- SerialKilldeer
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My college offers a Milton course (also Shakespeare and Chaucer ones), for what that's worth.
For content, here's some nerd rage about Spongebob: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WallBangers/SpongebobSquarepants
quote: Any time a character is ticketed for littering.
"Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful" is basically built on this, with SpongeBob and Squilliam each getting one and Squidward getting eight (nearly nine), including one for putting trash in someone else's trashcan. Oh, and some of the trash wasn't even his!
And to add a bit more insult to injury, it was paired with "A Pal For Gary".
A officer said he joined the force for that in "Driven to tears".
The police seem to get worse and worse, as several episodes mock a character for alerting them in the first place. In "Driven to Tears," SpongeBob alerted a police officer about Patrick's speeding, only for the cop to tell him to get Patrick driving again, or else SpongeBob would go to jail for being a tattletale.
This example in particular gets even more uncomfortable when you remember how SpongeBob became the target of a certain strangler the last time he was a "tattletale." And the cops didn't help much then, either.
Again in "Sentimental Sponge", where a cop scoffs at Squidward and calls him a "snitch", simply because he called the Sanitation Police about SpongeBob's vast amount of garbage.
What about the fact that in "Party Pooper Pants", they arrested SpongeBob for not inviting them to his party? I mean, this should be surprising considering this was before the whole 'Litter' incidents begun.
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- SerialKilldeer
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Oh, true, but it's strangely easy to just assume that Tropers are all in high school. At any rate, it makes the site's existence much easier to accept.
Easy to assume, yes, but it seems a lot are college-aged, or even older: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TroperDemographics
I am much more curious, though, about the 1% over 65.
More from the page I linked, in which tropers think way too much about the clothing (or lack thereof) of a cartoon squirrel:
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In Someone's in the Kitchen with Sandy, Plankton steals Sandy's fur. Long story. He turns Sandy's fur into a robot and goes to the Krusty Krab in it. The fur has the bikini on it, but not the diving suit. So Sandy, dressed like she usually is whenever she's at home except for the fish-bowl thing on her head and her lack of fur, goes to the Krusty Krab. On the way, everyone yells at her to put some clothes on while she's wearing a bikini! And at the end, the police arrest her at the Krusty Krab for indecent exposure while she's wearing a bikini! Keep in mind that Squidward doesn't wear pants. Additionally, those SAME POLICEMEN just laughed and called her a hairless goat earlier, instead of arresting her.
Why didn't Sandy just wear her white spacesuit, since that wasn't stolen? Then she may have not gotten arrested.
To make this even more idiotic, Sandy has taken off her diving suit in public at least once before (in the episode "Pressure"), and no one had a problem with it then. (And that was in the middle of the Krusty Krab, no less.)
It could just be a Digital Bikini, but then again, that would only make the above Pressure example really ridiculous. And any scenes inside the Tree Dome. Rule 34, eat your heart out.
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Apr 29, 2014 18:48
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- SerialKilldeer
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The fluffy pony page is like a microcosm of  . It has everything (well, mostly rape, torture, and "bad poopies"):
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All Crimes Are Equal: Who's delivering the punishment usually matters a lot more than whatever the fluffy did.
Hugboxer: Pooped on the floor, threw a tantrum, broke a priceless heirloom? Spanking, time in the Sorry Box, loss of toys. Rarely more than that.
Abuser: Turning into a brat? Death. Poop on the ground? Death. Don't finish your food? Amputation (or death if you can't amputate any more.)
A taser or another electrical shock can, in some stories, "reset" a fluffy and make it believe whatever you tell it for a few seconds after the shock.
Bring My Brown Pants: It is extremely easy to scare a fluffy into losing bowel control. Some depictions of fluffies have them making GBS threads themselves constantly.
Cold-Blooded Torture: The fate of many, many fluffy ponies at the hands of abusers
Disproportionate Retribution: In spades. Making "bad poopies" (not in the litterbox, generally by accident) can get a fluffy beaten or physically/mentally tortured. Invading a human's land is at the kindest an invitation to be abused and at worst a death sentence for everyfluffy involved.
Dung Fu: The smarty friend's favored tactic for trying to make a human leave their land to the invading herd, and many a bratty pet fluffy's favored way of sticking it to their owner. It doesn't usually achieve much apart from incurring the human's wrath, and in the case of the smarty (or the pet fluffy in some stories), ensuring a painful death.
Eat the Evidence: Fluffies usually use this as their go-to method for hiding evidence, as they have few other options. Occasionally enforced by owners or abusers, in the case of "bad poopies" or a dead foal.
False Rape Accusation: Smart female domestics who want babies will let feral fluffies mate with them and then invoke this trope. As most fluffies are bad liars and both humans and fluffies will rarely harass a rape victim, the mare usually pulls it off. Occasionally used by feral mares to advance their position (accusing the Smarty of raping them and letting the herd attack.)
