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openReally wanna put a little tidbit of info somewhere but I'm not sure where it's supposed to go
So Cherami Leigh's first name is apparently a composite of the French words "cher" and "ami", which when put together mean "dear friend". I've put it in the Trivia tab for now, but I'm not sure if that's where it's supposed to go. I'm being cautious here because I already got picked up on this once before when I put it on the main page. Am I doing the right thing?
Edited by Astral-Popen TRS crowner
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openCan LivingEmotionalCrutch be plural?
So, can multiple people be a Living Emotional Crutch for the same person? Or There Can Only Be One?
openAuthor's Saving Throw - Correct use? Videogame
- Author's Saving Throw: Among the most infamous That One Levels in Splatoon 2's Octo Expansion are the ones where Agent 8 must roll an 8-ball across an obstacle course to a goal. Dropping the ball into a pit means failing the test and losing a life — and you will drop the ball, thanks to the finicky physics and tight paths you have to roll them across. In Side Order, ball-rolling stages return. The first time you enter one, Pearl groans "Not again!" in dismay... only for Acht to tell her to cool it, because these balls can't fall off the stage.
openOdd page
I've discovered ImageLinks.Cosplay Fan Art, which says it's a Sub-Trope despite not being in Main/. Is this even a valid page?
Edited by Amonimusopen TRS crowner
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resolved UPDATE work pages with no examples
My apologies, but I accidentally locked the original ATT: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?parent_id=133619&type=att
Turns out, Toy Storyin Space Play Set DID respond to my notifier when I sent it on the same day, but for whatever reason I did not receive a notification. This was on the 21st. I saw it just now.
Aside from that sudden notification issue, their reply was not helpful at all. Instead of telling me anything specific, they said that it's "somehow their fault". I'm pretty sure quoting the full line is against the rules, but anyway they made no reference to correcting anything in particular.
Now what?
Edited by LermisopenEpisode page mis-numbered Live Action TV
In the recap section and individual page for Severance (2022), both the eighth and ninth (final) episodes are titled as episode eight - how can I edit these so the final episode is titled episode nine in both sections?
openEiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes Restoration Videogame
The original page was (understandably, as it was three years ago) cut due to it being unreleased at the time - but now the game is less than 24 hours from release (and in fact is already in the hands of Kickstarter backers and has been beaten in full by a handful of them).
Could we restore the page so tropers can begin properly editing?
resolved Suggesting new features?
Where do we go to suggest new changes and features for the site? I’m interested in proposing a “No trailer citation” notifier.
resolved The Ron the Death Eater example from YMMV/SonicX Anime
I wanted to make this discussion because I saw that the Ron the Death Eater example for Chris Thorndyke was deleted. Here it is.
- Ron the Death Eater: Chris Thorndyke is often viewed by fans as a selfish, spoiled brat, who's life isn't all that bad as he claims it is, and being more obsessive over Sonic than Amy is. However, Chris isn't really a bad kid. His whiny moments like in episode 49 were due to his fear of loneliness, which kept him from handling the situation of Sonic returning to his world more positively, especially since the news sprung upon him unexpectedly and was pretty impactful for him, and he was acting more traumatic and in denial than like a spoiled brat. His clinginess to Sonic and his fear of loneliness is due to being neglected by his parents since he was little, as he had to spend most of his time alone inside his huge and empty mansion without friends or siblings, making his life feel very empty and he didn't want to lose the one person who filled that void with his friendship and adventures. This also applies to when Chris shut down the portal to stop Sonic from going back to his world. Chris didn't shut down the portal because he's a spoiled brat. He did it because his emotions and fears got the best of him, that he made a reckless choice without thinking clearly.
I actually agree with this example, but it was deleted because apparently it was added by a ban evader. I am for adding it back because although Chris is not my favorite character of this show (due to some issues with how he was written), I do agree that fans do tend to demonize this kid.
resolved Is WetTShirtContest a unisex or gendered trope?
