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Dewicked Trope on my Story? Literature
I'll say literature because I'm not sure where best to put it, but someone recently deleted one of the tropes on a fanfiction I'm writing, Adult Fear, saying only that it was 'Dewicked Trope'. Can anyone explain the meaning of that to me?
Comic Cune Mangas Literature
At least some of the mangas that have been shown on Comic Cune's official site
are Japanese titles that I've translated to English via Google Translate that I proceeded to add on the site, which I did some of my corrections, when I created the page, a few weeks ago. Are they considered to be correct (at least close) translations?
Sven Hassel Literature
I think there is a bit of a problem with the Sven Hassel page, which uses the Creator/ namespace but is essentially about a novel series. For what I can infer, the problem comes from the fact that, if the series has a title embracing the whole, it would be Sven Hassel (which is a pseudonym to begin with).
I think the Creator/ page should be split with a Literature/ page to distinguish the author from his work.
"Meta" Take A Third Option Literature
Not even sure where such questions belongs, so asking here. Let's start with a backstory, cause I likely wouldn't be able to explain properly without it.
Two writers, both writing about the same topic (let's call them Alice and Bob for now) were arguing about one element of Alice-created world, which Alice considered "unavoidable evil", and Bob considered, basically, Moral Event Horizon.
They chose to dispute it by writing a short story (a non-canon crossover between their worlds), with each side taking turns and writing their parts from their characters' point of view, and defending their position. They never came to an agreement and... let's just say, those two are no longer friends.
But some time later, another author (let's call him Charlie) came to Alice and offered to write another short story, where that issue finally was resolved... by Taking a Third Option to the original conflict. Even "Alice" himself calls it such on his site (where he hosts all his works).
And here comes the issue. As far as I understand, "meta" examples aren't allowed at all? But in that case, what other way it may be mentioned? Aforementioned conflict and finding an alternate solution to it is the entire reason why the short story was written in the first place, but they don't share continuity.
lanamelaniedelrey Literature
A spin-off from the other ATT.
Upon some checking, I'd like to question lanamelaniedelrey's edits:
- They've made two nuked TLP stubs: [1][2]
- About two pages worth of edits on Characters.HowToMakeACustomTitle that was cut eventually. (I believe this wick is related)
- Wattpad fics by the same person (some unsourced), which they crosswick and serial tweak on trope pages very selectively:
- Life Of Adolescence, which was cut as a stub.
- Totally High (notice the description starts with an ad), which is ridden with poor indentation, ZCE and a nested trope, plus a very poorly formatted characters page with images that I believe are from fic's Hypothetical Casting.
- Blue Valley High, which is currently a stub (which mentions a The Sims 2 adaptation, something not mentioned elsewhere) with also half-made Character page. Also, if I'm looking at wattpad page right, it seems to be some sort of unfinished roleplay? Actually, I can't find most of the content from the wiki page there besides names and basic descriptions.
- Hopeless, created twice, which has only one trope despite allegedly running for "6 seasons" (the I suppose mentioned wattpad page has only 4 paragraphs and was made today) and also a very odd characters page (the only character profile having 36 tropes and going from A to J is funny).
Opinions? This may need more than a couple of notifiers. I don't want to guess troper's intentions, but they may be simplybunniesx and using the site as a personal notepad.
Edited by Amonimus
What novel is this? Literature
Hi everyone, I hope you can help me identify a book I saw long ago. I do not think it was part of any established series. I do not remember the title or the story just the cover art. I think the book was written before 1985. The cover was predominantly beige or gold or tan color. It showed a man with a terrified look on his face, longer hair, who is holding a sword. The sword was very wide, and I believe there were trees in the background. The man's eyes were very intense and the cover had almost a feeling of horror to it. The title might have sword in it, but I'm not exactly sure. I am sure that the book was written before 1985. Any thoughts on what book this is?
Is there a limit on how bad taste a work can be and still have a page? Literature
I’ve lurked (reluctantly) for a while, and Tv Tropers I have finally logged on with a question: what is the limit for how bad (morally) a work and/or its creators can be? In the sense that you’re allowed to make a page on it, I mean. I’ve checked the red link club, and the only actual notorious piece of MEDIA I can see there is Stonetoss, and I can understand how it would be hard to edit objectively without endorsing his views.
TLDR: I want to make a page for one of the Virginia Tech shooter’s plays. It’s not even slightly an ideological work. Would that get me banned? Discuss 🤔
[Resolved] Isaac Asimov Trivia Literature
On my Trivia cleaning, I've noticed something peculiar on some pages:
- Trivia.Pebble In The Sky: Isaac Asimov's book #001.
- Trivia.I Robot: Isaac Asimov's book #002.
- Trivia.Foundation 1951: Isaac Asimov's book #004.
- Trivia.Foundation And Empire: Isaac Asimov's book #006.
- Trivia.Second Foundation: Isaac Asimov's book #009.
- Trivia.Asimovs Book Of Facts: Isaac Asimov's book #210.
- Trivia.Casebook Of The Black Widowers: Isaac Asimov's book #212.
- Trivia.Computer Crimes And Capers: Isaac Asimov's book #287.
