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openWhat's in a name? (and a blank page) Literature
Hey everyone.
I wanted to create a fan fiction page for a story that I really enjoyed, and I'm thoroughly looking on the How to Create a Works Page. But for the life of me I can't find a good blank page to write on.
I'm not asking anyone to do this job for me, but where can I find one? Or do I create one by myself.
Thanks.
openTrueCapitalist Radio
Should We Have This? The subject of the page is a blatant enough racist to have a gab.ai account, and the page itself can't seem to decide whether it's a bizarre parody, an ED/KF-ish hit piece on a "lolcow", or an actual, proper work page.
Edited by lee4hmzopenRed Dead Redemption 2 Videogame
Should We Have This? Got myself a dumb question here, at the trivia section of Red Dead Redemption 2 there a line that says "Jossed: RDR and GTA don't take place in the same universe. In "The First Shall Be The Last" New York gets name-dropped in conversation, of which neither state nor city exist in GTA." without direct Word of God information out of pure speculation and might have contradict itself due to a stranger mission called geology for beginners
Edited by IndepthEtheropenEdit War Mistake
I've gotten myself into an Edit War with Bob Riddle over his inclusion of out-of-hat suggestions in DEATH BATTLE! Suggestions: Returning Combatants without even realizing it, and it's only just now that I've made a critical mistake. I'm becoming no different from Ichigo Montoya a few months prior by judging suggestions based on quality, and being rather hard-pressed about it too.
I take full responsibility for my actions.
Edited by DivineFlame100openEdit War alert
In Unbuilt Trope. Hello 101 added wrong single two bullets entry in fanfic folder (about FanFic.The Infinite Loops). I sent natter notification to them, and then realize that the original entry seems to be misuse. It's all about how the fic itself use the trope, not how it has an example of Unbuilt Trope to "Groundhog Day" Loop (seriously, "Groundhog Day" Loop is a pretty old trope, the idea that an anime crossover fanfic unbuilt it is highly doubtable). So I removed it and state so in edit reason. Today, Hello 101 restore it without explanation.
Edited by KuruniopenA weird use of a ymmv trope on a film page Western Animation
So Idumean Patriot added this to
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=YMMV.TheHunchbackOfNotreDame
Under Strawman Has a Point:
- While his beliefs are still bigoted and he remains a crusader/fanatic, the movie proves Frollo more or less right that at least those Gypsies who are associated with the Court of Miracles are dangerous criminals, and arguably even terrorists for attempting to murder the serving captain of the guard. Even if they had done nothing bad whatever before, that by itself actually serves to perfectly justify him arresting them, even under modern legal norms.
- Similarly, while his treatment of Esmeralda can in no way be justified, the fact remains that she is a criminal who resisted arrest and assaulted the arresting officers, with a degree of violence that would likely have killed or seriously maimed at least some of them without the meliorating effects of cartoon physics.note She also publicly reviled a Minister of the Crown (i.e., Frollo himself), which would count as a serious crime in real medieval France, though that bit looks more like a Felony Misdemeanor to a modern audience. If he had simply wanted her arrested and fairly tried, it would be difficult to fault him for that; it's his creepy personal vendetta that makes him the villain in that case.
I'm sorry but the way this is written comes off like he's trying to downplay how evil some of the stuff That Frollo does in the film is. They reak to me of bias here
openA question about word of god
Jamaicanst 01 removed a lot of Word of God mentions, saying "Word of God is when creators make statements regarding canon in the work, not development of the work itself".
Is that really the case? Because the laconic for WOG simply says "The creator set the record straight", which can apply to many things, not just canon.
open Troper with a pretty blatant agenda
Tropers.generalerror has been making a long list of edits that make it blatantly obvious that he has a political agenda.
- First, there's his edit on Men Act, Women Are (which I edited) which uses the old "women are inherently valuable because they can give birth" nugget.
- His edit on Technical Pacifist, in which he touts libertarianism as fitting the trope, because he claims they don't harm anyone other than in "self-defense".
- His edits to One-Drop Rule and Pass Fail, which are both aimed at Democratic Congresswoman Elizabeth Warren and her recent scandal. (Note that the edit was made two days before the elections.)
- His edit on Just Like Robin Hood in which he changed the statement that Communism "destroys the rich" to "destroys the rich (by killing them)".
- Edit on Slippery Slope Fallacy stating that raising the minimum wage leads to hyperinflation.
- On Hollywood Pudgy, he added an example saying that it was Truth in Television since people with that body type are classified as "overweight". He also removed another example which linked an article stating that people classified as overweight often had lower mortality rate.
I stopped there, but I'm sure there's more. He's been here since at least November 2013, so a massive investigation of his edits might be needed.
