Don Tacorleone posted:

hello

I have not read 210 pages of this thread, but from what I understand it's a bunch of fat goons critiquing other fat idiots from another website in order to feel better about their poo poo lives

is this more or less correct ? thx

Don Tacorleone posted:

hello

I have not read 210 pages of this thread, but from what I understand it's a bunch of fat goons critiquing other fat idiots from another website in order to feel better about their poo poo lives

is this more or less correct ? thx

Don Tacorleone posted:

hello

I have not read 210 pages of this thread, but from what I understand it's a bunch of fat goons critiquing other fat idiots from another website in order to feel better about their poo poo lives

is this more or less correct ? thx

Build Your Own Boat posted:

What meaningful conclusion could there be? It's art. It not like physics or engineering.

It's simple. The more tropes, the better it is. That's why intellectual stuff like Dark Eldar: Path of the Incubus or Sora no Otoshimono will always be better than boring stuff like Intruder in the Dust or Love in the Time of Cholera.

Geez. It's like when my Ms. Rehnquist wouldn't let me and my Nakama do the D&D Monster Manual for our book reports. So I gave her a Hannibal Lecture, and she sent me to the office. Now my step-mom says I'm grounded. Gawd, Pam, you're not my real mom!

Don Tacorleone posted:

hello

I have not read 210 pages of this thread, but from what I understand it's a bunch of fat goons critiquing other fat idiots from another website in order to feel better about their poo poo lives

is this more or less correct ? thx

ashgromnies posted:

it's a really bad thread, just look at the torrents of poo poo people are spewing out:


like seriously what in the gently caress

Don Tacorleone posted:

hello

I have not read 210 pages of this thread, but from what I understand it's a bunch of fat goons critiquing other fat idiots from another website in order to feel better about their poo poo lives

is this more or less correct ? thx

Sober posted:

first drafts are kinda low hanging fruit though

quote:

A Posse Ad Esse is an Alternate Universe Fic for obscure web game Die Anstalt. Specifically, an AU where the six main characters all gain superpowers. Considering these characters are all disabled cuddly toys (five patients and a doctor, to be exact), the inevitable result is conflict, confusion and a different kind of therapy: experience.

watho posted:

GBS 1.4 - Social Media 2.0 > TvTropes Pleads the Fifth: Now with 100% more emptyquotes!

Tiberius Thyben posted:

Parallax Scroll posted:

but tv tropes has pedos unlike something awful

Ootrek posted:

i thought the tvtropes threads were so bad that they weren't allowed to exist anymore.

Backyard Blacksmith, who I guess is a mod posted:

The mods and admins are going to be watching the thread for any drama and busting extra hard for it.

BlueDude posted:

Courtesy of the original post:


Dunno how well it worked in practice, but there you go.

Ootrek posted:

i thought the tvtropes threads were so bad that they weren't allowed to exist anymore.

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

They were exiled to PYF and even they found them awful.

BlueDude posted:

Courtesy of the original post:


Dunno how well it worked in practice, but there you go.

Captain Candiru posted:

I'm in the middle of eating an Arby's Roast Beef Sandwich. Is there a tvtrope related to this?

Dean of Swing posted:

At last. Lets see how long it takes us to sperg to page 400.

Lightblade posted:

So, who else is participating this year. I tried it last year, but I severely underestimated how hard it would be to keep my motivation up. This year, I'm hoping to do better and finish my work from last year.

I've updated my word count with the words I wrote from last year (8, 387), so I'll be ahead of the average pace even if I don't write anything tonight.

I am the Ninja posted:

He told her he was the secret identity of the mysterious ninja hero who started showing up and fighting crime recently. Soon word got out and he was instant celebrity. Now everyone wants a piece of him, from adoring fans, the media, and most of all, the diabolical villains who lurk in the city's dark shadows.

Too bad he made the whole thing up to cash in on his popularity. Now he's in over his head, and he's going to need the real hero's help. If he wants to survive, he's going to have to learn a few tricks from him and become a hero in his own right.

Arcsquad12 posted:

It's NaNoWriMo time!


How the gently caress do you only write 8000 words in one month? I can write that in two days, and I figure that's still on the slow side.

Let's see what this guy was writing....

Arcsquad12 posted:

Let's see what this guy was writing....

Screaming Idiot posted:

The sad thing is that's a hilarious premise that he's totally ruined/ruining/will ruin.

quote:

Part of The Calvinverse and set after the rewritten version of Calvin and Hobbes II: Lost at Sea, things are about to be shaken up in The Collective.

The lives of Calvin, Hobbes and their friends are taken through many trials and tribulations when the universe seems to be scheming to keep them apart. Through this separation, they will realize just what they mean to each other, and their lives will genuinely change forever as a result.

BlueDude posted:

Screaming Idiot posted:

Watterson spins in his grave. And he is in that grave because he committed suicide.

There's more where THAT came from! posted:

The Calvinverse is an unofficial name for The Verse of Swing 123 and garfieldodie's Calvin and Hobbes Fan Fics.

All of them share some common traits: a tendency to rely on Aliens and Monsters, a lot of Genre Savviness, Lampshade Hanging, and general troperifficness. Oh, and a hefty dose of Adaptation Expansion and Script Fic.

The other main gimmick of the series is that they all pretend to be either an animated movie or a series on a children's network, and thus most Medium Awareness moments refer to those areas (though, confusingly, there are some references to fanfiction elements, such as chapters).

Calvin & Hobbes: The Series is the main focus of the canon, running for five seasons (with increasingly sparse updates). However, after garfieldodie took over uploading duty from Swing, he announced that Season 5 is the last season of The Series, but the verse will continue in a series of one-offs that will eventually bring everything to a close.

After The Series, garfieldodie proceeded to upload a rewritten version of Can You Imagine That?, including a coherent timeline for the series, as well as the long-awaited rewritten version of Calvin and Hobbes II: Lost at Sea.

corn in the bible posted:

"script fic"

TV Tropes, famous academic resource, posted:

Naturally, writing a Fan Fic in the form of a script. Originated as a way of giving a sense of illusionary "officialness" to a fic for a TV series or movie (Look! It can be filmed as-is!), which makes the format particularly popular for continuation fics, and/or to use narrative tricks that wouldn't sound right in prose. It also functions as a prime outlet for writers unskilled at detailed description, and who despise Wall of Text, but talented with dialogue. Most MSTings are written in this format as well.

BlueDude posted:

Good.