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openNo 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
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
I was thinking of making a work page for [1], but then I found out it already existed. Anyway, I did some sprucing up (namely: picture, caption, publication details) , but the thing is, it's indexed under Literature instead of Comic Book. I would gladly move it under the correct index page but, A) I'm not that good with that kind of repair work, and B) I didn't launch the page myself so, I don't think I've got that kind of authority over it. Anyway, my point is, I think it should be indexed under Comic Book, not Literature. Any thoughts?
Edited by BasterdopenNo Title Literature
There are two of these authors who write most of their work collaboratively, and I want to make a list of their works.
Should I make Creator pages for both of them and copy the same list onto both, or am I allowed to make one page for both of them, to reduce redundancy? I feel reluctant to only make a page for one of them.
(Another problem is that they have self-published their works under one imprint, and traditionally published with another.)
openNo Title Literature
Chris Hart was massively changed, apparently by the man himself, to be nothing but an advertisement. Do I report something like that here or is there a more admin-y page?
openNo Title Literature
Requesting that Mein Kampf and The Turner Diaries be inducted into the Permanent Red Link Club.
The page on Mein Kampf only has three examples and a description of the book - it could exist as just a mention on Adolf Hitler and we don't need a page on the work itself.
The Turner Diaries is a little more complex: it is a work of its own but it is a work solely created to preach and encourage racial hatred. While most of the examples are well-written and obviously not encouraging of its content, it could still convince some people that we support it simply by having a page on it.
openNo Title Literature
So, a Mistborn video game
was announced today. Considering that the series now consists of a trilogy, a stand-alone sequel taking place centuries later, and a video game, with more novels planned but not yet announced, it seems like a good idea to turn the Main.Mistborn page into a franchise page and split the individual works onto their own pages.
However, that's obviously a major change, and I don't want to make it unilaterally. So where should I bring it up? Here? TRS? Special Efforts? Just go ahead and do it myself?
openNo Title Literature
There's a bit in Livy's _The War With Hannibal_ where Scipio Africanus shames a guy called Masinissa into doing what he wants (briefly) by lecturing him on self-control, which leads me to wonder, does controlling someone with a speech on self-control constitute irony?
openNo Title Literature
I'm not sure where to post this, but I just had to express my appreciation about what an amazing, astonishing resource resource this website is. I'd bookmarked it for fun and for research. Andd then I saw...myself! I was listed as the author of the UNDEAD series, along with a description of Betsy the Vampire Queen and, purely on an unconscious level<g>, a bunch of the tropes I had infused the UNDEAD series with (Fluffy the Terrible, Our Werewolves are Different, A Chat with Satan, etc.). Finding myself here (not to mention several of my books) made my month! Thank you again!
openNo Title Literature
So I have a question that I probably should have asked a long time ago.
tl;dr is it possible for the few tropes that were banished to Darth Wiki to be in-universe and linked on a trope page?
(long version)
I launched a trope page about a non-fiction book about professional wrestling called Ring Of Hell, and on the original version of the page, one of the tropes listed was Dethroning Moment Of Suck. This was of course before DMOS was banished to Darth Wiki and made no link.
But the reason DMOS was listed on the page is because the author of the book invoked the trope himself, and came very close to calling it out by name. He claimed that "tribute shows" for deceased wrestlers were inherently phony, inherently sleazy, and "possibly the most sickening aspect" of a wrestler's death...
I thought that "possibly the most sickening aspect" line as written by the author himself was enough to make it an in-universe example of DMOS and readded it to the page - linking directly to the Darth Wiki version of it after the main wiki redirect was deleted.
So I guess I'm asking "What do?" Is this legitimate or not, and if not is there a different trope that could be used in place of DMOS?
open Hey, I'm pretty much completely new here..., Literature
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.
openFlynnbulwinter/darkelfwizard Literature
I have good to believe that a couple of "tropers" named Tropes/Flynnbulwinter and Tropers/darkelfwizard has been using the site as self-promotion for their indie fantasy book series,Anthologies of Ullord as Nikki Flynn and Edwin Dantes.
