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Growing up in the blitz made him Magical Hitler. Well all-righty then.
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Harry Potter isn't exactly high literature, but the idea that Harry could easily have turned out like voldemort is one of the main themes of the books. And indeed, it is his choice of self-sacrifice and love over hate that is his, and everyone's, ultimate salvation. Cmon Tropers.
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Jun 10, 2014 07:39
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Lottery of Babylon fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Jun 10, 2014 |
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Jun 10, 2014 07:59
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Voldemort wasn't even born at the time of the Blitz.  Voldemort was born in 1926.
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Jun 10, 2014 08:20
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Oh come on is this really necessary? Pettanko is a trope for small breasted anime women so yes it is absolutely required.
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Jun 10, 2014 08:47
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Swan Oat posted:Pettanko is a trope for small breasted anime women so yes it is absolutely required. Hair + breasts = woman I love the little details in Tom's story and I wish it was finished. They used a x gun that fires x ammo and fired it non concentric circles in the trenches that were dug in the square, as an eternal reminder to the war, just outside the window while the rain and the flower petals drifted down.
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Jun 10, 2014 09:14
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mmj posted:"Not before I enjoy it more" has to be the dumbest line I've seen so far in this shitpile of a story If Major Tom meant it to send me to the floor laughing he succeeded with flying colors.
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Jun 10, 2014 10:33
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Night10194 posted:What the hell is it with sword guys and always going on about how awesome their sword is and what its name is and everything? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHYaEKoSEig (GoT season 4 I guess)
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Jun 10, 2014 10:38
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More from Draco in Leather Pants:Draco in Leather Pants posted:Barty Crouch, Jr. due to being played by David Tennant in the movie and having a Tragic Villain Back Story in the book. Sometimes he gets paired with characters nearly twenty years younger than him, like Hermione or Luna. Thank you brave troper for defending the good name of the Barty Crouch Junior slash Luna relationship.
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Jun 10, 2014 10:45
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Major Tom posted:Try to name all the tropes. I count quite a few in that scene alone. This is basically his entire approach to writing, isn't it? I remember one thread where he said he never, ever developed an outline or plan of what he wanted to write before he started. It seems, however, that he does get a list of tropes, and writes around those in lieu of planning ahead.
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Jun 10, 2014 11:23
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Metal Loaf posted:This is basically his entire approach to writing, isn't it? I remember a point where even the idiots at TvTropes flat out said that his writing was poo poo and he was just lazily throwing tropes into it like a conveyor belt.
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Jun 10, 2014 11:26
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Thank you brave troper for defending the good name of the Barty Crouch Junior slash Luna relationship. Wait, what? That was a thing? 
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Jun 10, 2014 14:25
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My point above was about how, once again, a site purporting to be dedicated to the careful study of themes and literary devices somehow doesn't recognize (or even appear to have a pge on) dramatic juxtaposition in literature, and instead treats it like a coincidence that the main protagonist and antagonist share commonalities in their past, instead focusing on stupid fan reactions and something and whatever the hell a woobie is. It's a theme a grade schooler can identify.
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Jun 10, 2014 14:28
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Wait, what? That was a thing? Any kind of shipping is a thing.
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Jun 10, 2014 14:29
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Wait, what? That was a thing? Honestly, that's kind of mild compared to, say, characters who are already married to someone else... Or are direct blood relatives. Or siblings. 
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Jun 10, 2014 15:07
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Wait, what? That was a thing? Barty Crouch Jr only appears in book 4. Luna only appears from book 5 onwards. I guess they must have met offscreen while Barty was in disguise, but still, how can you "ship" two characters who have literally no chemistry because we never even see them together? (Hell, how can you "ship" Barty with anyone when we barely see him as himself, since he spends like the entire book in disguise and the rest as a veritaserum zombie?)
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Jun 10, 2014 15:20
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Regalingualius posted:Honestly, that's kind of mild compared to, say, characters who are already married to someone else... Or are direct blood relatives. You don't need fanfiction for that.
