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open Jana Whitaker in YOLO (internet girls #4) Literature
does she cut or she depressed? (ie. there's a part in yolo that says something like "why would jana post about almost cutting herself?" she gained a lot of weight, and the status updates the winsome threesome report on her, are very upsetting?)
openLiterature/Survivors, Too Dumb To Live Example Literature
On Literature/Survivors, there is this example of Too Dumb to Live:
"The other dogs, from Lucky's point of view (and probably the readers' as well). Individual dogs' antics include going back into a house they just established was filled with carbon monoxide (especially since it had caused the one dog to become unconscious and they had just rescued her), swimming too far out in the river after Lucky had just warned them about it being deep and fast, and one dog trying to put a collar back on after he'd gotten it caught on a bush and nearly choked himself to death."
Now, there are... problems with this example. One, in the book proper, the Leashed Dogs (pet dogs) agree to hold on to one memento as a reminder of their longpaws. (human owners) Of course, this means returning to the houses to get them. Daisy, the one who lived in the house that now has a gas leak, holds her breath as she goes in, knowing the second time around that she shouldn't inhale the toxins. Two, while I don't recall enough to talk about the example with the river, I do know that in a later book, Lucky is actually grateful that the Leashed Dogs kept their collars on, as it saved one dog's (Mickey's, who was the one who almost choked to death in the first place) life.
So, what should we do about this example? In fact, the page could use a little cleaning up, with the series still having new entries being written.
open Time traveling Dumbledore army Literature
so as shown in Harry POA Hogwarts and by extension Dumbledore has at least one time turners and apparently when they use a time turner they duplicate themselves I should also note that it is an established fact he is the only one Voldemort fears so with that in mind why doesn't he just create an army of himself i know in stories they say you seeing your future self will create a problem but whatever problem that is can't be worse than wizard hitler
open new royalty girl in winter kingdom? Literature
Hello All, In an ideal world it would be a book about a girl who somehow becomes a queen/(some form of power position) and must rule in a winter land, with a night full of monsters and magic. She isn't sure who she can trust, etc. So I have a very specific tone for the book I'm requesting. I'm looking for a mix between 'The Little White Horse' and 'A Game of Thrones'. Now let me explain, I would like the beauty and suspense of TLWH and from GOT I would like only the north. By that I mean only the feeling of Winterfell and beyond the wall. I'm looking for some creepy/suspense/horror/beautiful/fantasy/magic book, preferably with a dash of romance. You will be my friend for life if you can find me this obscure wish book. (I feel like I should just write this myself heh). Thank you fantastical people!
open Not the fall that kills you Literature
Is Richard Mayhew's fear of heights not because of the fall, but because he doesn't trust himself in Neverwhere an example of Not the Fall That Kills You?
openFound a page that needs a revert Literature
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=FanFic.BetterLeftUnsaid#
- looks like the page got overwritten by accident. Can a mod hit the revert button? (it doesn't appear I can do it myself).
openNo Title Literature
I was surprised at how few tropes the Maze Runner series had, until I tried to add one myself and found out many more of them are there, just hidden, with this message at the top of the individual edit pages:
"Zero Context Example entries are NOT allowed on wiki pages. All such entries have been commented out. Add context to the entries before uncommenting them."
What's the point of this? I've never seen it on any other pages I read or edited. Some of the "commented out" tropes DO have examples, and even if they don't, sometimes it's not even necessary because you can tell that someone is an Action Girl without listing every single Action Girly thing she's ever done. Can this be removed?
Edited by TheMoonopenNo Title Literature
Do earlier drafts of works that are changed significantly when they are finalized matter for trope entries?
I'm asking because in Carrera's Legions I removed the entry for A.K.A.-47 as not being the trope, guns renamed for trademark reasons, but simply using different names for equipment that's pretty much modern day (or even recent past) equipment IN THE FUTURE!.
enderheisenberg, who added the AKA-47 entry in the first place, re-added it after my removal (Edit War in and of itself), and added the line "These were direct conversions from early drafits where the story takes part on earth." That doesn't seem like it actually makes the entry an example, but there's enough uncertainty on my part that I thought I'd ask before taking any action.
openNo Title Literature
Literature.Tom Swift and YMMV.Tom Swift both include a section on an MSTed version of one of the books, claiming it to be from Mystery Science Theater 3000. As far as I can determine it's not from the show, it's a Fan Fiction MST-ing of the book. As such it seems like the whole thing should be deleted, or at least moved to a Fan Fiction/ page. Anybody else have an opinion on this?
