Forgive me for the title; I’ve been on a [[Stieg Larsson]] bender over the past week or so, which you can blame on the Fincher/Craig/Mara movie. The English movie led me to the books and the Swedish movies. As of today, I’ve finished Hornet’s Nest (the novel). It’s relevant, I promise. My first post delved into the ideas of “subjectivity” on the wiki, and my second about the community. In retrospect, those two barely scratch the surface; this’ll be a bumper post touching on some stuff which, themselves, may get a blog post unrelated to TV Tropes.
TV Tropes
TV Tropes and the descent into madness
A lot has changed since my first TV Tropes blog post, which I notice is consistently the most popular post on my blog (to my dismay, actually). I was criticised by someone defending Troper Tales as “someone on or in serious need of serious medication”. I’m not kidding. Feels good mang.
Troper Tales was a part of the site where editors could post where tropes applied to their life. Sounds good, doesn’t it? But it eventually devolved into socially awkward people and their power fantasies, and in general creepy shit. An infamous page that I tried and failed to get deleted was the page for “rape as comedy”. Let that sink in for a moment: there was a page in which tropers could post where they sexually assaulted people for fun. In effect, it was a page where tropers could post “I squeezed my friend’s boobs, aren’t I funny?”. It was still wrong.
Enter CrazyGoggs and [[Something Awful]].
The failure and ridicule of TV Tropes
This is something festering in my mind for the past week or two; a blog post that can hardly be considered “hackery”. It’s really a shame that I’ve sidelined myself into blogging solely about British political minutae. I’ve got more things to blog about than just how awesome and cool Nick Clegg is. I’m pretty … Read more