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openSubjective pages by work's creators Webcomic
I've only just recently realised that the only non-cleanup/maintenance edits to the YMMV/, Awesome/, AwesomeMusic/, Funny/, Heartwarming/, and NightmareFuel/ subpages of Webcomic.White Dark Life have been made by either Luigifan
or PrinnyOverlord
... who are identified on the main page as the work's co-creators.
Should they be cutlisted?
Edited by mlsmithcaopen Tropes used to air greviences with creator Webcomic
The page Lily's Poke-Madhouse and Lily's Poke-Madhouse are seeing several edits by people using the page to air out their grievances with the creator regarding the trope "Write who you know"
openWould these reasons make a case for What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids? Webcomic
On the Wall of Text Cleanup thread
, I brought up the What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids? example for Ghosts of the Future for a Hedge Trim, and then we went into a dispute over whether the fact that the creator, Evan Stanley, is an official Sonic The Hedgehog comic artist and writer is another reason the Sonic fancomic could be mistaken for kids, thus worth mentioning.
I personally think it should, since I think the fact the creator is associated with the official Sonic franchise makes it more likely for the comic to be mistaken to be as kid-friendly as the official comics, not to mention Stanley stated
that some people assumed the fancomic was official. However, other tropers disagreed, as they think it's a very mundane occurrence for Promoted Fanboys to have created kid-unfriendly Staff-Created Fan Work before-hand and that just because people assume it's official doesn't meant they assume it's for kids.
I'd like input from more tropers on this.
Also, should the fact that one of the pages' description on DeviantArt has a joke clearly about and mentioning Shadow having an erection? Stanley considers her DeviantArt gallery to be the main host, so I think that's part of the work and should be mentioned. (I am very paranoid about the exposure of sexual content to children, because there are laws prohibiting the deliberate distribution of obscene material to children.)
Edited by PrincessPandaTropeopenDoes EFAR need a recap page? Webcomic
I was considering making a recap page for Escape from Abject Reality, since the chapters released so far have names "First Place Privileges", "A Remnant, a Glitch", and "Never Fall for Me"). I was wondering if I should make one.
openRecreating some of the YMMV pages for White Dark Life. Webcomic
About a week or two ago all YMMV pages on the web comic White Dark Life were deleted because "Ymmv page created by creator of work".
I was never aware of such a rule so I apologize for breaking it, but losing the Awesome, Heartwarming, and Funny pages hit pretty hard since it helped to keep track of years of RP that had been going on under my comic. So I was hoping that these pages could be reopened for others to work on. From what I understand, as long as I personally do not edit those pages everything should be fine, right?
openPage ownership issues and rudeness Webcomic
PrincessPandaTrope and I are the only two people who frequently edit the page for the Sonic the Hedgehog fan comic Ghosts of the Future. I'm starting to understand why nobody else wants to edit the page. She keeps sending me PMs after I edit, saying that she's "very disappointed with" me for not phrasing things exactly the way she wanted.
One example would be my latest edit, where I removed the word "very" from a lot of edits, since it's a word that usually doesn't do any good. Saying "the house is very big" doesn't actually give you any more exact info about how big the house is than if you just say "The house is big."
She PMed me and said that I should have replaced it with a more descriptive adjective instead, without explaining why she couldn't do that herself.
She also said that I was giving the middle finger to the comic's creator, Evan Stanley, by replacing "very [adjective]" with a plain "[adjective]". She said that I was misleading people about the content of the comic this way—as if I had changed an exact measurement to one less exact or accurate.
And then there's the time when she asked people to cut down the wall of text
in one entry, and then when I did that, she asked me to explain why I deleted things
. I tried to be polite, but I wondered why she even asked for help if she expected people to follow rules she never bothered mentioning.
(Then, in an act of Edit Warring, she put back things I'd taken away.)
It feels like she's decided that my only task is to fix the grammar and spelling mistakes she keeps making again and again. It also feels like she's got this idea of how the page must be written that she assumes everybody else knows and she therefore chooses never to tell people about.
To be frank, she's acting like she's Knuckles the Echidna and the GotF page is a Chaos Emerald. ('Cause she's acting like its guardian, geddit?)
Short version: This troper is rude, keeps edit warring and has page ownership issues, and it's getting very tiring.
