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openImage upload help
Does anyone know how to make images in captions not look too wide as demonstrated on the picture bellow (the picture bellow illustrates how I want to make images appear in captions, but I don’t know how, because each time I try myself it fails)

openYack Fest, "Post a random song (one per poster per day)"
On the forum "Post a random song (one per poster per day)". There's a rule that says, for good reason, anyone posting a submission can only make one post per day. this is clearly stated in the Forum rules
"Post one song per poster, per day. This is so the thread doesn't fill up too rapidly."
Now before I posted there I made sure anything I posted would be compliant with the forum rules and familiarised myself with them.
I've just received a PM from troper themayorofsimpleton which states that I did in fact break this forum rule by posting twice on the same day.
With respect, I do not think I did. One posting was made on Sunday evening. The second posting was made on the Monday morning. No previous or subsequent postings were made on either day. Therefore, I was in compliance with the rule copied above. The timestamps on the postings show one was on the 11/5/25 - May 11th - and the second one was on 12/5/25 - May 12th - made approximately 13 hours apart, but on two seperate days.
Could I ask:
Whose time zone are we using to delineate this rule? I work in GMT (well, British Summer time which is GMT +1). Is the forum perhaps using somebody else's time zone as the datum marker? If the default time zone is PST or something that's a long way behind GMT, then maybe it is the case that - inadvertently - I did post twice on the Sunday.
Perhaps the rule at the top of the forum should therefore be clarified -
"Post one song per poster, in any one twenty-four hour period. This is so the thread doesn't fill up too rapidly."
This makes it more objective and therefore less prone to ambiguity?
And yes - I will undertake not to post more than once in any given 24 hour period...
Edited by AgProvopenFolder adding in SongAssociation.
I noticed examples in Song Association are separated under AC's, but I thought folders would be better, and be easy to read. Do I need permission to do this or can I do it myself? I am being careful about what I edit and touch.
Edit: I forgot to state my other question, but are Creators limited? I want to add some record labels. The pages will obviously be within writing standards, but the reason I am asking if there are permissions in pages is due to the Useful Notes fiasco from three months ago, and I don't want to get suspended for doing anything incorrect, so I want to be extra careful of what pages I edit or start here.
Edited by surname4uopenWould the 'LGBT Fanbase' trope go into multiple entries of a franchise without a general YMMV? Anime
Wondering about adding a specific entry for the trope for the YMMV of Magia Record, one of the Madoka spinoffs. Now Madoka itself has a entry for the original anime under the trope, but the YMMV page is for the original anime, not the franchise as a wide, while Record has quite a few specific examples to it. Would there be any issue in adding a specific entry for Record's YMMV about LGBT Fanbase?
openCan you edit war with yourself?
I'd just like to make sure it's okay to, having deleted your own entry, re-enter it with slightly different wording? Sorry if this is a bit obvious; I'd just like to make absolutely sure. Thanks.
openSingle troper's vandalism of animated series all from same creator Western Animation
A troper by the name of Bento Boxer Justin Roiland has had a history of vandalizing work pages involving cartoons created by Brazilian animator Pedro Eboli, often adding false information. This includes:
- Claiming his works from Birdo Studio (Oswaldo, Cupcake & Dino: General Services, and Ba Da Bean) were co-produced by Bento Box Entertainment on December 16, 2024
(edit removed January 13, 2025
).
- They added this information to Bento Box's page too on April 19, 2025
. (removed April 24, 2025
)
- They also said Ollie's Pack was animated by Atomic Cartoons, Toon City, and Snipple Animation on April 19, 2025
(removed April 24, 2025
).
- They added this information to Bento Box's page too on April 19, 2025
- Creating a Character Sheet for Cupcake & Dino: General Services full of outright false information on December 17 2024. (page was cut by yours truly)
- Creating a Crosses the Line Twice page for Ollie's Pack once again full of false information and using a page image not actually from the show on February 1, 2025 (has been added to the Cutlist by me again).
