 27th 2023 at 4:19:27 PM

I know it's in the Darth Wiki now but I think of DarthWiki.What An Idiot when it comes to anger.

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WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
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#15042: Jan 27th 2023 at 4:21:36 PM

I think DMOS.

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good-morning Lord Something, Forgetter of Cool Titles from Brazil Since: Nov, 2021
Lord Something, Forgetter of Cool Titles
#15043: Jan 27th 2023 at 4:31:57 PM

I feel bad for the translator folks in the Get help with English thread sometimes. It must be easy to be overwhelmed by all the questions. After all, it's that what the thread was made for.

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Noaqiyeum we must dissent (it/they) from across the gulf of space (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
we must dissent (it/they)
#15044: Jan 27th 2023 at 4:40:18 PM

As far as when a work makes me angry without pulling me out of the story, Hate Sink and Love to Hate are probably the closest. (The other thing I think of - anger and disgust are both used to inspire action against something, like a Rousing Speech, so it probably has some overlap with Awesome Moments or Anvillicious?) The idea that it's actually Complete Monster or Magnificent Bastard is pretty compelling - it makes sense that the reason there isn't a Moments page equivalent for it is because it would be used for complaining and be removed.

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Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
GastonRabbit C'est la vie. (he/him) from Robinson, Illinois, USA (General of TV Troops) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
C'est la vie. (he/him)
#15046: Jan 27th 2023 at 5:35:48 PM

So, a couple of the mod-specific tools of the site have misspellings:

  • If you cut a page on the Cut List, it says "Cut succesful" instead of "successful".
  • The custom title queue says "punctution" instead of "punctuation".

I got a rock for Halloween.
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#15047: Jan 27th 2023 at 5:46:35 PM

I feel better about my typos then.

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
moefoxes Since: Apr, 2020 Relationship Status: Chat, is this real?
#15048: Jan 27th 2023 at 7:04:55 PM

Speaking of the Cut List, why is the link orange? Is it special or something?

Inconsistently active.
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
N1KF Alleged Number1KirbyFan (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
Alleged Number1KirbyFan
#15050: Jan 27th 2023 at 8:37:09 PM

[up]You can also add extra letters and the links are still orange. Like so:

Pot holes turn orange as well:

Even the namespace turns the link orange:

That does make me wonder if we're ever gonna get a page whose links accidentally turn orange. Maybe if we get a work or recap whose name ends in "Discussion".

There's also General Suggestions, which leads nowhere. I wonder what other forgotten links are orange. Maybe we could have an All Orange Entry like All-Blue Entry and All-Red Entry.


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