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fandomsecrets2013-02-01 07:11 pm
[ SECRET POST #2222 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2222 ⌋
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[Adenauer and DeGaulle]
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16. [SPOILERS for Celeste & Jesse Forever]

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17. [SPOILERS for Superior Spider-Man, Scarlet Spider]

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19. [WARNING for incest]

[A Tale of Two Sisters]
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(Anonymous) 2013-02-02 12:59 am (UTC)(link)The first, which is much more obvious and more visible, is that its community is crap. Just really, really bad, full of terrible people and complete junk and really bad conversations and content - just really toxic in general. This is most concentrated on the forums, but I think it's true to some extent of the userbase as a whole, it's just much more diluted in terms of looking at the actual tropes.
The second problem, to me, which seems to be much less visible but IMO probably more fundamental and hard to correct, is that the mode of looking at fiction that TV Tropes engenders, and the way that they habitually think about tropes, is wrong and misleading. TV Tropes tends to think of tropes in a way that's extremely simplistic, rule-bound, black-and-white, and consequently shallow. And similarly they tend to be shortsighted when they're looking at works because they look at them in terms of the same category of tropes. So I think that's maybe less harmful than the toxic morons who post on their site, but it's still wrong and not good.