The description of the main Wet T-Shirt Contest trope page doesn't list it as a gendered trope. However, the Playing With page for Wet T-Shirt Contest has a Gender-Inverted entry that lists men being in the contest, suggesting that the trope is Always Female, and some examples have followed suit (I think) by listing male examples as "inverted".
I've been reviewing a potential discussed example and would like to ask for clarification for whether the trope is gendered, especially since its Super-Trope of Sexy Soaked Shirt is unisex; it's because if the trope is unisex, then I think the Playing With page and the examples that follow its listing conventions should be edited to reflect that.
openEdit war to remove Natter?
Under Characters.My Little Pony Equestria Girls Sunset Shimmer, this was added to an entry I wrote:
- Informed Ability: She was apparently Princess Celestia's most prized magic pupil before she went to the Human World and Twilight came along. But in the series she never, without external sources, displays any more advanced magic than teleportation which is normal for unicorn prodigies. It's only in her Loose Canon prequel comic where she demonstrates unique spells. However, she does Teleport in the first movie, a spell that is implied to be quite complex.
The last part is Natter and ignores how it was addressed in the entry, that teleportation is advanced, but common enough for the magically adept that if fails to show her having been the best of the best being Celestia's student implies. (I ran this possibly by MLP Cleanup when first proposing this.) Note the the Uniqueness Decay that made teleportation widespread for magic prodigies only took full effect after the first movie.
Would it be edit warring if I remove the addition? Should I make it clearer why teleportation is insufficient evidence?
Edited by Ferot_Dreadnaughtopen No Title
Can someone answer my post please? I don’t want to be left hanging.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?parent_id=133419&type=att
openRough Overalls without shirts
I'd like to discuss recent changes on the Rough Overalls trope.
- During the TLP (an adoption I did and adapted from the original proposal, Active Youth Overalls, where overalls were more tied to "cute" girls wearing them) one of the things discussed was trying to move the trope away from fanservice. The conclusion was that "cute girls wear overalls" wasn't a trope and was more like fanservice. (The TLP is also where the idea to split kids in overalls off separately into Kiddy Coveralls was done, as well as the mention to take examples from the defunct "Workers Wear Overalls" TLP.)
- Recently, Gofastmike added a third "not as often" example of wearing overalls for messy jobs while wearing nothing else but the overalls.
- I (after a correction that the top of overalls are called the bib) moved the talk to be under "blue collar work" since it was already discussed there and didn't need to be separate, and added data about people wearing shirts or not, to cover that not all wearing overalls in messy jobs is without the undershirt for practicality.
- Gofastmike has recently re-added the shirtless parts of wearing the overalls for messy jobs without noting that people can wear shirts for these messy jobs, not just overalls.
I'd like to discuss this with said editor and the community. I think it doesn't do the trope any good to mention the shirtlessness so prominently under messy jobs when it's mentioned in the fanservice "not as prominent" trope already, and the part about blue collar/messy jobs should be more about the labor side of things.
Edited for typos and clarifications.
Edited by NethiliaopenTrope Examples Folders: When to use the "Other" folder? (for genres) Videogame
Hi, I noticed a whole ton of tropes listed under any given media are often not crosswicked to the trope page as examples, so I've been meaning to do that whenever I can.
This might be pedantic but when should I use the "Other Games" folder vs just making a new genre folder to put the example in?
For example Absurdly High Level Cap has many examples in its "Other Games" folder. Some of these games could probably be moved to their own genre folders now. But there's also some folders which only have single examples- games could have gone to "Other Games" instead (I imagine it would be pointless to change that now unless there's too many folders one day).
So what's the best course of action when adding a new entry and there's no fitting genre folder (yet). Put it in "other"? Make a new folder unless there's too many folders already? Or does it not even matter?
Thanks.
So, on YMMV.Fallout 2024 the following happened:
Now I don't know if the entry actually counts, but this was not discussed anywhere. So, is this an edit war?