TLP workstation thread

I've got two drafts I'm working on right now: Live-Action Cutscene and Pre-Rendered Graphics. I think both are in pretty good condition and ready to launch, but I've only gotten any real feedback on the former, and barely any on the latter.

Live-Action Cutscene's got seven hats and is ready to launch, but Pre-Rendered Graphics only has one. I'd prefer to launch both at the same time, since they're closely related and directly reference each other.

Any advice on getting more hats for Pre-Rendered Graphics?

Edited by Primis on Apr 27th 2020 at 9:08:23 AM

Most Writers Are Male, but are female creators worthy enough to have an index?

Interactive Start-Up is a draft I'm working on. I feel like it's definitely trope worthy, but I've gotten no feedback on it and would like help writing a better description and possibly a better laconic so I can start getting hats.

Edited by AppleChild on May 10th 2020 at 12:02:18 PM

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Mandatory Corpse Disposal could use some feedback and suggestions for its title.

Here's the TLP page for The Wacky Guy. This was a trope that was sent back to the TLP to be fixed. To my knowledge, the original sponsor has made no edits or added any of the examples suggested in the replies. Yet it has still managed to get four hats. The people adding hats haven't explained why they're doing so.

Gender-Nonconforming Equals Gay needs examples that don't fall under Ambiguously Gay or Mistaken for Gay.

Needing a couple of help here.

I started a TLP draft for Rhyming Names, but then many people agree this should be two separate tropes: Rhyming Names and Rhyme Theme Naming. I haven't got the chance to start a new draft for the second (because I can't really think of a decent write-up for the trope description that is more than one sentence long).

I'm also working on another Theme Naming draft called Couple Theme Naming that needs more examples.

And there's this dormant draft I created years ago and forgot about that probably needs a few more examples and/or description clean-up, to make sure that it fits the current standards of a TLP Launch (which was much lower when I first created it than it is today).

Edited by Adept on May 24th 2020 at 1:25:59 AM

I have officially grabbed Energetic and Soft-spoken Duo, and opened a crowner for its title. However, the crowner is quite lacking votes. Can anyone please take a vote? Thanks!

Voted.

Relating to the draft I mentioned above, currently there are 3 examples in the Literature folder, but they are all Light Novels. I wonder should I keep the folder named as is, or renamed it into a light-novel folder? This is not a trope that I perceive to be particularly light-novel specific, though.

I would keep the name at Literature. Although all three examples have anime/manga counterparts that feauture the trope as well you can move them there too.

I'm working on getting my first trope, Time Loop Fatigue, launched, but it needs more examples. If you have any to add, it would be a huge help and I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

OK, with this draft, I initially wanted it to be the "seniors play Bingo" stereotype, but some people wanted it to include other games. That stumped me because I hadn't heard of other games associated with seniors, so someone else said that the idea was more seniors playing tabletop games in general because they're not labor-intensive, then another person threw golf into the mix and added that D'n'D is not stereotyped as an old-people game.... and then no one responded ever since.

Mirror Explanation has a title crowner now. Please vote.

Would you guys consider this Trope lauchable? It’s been on the launch pad for over a month, and I think it’s Launchworthy.

EDIT: Date and time decided, get your examples, folks!

Edited by GeneralGigan817 on Jun 19th 2020 at 10:18:44 AM

Feedback on Gender-Nonconforming Equals Gay?

Is it about in-universe assumptions, how characters are portrayed, or both? I find the scope rather unclear.

I believe it's both.

Need some feedback on Fictional Age of Majority, especially some of the examples I didn't add.

I want to ask a question regarding TLP etiquette. If I proposed an example to a draft, the OP added it to the draft, and then I decided that example needs textual editing. I know I'm not supposed to edit the draft directly, so what should I do?

You may post a request to the comments and post the rewritten example.

However, such minor edits are okay to do in the draft itself, IMO. The best practice is also add a comment and say what your edit was for transparency.

Some people add their examples directly to the draft, but that's worse because the example can be somewhat off or perhaps even misuse, and ideally the OP/trope sponsor acts like the article's editor and does the peer review for every new example. The editing history on TLP is hard to read because it displays the entire article, not edits by lines like on the wiki.

The only big issue is that there is no editing lock on the TLP draft, so it's possible to over-write one's edits, which can be frustrating.

Boosting a few recent drafts I've been working on that have died down:

• Online Storyteller Technique: Might be close to launch, but I want more consensus on the name and the scope. (How much of the story should be told online for it to count as this trope? My stance is at least half, but I'm curious if, say, the computer cutaways for iCarly could count.)
• Significant Non-Singer: Needs more examples, and I want to further discuss the scope. (Should it include all instances when one character noticably does not sing even in chorus numbers, or just limit it to when that says something about the character? Should meta reasons be included?)
• "Newlywed Game" Homage: I made this not realizing how discouraged stock parodies are, but I still think it's workable.
• Swear Word Episode: Might further discuss the scope, whether it should address all episodes about swearing (like those involving a Swear Jar) or just those that tie into a language-related aesop.

I'm getting super frustrated with the recent posts on Locked Up, Can't Interfere. Not only did I have to change the fucking title to try and make it more clear, I made a note to read the description, and yet people won't stop giving me examples that don't fit.

I'm losing it here. What more can I do to ensure that a potential launch won't end up suffering the same fate as The Autographed Ball?

I don't think it's anything you did or anything you can do if people refuse to read the description. I don't know how this trope is so hard for people to understand.