- Adding a frankly bizarre and nonsensical, as well as unnecessary, image and caption to the Ollie's Pack Character Sheet photoshopping the characters' heads onto the cast of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia on April 18, 2025
(removed May 8, 2025
).
- Also adding links to that image and new ones to the Image Links for Crosses the Line Twice on May 6, 2025
that appear to go to their Deviantart. (images cut May 8, 2025
).
- Also adding links to that image and new ones to the Image Links for Crosses the Line Twice on May 6, 2025
There are probably other examples, but I think we all get the point (I get the sense they are a ban evader as another troper named Morty 336 Steve 909 made similar vandalizing edits regarding the same shows). And while they do seem to have made a few positive contributions, this frequent vandalism and spreading of misinformation targeting a few specific shows (that all share the same creator, so I have my suspicions here) is very frustrating, especially for people who work on pages for obscure works, like myself. While I am personally of the belief that this user should be banned, I would like to know what other people's opinions on this matter is.
Edited by MagnusForceopenMy formatting is messed up on Poker Face
With season 2 of Poker Face dropping, I'm trying to divvy up the show's character pages into the main characters, the villains and victims of each episode, and the various characters Charlie meets in each episode. However, while I have the main index boxes up on each sub page, they don't quite look right. I've never made boxes like that before, so I don't quite know what to do there.
EDIT: The reason why the rest of the info is still up on the main page is because I wanted the other two set up before I deleted it. I'm willing to edit in the fixes myself if that will be more helpful.
These are the respective pages.
Edited by JacobyInvestigativeopenThe Boba Tea Shop Videogame
There's this game called The Boba Tea Shop which is a horror game where you play as the owner of a boba shop. I tried searching it on tv tropes if there's a page abt it but there wasn't so I was wondering if I could create the page myself if it's okay
openDILP/RTDE misuse, possible misuse?
The only items under YMMV.The Review Team, YMMV.Abuse Of Power MHA, YMMV.FUDW, YMMV.Harry Potter And The Endless Night are misuse of Draco in Leather Pants and Ron the Death Eater, which only apply to the source material subject to such not specific works doing it like these. Just heads up before removing.
YMMV.Ask Princess Molestia has a DLIP I question if applicable given the contentious nature of the work (which ran right as such content was becoming seen a no longer acceptable).
- Condemned by History: At the time of its introduction around 2011, the blog became very popular (reaching ~ 68,600 followers by its closure in 2014) for its artwork, regular updates, absurd premise, and saucy comedy. By 2013, growing backlash against the Ron the Death Eater treatment of Princess Celestia and works that were seen as normalizing sexual harassment, molestation, and assault by treating it as a joke led to the "Down With Molestia" movement where so many turned against the blog that it abruptly shut down a year later. Nowadays, no one remembers the blog or the eponymous character very fondly, with its only saving graces being the character of Gamer Luna and the artwork. Asking it it was popular at time enough to count despite subject, and if retroactive popularity changes effect Designated Hero or Draco in Leather Pants. And does "normalize" mean Do Not Do This Cool Thing as attempts to treat as wrong were undercut by treating it as entertainment?
- Designated Hero: Many fans consider Molestia's character to be more fitting as a villain or at the very least an anti-hero considering what she does on her prime time and how she often acts insincere and selfish. Yet many of her friends treat her like a hero and it's not hard to see why at times. Last part sorta argues with itself. But if fans do hate her for such that's opposite of DILP. Maybe Unintentionally Unsympathetic better fit as she was meant to be deliberately flawed for such?
