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So over 10 years ago or so, we used to have a newsletter called Trope Report, which covers all of the changes that happened on the wiki weekly. I have been nostalgic for it recently so I thought of it and it seemed to be a fun way to inform tropers about the changes going on around the wiki.

The sandbox for the project can be found at Sandbox.Trope Report Dummy Edition and the sandbox for ideas/plans can be found on Sandbox.Trope Report Ideas. After a new issue is published, revert the Dummy Edition back to a template using the text on Sandbox.Trope Report Template.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 8th 2023 at 1:16:11 PM

Ayumi-chan 3rd happiest man in Connecticut from Iacon City (Experienced Trainee) Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
3rd happiest man in Connecticut
#7926: Jul 25th 2025 at 7:47:28 PM

Bumping cause we need an image of the month and a work for pages needing work.

Also, muffin, please edit your contributer entry.

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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)
#7927: Jul 25th 2025 at 7:49:29 PM

Nethilia went on hiatus. Someone else will need to do the image.

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Nethilia Girl Gang Disaster (she and zie) (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: A gay little love melody
Girl Gang Disaster (she and zie)
#7928: Jul 26th 2025 at 4:23:55 PM

my internet is very sporatic while i'm out of town. i'll try to see if i can write up image of the month late tonight or tomorrow while hotspotting through my phone. if not, i'll update y'all.

I focus on obscure 1990s or graphic Middle Grade Literature novels and dolls. (She or zie, not they.)
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)
#7929: Jul 26th 2025 at 4:27:00 PM

Sounds good

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Nethilia Girl Gang Disaster (she and zie) (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: A gay little love melody
Girl Gang Disaster (she and zie)
#7930: Jul 27th 2025 at 12:17:40 AM


This issue's featured image comes from Merryweatherey, illustrating Must Be Invited.
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/femboy_vampire.png
"If you let me in, we can play your favorite co-op game together!"
Full comic

There's some common rules in many vampire works, intended to keep hapless human victims from being subjected to bloodletting, bitings, and general vampire mischief. One of the most-well known ones is the rule that they can't enter your home (no matter what that home is) if you don't explicitly invite them inside. Vampires might be bloodsucking undead creatures of the night who will mercilessly turn you into a thrall under their dark control, but they follow social etiquette.
The webcomic creator Merryweatherey covers this concept in a short comic on his Instagram. The white-haired handsome vampire doesn't even try to pass as human — he simply opens by saying he's just a "fellow human" who's stopped by to keep the guy company, and in his eyes that should do the job and get him inside the door for shenanigans. But the guy inside's no slouch. His just-ordered food shouldn't have arrived yet and he doesn't recognize the boy, so he silently goes back to his computer, door firmly closed behind him. Despite the pretty boy vampire's insistence that he asked to be let inside, he's not getting in unless he's told he can. He'll just have to stay outside in the dark knocking and repeating that he asked to be let inside. Just popping in would be rude!
So remember if you help out a vampire outside your apartment, make sure to say "no problem" instead of "you're welcome," lest they take your polite response as a cue to come in and drink all your blood and apple juice. And also bring in that "welcome" mat. You can never be too careful.
if this is good, i'll pop it in.

I focus on obscure 1990s or graphic Middle Grade Literature novels and dolls. (She or zie, not they.)
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)
#7931: Jul 27th 2025 at 12:18:26 AM
Ayumi-chan 3rd happiest man in Connecticut from Iacon City (Experienced Trainee) Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
3rd happiest man in Connecticut
#7932: Jul 27th 2025 at 1:12:50 AM

[up][up][tup]

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Nethilia Girl Gang Disaster (she and zie) (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: A gay little love melody
Girl Gang Disaster (she and zie)
#7933: Jul 27th 2025 at 1:51:14 AM

added.

I focus on obscure 1990s or graphic Middle Grade Literature novels and dolls. (She or zie, not they.)
Ayumi-chan 3rd happiest man in Connecticut from Iacon City (Experienced Trainee) Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
3rd happiest man in Connecticut
#7934: Jul 27th 2025 at 1:53:37 AM

All that's left is the work entry for Pages Needing Help. Anyone up for it?

~callmeamuffin. Please edit your contributer entry.

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Nethilia Girl Gang Disaster (she and zie) (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: A gay little love melody
Girl Gang Disaster (she and zie)
#7935: Jul 27th 2025 at 2:39:34 AM

Is there a header image this month?

