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Edited by GastonRabbit on Apr 24th 2024 at 1:49:19 PM
Sounds good on paper (he/him)
The page has 190 wicks and 38 of them are already on Trivia/ pages, which can be a sign that something should be officially classified as Trivia (it's come up in past threads that handled moves to Trivia), so I think it would be fine to make a thread without a wick check, since this is more about the definition than usage. Either way, this strikes me as background information because examples involve comparing the ratings of separate releases of the work, which is external to the work instead of being a trope.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 13th 2023 at 5:31:53 AM
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
low-poly Shinri
Alright, I qued it up. Will write the OP later.
She/Her | Currently cleaning N/A
One-Track Mind (he/him)
So Theriocephalus had put Ritual Magic on hold until after November 12...and it's after November 12. Should I get their permission to remove the "please hold" text on the queue?
This is Idol Tap. (My Troper Wall)
Where even [i]is[/i] the OP and wick check for that one? I've done a quick search of the forums, the repair shop queue (including the page history - it was listed in June, but no OP was posted for it) and the "Related" page for "Ritual Magic", and found nothing.
Until next time...
Anon e Mouse Jr.
If you're responding directly to one of my posts, please ping me to make sure I see it.
One-Track Mind (he/him)
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
For the record, the [i] markup no longer works. To italicize something, you now have to bookend the word/phrase with double apostrophes. ('')
Yeah, I noticed... it's a force of habit sometimes, especially when I've recently been typing up something on a different site that still uses that coding.
Until next time...
Anon e Mouse Jr.
If you're responding directly to one of my posts, please ping me to make sure I see it.
...wait, that markup ever worked on here? I've always used the apostrophe markup.
Wizards Don't Own Cats (she/her)
Okay, so I have my wick check for Damned by Faint Praise here. Please bear with me; this is detailed as I attempted to cover it the best I could. That being said any insight is appreciated and I also welcome assistance with determining whether this is a problem or if I'm reading into it too much (though I went over it dozens of times to make sure and made a lot of revisions and recategorizing).
Here is a quick rundown of the results:
- The trope definition says it is about a form of insult/criticism (towards something of bad quality) that attempts to look like praise, but in reality just highlights the subject's flaw(s) in some way. E.g. saying a computer looks sleek as a primary point of praise: it looks like a compliment, but it actually means "it only looks nice; it doesn't work that great as a computer so it's still bad".
- The wick check says that most of the examples are a mixture of "character dislikes something", "this comment or compliment is weird or bad", "a statement or action vaguely looks damning", wicks that are lacking in context and some form of sinkholing, without elaborating on the flaws that were supposed to be pointed out.
- Further issue: other pages linking to it don't appear to describe it consistently, and the title is an idiom that has a differing definition according to online dictionaries.
Edited by Eggy0 on Nov 14th 2023 at 4:58:28 PM
Sounds good on paper (he/him)
Paging ~molokai198 since they're up next on the Queue now that Cloning Blues' thread was closed due to the clock.
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
He/Him
Pretty minor suggestion and is about an index, but I feel like Nose Tropes should be Nose and Odor Tropes and should soft split/organized between "tropes about the appearance of a nose" and the "tropes about odor".
Edited by AudioSpeaks2 on Nov 15th 2023 at 3:06:27 AM
Art Museum Curator and frequent helper of the Web Original deprecation project
Sounds good on paper (he/him)
I feel like maybe we should give molokai198 at least a few more days to respond, and put their entry on hold if they don't respond. They were last online yesterday (they last posted not long before I paged them yesterday), meaning they might be online later today, so I'm just mentioning this since there have been cases of users who never responded.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 15th 2023 at 11:54:01 AM
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
Sounds good on paper (he/him)
Paging ~MacronNotes since I saw we have two free slots (I didn't know Multi Ethnic Name's thread was closed until I checked the wick count, since I worked on it somewhat).
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
(she/her)
Occupied right now but I can get my thread ready as soon as I am free
Macron's notes
Sounds good on paper (he/him)
That's fine. No rush.
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
Ok I'm here and I'm willing to run the thread!
How sweet it is
Awesome! We got an open slot ready when you are!
Yogo
I'll probably get flamed for this, but I feel a lot of examples in "Feminist Fantasy" are misplaced. Half the examples feel more like "this movie stars a woman, and the user likes it so it's here."
the Retromancer
You could be right, but without the exact list to show how many, it's hard to say.
I will post the thread tomorrow would that be ok? I might not be able to get to it until the evening or I might be able to do it in the morning depending on how late I wake up...
Sounds good on paper (he/him)
No rush. We're all volunteers here.
I mainly fix indentation issues
I don't remember if it was in Trope Talk or Ask The Tropers, but a while back it was commented that Dawson Casting has begun to suffer from Trope Decay, as some examples were cases like a 24-year-old actress playing a 20-year-old character or a 70-year-old actor playing a 50-year-old character. Does anyone know what became of that?
Edited by SoyValdo7 on Nov 15th 2023 at 12:22:44 PM
Valdo
Yogo
As for "Feminist Fantasy", really my problem relies on the section of "animated films". Seems like a Disney fan just came and just blurted out why their favorite films are secretly super progressive or something. Some examples don't fit the "feminist" or "self insert fantasy" criteria at all. How is the Swan Princess or Turning Red feminist, just because they star women?
If the examples added are just "well, historically, women like them", then Lois Lane or the Romcom genre should also be added as well.
Edited by Ienarana on Nov 16th 2023 at 4:49:43 PM
the Retromancer
"on the section of animated films" is very different from "half the examples". If it's just a few specific examples that don't fit, you can simply remove these with sufficient edit reason. If it appears to be more systematic, you'll need a wick check to argue with.
It would be helpful to see if there has been misuse, but I personally never saw it myself.
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