- Draco in Leather Pants: A lot of fans will quickly dismiss Molly's actions as being harmless and just tame despite Molly on certain crossovers have kidnapped and implied to have sexually assaulted a Fluffy Pony, chubby pony, or others, and on certain occasions depending on the writing to have genuinely treated and/or abused her guards, most of her friends including her own sister, and others like her own personal sex objects and nothing more without remorse or empathy, most of the time. Seems more like narrative whitewashing her than fans, who hated it to point of getting work canceled.
openTrivia in trope examples
There's a recurring issue in Characters.Minecraft that I'd like to address:
There's this boss, the Ender Dragon, which is often referred to in the fandom as being canonically named "Jean". The issue is that this is not actually referenced to in canon anywhere, and from what I can tell is based on only two sources: the first is this Reddit comment by Notch from 2011
("And I, for one, am so glad she stays there. What's her name?" "Jean?"), and the second is this Twitter comment by Nathan Addams/Dinnerbone from 2015
("Officially I think it's "Jean?" ;D") Notch is Minecraft's original coder, but parted ways with it years ago and is no longer credited on the game; Dinnerbone is an active code developer.
(Incidentally, there is also this article from 2019
, which claims that "uttering [the dragon's] true name would unleash a destructive force that would obliterate not only the End, but the Nether and the Overworld at the same time", which is... not hugely authoritative either, but I'd still rank it a touch higher than "this one Twitter comment from ten years ago".)
Now, commentary from a work's creator outside of the work itself is Word of God. My understanding is that, since Word of God is Trivia, it cannot be used as a source for trope examples — and, presumably, this would go double for when God is no longer involved with a work in any way, or when the Word is just a single social media comment from a decade or more ago. So I just cut those examples, left a note about Trivia entries, and moved on.
Issue is that people keep adding this material, and I really would rather not go on a one-man rampage here because that'd probably just turn into an edit war, so I'd like some feedback. At the absolute least, I think that making broad statements like "this thing is canonically so" or "this thing is confirmed to be so" when the actual sources are, well, what they are is misleading and, if you want to add this information, you should at least qualify where it actually comes from.
Edited by TheriocephalusopenWhy is Homegrown Hero a YMMV Trope?
Homegrown Hero seems to be about something that's pretty objective; if anything, it feels like it'd be pretty well suited for being a Trivia trope. Yet it's listed as an YMMV trope, and nothing on the page itself really feels like it explains why that is.
openTrying to add an Incredibles/MHA crossover page Anime
Hello, I think this fanfiction is worthy of having its own page:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13466524/1/My-Incredible-Academia
as well as being mentioned in fanfic recs/fan works for both MHA and Incredibles in the crossover section but I'm not sure how to do it myself. Even though I go on Tv Tropes a lot I have only recently made my own account so still getting to grips with it. I could do with some help please.
openDoes The Scrappy apply to the following situations or are they misuse?
1. A character from the disliked series of a beloved franchise who is hated mainly by fans of the franchise as a whole. 2. Cases of Adaptational Scrappy. The Scrappy wiki has an entire category for characters who are only disliked in a certain adaptation, but the rules between that site and this wiki seem to be different.
I have a feeling they're misuse, but I need confirmation.
To bring some examples from YMMV.Xiaolin Chronicles:
- Ping Pong. He is by far the most hated character of all the fanbase, due to his freakishly similar resemblance to Omi, high-pitched voice, and how he is a completely worthless replacement for the Ensemble Dark Horse that is Jermaine.
- Dojo gained a bit of detestation mostly due to the exaggeration of his relationship with Master Fung, particularly his lamenting of being separated from him. While in the original series he could at least pull himself together afterwards, here he shuts down altogether, usually at the worst time for the monks. There’s also the copious amount of gross-out humor and gags he’s subjected to.
