AmourMitts
Since: Jan, 2016
#2: Nov 11th 2017 at 4:28:11 PM
How about disallowing off-page examples?
Blapper of Water
#3: Dec 27th 2017 at 8:19:54 AM
I agree with creating a Holy Shit Moment article. But rather than a "sister trope" relationship, I think it'd be more helpful to make HSM the "super-/sub-trope" relation. That way, Tropers would be more likely to understand that an example cannot be both but rather either/or.
The logic here is that a HSQ is comprised of all the work's HS Ms.
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#4: Dec 28th 2017 at 12:08:08 AM
I think I've asked this before in another thread, but still I honestly don't see the point of the trope, especially since it's not clear what is meant by a "Holy Shit!" reaction (does it indicate surprise? awe? horror?) that isn't already covered by other pages (the Moments pages, Wham pages, etc.).
edited 28th Dec '17 12:08:50 AM by Adept
#5: Aug 15th 2018 at 12:30:37 AM
Stale thread, closing.
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Total posts: 5
Actual definition, quoth the page:
Usage in practice: "This part made me say 'holy shit'." That is, the "holy shit" moments themselves.
For the purpose of this wick check, I accepted as correct any example that indicated in any way that the number of Holy Shits was in some way relevant. As previously mentioned, a "Holy Shit Count" can be trivially converted into a "Holy Shit Quotient", so I, at least, consider it close enough.
note 2: as of this moment i've only done 10 examples rather than the recommended 50. this is because it is almost 2 am and i should be asleep, not troping. i will come back to this later if people are concerned about the statistical validity of this check.
Definitely correct
Definite misuse
Unclear or ZCE
Thinking about it, ZCEs seem much more likely to mean "this part made me say holy shit" than "this part had a high Holy Shit Quotient", but I don't feel confident outright declaring that they definitely all did.
This seems to be a case of "missing sister trope syndrome". Sister YMMV item. Whatever.
In other circumstances, one might be tempted to rename this to "Holy Shit Moment" and/or redefine it as "the bits that made me say Holy Shit". However, this is a pre-existing fanspeak term, so that may not fly in this case.
The solution seems to be creating the missing sister thing, and pointing all "this one part made me say holy shit" wicks at that instead.
Dewicking the abbreviation HSQ may also be beneficial, as the word "Quotient" is probably the plainest indication of the term's original meaning, and wicks hiding that word may have accelerated the misuse.
edited 11th Oct '17 11:45:59 PM by wingedcatgirl
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