Edited by NubianSatyressopen I can’t remember a show
There is this show I used to watch with my sister but we both can’t remember the name of the show. All I remember is this one episode where these girls are at prom and one of the girls need to pee so she leaves the group and goes to the restroom, when she opens the door she finds her bf I think cheating on her, she then pees herself. It might be wrong but that’s all I remember. Please help me and thank you for your time.
openEdit warring + Rude PM
I pulled an Ambiguous Gender example on Deltarune that I found to have flimsy reasoning behind it (heck, the example itself practically admitted that one could argue Susie was also Ambiguous Gender with the same reasoning). The troper who originally added it (Layman X) put it back without leaving an edit reason and sent me a PM that basically went "Your edit's crap, I'm adding my example back, deal with it".
openThe Production Curse
kokoroanime has been repeatedly re-adding examples to The Production Curse that don't fit the trope, where actors that worked on a specific work suffer misfortune of some kind. The examples in question are for shows themselves, such as "no Mega Man cartoon ever gets off the ground" or "anime versions of western cartoons don't take off." Multiple tropers have attempted to remove it, including myself before I realized it was an issue, but they say it should stay.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Main.TheProductionCurse
open Bug Report: Commenting out an entry mess with indentation
See for yourself. Every entries after the first one are on two bullets level, but I comment out the fourth entry.
- First
- Second
- Third
- Fifth
- Sixth
- Seventh
openDone... Thinking on splitting LightNovel.MuvLuvAlternativeTotalEclipse between itself and Anime...
Done.
Thinking to make Franchise.Muv Luv a valid thing by splitting LightNovel.Muv Luv Alternative Total Eclipse...
Just found out that the current Light Novel page was a move from Anime... Thinking about moving it back... I guess having a mod move it is impossible, 'cause there's stuff on both pages...
Splitting it between Light Novel and Anime, because the page is mixing both mediums' tropes together already, what with examples like:
- Adaptation Distillation: The anime has so far adapted the Light Novels by sticking to the high points, and in the case of the Soviet arc, expanding missing scenes.
Okay to go ahead?
Edited by MaladyopenControversial edit in One Drop Rule
This entry was deleted a while back with the justification of being a barely veiled strawman point (and indentation issues, but that's beside the point).
- In an inversion, Democratic congresswoman Elizabeth Warren conducted a DNA test as proof of her native American ancestry, which found that she likely had a native ancestor six to ten generations ago. Whether or not this makes her a native American under the one-drop rule, is subject to your political leaning.
Anyway, the example itself seems valid (FYI, I'm not familiar with American politics/politicians, I'm just going from context here); Elizabeth Warren claims native American ancestry despite being six to ten generations removed from her native American ancestor. If it's rewritten, could it be re-added? For example:
- In an inversion of the One Drop Rule, Congresswoman Elizabeth Warren conducted a DNA test as proof of her native American ancestry, which found that she likely had a native ancestor six to ten generations ago.
Courtesy link: One-Drop Rule.
Edited by RoundRobinopenUndertale/ProtagonistCenteredMorality
Seiren included the following to the Protagonist-Centered Morality example to Undertale in Protagonist-Centered Morality:
"When you realize the monsters are meant to be the protagonists, however, this trope comes into full effect. If the player kills any of the monsters, even if in self-defense against monster who are explicitly trying to kill them, it is treated as an irredeemable act; meanwhile, monsters who have killed humans are considered sympathetic, with the game outright demanding that you befriend them in order to get the Golden Ending. Even if you kill a monster by accident (which the game tries to purposefully set up), it is still considered a Moral Event Horizon; when the game reveals that monsters have killed humans by accident, the intention is to make the player sympathetic for the monsters rather than the countless humans who died because of unknowing monsters. Even in the Golden Ending, where the monsters are released from the underground, the fact that most monsters don't know they're accidentally killing people is never addressed."
openRename CamWhore?
I'm not sure where on the forums this question goes, and the discussion on the trope page itself doesn't seem to be getting any attention, so... I think Cam Whore should be renamed to "Cam Girl" (possibly with "Cam Boy" as a redirect). The use of the word "whore" is unnecessarily harsh and demeaning to those in sex work, has automatically negative connotations that aren't a requirement for the trope, and "cam girl" is a more common term, anyway.
openFinding my previous private question
this is kind of a meta-question, but I was wondering how I can find a (private) question I asked in the not-too-distant past via this page without having to look through every question? I'm not sure if it's because it's private or if I'm just not remembering the content accurately, but using the Search Questions box was to no avail, and there doesn't seem to be an easy way to display only questions opened by myself. What can I do?
openEvil Overlord List usage for heroes
I was looking at the Evil Overlord List, and was wondering if there was any way that it could be used by the heroes as well?note With some cautious reinterpretation of course, I'm trying to defend against an evil overlord, not become one myself. If not, is there some other page that could serve a similar purpose?

On the YMMV page for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, there's this entry, which rubs me the wrong way somehow, but I can't articulate why:
It seems overly negative, or maybe just a too-specific take that relies on personal feelings towards kids?