[1]
: In the paragraph re the MST fanfic "Dale Goes Nuts!" by John Nowak and Matt Plotecher:
- This particular fanfic is less grim ... and shorter than their later MSTing of the dime novel "Tom Swift and his War Tank." [link goes to the same page as the link on our Literature.Tom Swift page]
Furthermore, the page itself has the note "This MiSTing is [c] copyright 2001 by John Nowak and Matt Plotecher."
Edited by randomsurferopenNo Title Literature
Looking for an opinion on certain creator edits before I, er, make some -
By and large, I figured the best policy creator-wise would be to leave the work page alone, myself, being obviously biased and, well, it's for the readers to decide what's appropriate to put there.
But here's the case I'm wondering about: what about errors on matters of fact (i.e., not opinions or views about the work, but statements about things described therein that directly contradict the work itself). I get people finding the books through the trope page and would rather not have 'em potentially doing so under false pretenses, so...
Cool? Not cool? Other thoughts?
openNo Title Literature
How do I ask for troper attention to a work? as far as I can tell, I am the only one who has done any work on The Spellmonger Series in almost a year. It needs more work, but I can't do it all by myself
openNo Title Literature
You know how you're not supposed to use potholes to change trope names? Literature.Gadsby does this to nearly every single trope it has in order to be self-demonstrating (the book never uses the letter 'e', so any trope with an 'e' in its name is changed). Not to mention that the example description themselves avoid any word with an 'e', which makes some of them unnecessarily hard to understand.
openNo Title Literature
Kakai
has grammar issues, with all the most recent edits being difficult to read. I can't remember for certain but I think I PMed them about it once before the form letter PMs came into effect.
Also, found earlier this month they completely re-did the description for Literature.Safehold which myself and another troper had to clean up, and changed the page image for Literature.Apprentice Adept. I'm not necessarily opposed to the change of description (unless there's a procedure for that which wasn't followed) but the grammar issues are in there, too. The page image was just to a smaller version of the image already present, which I think is allowable w/o an image pickin' thread post, but mentioning it to be on the safe side.
EDIT: Yeah, I did PM Kakai about this back in early June and it was a form-letter PM.
Edited by sgamer82openNo Title Literature
Characters.How To Train Your Dragon just got a lot of Repair, Don't Respond violations added by Socrates The Mudwing. I am not familiar enough with the subject to fix it myself, though, although I did message them.
openNo Title Literature
A guy is
Edit Warring with non other than Fighteer himself in the Consider Phlebas page.
WTF.
openNo Title Literature
This was a long time ago, so maybe the statute of limitations or whatever is up on this, but aerojockey left a rude editor's note on Characters.TheKingkillerChronicle
on June 18th last year. Specifically:
%% note
%% the entries for Felurian are deliberately lower-case, reflecting the orthography of her dialogue in the book.
%% if, for some reason, you think you would like to make everything "consistent" by capitalizing these entries,
%% please ask yourself whether you want to be "that guy" who shits on any tiny bit of fun he sees
%% thank you
While I was cleaning the page today (still needs more work), I deleted the rude part but left the rest.
Edited by DiscaropenNo Title Literature
I ordered a book called Rasp which is related to the bookseries Halvgudene the other day, but it hasn't come yet so won't write about it until then. But I'm wondering about something... if all the important characters in the book are also in Halvgudene, would it be possible that if one click on "characters" on the future Rasp-page that it takes one to Halvgudene's character page? Or even better, straight to where the information on Rasp herself is? Thanks ^^
Edited by killikimopenNo Title Literature
In the flowers for algernon page I added an trope instance of bring my brown pants
- Bring My Brown Pants: One of the few times it's Played for Drama. Charlie has a tendency, especially as a kid, to shit himself whenever he gets frightened, which doesn't take much considering he's retarded. This just leads to more pain and suffering since then Rose decides she has to spank him, somehow thinking that disciplining him will stop him from being retarded.
- Bring My Brown Pants: One of the few times it's Played for Drama.
openNo Title Literature
Apologies if this has already been asked and answered somewhere.
I have noticed there are Works pages concerning articles of fan fiction. What are the rules for this? (or at least, accepted best practice). Does a fan work have to be especially popular or meritorious to deserve a works page of its own? Does it have to have accepted literary excellence? I'm asuming the rule about not reccomending your own works of fan fiction applies here? (no using tvtropes for self-publicity). I'm interested as to how this works. Thanks in advance!

So where do I go to learn how to properly formatted page, because I noticed that a certain franchise, and I'm a decent fan of doesn't have a page on this wiki at all... and I would like to change that, but I don't want to break any rules or get myself in trouble simply due to being a complete newbie.