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Deadlock Clock: Feb 28th 2014 at 11:59:00 PM
MikuruFan from Away Since: Nov, 2012
#51: Nov 7th 2013 at 3:46:46 PM

Wow. This trope needs fixin'

maddthesane Crazy rabid squirrel from Idaho Since: Oct, 2010
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#52: Nov 13th 2013 at 5:07:48 PM

Okay, now that we know it needs fixing, how are we going to fix it?

My suggestion is to rename Menstrual Menace into Supernatural Period.

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maddthesane Crazy rabid squirrel from Idaho Since: Oct, 2010
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#53: Nov 28th 2013 at 12:22:48 AM

I've created a new YKTTW for Supernatural Period here. May I also suggest red-linking the Menstrual Menace page as a disambiguation page if/when Supernatural Period gets approved.

Edit: This expands Menstrual Menace to encompass entries other than "Period does bad supernatural things," to "Period does supernatural things."

edited 28th Nov '13 11:14:56 AM by maddthesane

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maddthesane Crazy rabid squirrel from Idaho Since: Oct, 2010
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#54: Dec 8th 2013 at 9:45:25 AM

Has this gone stale? It looks like it's gone stale.

Will mark it as so on Monday if someone else doesn't reply sad

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maddthesane Crazy rabid squirrel from Idaho Since: Oct, 2010
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#55: Dec 8th 2013 at 1:31:23 PM

I have edited a lot of the misuses and zero context examples that are on the second page of this thread. Most of them have the following as the edit reason: Menstrual Menace is about supernatural horrors caused by a woman's period. All Periods Are PMS is about women being cranky that time of the month. See this Trope Repair Shop thread for more info.

edited 8th Dec '13 1:36:38 PM by maddthesane

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shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#56: Dec 8th 2013 at 8:51:53 PM

Thank you for all your hard clean up work. Is there anything else that still needs to be done?

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maddthesane Crazy rabid squirrel from Idaho Since: Oct, 2010
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#57: Dec 8th 2013 at 10:13:07 PM

I only fixed the ones from my second usage count, so only up to "p". I'll finish the rest of the mentions later, probably tomorrow if I don't get distracted.

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maddthesane Crazy rabid squirrel from Idaho Since: Oct, 2010
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#58: Dec 8th 2013 at 11:43:26 PM

There, most of the misuses should be fixed now.

Also, sorry if I was a little overzealous and changed a few that were Menstrual Menace: they might not have been explained properly.

Also sorry for not alphabetizing the change of tropes: it's kinda hard to do so if you want to keep something in the pasteboard with a tablet.

edited 8th Dec '13 11:45:10 PM by maddthesane

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maddthesane Crazy rabid squirrel from Idaho Since: Oct, 2010
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#59: Dec 9th 2013 at 8:07:37 AM

[up][up]As for what needs to be done: rename of Menstrual Menace. I currently have a YKTTW entry for a rename here. It itself has gone through a rename due to an ambiguous name.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#60: Dec 9th 2013 at 8:21:05 AM

Is that a rename? To me, it looks like you want to draw a new trope to move some of the misuse in.

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shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#61: Dec 9th 2013 at 1:14:24 PM

Yeah, that looks like a supertrope, not a simple rename.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
maddthesane Crazy rabid squirrel from Idaho Since: Oct, 2010
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#62: Dec 10th 2013 at 12:28:03 AM

Menstrual Menace is about supernatural horrors caused by a woman's period. My proposed "rename" removes the "horrors" part. If you don't think this is the right course of action, we could do just a rename and not a replacement trope.

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shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#63: Dec 10th 2013 at 8:40:58 AM

I think a supertrope is valid, but a redefinition is not a rename. And a supertrope will help with the misuse. I just think that the general implication of it being evil deserves it's own subtrope.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
maddthesane Crazy rabid squirrel from Idaho Since: Oct, 2010
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#64: Dec 10th 2013 at 9:12:13 AM

Fair enough.

Although the renames that come to my mind are Supernatural Menstrual Menace and Magical Menstruation Gone Bad. There's probably a better name than those that can be used.

edited 10th Dec '13 9:13:28 AM by maddthesane

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maddthesane Crazy rabid squirrel from Idaho Since: Oct, 2010
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#65: Dec 16th 2013 at 2:02:19 AM

I'd appreciate some feedback or discussion about renaming Menstrual Menace.

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Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
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#66: Jan 17th 2014 at 4:06:28 AM

Clocking for inactivity. There's stuff in the posts right above this one which can be discussed.

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maddthesane Crazy rabid squirrel from Idaho Since: Oct, 2010
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#68: Jan 22nd 2014 at 10:21:27 PM

I think I'd use Magical Menstruation Gone Bad for the rename, due to the confusion the "base" trope was having with the other name.

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maddthesane Crazy rabid squirrel from Idaho Since: Oct, 2010
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#69: Jan 22nd 2014 at 10:32:51 PM

My YKTTW for Supernatural Period, now named Magical Menstruation, has been changed a bit:

->This expands Menstrual Menace to encompass entries of "Period does supernatural things." Menstrual Menace will not be deleted. Instead. It would be a subtrope of this one, covering specifically the "Period does bad supernatural things."

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maddthesane Crazy rabid squirrel from Idaho Since: Oct, 2010
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#70: Jan 24th 2014 at 10:39:37 PM

Also trimmed down the explanation to be more generic and less of a copy of Menstrual Menace.

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
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