You volunteering to maintain it? If so, go ahead.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.Sure, I'll maintain it.
For the sake of the rules here is my first YKTTW Rising City, a trope about cities that expand vertically.
This is a pretty good idea.
I Never Told You My Name: Used to cast suspicion on an otherwise unremarkable character by having them know information they should not— specifically, the name of the person they seemed to have just met for the first time.
Needs More Examples. Like, really badly.
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”^ Added a (hopefully suitable) example to your YKTTW.
New Recruits Tend To Drown A Lot: A TFTD LiveblogOh, hey, thanks. I didn't think it was getting any more examples, so I was going to launch it soon. I'd still like someone to iron out the description a little bit, unless they think it's fine?
About your example: I don't think I'll be using it, because I only have a few straight examples, and I don't want to confuse the meaning by adding too many variations, but thank you anyway.
edited 7th Sep '10 2:16:32 PM by KrisMahai
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”The description looks fine to me.
New Recruits Tend To Drown A Lot: A TFTD LiveblogAll right then. Also, I edited my post up there concerning your example.
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”It's not horrible but I know it can be much better. But maybe I just am being overly cautious.
@Kris: Now that I think about it, my example would probably fit better under I Never Told You It Was Poison. (Still, similar mechanic, as it were.)
New Recruits Tend To Drown A Lot: A TFTD LiveblogNo problem, the two are pretty similar. Thanks for trying to help, anyway.
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”I actually have a bunch of YKTT Ws in the YKTTW that I'm not quite sure what to do with. Should I post some of them here?
Helpful Scripts and Stylesheets here.Go ahead!
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickInter-edit: The description? Uhh, the Super-Trope to Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors and Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors.
The description is very clunky. I don't know how to really describe this trope.
edited 7th Sep '10 10:06:05 PM by Meophist
Helpful Scripts and Stylesheets here.Remember guys PM me when you want to add a YKTTW to this thread.
I thought I did...
Helpful Scripts and Stylesheets here.It was for Glowsquid and future readers.
It's a couple months old, but I'm ready to push Informed Locale again: a work is stated to be set in a particular place, but no aspect or characteristic of that place is shown.
The child is father to the man —OedipusThis thread is a Godsend.
A word of forewarning, though: Some of these YKTTWs, by their very nature, revolve around relatively NSFW stuff.
- Mother Nature: The Anthropomorphic Personification of Earth... or whatever planet that the story is set on. Stands at the top of the Nature Spirit heirarchy. Needs A Better Description.
- Positive Momma's Boy: Momma's Boy without the seemingly enforced negativity. Less of a new trope, and more of an attempt to expand a new one; I was suggested to bring it up in YKTTW after posting a Trope Talk thread on it.
- Trope Overdosed Character: The character equivalent of the series-specific Trope Overdosed. Ur-Example: Negi Springfield. Was discarded due to inexplicable lack of responses for nearly five months. Needs A Better Title (Priority One), Needs A Better Description.
- Walking Lingerie Scene: Distaff Counterpart to Walking Shirtless Scene. A girl's normal wardrobe is typically composed of nothing but lingerie(-like) clothes. Needs More Examples, maybe Needs A Better Description.
- Nipple Pasties: This trope is when the nipples and areolae are the only parts of the breasts' frontal area that are covered up in any way, as a deliberate wardrobe choice on part of the character. Desperately needs a better description, maybe needs a better title and needs more examples.
- Vagina Paradisa: Uh... A vagina that is simply of inhuman/extramundane level of "good" - though it's a bit more complicated than that. Needs A Better Title, desperately Needs A Better Description.
edited 22nd Sep '10 4:49:04 PM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Eleventh Hour Larval State - W Hen one section near the end of a game is done in a weaker state or with less abillity than during most of the game.
Observation Is A Free Action: A character observing something (and thus providing a description) without taking up any actual time in the story.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)Again people, PM me when you want a YKTTW added to the master list. And PM me once again if it gets launched. I'm not constantly checking this thread.
edited 24th Sep '10 12:41:41 PM by Alkthash
Over a week now, and only the Mother Nature YKTTW recieved any contributions. -_-; I'm starting to think that either few people bother looking this thread up, or practically everyone refuse to get within 10 feet of any YKTTW about "socially inappropiate" subjects.
edited 1st Oct '10 3:34:42 PM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Corporate Carrier Group: A supposedly secret military force that is too big to be able to remain a secret. Needs A Better Description badly, and maybe Needs A Better Title.
edited 2nd Oct '10 4:20:58 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Inspired by this IJBM.
I actually think a stickied YKTTW pimping thread would be a good idea. It would let people direct attention to their own YKTTWs without having to spam bump for updates and such. Plus it would act as another way to get people to notice and contribute to a YKTTW.
Ideally I think each new entry would have it's own post with a link to the relevant YKTTW. Then a big consolidation post on the first page would list all of the ones in the thread so far, crossing them off as they get launched.
Or this might be a silly and pointless idea. Thoughts?
Procedure for getting a YKTTW added to the master worklist. Just post a link and a short explanation about it at the end of the thread and PM me. I will add it to the master list on the first page as soon as possible. PM once it gets launched(or scrapped) so I can cross it off the list too.
YKTTW Workstation Master List
I Never Told You My Name,a trope used to cast suspicion on an otherwise unremarkable character by having them know information they should not— specifically, the name of the person they seemed to have just met for the first time.- LaunchedHints Are For Losers-The game mocks you for trying to ask for help- LaunchedPositive Momma's Boy-A momma's boy who isn't a complete joke.RevisedMother Nature-Anthropomorphic Personification of nature as a woman.Launchededited 15th Oct '10 11:36:27 AM by Alkthash