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Killomatic TURN OFF THAT LIGHT! from Loli Funtime Playhouse Since: Oct, 2010
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#251: Jan 29th 2011 at 3:55:27 PM

I don't think that's all that problematic, since Lucky Star makes the references easy to spot provided you know what's being referenced.

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#252: Jan 29th 2011 at 11:03:00 PM

I was more talking about moving it to the Shout-Out Name Space when we move things to the trivia space.

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ccoa Ravenous Sophovore from the Sleeping Giant Since: Jan, 2001
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#253: Jan 30th 2011 at 8:52:53 AM

I just noticed that Fan Nickname has a YMMV banner. Personally, I think it's more trivia than audience reaction or subjective.

edited 30th Jan '11 8:53:09 AM by ccoa

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#254: Jan 31st 2011 at 6:56:44 AM

Fan Nickname would be Audience Reaction. It's not about the work, it's about the fans of the work.

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ccoa Ravenous Sophovore from the Sleeping Giant Since: Jan, 2001
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#255: Jan 31st 2011 at 7:57:06 AM

It's not really an Audience Reaction in the conventional sense, though, the way Narm and Tear Jerker are.

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#256: Jan 31st 2011 at 8:45:22 AM

It'd be Fandom Reaction if that were it's own group of things.

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#257: Jan 31st 2011 at 9:25:41 AM

If we have Word of God, Word of Dante, Flip-Flop of God and Shrug of God, I think we should have Lying Creator (Word of God that is bogus) and God Never Said That (mistakenly attributed Word of God) on the list too.

edited 31st Jan '11 9:26:52 AM by Tyoria

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#258: Jan 31st 2011 at 2:01:58 PM

Fan Nickname works as Trivia, since it's a lot less objectionable than most Audience Reactions. For certain minor unnamed characters or objects using the Fan Nickname is probably more productive than trying to describe who or what you're talking about. Provided of course you pothole it, so people don't think it's an official name.

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ccoa Ravenous Sophovore from the Sleeping Giant Since: Jan, 2001
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#259: Feb 1st 2011 at 6:20:01 AM

Speaking of tropes that are more trivia than subjective, what about Genius Bonus?

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Killomatic TURN OFF THAT LIGHT! from Loli Funtime Playhouse Since: Oct, 2010
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#260: Feb 1st 2011 at 6:47:11 AM

Can't really decide where it should be, but it needs either a definition change or example cleanup, because many of the things listed aren't jokes at all.

edited 1st Feb '11 6:47:46 AM by Killomatic

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#261: Feb 1st 2011 at 9:32:38 AM

Here's some more real life stuff for your consideration: Creator Backlash, Old Shame, So My Kids Can Watch, Bleached Underpants, Playing Against Type, Controversy-Proof Image, Contractual Purity. I think we also have something for career-ending off screen shenanigans, can anyone remember what it's called?

edited 1st Feb '11 9:33:08 AM by Killomatic

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#262: Feb 1st 2011 at 10:42:07 AM

Role-Ending Misdemeanor?

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Killomatic TURN OFF THAT LIGHT! from Loli Funtime Playhouse Since: Oct, 2010
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#263: Feb 1st 2011 at 10:52:08 AM

Okay, that one's definitely not trivia. How about the others?

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#264: Feb 1st 2011 at 11:33:47 AM

A few thoughts:

  • Jossed (currently +8 in favor of trivia) is Audience Reaction, not Trivia. It's about Fanon being overturned by events in the work. That's a fan-reaction thing, not a behind-the-scenes-random-fact thing.
  • Hide Your Pregnancy (currently +0 with 10 votes) is definitely Trivia, because it's the behind the scenes production reason for why something happened (as opposed to an in-universe or Narrative Causality reason).
  • Fountain of Memes (currently +0 with 8 votes) is Audience Reaction, because it's about memes, which are a fandom thing.
  • Expy (currently -1) is trivia because it's "this character was based on this other character" — a behind-the-scenes fact, not an objective in-work thing or a "this is what the fans think about it" thing.
  • Dawson Casting (currently -2) is trivia, because it's about the actors rather than the characters.

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Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#265: Feb 1st 2011 at 11:50:16 AM

What about Word of Gay? I hesitate to automatically shove it in next to Word of God because its one of those things where after you learn it, you see the story in a while different light.

edited 1st Feb '11 11:51:50 AM by Elle

Killomatic TURN OFF THAT LIGHT! from Loli Funtime Playhouse Since: Oct, 2010
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#266: Feb 1st 2011 at 11:52:42 AM

[up][up]Everything that can fall under Real Life Writes the Plot should probably not be in trivia.

