READERS: Isfahan, Portaxx, STOG, Boots Raingear, John, and Lemon.
Edited by Boots Raingear
The Austrian-born philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein contended that a man could never truly know the mind of any other man. His belief was that language and thought are just too dissimilar in concept that to use one to explain the other is at best insufficent and at worst a fruitless excercise. Now it's about 70 years later, and we've all learned how to say “it's just like that one Star Trek episode.” TV Tropes is a community that defines and catalogues the shortcuts used in modern fiction, but this week, The F Plus is going to learn a little bit about these TV Tropers, and why so many of them are so gosh darn terrific.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Somewhere in the time frame between us recording this episode and us actually putting this episode online (it takes longer than you'd think), the TV Tropes admins decided to yank Troper Tales on the grounds that the content was embarrassing and made their site look stupid. Some might say the damage has already been done, but I guess this episode will now serve as a memory of what once was.
At least two different wikis (one and two) have been started to fill the gap, but neither contain anywhere near as much content as the original Troper Tales dump. BUT FORTUNATELY Portaxx had the forethought to collect most of the material we read, and we've compiled this handy readalong document for those of you who like to play at home.
PIECES READ, IN ORDER
- Dark Is Not Evil
- Jerk With A Heart of Gold
- Fingerless Gloves
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Took A Level In Badass
- I Call Him Mister Happy
- Badass Creed
- Stealth Insult
- Crowning Moment of Funny
- Crowning Moment of Awesome
- Michael Jackson - Bad
- Black Flag - TV Party
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Comments
Omg that article is the saddest thing I've ever seen. The guy typing it is clearly crying. He CLEARLY wants to just type "NO PEDOPHILIA, AT ALL. AT. ALL." but he can't, because TV tropes is full of gross pedophiles who should be killed.
It must be the crickets from the Crowning Moment of Funny thread.
NO FUCKING SHIT
The Straight Gay trope exists because "mainstream-friendly" gay characters are considered a rarity on the site, not because all tropers think that non-stereotypical gay *people* are rare. Also, the trope refers specifically to gay men who meet their society's standards of masculinity; it doesn't include all gay characters who aren't cardboard comic relief.
I don't want to give anyone the impression that all tropers are ignorant bigots (some of them actually know something about transsexuals, for one thing). You're right that a lot of tropers are unsavory and myopic, though.
A few days later, one of them quit. He couldn't stand all the tropers who kept whining about keeping their favorite little girl anime.
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