[ SECRET POST #2196 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2196 ⌋

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[inkmage]

See, the thing is, for the longest time I thought TV Tropes was the greatest thing ever, because I also thought its purpose was completely different. I do two things with it:

a) See whether I'm going to want to watch X thing, because there are some tropes I can't stand and some that absolutely make whatever it is golden for me, plus it's a nice way to get a general feel for something and still only spend five minutes looking at it. (And they hide the spoilers.)

b) After I see something (it's always movies or plays for some reason, never books or TV shows), I go read through the tropes page, because if I don't everything muddles itself together in my head. Plus I suck at noticing things the first time through, so the Fridge Brilliance page helps me, and YMMV points out what some people thought and I can think more clearly on whether I agree with them.

TLDR: I use TV Tropes as a recap service and to decide whether I want to spend X hours of my life on a certain piece of media, and that makes it the best thing ever.

Also, in eleventh grade a large part of what we were supposed to do was learn various tropes and things, and TV Tropes saved me so much time via the actual trope pages. About half the ones we studied in class, I'd already heard about via TV Tropes.

Also they have nice fanfic recs, usually.

Also I need to post this, or I'll just keep coming up with thing after thing.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

same for me

although honestly, even after my disillusions, I have to say it does work well as a fandom repository. I've found so many cool fanfics, webcomics and indie videogames through it, and you are right that it does give one a good idea of whether one would like a given work more so than, say, wikipedia

(I still go check the page for my favorite videogames, tv series, etc., just to see what other things fans have observed)

[inkmage]

Yeah - it's not like TV Tropes is a bad thing in and of itself, except for being a black hole of time. It just... doesn't do what it says it does.

It does a completely different thing really really well, but the site itself doesn't acknowledge it and that gets a little... awkward.