DaveWoo posted:

Nah, Misfile is pretty bad when it comes to handling gender/trans issues. And it churns out fanservicey crap by the truckload.

Kalos posted:

The last several dozen posts have Meade me pretty ashamed of liking Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series when I was in Jr High. Though at least it "just" had lovely things to say about gender rather than being a tract supporitng child rape.

MisterBibs posted:

Somewhat off topic, but has anyone ever written a story in a wiki format? Works War Z told the story of an Event through the recollections of those involved in the Event, and there's a recent video game that told a story via discovering stuff around the protagonist's house.

This question is kinda personal to me, because a long time ago I had a story that I wanted to write, but realized I couldn't do it justice as a traditional narrative. I briefly considered translating it to a fan wiki in which readers would learn the story via an in-universe educational encyclopedia.

Oxxidation posted:

The thought occurs to me of what this freak would have done without the internet as an outlet.

DStecks posted:

Who the gently caress has five mirrors in their bedroom?

Fiat Banking Nazi posted:

I think I knew this at some point, but what the hell does the exclamation point mean in that title? I keep interpreting it as a click consonant.

Sham bam bamina! posted:

Did these people not know about hyphens?

Metal Loaf posted:

Arcsquad12 posted:

What the gently caress is Dangan Ronpa, anyways? It always seems to come up when whiny internet spergs are around.

Somfin posted:

It's because one of their favourite villains ever is and always will be Cthulhu, which for some reason can be divorced from its surrounding context without losing much of anything. They loving love Lovecraft, even though I doubt most of them have actually read a single story by him. (Cthulhu wasn't important in the mythos. At all)

Venusian Weasel posted:

To be fair to tropers, people were already doing that not long after Lovecraft's death. I mean, Lovecraft died in 1937 and by 1941 August Derleth was already trying to organize the whole thing into a good guy/bad guy pantheon. There's a long history of trying to make something coherent out of the incoherent mythos.

corn in the bible posted:

These forums can't really handle a lot of special symbols either.

N. Senada posted:

Yeah, like that, I can't read any of that. These forums man, I tell ya

Elfface posted:

Now I know I've seen something about Red Riding Hood and Wolf-Rape before... something about how fairy tales were cleaned up, and they used to be really grim(m). Like Cinderella's Ugly Stepsisters taking knives to their feet to try and fit into the glass slippers.

Swan Oat posted:

What is Fanon? Surely they can't mean Frantz Fanon...

Dabir posted:

That was revealed really late in the series, so by that time everyone had decided her name was Virginia and it was in all the fanfiction so it was basically canon or at least fanon which is basically canon right, so when Rowling revealed it was Ginevra it was a major upset.

DoctorWhat posted:

But half the Weasley family is named after Arthurian characters, so Ginny should have been obvious!

Swan Oat posted:

You are expecting tropers to be knowledgeable of anything that isn't anime, children's cartoons, or young adult fiction.

neongrey posted:

But that's a dude's name.

sweeperbravo posted:

It's kind of an old-ish name, I'm pretty sure it derives from names meaning "fair-haired."

Byde posted:

What's with Japanimine's fascination with Tsunderes? It's like a really creepy and horrifying version of video game's obsession with every RPG hero having plot-twist-hiding amnesia.

Namtab posted:

Well that was a lot of buildup and lovely techspeak just to rip off an episode of Doctor Who.

Just thought I'd take this quote and give a quick lesson on why troper writing sucks. I haven't clicked the original link but I assume this is the ending of the story.

The words I've underlined are completely redundant to the ending. A smart reader would be able to make that connection himself. All the troper did was take a slightly creepy line (I'll ignore the fact that it's just a rip off of the weeping angels from Dr Whp) which might have been a decent ending in a better written story, then write another paragraph making sure the audience got the message in the most ham handed way possible.

Show, don't tell. Show me that throughout the story anything that takes the form of the piche becomes the piche. Try and subtly show me at some point that this includes written documents. Then at the end of the story, when you remind me of this rule, I'll be able to make the connection myself.

One further point, "The Piche", really? I'm no expert but it seems like the best horror names come from either innocuous sounding descriptions "The Alien" "The Slender Man" "The Princess" or by avoiding a description and just calling it "It", with a slight description of what it's doing/the effects it has.


For the case of this story, why not just call it "The Virus", "The Bug", "The png". I'm sure there's other things wrong with the story, but I don't want to read it cause I've found two problems in a four paragraph quote. That's without going through the clunky writing in that first paragraph.

Namtab posted:

I already discussed the ending and it gets no better in context. I doubt any other entry in the series is any better either.

Namtab posted:

Only one piche story on that creepypasta blog and I can't be arsed to look for the rest.

Namtab posted:

Fanfiction.net apparantly made it so you can't copy and paste from it anymore, which is a pity cause it means that I now have to inspect elements and copy the text from source which is really loving inconvenient.

The Cheshire Cat posted:

I read this ages ago so I don't know how accurate it actually is, but apparently the whole straight edge thing was started by underage kids; they aren't allowed to drink at shows so they ended up developing this whole thing about how the people who are drinking are ruining it for them. It's why they get the X tattoos on their hands - it comes from the X they'll usually put on your hand at the door to tell the bartenders that you aren't allowed to drink (so they don't have to check people's IDs at the bar).

It seems kind of ridiculous to claim that abstinence from drugs and alcohol is a lifestyle choice when the whole thing is based on not actually HAVING that choice, but then anyone who bases their identity around one very specific thing is crazy anyway.

Also where did you grow up that 15 year olds weren't exposed to sex, booze and drugs?

Little Blackfly posted:

Having a negative opinion of an anime is only a little bit better than having a positive one.

Swan Oat posted:

How do you pronounce Touhou actually, I say it in my head like two-who.

Sham bam bamina! posted:

This is so goddamn contrived. What brony ever gave half a poo poo about the original cartoon? Who are these "male characters" apart from, what, the dragon kid? Why the rapturous incredulity toward winged unicorns? It's so obvious that whoever wrote this was just pulling retroactive hype for the show out of his rear end so he could pretend that there was anything behind the bronies' genesis besides "4chan's ~ironic~ creepy kids' show affections needed to go somewhere new after LazyTown ended." (I'm guessing that the involvement of one of Cartoon Network's bigger names is what gave it that first push into the realm of hideous, misplaced sincerity.)