TV Tropes Pages · 9:02am Jun 11th, 2014
You know what's neat?
Creating pages for fanfics on TV Tropes, or using fanfics as examples on TV Tropes. Sure, it always strikes me as a little bit self indulgent seeing a bunch of fan works listed on many trope pages, but it is also a neat way to direct people towards things which might interest them - I've found a number of fanfics in this way, and it was especially true of me when I first started out reading fanfics. Indeed, I found most of the first few fanfics I read via TV Tropes.
I realized that Twilight's List lacked a TV Tropes page, and given its general prominence in the fandom, thought it probably deserved a page. While I was at it, decided to make one for Spring Is Dumb as well because I really like that story and apparently decided to make sure the entire universe knows about it. If you've read either of those stories and have a bit of extra time, it would be cool if you helped fill in those pages, and cross-linked the various trope pages back to any tropes you added. If you're really crazy, and know about any important or interesting fanfics which deserve a TV Tropes page and doesn't have one yet, it might be worth heading over there and making some.
I actually ended up getting started on this the other day when I realized that Despoilers of The Golden Empire, an old science fiction novella from the 1950s didn't have a page and created one for it. Once you start working that wiki magic, it can be hard to stop. If you have any knowledge of that story, it has a TV Tropes page now too, though I would advise against reading it if you haven't read the story before - it contains pretty major spoilers. I'm not sure if I can really recommend that you read the story - I thought it was clever in many ways, but I'm not really sure what I learned from it other than that you can have a lot of fun messing with your readers.
You know, I bought the Twilight's List printed book over a year ago, and I haven't read it yet. And I agree that Spring Is Dumb was an amazing story. It was wonderfully done, and I would recommend it to anyone.
2198071
Are you saying you've never read Twilight's List at all, or just the printed version?
And I agree on Spring is Dumb.
Clearly, this means that I should make pages for the other stories I have on my recommended stories list...
2198081
I have never read the story, and yet I bought the printed book version. It is sitting in my room . . . somewhere, along with Past Sins.
2198082
You should read it. It is a novel, but it is a fairly short one at 48k words. It isn't super dense reading, and is pretty interesting. There's a reason why it is widely seen as the TwiDash story. It is certainly influential - I've seen references to it in a lot of random stories, not even just TwiDash ones.
Of course, because I made the TV Tropes page, that meant I had to reread the story to try and look for tropes in it...
2198084
I really should read it, but I go on flights of fancy far too often, meaning that I will read a story that I should have read a long time ago but never end up finishing it because I find another interesting story.
2198085
I still haven't finished Background Pony or Fallout: Equestria. Though in my defense, those stories are longer than many trilogies.
2198090
I can't read Fo:E. I love the universe that it built, but LittlePip has no character, and I am just not fine with that. And I don't know if I should attack Background Pony anytime soon. But then again, I have made a promise to read Diaries of a Madman, which is three times larger than BP.
2198092
Background Pony is very beautifully written, but I have only read the first four chapters so I don't know if I can recommend it.
Cool! Thanks.
I regularly forget that tvtropes is even a thing. I still lose one or two days a year to its endless web of pages linked to other pages linked to more pages linked to how many tabs do I have open now?, though.
2199090
Yeah, it is a pretty terrible trap. Fortunately, at this point, I've read... entirely too much of it.
When I first found Wikipedia, it was the same way. Wikipedia still grabs me sometimes for very long periods of time, but I've managed to mostly get myself off of TV Tropes kicks for long periods of time... mostly.
Didn't end up stuck there last night!