Edited by MichaelKatsuroopen The Rayfox author's request for deletion Webcomic
So the author of RayFox, ScottyArtz, personally wants the entirety of his page, RayFox, deleted because of something I wrote in the comment sections of a review, and potentially because he doesn't like the YMMV or headscratchers bit. Is this a legitimate grounds for the deletion of the page?
Edited by Stardust5099openPlease restore Webcomic/NattyComics and sub pages Webcomic
Hi these pages were deleted as the comic was removed from the internet. As far as I know if it existed at some point we can keep the relevant pages that troped the work as it existed before deletion. Otherwise we couldn’t trope anything destroyed in a fire for example, no matter how important.
Edit - a full archive can be found at https://archive.org/details/natty-comics
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openImage on a YMMV page Webcomic
A troper recently put up an image on YMMV Unordinary. Is this allowed? I've never seen an image on a YMMV page before.
openOut of policy deletion? Webcomic
Does the deletion of The Scumthorpe Files violate The Fic May Be Yours, but the Trope Page Is Ours ? To quote the reason for cutting:
"This page was cut for reason: As the author of this work, I would greatly prefer it if this page no longer existed- it relates to something that I have not worked on in quite some time, that I have since grown completely disillusioned with, and that I would ultimately like to be forgotten. Dead fic, essentially- no real point in keeping this around. All links to this page from other pages on this site have already been removed, in order to prevent its deletion from causing broken links and red text elsewhere- I hope this helps. [Mingham Smith]"
resolved What counts as Heartwarming? Webcomic
How did you determine if a media page gets its own heartwarming moments page?
resolved Fixing a YMMV Webcomic
I added several moments into the Heartwarming moments part of the YMMV for Long Exposure/Webcomic. However the Heartwarming moments is a red-link for some reason. I checked the Preview and it kept showing it as a red-link. I keep checking and changing and nothing.
openCan you settle my disputes of MichaelKatsuro's edits on the Ghosts of the Future articles? Webcomic
To complete the plan for my final revisions of the Ghosts of the Future articles and because of the strict Edit War policy and the fact MichaelKatsuro sides with all of his edits, I have to bring up my disputes of MichaelKatsuro's edits here for other tropers to address and suggest ways to settle them. I'd like at least two tropers to address them all.
Webcomic.Ghosts Of The Future / General
- Can the Nipple and Dimed example be reverted back to the previous version? Right now, it's just listing examples of nipple exposure in the comic, which is People Sitting On Chairs. The previous version explored the difference of nipple detail based on gender, which is what the Nipple and Dimed trope is all about.
- What's wrong with the curly brackets? I used to edit [[LikeThis this, when someone one day corrected me to use {{Like|this}}, so I went by that since then (not to mention it saves source code size). Is there a rule against them? Additionally, MichaelKatsuro typo'd Fusion Dance as Fusion Danc.
- Can the adverbs for the Sorceress' nipples can be added back, because they do give a different meaning than without adverbs? Importantly, should we still emphasize the nipples frequently (this is in an American perspective, because I, Evan Stanley, and many tropers are American)? I don't want to traumatize children nor get attacked by angry parents, but I don't want to shame Evan Stanley.
- Can the bit about Evan Stanley Lampshading the Talking Heads trope be added back, since that really adds to the example?
- Revised example for Ghosts of the Future's example on Mohs Scale Of Violence Hardness:
- Ghosts of the Futurenote Would've been a level 6 if it weren't for Sonic dying with large yet crudely-drawn bloody flesh wounds, the sight of Tails' bloody corpse with a large gash in one eye, and a character being impaled in both of his hands which results in thick blood dripping out of his wounds and huge bloodstains
Characters.Ghosts Of The Future
- Why are the "(UNMARKED SPOILERS)" notices removed? Is there a rule against folders with unmarked spoilers now? I think most of the spoilers for characters are Late Arrival Spoilers now, but I'd appreciate if they had spoiler warnings tagged for those wanting to enjoy the comic. I think if there's such a rule, the sheet might as well as Spoilers Off to be fair for all folders.
- Can the Big-Lipped Alligator Moment example be added back? I think the nipples are shocking enough to point Evan Stanley regards them as Old Shame- How about Shocking Moments instead?
