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Tunicate: May 15, 2012

Install Windows posted:

Fanon is what happens when fanfiction/fanart/etc for a media property takes on a life of it's own, and you've got people making their own fanwork of another fan's stories about whatever. A set of canon rules is established for what happens as a result of some poo poo like Star Wars offshoot where Princess Leia hooks up with Chewbacca and has kids or whatever.

Also things that become embedded in the fandom even though they have no canon support. Like Ginny being short for 'Virginia', in Harry Potter.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2014 04:13

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 11:31

Tunicate: May 15, 2012

Well, if they can't be as encyclopediac as wikipedia, just make wikipedia into tvtropes.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2014 16:32

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"gently caress meaningful sacrifice."

The complaint is that it isn't meaningful, it was contrived and lovely.

Like most of the rest of the book, actually.

# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 03:34

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Alpha3KV posted:

I'm sure all of this was included just for the sake of accuracy and without any kind of ulterior motive whatsoever.

So basically this?

http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-knows-unsettling-amount-about-nationwide-ageof,3716/

# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 16:29

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DeusExMachinima posted:

Mmm, the smell of years old memespeak. Is it so, so hard to throw in a preposition and put an "of" in there?

Imagine all the people, living without your prescriptivist bullshit.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2014 16:53

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Jerry Manderbilt posted:

At least Pokegirls got removed from TVTropes (please don't tell me if they put it back up after This Troper quit)

Except for some pokegirl spinoff game or something?

quote:

Forget Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action - hot Unicorn-On-8-year-old-Cute-Ghost-Girl action is where you start asking yourself how much you REALLY want that egg...

quote:

Since this game is 'adults only', and produced by basically one guy, the creator has gleefully set forth to include things no 'big-budget' game would ever dare use. Thus, available Puppets include a White Trash Biker Dwarf with access to special moves such as 'Domestic Violence' and 'Hate Crime', and the Ameise, a nazi ant with access to a selection of genocidal moves (and the 'Self Portrait' special, of course)

... yeah.

# ¿ May 12, 2014 06:18

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sweeperbravo posted:

This is a great term.

The word is Fremdscham.

# ¿ May 19, 2014 06:21

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Zemyla posted:

My highschool English teacher told me to avoid overusing "said" back in the 90s. It was a thing for a while.

My elementary school teachers made a huge deal about how 'said is dead'.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2014 06:50

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cptn_dr posted:

"The chocolate... The chocolate..."

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/CSIDeathByChocolate

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Fanfic: CSI Death By Chocolate
Ten years after the events of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, tragedy strikes just before the first Willy Wonka Candy Emporium in twenty years is about to open in Las Vegas. Someone has murdered 22-year old Charlie Bucket and dumped his body out in the desert, and it is up to the Las Vegas CSI team to figure out who could have killed him and why. Naturally, things aren't so cut and dried, especially as the team explores further into Mr. Wonka's magical world.

Can be found here.

A live reading is in progress on Youtube starting here.

Head-Tiltingly Kinky: Greg Sanders meets Violet Beauregard, now a contortionist with Cirque du Soleil. She is combing her hair. With her feet. From behind. In the nude.
Spit Take: Catherine tells Gil about the Chocolate Room. Gil is eating tomato soup at the time.
Squee: Greg Sanders' reaction to finally meeting Willy Wonka is to run around the lab screaming "OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!"
Stuff Blowing Up: The Las Vegas Wonka Emporium is firebombed two thirds of the way through.
Tear Jerker: Wonka's reaction to learning that his apprentice is dead.

About what I expected

# ¿ Jul 18, 2014 05:52

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Van Kraken posted:

TvTropes delenda est.

Was going to post that, freaked out seeing it was already there.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2014 08:11

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Okay, since I'm responsible for several percent of the loops on this site at least, and the MLP Loops fic I curate is longer than everything Innortal has done on the subject...
That's saying that quite a lot of my own fic is "total garbage".
Would you care to give some examples thereof?

# ¿ Sep 19, 2014 05:13

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WickedHate posted:

What's this in reference to?

This thing apparently

Some groundhog's day crossover so big that it needs a spreadsheet and google doc forms to manage.

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Crapsack World: Some of the worst loops. But the worst of the worst is "Slavequestria," a loop where Celestia legalized slavery and allied with Sombra, turning the whole world into a totalitarian hell and her battle with Nightmare Moon into Evil Versus Evil. All the Loopers involved are left traumatized afterwards.
Scratch that, the (mercifully) largely undescribed Loop caused by a massive collection of porn and viruses bleeding into the Equestria Loop. (The loop wherein it's described starts with Twilight and Sleipnir, the administrator of Equestria, walking into Mac's bar to drown their memories of it.)

"Not only was she [Molestia] in charge but she was the pinnacle of what every pony strove to be, the ideal pony in the eyes of her subjects! And Twilight was the only one Awake, the only sane mare in this mad mad mad mad mad mad mad mad world. And then this corrupted world painted a target on her by making her the most desirable mare alive to everyone in said world."

To underline just how horrible this loop was, upon Awakening both Sleipnir and Twilight immediately ran for the gates of Tartarus, fought their way to the lowest levels of Hell, and then locked the door to Hell from the inside. And then Sleipnir called down the Apocalypse and prematurely ended the world. Let me underline that some more. A Yggdrasil System Administrator � who is consistently portrayed as one of the most responsible and level-headed of the sysadmins, at that � chose to deliberately crash a Loop. How desperate are you when risking further multiverse instability is preferable to actually trying to live in that loop world even for a single day

It's like a poo poo singularity, from which no bad idea can escape.

And somehow it's being 'curated'.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2014 05:31

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Dabir posted:

Oh for christ's sake, that's ripped off from the same episode of Doctor Who as the poopy bloody baby statue.

IIRC, the statue actually came first.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2014 07:42

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 11:31

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Current featured article: Sonic: After The Sequel, a Sonic the Hedgehog fangame.

Oh, wait, that's wikipedia, not tvtropes.

# ¿ Oct 29, 2014 04:15

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