There's a lot more, but I think I've copied enough.
Also, on my iPad the "You may like" section includes right-wing political sites.
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May 6, 2014 00:14
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- SerialKilldeer
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While we're on the subject of forgotten tropers, who was the one who posted a "how to fix Africa" thread consiting of a picture of a mushroom cloud?
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May 11, 2014 15:40
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- SerialKilldeer
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Really, this is just lovely. You don't have to comfort her, but you're supposed to be a hugbox - the least you could do would be to say 'Sorry for your personal problems, but...' And considering that this is a list site that purports to be all nice, you really ought to have a few standard places like autism support groups and the Samaritans' e-mail at the ready for situations like this. It'd save you trouble, and it might help someone.
For what it's worth, they do have a list of suicide hotlines:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Suicide
But it doesn't seem to be prominently linked on either the wiki or the forums (I had to google it).
And I recall there was at least one troper tales page with a header along the lines of "if you are contemplating suicide please seek help" but I don't remember what it was. I don't think it was even about depression or suicide, though.
On an entirely different note, have some poetry:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13038649350A63445800&page=0
CaissasDeathAngel posted:
Haiku - Limerick
One will stand and one will fall
Which one will prevail?
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A limerick and a haiku
Said to each other "Oi you!"
It was time for a fight
They fought into the night
Such violent poems - who knew?
EDIT: Thanks! How's that for a smackdown anyway?
Japanese Teeth posted:
If we do have a poetry wiki, this villanelle I wrote a while back must fit some trope:
What's been said once will be said some more.
There is nothing more for them to say.
They'll say again what they've said before.
For being creative can be such a chore;
to say new things each and every day.
So what's been said once will be said some more.
They won't write down new things they do not care for,
and saying the same thing again is simply child's play
So why not say again what they've said before?
For making new things is such a bore,
that boredom is such a small price to pay,
and what's been said once will be said some more.
A new thing is more than ever they asked for,
it's too much work to be worth it, so they
will of course say again what they've said before.
So they take cliches, rewords, and repeats galore,
(you see how boring the poem is when you write it that way.)
as what's been said once will be said some more,
for they'll say again what they've said before.
Note: the poem is boring and repetitious on purpose.
SerialKilldeer fucked around with this message at 18:21 on May 14, 2014
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May 14, 2014 18:18
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- SerialKilldeer
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Anyone have that one quote from that one childfree thing? It was something to the effect of "I am a woman in Afghanistan, I am a Jew in Nazi Germany, I am a Childfree in a <something something whatever they call people with kids> world"?
A breeder world? I can't find the quote, though.
These people also get really inventive with terms for children; from lurking LJ comms years ago I remember "crotch dropping," "flesh loaf," "sperm loaf," "gently caress trophy," and "shitling."
I have no desire to have kids (even aside from my psychological issues which would probably make me a terrible mother) and these people are so secondhand-embarrassing.
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May 18, 2014 23:22
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- SerialKilldeer
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Hell, looking a bit further down, apparently someone saw fit to C/P, among other things, a Goof Troop fanfic, the lyrics to Let it Go and Komm, Susser Todd, and... A yaoi fic. 
And the first canto of Dante's Inferno, a chunk of Atlas Shrugged... And what looks like a Twilight fanfic (no, not Fifty Shades).
And eventually, this:
Someone with way too much spare time posted:
"...I see. Thank god it was nothing serious. But a molester attacking her... he must be reckless or have discerning tastes.
Either way he was a stupid molester. I thought..."
"You thought she knocked him out instead of running away, right?"
"Yeah. It's rare for her to run away.
But... I see, even Mitsuzuri is weak against molesters. It's impossible to teach femininity unless something like this happens."
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You remind me of the babe
GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT??????
DICKBUTT.
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And lo did the gods say onto the people:
"Follow @TheDailySnaggle on Twitter."
And so to did the gods say onto the MRA Army:
"'Not all men' is a bullshit argument, stop using it you pussies."
The MRA army did not listen and choose to deny the prophet Snagglepuss and be utter assholes to women on the internet. Such is the way of the internet and the assholes who populate it.
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BADADABAP BAP BADOBAP! ~YEAH~
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!
You've reached the end of the page!
NOW STOP MAKING TVTROPES PAGES ABOUT REAL PEOPLE
and especially stop harassing them about their personal lives and writing gross fanfiction about them
STOP.
At least the last part is much needed. Still, what a strange form of wiki vandalism. What is it even meant to accomplish besides burying relevant and meaningful content?
e: fixed page stretch
SerialKilldeer fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Jun 1, 2014
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Jun 1, 2014 23:32
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God, this Bromide person is the most depressing internet trainwreck I've ever seen. (And yes, I know about Chris-Chan.) Of all the things for an obsessive person to fixate on-- all the TV shows, hobbies, scientific and historical studies-- they latched onto a misogynist Penny Arcade ripoff?
