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I've been looking at TVT recently, and there's something I've seen recently: a lot of perfectly serviceable tropes to cover character traits are being split apart for whatever reason, usually without a proper substitute. The argument made is "not a trope," which seems kind of silly for some things like tropes related to a character's weapon usage. The argument is that letting overarching tropes exist leads to the idea that people would make a trope concerning "People Sit on Chairs," but it feels like it then gets rid of a lot of a point of broadening specific forms of characterization related to a character using something.
 
Flaming Insignias said:
I've been looking at TVT recently, and there's something I've seen recently: a lot of perfectly serviceable tropes to cover character traits are being split apart for whatever reason, usually without a proper substitute. The argument made is "not a trope," which seems kind of silly for some things like tropes related to a character's weapon usage. The argument is that letting overarching tropes exist leads to the idea that people would make a trope concerning "People Sit on Chairs," but it feels like it then gets rid of a lot of a point of broadening specific forms of characterization related to a character using something.
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This (archive) is one trope that I think falls under "People Sit on Chairs". How is using a shield a trope on its own? Is using each different type of weapon/armor its own trope? By itself?
 
scathefire said:
This (archive) is one trope that I think falls under "People Sit on Chairs". How is using a shield a trope on its own? Is using each different type of weapon/armor its own trope? By itself?
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It's a mixed bag for me. I do think a lot of those lists need to be trimmed to when an item is a very notable trait for a character, but completely doing away with them is too much.
 
Flaming Insignias said:
I've been looking at TVT recently, and there's something I've seen recently: a lot of perfectly serviceable tropes to cover character traits are being split apart for whatever reason
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I think it's to reduce the size of some of their larger pages; but it's far more likely that it's an combination of an absence of genuine criticism and the local speds having nothing else better to do since everything else is catalogued into "perfection."
 
NerdShamer said:
Pride Month is almost over and literally nothing is happening on TVT, aside from some lunatic is obsessing over how asexuality is worded

And yes, they've got banned for edit warring but they're leaving the site cuz of identity politics or something
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I do get surprised that there are few users on the site that are more tired of the moderation of Pride Month than actually talking about cartoons embracing Pride Month even more. It seems the culture is turning over to who can be more mad and more uptight over people that are not uptight and mad enough.
 
TVTrannies don't like anything that refers to their tribe as deviants/criminals/their natural state, so it tends to get expunged pretty quickly. Here's a recent edit.

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For context: Jerry Dean Michael pretended to be a woman to dodge criminal charges and also foist another con on the unaware public. There is absolutely zero evidence he had anything resembling gender dysphoria or anything other than an innate love of scamming. TVT doesn't appreciate a tranny being painted as anything other than a living saint, so they completely erase the context that "Elizabeth" wasn't a woman to begin with.

Also, "Elizabeth Carmichael" selling a fake car...come on, there's no way that guy wasn't taking the piss.
 
LightDragonman1 said:
Don’t mean to double post, but as I’ve posted in other threads, TV Tropes users see the Barbie movie’s box office as undeniable proof that “go woke go broke,” a notion they believe was made by the alt-right, is further disproven.
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A movie that used a bait-and-switch plot to get gullible families into seats and propped itself up with an astroturfed meme to pair it with a more popular movie made a lot of money? Clearly this is proof that wokeism is good for business instead of a demonstration of how sleazy marketing teams saved an otherwise doomed film!
 
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