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Jun 10, 2014 15:21
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Oh god, this poo poo. I remember how they acted with Suikoden V. quote:Incest Subtext: Miakis tells Lym that if the Prince wins, she'll have to marry him. Of course, Miakis just has a really wild sense of humor. Two things here. Miakis is pretty much someone that loves messing with the princess even though she loves her dearly. At least it looks like they've gotten over the Prince and Lym sleeping in the same bed at one point because she was feeling overwhelmed with what was happening. And don't get me started on the second part. The Prince is her only remaining close kin (her grandfather and two of her aunties are still alive but she only knows one of them) and overthrew the bad guys in a rebellion. There's literally nobody better suited for the role of commander of what are essentially her bodyguards. EDIT: There's 18 incest tropes & subtropes. Just thought I'd bring that fact up. Testekill fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Jun 10, 2014 |
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Jun 10, 2014 15:31
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Testekill posted:Any kind of shipping is a thing. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanficRecs/HarryPotterShipping posted:
quote:Tissue of Silver by Fearless Diva quote:Those Gilded Chains We Wear by KuraiBites quote:And On the Third Day by MerryArwen quote:Eclipse, by Mijan quote:Harry Potter and the Autumn Swan by Lord Akiyama (AU) quote:What I Want My Words To Do to You by Ladymage Samiko quote:The Issue of Mine Enemy by Perfesser N quote:Chronicles by Josephinee quote:Forever And A Day by summer_jackel quote:Harry Potter and the Secret of the Golden Unicorn by Lord Wrackspurt quote:The White Road by Perverse-idyll quote:The Sinews of Thy Heart by Amarielle quote:Only Enemies by leave this world quote:Tied For Last by Speechwriter quote:Words Fail by Nea Marika quote:I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by LilianThorn quote:Widdershins by "Dido"/Trickofthedark quote:Surrender by Paimpont
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Jun 10, 2014 16:35
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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrackPairing posted:
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Jun 10, 2014 16:50
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I Recommend The Fanfiction Where Sirius Fucks Hedwig The Owl
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Jun 10, 2014 17:43
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quote:Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce you to Hermione/Sorting Hat? (warning: *very* disturbing! No, really.) I just went through this out of curiosity. It's really less disgusting and more simply baffling, even if it is a rapist hat story. It was obviously not written seriously. At least, I hope it wasn't.
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Jun 10, 2014 17:59
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The Hogwarts Castle/giant squid sex has to be a parody. Even if not, I still laughed.
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Jun 10, 2014 18:06
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There's a troper page for Boers and Bernstein Show You can't make this poo poo up. Let's see what they got... ...actually it's pretty tame. Damnit TvTropes, I wanted to see your recommendations for radiohost/drunk caller slashfic! 
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Jun 10, 2014 18:25
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Why the gently caress are you people reading this poo poo?
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Jun 10, 2014 18:25
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FrozenVent posted:Why the gently caress are you people reading this poo poo? Car crash syndrome
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Jun 10, 2014 18:47
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Car crash syndrome Basically. I believe I heard it described as web atrocity tourism.
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Jun 10, 2014 19:19
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Tracula posted:Basically. I believe I heard it described as web atrocity tourism. TvTropes Mock Thread: I believe I heard it described as web atrocity tourism
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Jun 10, 2014 20:17
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Who exactly needs a taxonomic listing of all the different kinds of incest?
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Jun 10, 2014 21:32
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Little Blackfly posted:Who exactly needs a taxonomic listing of all the different kinds of incest?  , natch.