- In issue 6, the Sorceress of the Dark Isle transforms into Darkwing and becomes naked. While her other parts are covered up with a Censor Shadow, her nipples are shown, yet lack so much detail they barely count as nipples. Many readers were shocked by this bit of partial nudity showing up in a Sonic fancomic, and Evan Stanley has now sees it as Old Shame.
- (Another Shocking Moments example) In issue 17, readers were shocked by the incident in which Mettalix impales Silver's hands and an abundant amount of red blood draws out.
- Proposed revision of the What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids? example (and its identical counterpart on the trope example), which I think is better and lacks Word Cruft (Word Cruft takes the form of unnecessary words, these words add more detail for people to get a glimpse of the work; also, should the bit about one of the pages' description on DeviantArt having an erection joke be added back because I think that's still part of the work, as Evan Stanley considers her DeviantArt profile to be the comic's main host, or is the comic itself PG-13 enough to overlook that?):
- Even though Ghosts of the Future is a Sonic The Hedgehog fancomic by who is now an official Sonic comic artist and writer, it is not for children. The comic starts off with Sonic and his best friends being bloodily massacred by a mind-controlled Shadow, which results in Sonic and Shadow enduring trauma and guilt. There's shedding of red blood, infrequent and usually mild profanity, some sexual innuendonote such as the Visual Innuendo of the Sorceress holding the long neck of a jug between her breasts, and brief, non-sexual, and partial nudity in the form of rudimentary-looking yet visibly erect nipples. Nevertheless, little kids still read the comic, which encouraged
Stanley to add Content Warnings to the issue 17 incident.
- Even though Ghosts of the Future is a Sonic The Hedgehog fancomic by who is now an official Sonic comic artist and writer, it is not for children. The comic starts off with Sonic and his best friends being bloodily massacred by a mind-controlled Shadow, which results in Sonic and Shadow enduring trauma and guilt. There's shedding of red blood, infrequent and usually mild profanity, some sexual innuendonote such as the Visual Innuendo of the Sorceress holding the long neck of a jug between her breasts, and brief, non-sexual, and partial nudity in the form of rudimentary-looking yet visibly erect nipples. Nevertheless, little kids still read the comic, which encouraged
- Move Evan Stanley's quote in The Woobie examples to the first bullet point, next the "The Woobie:".
openWebcomic page wiped by creator Webcomic
It seems that we have one of these situations again: Gerbil1
wiped pretty much everything on the The Misadventures Of Gerbil main page and YMMV page. The main page edit had the following edit reason:
As author of this page (and the original comic), this was a mistake. The comic itself has long been wiped from the internet. I'd prefer not to have my name associated with it any longer.
For the record, the link that was on the page does not appear to work any longer, but I haven't done anything past that to see if it still exists in some fashion.
openRecreating Portal Girl Amelia page Webcomic
Would it be safe to eventually recreate the Portal Girl Amelia page? It got cut because I admittedly have no clue on how to properly make a works page. Would it be ok if I came back to it eventually, or if someone else decided to remake it?
open Nsfw links in Webcomics without warning. Webcomic
So I saw two webcomics page that don't have a NSFW warning in some links. For example Webcomic.The Perry Bible Fellowship , there's a parody of Charlotte's Web where it shows sex and nudity. And in Girly, while it's not NSFW until the end that is. What to do with them?
Edited by BubblepigopenIgnorant tropers. Webcomic
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/TwoKinds
Who was working on the description regarding Trace? He wants to REMEMBER his past, but he doesn't want to become his old self. Huge difference here.
"However, his memories are slowly returning, and with them a past he would prefer to remain forgotten."
https://twokinds-keenspot.com/comic/1030/
"Roselyn: Wait, but don’t you… want to return to your former self?
Trace: No! Of course not! I want to know who I was, so I understand what it is I’m fighting against! And hopefully fix some of the problems I caused! I was hoping you could help."

I just came back to a WMG page I had written in to find that someone had outright deleted my entry because "Word of God disproves this theory." If I'm not mistaken, the entire point of "WMG" is that they're supposed to be left-field fan theories/headcanons. I am also aware that just putting back something somebody else deleted for a justified reason is a banable offense. What do I do in this situation?
Edited by dvorak