I take these are from publishing order, but are these really Trivia? Shouldn't the numbers be mentioned in the work descriptions instead? Maybe it would be easier to re-sort Creator.Isaac Asimov's page (Or make Recap.Isaac Asimov since it's a pretty huge list)?
Asking for a trope Literature
Is there an official trope to describe a heroic character whose very presence is all that stands to prevent Hell on Earth? Like for example, Marvel's Ghost Rider is so feared by other demons roaming the living world that they keep a low profile most of the time and only occasionally attack humans in secret. But once GR's out of commission, the demons grow bolder and more chaotic (think Pennywise the Clown going on a much larger murder spree).
Blank trilogy page Literature
Star Wars: The Aftermath Trilogy has no tropes, as it's simply a landing page for three other novels with their own fleshed-out pages. I would cutlist it, but there's a YMMV page attached with franchise-wide Complete Monster entries.
What do we do here? I can't really add tropes that apply to the whole franchise as I'm not familiar with this book series.
Anyone here read this book? Literature
Anyone here read Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi? I haven't, but I would definitely read a TV Tropes page about it.
Idhún's polyamorous triangle Literature
In The Idhún's Memories page, it calls the resolution for the main love triangle, and I quote, "Possibly one of the most bizarre and literal examples ever", just to say that they end up in a polyamorous relationship. Isn't this basically polyamory slander? Shouldn't it be changed?
Edited by Belfe
Making an Awesome page? Literature
Can't make a Awesome page for Cheating Men Must Die. The (+) Icon doesn't have the option.
Nonexistent work? Literature
I was browsing Rescued from the Underworld and found an interesting-looking book, or possibly a short story, in the Literature section called "The Land of Oblivion."
"* Double Subverted in "The Land Of Oblivion". The heroine's brother is really dead, and nothing can actually resurrect him. However, he is captured in the Bad part of afterlife (the titular land), and about to be made Deader Than Dead, and she manages to bust him out and bring him to a place where he can enjoy a happy afterlife."
The trouble is I can't find anything on "The Land of Oblivion" that seems to exist. Does this work actually exist or not?
Edited by lalalei2001
Classical Mythology edits Literature
Alexandra Guardian has been serially tweaking Classical Mythology and related pages, such as Awesome.Classical Mythology and HappilyMarried.Myths And Religion, and either reorganizing sections and folders completely (the Awesome page now has examples divided by two enter spaces), deleting entries with no given reason (Happily Married had Hades and Persephone's entry zapped when, abduction aside, they had one of the healthiest marriages in the pantheon), or un-commenting out Zero Context Examples with no reason given (on Theatre.Oedipus At Colonus). The amount of edits to these and other pages, going by their history, is extensive, and on looking at the unrelated page Characters.The Remarried Empress I noticed a tendency to add Walls of Text.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=AlexandraGuardian
[Resolved] Anthologies of Ullord Literature
Anthologies of Ullord works showed up during wick check. The fact that characters aren't in the Characters/ subpage made me raise an eyebrow, so looking it up and it appears Flynnbulwinter is Nikki Flynn and darkelfwizard is Edwin Dantes (not inherently an issue), who went inactive and nobody cleaned the pages in 3 years.
Besides splitting the pages, removing curly brackets, commenting out ZCE and removing spoiler tags from character headers, is there anything for me to do that I'm missing? I'm not sure what "release mending" even means.
Edited by Amonimus
Cyberbudda Literature
I used to have this "somewhat mary-sue" character Marcus Draaken in D&D whose defining quality was he had a particularly high hedonic baseline - he'd be motivated, optimistic, confident and happy in a kazachstan prison. The general idea was this made him make detached, philosophically persistent and "wise" choices. I read a lot about this concept with the philosopher David Pearce, but the best example I found in literature was Dr. Lecter, who was always terrifyingly confident, with a solid dose of absolute superiority syndrome. Is there a trope that defines this best?
This Quest is Broken (Update) Literature
Can someone please update the entry for This Quest is Broken? The series has had two more books added and the story has concluded.
Edited by Qusion
Nitpick/quibble Literature
I noticed in the trope: {Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid > Mythology and Folklore > Classical Mythology} has a somewhat minor error. It says, "In Classical Mythology, many children of the Gods were this. Zeus for example, had as many children with Nymphs and Titanesses as he did with human women and Goddesses." That part about Titanesses can be removed entirely as saying goddesses renders that redundant. It also plays into the erroneous modern belief that the Titans were a separate race, or even species, when in the myths, nothing could be further from the truth. They were more of a tribe/party/association/clan/gang/royal house, but certainly no less divine or qualitatively different than the Olympian gods. Modern scholars even call into question their 'titanic size/stature,' as a misattribution/confusion with their distant relatives, the Gigantes (the Giants).
Animorphs FranchiseOriginalSin Literature
I noticed on the 'related' page for Franchise Original Sin that a link to the page is somewhere on the Animorphs YMMV page, but I can't seem to find said link anywhere (and believe me, I've tried). Is there anyone who can figure out where on that page said link is so I can properly determine as to whether the link is actually present in a way that's appropriate for the matter?
Edited by SimbafanA1