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Jun 10, 2014 21:41
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Barty Crouch Jr only appears in book 4. Luna only appears from book 5 onwards. I guess they must have met offscreen while Barty was in disguise, but still, how can you "ship" two characters who have literally no chemistry because we never even see them together? (Hell, how can you "ship" Barty with anyone when we barely see him as himself, since he spends like the entire book in disguise and the rest as a veritaserum zombie?) I used to hang with people who were into this sort of thing when I was a teenager-- the thought process in cases like that where the characters literally never met, iirc, goes along the lines of 'well this character acts like this and this other character acts like that, clearly those go together, this line of dialogue could be twisted to mean they might know each other, therefore subtext, therefore  '; some will then further add 'therefore canon' onto that.Like it's basically mashing barbie dolls at each other which I don't strictly have a problem, but my, people can get silly about it.
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Jun 10, 2014 21:58
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neongrey posted:I used to hang with people who were into this sort of thing when I was a teenager-- the thought process in cases like that where the characters literally never met, iirc, goes along the lines of 'well this character acts like this and this other character acts like that, clearly those go together, this line of dialogue could be twisted to mean they might know each other, therefore subtext, therefore TV Tropes has a trope for this, because of course they do. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShipsThatPassInTheNight posted:
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JosephWongKS posted:TV Tropes has a trope for this, because of course they do. I thought I knew too much about Harry Potter, but I don't know half of those characters. How can you not only ship two characters who never even interacted, but also who barely even appear in the books/movies? Gonna have to reiterate that point about how they might as well just write original fiction.
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Jun 11, 2014 01:05
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Don Gato posted:I thought I knew too much about Harry Potter, but I don't know half of those characters. How can you not only ship two characters who never even interacted, but also who barely even appear in the books/movies? Gonna have to reiterate that point about how they might as well just write original fiction. There is a really minor Harry Potter character named Blaise Zabini. Harry Potter fans portrayed Blaise as a girl, until Rowling mentioned that Blaise was a boy. He was then portrayed as an emo Italian until it was revealed that he was black. Fans threw shitfits over this.
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Jun 11, 2014 01:38
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The Vosgian Beast posted:There is a really minor Harry Potter character named Blaise Zabini. Harry Potter fans portrayed Blaise as a girl, until Rowling mentioned that Blaise was a boy. He was then portrayed as an emo Italian until it was revealed that he was black. Fans threw shitfits over this. hahahaaha What the gently caress.
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Jun 11, 2014 02:38
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Has a character being reveled as black ever not made fanboys/girls rage?
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Jun 11, 2014 02:40
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Morkyz posted:Has a character being reveled as black ever not made fanboys/girls rage? Nope because shut-in nerds are actually pretty loving racist.
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Jun 11, 2014 02:41
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If you like watching nerds be racist, tracking down the Blaise Zabini drama is highly recommended, because I'm not sure I've ever seen it so baldfaced. These were the same nerds who were also fine with openly saying "I'm not racist, but everyone's being too hard on the obvious Nazi analogue! they have some good ideas", so you can imagine how stellar they were on real-life racial issues, especially when they were falling over themselves to find a reason that JK Rowling was the real racist!
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Jun 11, 2014 02:44
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Afraid of Audio posted:hahahaaha What the gently caress. Elementary/middle school kids have basically never seen anyone named Blaise to know what sex the character would be, and the character basically had no lines in the books until book 6. So for the first 8 years the Harry Potter franchise was around, the only characteristics mentioned about the character was that the name was Blaise Zabini and they were in Slytherin. Which made the fact people were writing fanfiction involving the character really funny, they were nothing more than a background extra until the second to last book.
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Antivehicular posted:If you like watching nerds be racist, tracking down the Blaise Zabini drama is highly recommended, because I'm not sure I've ever seen it so baldfaced. These were the same nerds who were also fine with openly saying "I'm not racist, but everyone's being too hard on the obvious Nazi analogue! they have some good ideas", so you can imagine how stellar they were on real-life racial issues, especially when they were falling over themselves to find a reason that JK Rowling was the real racist! http://jezebel.com/5896408/racist-hunger-games-fans-dont-care-how-much-money-the-movie-made
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