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openWhich forum should I use to find people to help with the works page I’m doing? Literature
Hi, I’m currently working on a works page for the Patriots novel series by James Wesley Rawles.
I just wanted to know what forum to use to try and find other fans of the series, as well as just people in general who could look at it and give feedback.
open Historical friends Literature
Bob and Pat (both male) are in love and even maybe in a relationship together. They are clearly depicted as lovers through paintings, writtings, ect. However, thousand of years laters an historian discovers those paintings/writtings only to conclude that Bob and Pat were just relly close friends.
So, is there a trope name for this? Where two people of the same sex is clearly meant to be a couple, only for someone else to brush it off as them being just good friends?
Example: Aquiles and Patroclus were lovers, and there's no denying that, but historians brushed their love story saying "oh, they were just good friends!"
Edited by SemituraopenEdi War Alert Literature
Lilith Artist on Literature.The King In Yellow
On Jul 8th 2022
, they added tropes slashing example. I sent notifier for trope slashing and commented the entry out since I'm familiar with neither tropes.
Today
, they added this Zero-Context Example:
- Manipulative Bastard: In The Throng, Pierrot convinces the narrator that the mirror was stolen.
...which doesn't explain why the character is a Manipulative Bastard. They also added UsefulNotes.Franco Prussian War as a trope. I sent them ZCE and "not a trope" notifiers, commented out the former and removed the latter.
Hours later, they restored both entries
. The Manipulative Bastard is slightly changed but still not really explain why it's manipulative instead of just plain lying (the Useful Note is also changed, but it doesn't matter since it is not a trope anyway). They removed the slashed trope, but also leave two blank bullets in tropes list.
openspoiler-handling question Literature
Re: Characters.Reign Of The Seven Spellblades. Michael Katsuro came through and did a little bit of cleanup (mainly of ZCEs added by another troper), which I appreciate, but one change kind of raised my eyebrow. I had marked a folder for a particular character who is Spoilered Rotten because she's key to the Myth Arc with a big all-caps "SPOILER WARNING!", which Katsuro removed.
I consulted the Handling Spoilers article, and it's unclear whether handling spoileriffic characters by putting a warning on the folder title is allowed. It's something I've seen done elsewhere on the wiki, like on Characters.Quantico.
open potential Edit War with Bense in the Hobbit Literature
This other troper and I have been arguing. We can't agree on anything. The problem is that I am willing to keep entries on our debate neutral, and he keeps asserting his point of view as fact. The problem is that his views I just cannot bring myself to leave them be. They simply clash with all my interpretations of the book and I feel a little sick looking at what he treats as fact, since in order to be at peace with it I'd have to change my very moral compass, and I can't just do that on short notice!
openUsed Future clarification Literature
I need someone to attest if this trope even applies to given situation:
In Missile Gap
, the US government has its resources stretched to a near-breaking point. Most of the equipment, vehicles and what not that is available for civilians comes from the 50s, while the story is set in the 80s (or at the very least tail end of the 70s). And here comes my issue. It isn't exactly "future", at least in a clear, obvious way. However, the story is a serious Mind Screw
- by default, it is a far future, since the whole story is set millions of years in the future, with all characters and the world itself being just a snapshop (probably) of Earth in the wake of the Cuban Crisis and the consequences of that event in the new place; more importantly, characters in-universe are aware of this
- the story itself heavily employs the used gear aesthetics, especially since from in-universe perspective, characters expect new gizmos and design, rather than being reduced to reusing what should be send to a scrapyard decades ago
So... does Used Future work, or there should be other trope used to cover this?
Edited by StaniszopenCreator page vs. work page Literature
I'm planning to launch a page for Missile Gap
. Currently, some of the tropes that appear in it are on Charles Stross. Should those be removed once the page was launched, or kept around as characteristic to the writer?
openFunny page. Literature
I've been thinking about adding a funny page to a tv tropes page I've been working on, does that start on the main page and get moved to its own or is it a different setup
openWhere to list Light Novel examples: Anime/Manga or Literature Literature
I've been filling out some tropes for The Executioner And Her Way Of Life, a light novel series that is soon to receive an anime adaptation, and have noticed some inconsistency in which folder light novels are listed under on trope pages. Sometimes they're placed under "Literature" (which would be my first impulse, as they are a form of written media), but sometimes under "Anime/Manga" (presumably because the adaptations often eclipse the original in popularity, so that series like Haruhi Suzumiya become far better known as anime, even though they technically belong to the Light Novel namespace). It's even possible for the same series to have examples spread across both, possibly because people began troping it before any anime adaptation was announced and then people who first learned about it from the eventual anime under that namespace rather than the original one.
I don't want to crosswick examples to the wrong place, so could I get some advice on the proper location to put them?
opentroper with ZCE and stub habit Literature
I've sent hazelnutpie a couple of notifications from Characters.Reign Of The Seven Spellblades, initially for creating the page as a stub (a couple character entries they've put on it still haven't been filled out), then for continuing to put ZCEs on the page. A glance at their edit history showed they've done this on other anime/manga/LN pages, too.
openChristina Henry Literature
Hi, So I was looking for stuff regarding Christina Henry, Mainly her alive books but nothing popped up for her anywhere and then I started looking for any of her books and nothing came up for her, but I did find an 'Alice illusion page, but nothing from her is mentioned anywhere so I was wondering if there where legal trouble and her name was scrubbed from the site or if no one had gotten to her yet.
openRenaming a book series page Literature
Would it be possible to rename/move the The City of Brass page to The Daevabad Trilogy? The page encompasses events from all three novels.
Edited by eowynjediopenTrying to Expand Upon a Series Literature
Hello. In middle school I fondly remember reading and enjoying the Lawless trilogy of books by Jeffrey Salane. I joined TV Tropes not too long ago, and would like to expand the trilogy's available information online; however, I've had some issues with this.
My key issues are creating a character page with associated tropes and making a dedicated page for the trilogy (similar to the Dark Knight Trilogy), as the series shares its name with a film and comic book. I've looked at how to create a character page, but wasn't able to create it. I'd simply like some help on the matter.
openEmpty Fanfic Recs Page? Literature
FanficRecs.Erin Hunter - should this be cutlisted? There are no recommendations on the page and never have been, and I'm not sure we're even supposed to have this type of page for creators anyway.
openUnfinished Business Literature
I accidentally created a Literature page for my fanfic Unfinished Business. Can somebody do me a favor and delete the Literature page for it?
openDewicked 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?
openComic 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?
openSven 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.

On my Facebook feed I saw where Beth Ann Fennelly wrote in one of her books that her husband (Tom Franklin) in HIS books always kills off a character named Colin. It seems like a good thing for Author Appeal, but I haven't read any Tom Franklin. My question is: could this be not just a joke?