- This version of Chase Young is far more despised by fans than his original series self due to being just a generic villain who lacks the charm of the original, his disturbing flirtatious relationship with Shadow, and his retconned backstory. Any popularity he had is further damaged by the episode "Chase Lays an Egg", where he does exactly what the title says.
openUniverse and Book With Same Name Literature
i've been trying to flesh out some pages for You Could Make a Life, which is a literature universe. it's a very large verse full of 16 (and counting) novels that share characters and settings, with frequent crossover between them all & a firmly established canon. some works are published via traditional self-publishing, and others are posted online using Archive of our Own. while they are in the same universe, they are not all part of the same series, and there are many different series within it.
the issue i've run into while making pages is that the universe shares the same name as the first novel in the series, You Could Make a Life by Taylor Fitzpatrick.
i would like to make a page for the universe itself, separate from the novel You Could Make a Life. does anyone know how i should go about this? i'm currently working off You Could Make a Life. thank you!
openDoes this count as a Canon Foreigner?
The manga Reiri follows the final days of the Takeda Clan between 1579 and 1582. As such, nearly every major character is a real historical figure. The sole exception is the eponymous heroine herself, Reiri, who had her hand in the manga's version of several historical events. Does this count as a Canon Foreigner or no?
Edited by The_Hero_Of_MemesopenCritcism???
So I added my first ever example to the Crack Fic page and I want some critcism. I added Carousel: A Dream Journal to the other folder :3 You can point out a few spelling mistakes and things like natter and tell me what to do to fix them. Just don't add links to the characters because they are ocs. Ik i sometimes name them after something as a shout out but i would add that myself if it happens.
Also how do I make a new page???
Btw the author for the fic is me, I tried my best to NOT try when writing it because hey, my brain doesn't try to make the dreams coherent ether. In fact, it was MEANT to be unfunny :D
(Sorry for bad grammar, I'm not English :( )
openVery self-congratulatory work pages...
The TV Tropes Character Crossover War has several sub-pages like trivia and ymmv, and several of their most frequent editors are people who were already on TV Tropes. And frankly I'm a bit uncomfortable reading these and seeing how self-indulgent and passive-aggressive towards this platform they seem to be, as they're utilizing multiple tropes like Take That! and Executive Meddling to describe TV Tropes and to voice the aforementioned tropers' disagreements with site policy - which means they are effectively troping themselves. Is stuff like this even allowed?
A few examples of this:
- Author's Saving Throw: Despite their frustrations with TV Tropes booting them off the platform and banning the self demonstrating pages from having non-canon interactions, the authors behind the fic came to embrace the opportunity to improve upon the smaller, script-based format into a larger, more-in-depth narrative format.
- One challenge the writers faced was being limited to the characters with self demonstrating pages being the primary focus, only being able to include characters with some interfranchise or vague connection. By being moved off, the board was clear to add in whoever the writers wanted, expand further on the lore, and make changes to the story that made more sense for their new narrative. This extended to the addition of entire universes, most notably with Shrek and Breaking Bad, along with MrBeast as an additional Joke Character.
- Executive Meddling:
- As the story initially started out on TV Tropes itself, the writers were about nearly complete with most of the pre-Night Parade recruitments when the website moderators deemed the fic could no longer be hosted on the site, forcing it to be moved off-site.
- Shortly thereafter, the moderators almost got rid of the self-demonstrating pages altogether, but after a massive backlash towards eliminating the concept, they instead declared that none of the interactions were to remain (sans between those who had actually met in canon) — aka much of the basis of the fic in the first place. The writing team responded by mocking this decision repeatedly, which the moderation team did not respond to in kind (causing author chris4449 to get bounced from the site).
- Writer Revolt: After the TV Tropes moderators forced the story off the website and banned all non-canon interactions between the self demonstrating pages, the writers subsequently began openly criticizing this decision through the story itself (chiefly through Deadpool).
- Growing the Beard: By the writing team’s own admission, while they had fun with creating the original story, they always felt constrained by their original format in order to keep it as true to TV Tropes as possible. When the story was forced to move, the team took the opportunity to completely transform the story into something they felt eclipsed what they had originally created.

Life is Strange has three weird entries on the bottom. The first is a fangame, the second are spiritual successors. Can they be cut?
Unofficial but notable works related to this franchise: