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Distasteful as I find the book, we have no rule that only good books, or books with sound morals, should be featured. And the stub thing is for the main page, not the YMMV page.
Right; from a glance at it it looks horrible but it's a published work
and thus eligible for a trope page. It needs some cleanup but is otherwise not cut-worthy for that alone.
That page description is pretty yikes.
"J.K. Rowling checks her e-mail while drunk, and finds it full of hate mail because of her strange idea that women are actually women. She decides to take revenge on the people who sent her all the hate-mail, and for this purpose she used magic to turn transvestites into serial killers."
I'm not opposed to it having a page (surely it can't be worse than Mein Kampf and The Turner Diaries), but it shouldn't be written in a transphobic way.
Going by my understanding of the situation, is the book (and page) using "transvestite" as a synonym of "transgender"?
Edited by Zuxtron
^^ The fact that the description is plagerized, however...
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
^ Ah, I knew something felt off about that description.
I'm a tad suspect of the way the page is written as it's pretty playfully supportive of the idea that trans women are evil. While we don't need to rewrite the page to clarify transphobia is bad every step of the way, I'm wondering if this is the best way to write about a book of this nature.
On a side note, some of the grammar of the page isn't great (there's some capitalization issues) and there's a good handful of ZCE.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
I honestly can't even tell if this book is supposed to be a parody or serious.
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The page is created by Asgrimur, by the way.
Looking through their edit history, the troper also have ZCE and grammar/capitalization issues, which is also apparent in the other work page they created, Literature.Cat Girls Have Four Ears
>The YMMV page also has just two examples (less than three is a stub, right?).
This wasn't addressed at all, so here we are to say that the main page needs three examples to live, but the YMMV page does not; it just needs a main page to be attached to.
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
^ I did adress it in the very first reply, though.
Oh huh looks like we can't read very well :p
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
Asgrimur also made pages for several other works by Asi Hart, who might be the troper themself judging by the cut reason of that page.
- The Man In The Corner Room
- Decomposing Angel
- In The Realm Of Carnal Horror
- Orbital Lily
- Black Trip
- Under a Freezing Moon
- Death From A Shell
- Utopian Massacres
- The Many Horrors Of Being A Tokyo Waitress
And a lot of those pages feature YMMV on main, lack of proper capitalization, slashed tropes, ZCEs, and the occasional grammar mistake.
Plus, on the page that started this, the YMMV entry for Crosses the Line Twice features this sentence: "People who disagree with J. K. Rowling's ideas about the nature of women will be extra offended." I don't think I really have to explain why putting this in is problematic.
↓ Oh I have no doubt that it's correct, but it's both trope misuse and also generally not something that should be there. It's clear Flame Bait
Edited by STARCRUSHER99
^ It's technically not a false statement...but it's extremely disingenuous, to say the least. Also not really a correct usage of Crosses the Line Twice, which is meant to explain how going over-the-top makes something funnier. This just sounds like being offensive just to make people angry.
Edited by mightymewtron I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
Yes,~Asgrimur is Asi Hart. I've suspended them for badly-done self-promotion (including cropped versions of their book covers, plagiarizing from their Amazon descriptions, and adding YMMV), ZCE, and grammar errors. I'd appreciate if some attempt is made at cleaning their stubs before sending them to the Cut List, but I do expect several of the articles to end up there.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
I'm also cutlisting YMMV.JK Rowling Uses Magic To Turn Transvestites Into Serial Killers because after cutting the Crosses the Line Twice misuse, the only example left is a ZCE (and that entry might also be transphobic as well, from what little context I have).
Edited by mightymewtron I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
So I commented out a bunch of examples that didn't have enough context, deleted some blatantly incorrect ones, and cut the description (admittedly to a stub) due to the plagiarism issues.
That said, shouldn't this be in Fan Fic/ not Literature/? Real-Person Fic is a thing so I assume that, well, we would consider them fics rather than Literature/.
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^ Yes, RPFs should go in Fanfic/.
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
Well it is a published novel on amazon.
Not sure if that means anything?
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."
There are a small number of fanfics that are published, though admittedly self-published. Willing to bet this falls into that category.
Bump.
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I think there's a thread for namespace migration if you think it belongs in Fanfic/.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
There's that, but there's also the cleanup of the various pages made by the person.
Because even those that aren't fanfics are... well, not great. Grabbing one at random, The Many Horrors Of Being A Tokyo Waitress has literally one example with sufficient context and that's not getting into my assumption that the description is lifted from the Amazon listing like the JK Rowling fanfic was.
EDIT: Jesus, and that's after someone went and commented out the really contextless example.
Edited by Larkmarn Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.
Well, if there's not enough examples with context and nobody's fixed it in all this time, then send it to the cutlist.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
Yeah, this looks too inflammatory to justify keeping around.
Perhaps you could take it to the ROCEJ cleanup if you haven't already?
(Don't) take me home.
I think this page should be on a cut list.
“What is that? It's The Unknown!”
Then you can put it there and see if the mods agree.
Edit: Added it myself cause even after all of the ZCEs were commented out, there were only four examples, and two of them are still pretty much zero context.
Edited by STARCRUSHER99
While I do not support cutting work pages just because people are offended with their contents, I do agree that the page left in its current shape is too weak to stand. I support the cut.
Edited by Piterpicher Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods Of Incremental)
In theory, we're allowed to have fictional works on the site even if their subject matter is inflammatory. If there's four tropes on the page with the bare minimum of context...then I guess there's no technical reason to cut it? (Even if I wish the book didn't exist...)
EDIT: But if others think it's too weak in its current state then by all means, chop away.
Edited by mightymewtron I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
Yeah, even disregarding the content, the page being created by the author and only containing four examples after cleanup, two of which are still barebones in terms of context, as well as the potential issue over the namespace means I just don't see anything worth saving.
Edited by STARCRUSHER99
Real-Person Fic generally combines a fictional world with a real life celebrity. If it doesn't use an existing fictional world, then the use of a real celebrity wouldn't actually make it a fanfic. Regardless, I didn't expect the page to survive cleanup.
v Correct. I was addressing the namespace issue. The trope requires a real celebrity, but the Fanfic/ namespace requires an existing fictional world. Edited by crazysamaritan Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
^ The Real-Person Fic page itself says that anything with real people is RPF, even without a "fictional world" as you claimed.
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
^^ I'd say at least an existing fictional world or existing fictional characters. Otherwise Alternate Universe Fics that placed the characters in a "real world" setting, such as Modern AU Fics, wouldn't count.
Edited by Twiddler
I think the Real-Person Fic debate could be continued on Trope Talk, and this query can be closed.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
Found JK Rowling Uses Magic To Turn Transvestites Into Serial Killers on the 2020s literature index. The title set off alarm bells and, while I haven't googled it (having no desire to dredge through that realm of the internet), it looks pretty transphobic. The YMMV page also has just two examples (less than three is a stub, right?).