I focus on obscure 1990s or graphic Middle Grade Literature novels and dolls. (She or zie, not they.)
Ayumi-chan 3rd happiest man in Connecticut from Iacon City (Experienced Trainee) Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
3rd happiest man in Connecticut
#7936: Jul 27th 2025 at 5:17:59 AM

No but I don't think we need one if there isn't any progress. There's always the August issue.

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Coachpill Taxidermy (he/him) from Gen Z Since: Aug, 2022 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
Taxidermy (he/him)
#7937: Jul 27th 2025 at 8:08:56 AM

I'm at work but I can do a PNH work writeup when I'm on lunch break. I just came across Tamburlaine and find it interesting, so I'll do it about that

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Ayumi-chan 3rd happiest man in Connecticut from Iacon City (Experienced Trainee) Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
3rd happiest man in Connecticut
#7938: Jul 27th 2025 at 9:07:26 AM

[up] Sounds good to me.

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Coachpill Taxidermy (he/him) from Gen Z Since: Aug, 2022 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
Taxidermy (he/him)
#7939: Jul 27th 2025 at 12:46:38 PM

Here's the writeup:

  • July often signifies independence and victory. Though Tamburlaine de-emphasizes the former by showing how much the titular shepherd believes in his rise from banditry, the latter leads to Tamburlaine tragically isolating himself from the citizens of the very places he takes over. With an inspiration in Timur the Lame that is largely refined to the 16th century, the entries on the page can avoid being a victim of the same fate if Tamburlaine's quests are contextualized.

Edited by Coachpill on Jul 27th 2025 at 3:52:04 PM

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Ayumi-chan 3rd happiest man in Connecticut from Iacon City (Experienced Trainee) Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
3rd happiest man in Connecticut
#7940: Jul 27th 2025 at 6:34:27 PM

[up]Go ahead and add it in. [tup]

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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)
#7941: Jul 28th 2025 at 11:00:17 AM

Assuming we're skipping the image (which we probably have to at this point), then once Coach's entry is in we can send it for grammar and launch.

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Lymantria Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph from Toronto Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Historians will say we were good friends.
Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph
#7942: Jul 28th 2025 at 11:09:13 AM

Maybe we could put in a placeholder image - do we have anything that says “no image available” or the like?

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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)
#7943: Jul 28th 2025 at 11:10:13 AM

I don't really see the point in that. The logo is fine, we don't need a custom image every single issue.

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Lymantria Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph from Toronto Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Historians will say we were good friends.
Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph
#7944: Jul 28th 2025 at 11:10:55 AM

I almost thought it’d be funny to say we’re missing an image in that way, but nothing at all might be simpler.

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AquaEclipse hiding a clown costume under my lab coat from the rabbit hole of academia Since: Jul, 2018 Relationship Status: Chat, is this real?
hiding a clown costume under my lab coat
#7945: Jul 28th 2025 at 11:01:15 PM

Would Functional Genre Savvy be considered Pages Needing Help if it has only 7 on-page examples for a trope launched in 2011 (119 wicks, so many potential examples aren't cross-wicked, assuming it's not to be rushed into TRS)?

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Ayumi-chan 3rd happiest man in Connecticut from Iacon City (Experienced Trainee) Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
3rd happiest man in Connecticut
#7946: Jul 29th 2025 at 1:48:02 AM

~coachpill. Sorry for pinging you but it's almost the end of July so please add in your entry asap.

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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)
#7947: Jul 29th 2025 at 11:27:27 AM

Already found a trope I can plug next month, Smoking Gun Control with only 45 wicks despite being made in '08. I may even continue my silly "missing person's investigation" narrative from the June issue.

Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
AquaEclipse hiding a clown costume under my lab coat from the rabbit hole of academia Since: Jul, 2018 Relationship Status: Chat, is this real?
hiding a clown costume under my lab coat
#7948: Jul 29th 2025 at 1:07:47 PM

For New Tropes, I might plug Kill the Brainwashed — launched July 17th, but only has 9 wicks so far and I linked 3 of those (it has far more examples on-page, I've sent a notifier to the trope sponsor about crosswicking but no response)

Edited by AquaEclipse on Jul 29th 2025 at 4:08:33 PM

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Ayumi-chan 3rd happiest man in Connecticut from Iacon City (Experienced Trainee) Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
3rd happiest man in Connecticut
#7949: Jul 29th 2025 at 9:55:46 PM

~coachpill. Pinging you again so you can add your write up and edit up your contributer entry.

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Coachpill Taxidermy (he/him) from Gen Z Since: Aug, 2022 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!

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