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Jun 7, 2014 21:26
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- SerialKilldeer
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The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of tropes, with vast ponies in between, supported by nothing.
Everything: the minutely detailed history of the future, the archangels' autobiographies, the faithful catalogues of the Library, thousands and thousands of false catalogues, the demonstration of the fallacy of those catalogues, the demonstration of the fallacy of the true catalogue, the Gnostic gospel of Basilides, the commentary on that gospel, the commentary on the commentary on that gospel, the true story of your death, the translation of every book in all languages, the interpolations of every book in all books. And a whole crapload of pony fanfic in trope-page form.
Edit: they have a trope page for that story too, but it's naturally orders of magnitude shorter than the pony stuff:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheLibraryOfBabel
SerialKilldeer fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Jun 11, 2014
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- SerialKilldeer
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No no no no no I can't believe this was written seriously by an actual human being.
I don't know, I would totally read a teen romance featuring a geriatric demon-god from the Ediacaran era.
e. From Trope Repair Shop on "Least Common Pizza Topping":
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This trope is about anchovies. Not pineapple or mushrooms or goat anus.
SerialKilldeer fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Jul 26, 2014
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Jul 26, 2014 18:13
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- SerialKilldeer
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There's a subsection of "criminals" on a subpage called "Other Pencilnecks":
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It has been said that quite some real-life mafiosi love The Godfather. The inauguration of the new "don" by kissing his hand was an invention of author Mario Puzo, but has become a staple with real life maffiosi ever since.
Charles Manson was a fan of The Beatles and The Beach Boys and read "hidden messages" in their lyrics.
There has been some speculation that Osama bin Laden named his organization, al-Qaeda (which means "base" or "foundation"), after... the sci-fi novel Foundation by Isaac Asimov.
Both Mark David Chapman (assassin of John Lennon) and John W. Hinckley, Jr. (who tried to shoot Ronald Reagan) were obsessed with the novel The Catcher in the Rye. Though some conspiracy theories have pondered if this was genuine affection or just being subject to brain washing.
I thought the "trope" (using that term very loosely) was about taking pride in the fact that actual noteworthy and successful people like the same things you do. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised that criminals are included.
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Aug 9, 2014 21:18
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- SerialKilldeer
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What's your favorite fanfiction written by grown men about cartoon ponies?
Could it be Zestar Apple Flambe?
Or maybe it's Project Sunflower?
I bet a discerning gentleman like yourself would be instantly drawn to the 100+ chapter masterpiece known as Ponies One Half.
Or perhaps you'd prefer a socially conscious Deconstruction that deeply explores an important real-world issue, like Bittersweet?
Is your favorite is something more  mature, like Pages of Harmony?
No... your favorite, it... it couldn't be... the Xenophilia-verse... could it?
You posted all that and forgot Cupcakes?
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Cupcakes is a dark and extremely gory fanfic of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic by Sergeant Sprinkles.
Plot synopsis: Pinkie Pie invites Rainbow Dash to her bakery and offers her a cupcake. Rainbow Dash discovers too late that the cupcake was drugged; she wakes up some time later strapped to a table in a darkened room decorated up like a party, but in place of streamers and balloons are bloody, bones and body parts. Pinkie Pie appears wearing a dress made from pony flesh and a necklace of unicorn horns. She reveals that she has killed many other ponies and then tells Rainbow Dash that "her number came up". She then proceeds to slowly and brutally mutilate Rainbow Dash as described in graphic detail, eventually killing her.
Perhaps what makes this story so disturbing is that, throughout the entire story, Pinkie Pie keeps up her bubbly, cheery personality, cracking jokes and insisting that she and Rainbow Dash are having a party, even as Dash pleads and begs for her life. The fic is notorious among the fanbase, to the point where it inspired several pieces of artwork and multiple alternate endings.
Read it here. But dear lord know what you're getting yourself into. The original version can be found here
A Dramatic Reading of the story can be found here. The sporking of this story from the continuum by the PPC can be found here, if you'd like to sleep a bit easier tonight.
For those of you who don't want to be mentally scarred for life, this intentional bastardization will basically tell you everything you need to know. It's also good for if you have read "Cupcakes" and need some Nightmare Retardant.note
An alleged (former) Hasbro animator worked on this beauty in his spare time. If you need a version to giggle with the ghosties with, this would probably be the one for you, though still easily graphic and on the disturbitude scale of Invader Zim and Ren and Stimpy put together.
