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This is the thread to use if you feel that the page image itself is good but the caption needs help.

If you think that both the image and the caption are poor, please make a thread in Image Pickin' for the page, and we'll work on the image and caption both at the same time.

As with other TRS and IP threads, please state your reasons and make your case in your first post. Don't make the other posters spend time trying to pry it out of you.

Edited by Willbyr on Jun 21st 2021 at 9:42:03 AM

ilovewildkratts1 Local Odd Squad Connoisseur from a nice breezy expansive meadow (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Local Odd Squad Connoisseur
#5553: Jan 13th 2024 at 8:01:37 AM

Proposing a few caption ideas for NightmareFuel.Public Service Announcements Safety since my proposals went ignored in the initial IP thread. First one is the caption that was on NightmareFuel.Public Service Announcement (without the external link); the other one is my own suggestion:

"But really, I should have cleaned up the grease over there."

"And I have this amazing fiance, who I won't be marrying next weekend, because I'm about to be in a terrible 'accident'..."

Edited by ilovewildkratts1 on Jan 13th 2024 at 4:00:16 AM

Wuewuewuewuewueing my way to the bank.
AlmightyKingPrawn I can chase the wind, I can race the rain from Down at Fraggle Rock *clap clap* Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: I love you for psychological reasons
I can chase the wind, I can race the rain
#5554: Jan 13th 2024 at 10:53:25 AM

I prefer the first caption.

She/her. Profile pic is by Richard Michael Gomez @StarmansArt. Please watch Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. https://youtu.be/Vm92JNgPbqk
Tylerbear12 What you see is what you get, just a guy. from The Green Hills. Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
What you see is what you get, just a guy.
#5555: Jan 13th 2024 at 2:02:20 PM

Edited by Tylerbear12 on Jan 13th 2024 at 4:06:09 AM

CompletelyNormalGuy Am I a weirdo? from a place where folks put cream cheese on hot dogs (Oldest One in the Book)
Am I a weirdo?
#5556: Jan 15th 2024 at 6:44:48 PM

I'm not particularly fond of the sarcastic complaining in the caption of "Spread Wings" Frame Shot, but I don't really have much in the way of a replacement suggestion.

Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.
MurlocAggroB from the second-most ridiculous province of Canada Since: May, 2015
Bubblepig Rei from Tokyo (Apprentice) Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
#5559: Jan 15th 2024 at 10:56:22 PM

Reposting because no one checked it.

Does the caption need an explanation? Because I found a caption like this in The tearjerker page of Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show. Spoiler warning.

Wow...Explanation 

Also found a long caption in Simple, yet Opulent.

It might not look like much, but how much did all those yards of silk and lace cost? And what about all the work to make the dress?

So keep or not?

"Now it's starting to feel like a game!"
mightymewtron Word Up from New New York Since: Oct, 2012 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Word Up
#5560: Jan 16th 2024 at 12:17:27 AM

The EENE caption can just be cut. The caption doesn't even really explain the context well anyway.

Simple, yet Opulent doesn't bother me.

Edited by mightymewtron on Jan 16th 2024 at 3:17:40 PM

I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
petersohn from Earth, Solar System (Long Runner) Relationship Status: Hiding
Bubblepig Rei from Tokyo (Apprentice) Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Twiddler (On A Trope Odyssey)
#5563: Jan 16th 2024 at 4:20:37 AM

Don't think the caption on Love Confession is adding anything.

petersohn from Earth, Solar System (Long Runner) Relationship Status: Hiding
Coachpill Taxidermy (he/him) from Gen Z Since: Aug, 2022 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
Taxidermy (he/him)
#5565: Jan 16th 2024 at 5:30:26 AM

[up][up] I'm guessing it's referring to the results of the confession, but it still feels really out of place. Pull

Your goateed philistine is sashaying towards us. | 🧱
neoamon Mr from Planet Mobius S.T.C. (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
Mr
#5566: Jan 16th 2024 at 11:45:33 AM

I am trying to create caption notes that when you click on them they open a picture but something has gone wrong which has made them notes without captions. I am also trying to have the first caption with the picture you can see, so the picture is in a box. I am unsure where I went wrong. I am unsure if this is the right place to ask about this.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/20230908_122358.png
From Left to Right: Rusty, Rheneas, Skarloey, Duncan, Sir Handel and Peter Sam
Skarloey  Rheneas  Sir Handel  Peter Sam  Rusty  Duncan 

"May your heart be your guiding key"
Andariel Never Found from Disappeared never to be seen again (Long Runner) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Never Found
#5567: Jan 18th 2024 at 11:50:10 AM

The caption on Cowboy BeBop at His Computer is being messed with. Again. (Last discussion was here)

  • On Aug 26th 2022 I put in the last version approved by this thread:

"Cowboy" means Bounty Hunter, "Bebop" is the name of the Cool Starship, her name is Ed, and that's not her computer.

"Cowboy" means Bounty Hunter, "Bebop" is the name of the Cool Starship, her name is Ed , and that's not her computer.

"Cowboy" means Bounty Hunter, "Bebop" is the name of the Cool Starship, her name is Ed, and that's not her computer.

"Cowboy" means Bounty Hunter, "Bebop" is the name of the Cool Starship, her name is Ed, and the computer (which is part of the Bebop) doesn't belong to her.

Has any of this been discussed anywhere? Because as far as I can tell, all these changes are unilateral and ignoring the commented-out note. (Well, aside from hipsterelephant, who was reverting to the approved version)

jandn2014 SMILE! from somewhere in Connecticut Since: Aug, 2017 Relationship Status: Hiding
SMILE!
#5568: Jan 18th 2024 at 12:04:56 PM

I don't believe so. I'd revert to the last approved version.

MurlocAggroB from the second-most ridiculous province of Canada Since: May, 2015
Andariel Never Found from Disappeared never to be seen again (Long Runner) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Never Found
#5571: Jan 19th 2024 at 1:38:49 AM

Alright, I'll revert it.

...Um, this is enough consensus that I won't be edit warring, right? Or should I wait for more opinions?

CompletelyNormalGuy Am I a weirdo? from a place where folks put cream cheese on hot dogs (Oldest One in the Book)
Am I a weirdo?
#5572: Jan 19th 2024 at 2:06:15 PM

Yeah, you're fine.

Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.
Andariel Never Found from Disappeared never to be seen again (Long Runner) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
GracieLizzy from Sunderland, UK (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#5574: Jan 20th 2024 at 8:31:53 AM

I think my grammar was off when I suggested the caption for Military Brat to go along with it's new image. Just checking should it be:

"Your family feuding with a schoolmate's family is awkward enough, add in Inter-Service Rivalry and it becomes downright painful."

Currently it doesn't have the possessive ' 's ' after schoolmate and that reads incorrect to me, but wanting to make sure people are okay with the fix and if I am fixing it correctly before I amend it.

Edited by GracieLizzy on Jan 20th 2024 at 4:32:07 PM


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