There's a definite overlap between Trivia and Audience Reaction in some cases, which I've tried to address with little success. Audience Reaction, suggests everything fandom related, but the real reason that class was defined, was because of the YMMV problems. There are some things in there that are more or less objective, just not story elements. We really have to decide once and for all if we are going to call them Audience Reactions or Trivia.

edited 1st Feb '11 11:53:00 AM by Killomatic

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#267: Feb 1st 2011 at 12:09:14 PM

[up]Why not? Real Life Writes the Plot and subtropes are exactly what should be Trivia. "Factoids that occur during or around the production of a work but are not elements written to tell the story." "The Plot" is the Tropes, "Real Life Writes the Plot" is the Trivia.

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TripleElation Diagonalizing The Matrix from Haifa, Isarel Since: Jan, 2001
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#268: Feb 1st 2011 at 12:13:37 PM

Not everything that has to do with fandom in some way is an Audience Reaction. Word of God, for one, is definitely not an Audience Reaction.

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#269: Feb 1st 2011 at 12:18:27 PM

[up][up]The definition of trivia given on the page itself isn't "things that have behind-the-scenes reasons"; it's "things that aren't related to storytelling".

Also, this is a better distinction to make. Putting everything from Real Life Writes the Plot on Trivia by definition means removing information about the plot from the main page. Trivia should be for pages where Real Life Does Not Write The Plot.

edited 1st Feb '11 12:18:44 PM by Micah

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#270: Feb 1st 2011 at 12:19:25 PM

[up][up]Sure; Word of God is definitely Trivia. Audience Reactions has to be something about what the fandom thinks or does, and "the creator of the work said this" definitely doesn't apply.

[up] No, The Plot is the tropes, and they would go on the main page. Real Life Writes the Plot is not about the story, it's about why the story is the way it is. The example given elsewhere was Hide Your Pregnancy. If a character in an action series temporarily becomes a Desk Jockey because the actress is pregnant, then the story is "Character becomes a Desk Jockey", so that would go on the main page, but "Character became a Desk Jockey because Actress was pregnant" is trivia (it's not directly about the plot), so Hide Your Pregnancy goes under Trivia.

edited 1st Feb '11 12:24:39 PM by NativeJovian

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#271: Feb 1st 2011 at 12:23:23 PM

I know what What Goes Where on the Wiki says, I wrote that myself after all (well copied from another post, at least). Note that it also says "casting choices not relevant to the story", which should be a clue that no clear cut definition is perfect. That page is constantly getting tweaked anyway, so don't consider it a final call by any means.

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#272: Feb 1st 2011 at 12:46:28 PM

[up][up] The problem with that is that a lot of these (including both Dawson Casting and Hide Your Pregnancy) often have a constellation of effects, none of which would necessarily be interesting on their own but whose combination is.

That is, "character becomes a Desk Jockey for a season" is interesting. "Character becomes a Desk Jockey for an episode" probably isn't, but "character dresses in black for one episode, wears a really baggy overcoat in the next episode, spends the next episode walking around holding a briefcase in front of her stomach, becomes a Desk Jockey for the episode after that, runs away and is only seen by vidphone (which only shows her head and upper body) for the episode after that, disappears entirely for the episode after that, and then returns as normal" is. Except that if we tried to catalogue all the possible permutations of that, we'd hit Combinatorial Explosion territory, so it makes more sense to just lump it all as Hide Your Pregnancy.

edited 1st Feb '11 12:47:59 PM by Micah

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Killomatic TURN OFF THAT LIGHT! from Loli Funtime Playhouse Since: Oct, 2010
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#273: Feb 1st 2011 at 2:21:19 PM

Keep Circulating the Tapes has been added to the crowner.

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#274: Feb 1st 2011 at 3:15:13 PM

What about Role Association? Considering that's just for fun really, and it's not definetly a YMMV thing(e.g. if someone thinks of Alice as being in X show, and another person thinks Y, they are both correct because it is a fact she was in both shows).

Killomatic TURN OFF THAT LIGHT! from Loli Funtime Playhouse Since: Oct, 2010
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#275: Feb 1st 2011 at 3:20:50 PM

We have a Just for Fun index and banner, don't we?

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The Trivia category is for narrative conventions that cannot be determined from the final product itself. These are details of production and behind-the-scenes events that influenced the end result of the product.

This crowner is used in conjunction with this thread. Please post in the thread before adding tropes to this list.

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