There have also been several musical works dedicated to the Fan Fiction: Including a Portal 2 "Want You Gone" cross-over/cover (and a "Still Alive" cover) and two tribute albums; by Futret and Tarby, respectively.
This fic has also caused an ever growing amount of related fanfictions by other authors. Prequels, parodies, and sequels. It even has a (worse?) Spiritual Successor called Pattycakes.
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Aug 11, 2014 17:27
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- SerialKilldeer
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I think I vaguely remember seeing that on the Creepypasta Wiki. What's more, it's not even the stupidest thing I've seen on the Creepypasta Wiki.
Speaking of which, let's see what our favorite site says about creepypasta. They have a pretty extensive page (though of course it's nothing compared to the pony ones):
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Creepypasta
From the WMG (Wild Mass Guessing, some weird troperspeak for "insane fan theories") page:
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A malevolent, inter-dimensional being is driving our favorite cartoons insane.
This being is responsible for many "lost episode" Creepypastas; let's start with Squidward's Suicide. The story consists of Squidward comitting suicide after a horrible day. Note Squidward's red eyes on the page image. Next, we have ''Suicide Mouse'', a surreal clip consisting of Mickey Mouse walking down a road (Worse than it sounds). Note the theme of suicide occuring. This image◊ (Nightmare Fuel warning) has been associated with the video. Note the red, bloodshot eyes not unlike Squidward's. So what, right? Bloodshot eyes are used for horror, that doesn't mean that something's killing off cartoons. Enter Red Mist. It's Squidward's Suicide, except with a buisnessman telling Squidward that "the Red Mist is after you", and a lot more emphasis on the red eyes. But that's not enough evidence, right? It's just one story where the Red Mist's presence was explicitly shown. Take a look at Rectified Anonymity, a (gruesome) fanfic (I'd add a link but I can't get it to work). Why did David have red eyes if red isn't a natural eye color? David met the Red Mist, and his sanity didn't survive the encounter. It's not a coincidence. Something is in our beloved cartoon universe, hunting its denizens, and it will not stop ever, until they are dead.
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Aug 11, 2014 19:53
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- SerialKilldeer
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Also, they use goddam spoiler tags for Barney. For some reason that really ticks me off.
And of course Barney is just like their anime lolis:
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Really 700 Years Old: Barney is over 200 million years old. It's justified as he's a t-rex, but how he's still light on his feet is a mystery. Averted with the other dinos, whose ages are in the single digits.
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Nightmare Fuel: Depending on who you are, the post-credits during the 90s could have really gotten to you. There was the 1993 Connecticut Public Television logo, the old Corporation for Public Broadcasting/Viewers Like You funding credit combination (which was originally accompanied by a voiceover given by a cast member and spoken so fast it could be scary), and finally, the 1993 PBS ident featuring the creepy singing P-Pals which closed nearly every children's program on the network until PBS Kids debuted in 1999. Could potentially be a triple scare factor.
The barney theme song...BACKWARDS.
To some, the original Barney costume from the Backyard Gang videos looked pretty creepy.
There's also the donkey at the end of "Rock With Barney". From its heart-freezing braying to its creepy wink to the camera. Winnie The Pooh, eat your heart out.
As if that wasn't enough, it re-appears at the end of the credits and winks again.
SerialKilldeer fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Sep 13, 2014
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Sep 13, 2014 03:21
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- SerialKilldeer
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On an unrelated matter, TV Tropes has advice on how to beat people up with large books:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThrowTheBookAtThem posted:
Heavy books are handy to use on humans like squirting water at cats... though if you really want to use them as a weapon, a hard cover one works great, especially the corners.
The spine of a sufficiently thick mass-market paperback might as well be a piece of petrified wood, as it's very tightly-bound paper. Clock someone upside the head with a paperback version of Harry Potter 7, The Silmarillion, or Dune, and they might well fall victim to a VERY substantial concussion. Ironically, the bindings of a hardcover book soften the blow in comparison.
The most common size and binding for the average manga makes it nicely hand-sized when gripped opposite to the spine, and just thin and strong enough for effective aimed strikes to areas such as the wrist. If you're already holding a book, there are much worse choices for an Improvised Weapon.
I don't own any manga, but from what I've seen (my sister owns a bunch) they're not really that large. Like, maybe octavo size.
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I haven't given a poo poo about anime in years but it's still interesting to read someone eloquently dump on some abomination in their sphere of knowledge while giving clear reasons for exactly why they feel they way they do about it.
I own Roger Ebert's compilations of his most negative movie reviews for the same reason. Why should a good critic be bashed just because they're on the Internet and into anime?
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page names, and got into a tiff with Eddie over the renaming of one trope that was particularly controversial. So he started his own wiki, which in practice was mostly text dumps of existing articles, anime included. Now it seems to have become a dumping ground for deleted pedo/porn pages.