In the Ullord main work page, you could see in the edit history, that these people edited the pages themselves and putting elements in the trope pages.
They have not seem to stop, with them editing their own pages months ago. The Anthologies of Ullord are basic paint-by-numbers fantasy, which make this situation more odd. A troper suggested this to me after the High Crate "event."
I hope you would respond in kind,
S.V.
openWhere to link for a work Literature
I want to add an example to The Social Expert for a character from Warhammer 40k. Here's the problem.
- The character is omnipresent in the setting
- The scene that I want to use specifically as an example comes from a book, that we don't have a page specifically for
- The book itself is a combination of game rules and storyline (my example is from the storyline part)
Should I link to Warhammer 40,000 or to the book itself as a redlink? Should the example be under Literature or Tabletop Game?
openNo Title Literature
Anyone familiar with The Crystal Star feeling up to, well, fixing it up a bit? I've never read it myself, but there seems to be a consensus that it's pretty bad. However, the page's description really seems like a Take That! to the book, and doesn't provide much information other than that the page's writer thought that it was bad.
open Kid's book about dragon hunting Literature
First off, this is definitely not Dragon Slayer's Academy. I remember this one being a standalone book I read in the 5th grade, I believe? About 11 years ago.
I remember two of the main characters. A boy who was a Paige and bullied by the other Paiges for getting the job of fighting the dragon, with one of them sitting on him. The other was the princess who disguised herself as a boy named Bill to go kill the dragon; I believe this was because her father promised that whoever killed the dragon would get to marry her, but I might just be blending other stories with this one since it's been a while.
open Hoist by his own petard "indirectly" (Hamlet Spoilers) Literature
[Post writing this out edit: This can basically be summed up as "Does it count as Hoist By His Own Petard if the person who dies only dies as an indirect result of their actions/plotting?" and i'm specifically talking about Hamlet's death.] Would Hamlet's own death count as a case of "Hoist By His Own Petard"? Laertes was driven to murderous intent against hamlet because Hamlet's plotting resulted in the deaths of Laertes father and sister. It was killing ophelia that was the breaking point, and Hamlet had continuously pushed Ophelia towards madness as part of his scheme to feign insanity. Had Hamlet never driven Ophelia to madness he would not have died himself. So does this count as an indirect case of "Hoist By his own petard"? or is does it have to be a direct action that causes the death? (For those curious btw i'm actually writing a paper on this trope and how it applies to both Hamlet's character and the play as a whole) While i'm asking, would polonius's death also count as Hoist by His Own Petard? I'm pretty sure not because he was straight up stabbed, but he was stabbed because he was spying on Hamlet for the king. It's even more of a stretch than whether or not hamlet counts as HBHOP.
openOn the page for Zabibah and the King. Literature
Should we recreate this page? The book itself is more like a historical curiosity than a classic in Iraqi literature since it was written by Saddam Hussein (under the not so clever pen name of S. Hussein).
Edited by Albino_Axolotlopenftl-capable alien species female protagonist merging consciousness with whale/ship/alien Literature
ftl-capable Space whale/living ship/alien species female protagonist merging consciousness with whaleshipalien (too long for title)
Sooo I've been through many of your tropes that rang with what I'm looking for. The only one I haven't found (that's in the title) is the merging cousciousness. Looking for the book for a friend, but I'll definitely read it myself when I get the title, because it sounds pretty awesome.
So then the somewhat vague description I have is:
A book about a girl and a strange alien species that are ftl capable. Humans ride the alien species by entering them and merging their consciousness. In the end the girl completely lets go of her consciousness and becomes one with her spacewhale. Yes, so I spoiled it for me too. The human society doesn't know of the transformations pilots undergo and it was found catalogued under juvenile/childrens book in a library.
Well it's vague, but thanks for hearing me out. If you have any clarifying questions, please tell me and I'll pass them on. My friend read the book when she was young, so maybe the answers won't be as clear as you are hoping for.

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 Discar